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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled Blubber about Book, York, Year with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life? End with the sentence '<P><P>A <I>New York Times</I> Outstanding Book of the Year, A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year.'.
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conversations.value: "the author's considerable gifts of humor, readability, and child appeal mask her other vocation as teller of moral tales....This time it's Jill Brenner, a fifth grader, who relates how the kids in her class go after Linda Fischer and, led by the savage, unremittingly wicked Wendy, enjoy themselves as she devises new and crueler torments."--<I>The New York Times</I>.<P><P>A <I>New York Times</I> Outstanding Book of the Year, A Child Study Children's Book Committee: Children's Book of the Year.
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conversations.value: Do you know a plot for a book titled Blubber?
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conversations.value: Blubber (novel): The story takes place in Radnor, Pennsylvania.\nThough the entire class ostracizes Linda and though she is not the heaviest student in their class, Wendy and her best friend and sidekick Caroline are Linda\'s chief tormentors and bully her both physically (eg.\nattempting to strip her in the girls\' bathroom) and psychologically (forcing her to say things such as "I am Blubber, the Smelly Whale of Class 206").\nAs a member of Wendy\'s clique, Jill participates in the bullying without remorse, though Wendy and Caroline, are usually the instigators.\nLinda confronts Jill and threatens her with revenge after one incident, but Jill dismisses the threat, confident of her status and protection as one of Wendy\'s circle.\nJill and her Chinese friend Tracy play a prank on their grouch of a neighbor, mr Machinist, on Halloween, stuffing raw rotten eggs into his mailbox, but are later identified from a photo taken by mr Machinist and are made to rake the leaves in his backyard as punishment.\nWhile raking, Jill and Tracy find they need to use the restroom.\nThey urinate all over mr Machinist\'s trees as a sort of payback.\nRemembering Linda\'s threat, Jill suspects that "Blubber" was the one who tattled on her and Tracy; Tracy, however, suspects Wendy and Caroline, which infuriates Wendy.\nTo appease Wendy, Jill suggests that the class hold a mock trial for Linda (with Wendy, naturally, as judge, and a jury made up of several classmates).\nTo this suggestion, Tracy remarks that she thinks Jill is scared of Wendy.\nJill soon realizes that Tracy is right.\nThe "trial" falls apart when Wendy, as judge, denies Linda her right to a "lawyer", and Jill, frustrated with herself for so readily following Wendy\'s lead, finally stands up to Wendy, who also arouses Jill\'s anger by making a racial slur against Tracy.\nLinda, who\'d had been locked in the classroom closet, is set free by Jill.\nWendy, furious that Jill has dared to question her authority, threatens to make Jill "sorry [she was] ever born".\nJill comes to school the next morning to find that Wendy has made good on her threat and turned the entire class against her, tagging her with the nickname "B".\n(short for "Baby Brenner").\nJill\'s tormentors include Linda, who has joined with Wendy and is more than willing to bully one of her former harassers.\nJill believes that she can be stronger by playing into the jokes.\nHowever, when she tries to laugh at their taunting, the kids even use that to make fun of her.\nInstead, Jill goes further to fight against the bullying by setting Wendy, Linda, and Wendy\'s best friend Caroline against each other, telling Caroline she should make her own decisions and that she is no longer Wendy\'s best friend, that Linda has taken her place, which Linda affirms.\nCaroline is hurt and Wendy is furious at Linda.\nJill makes friends with Rochelle, a quiet girl in the class who had never participated in the bullying.\nBy the end, although the class atmosphere is tense, no one is being singled out or picked on.\nJill comments (the book is in a first-person narrative) on how the friendships in the class have changed completely in the classroom but how Tracy is a friend she can always count on having.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first four paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Blubber
  I thought about making a run for it, but Wendy had Caroline, Donna and Linda on her side and I wasn't sure I had anyone on mine. So I said, "You touch me and you're dead!"
  Caroline is bigger than me and stronger too. As she came toward me I shouted, "You always do what Wendy says? Don't you have a mind of your own?"
  I didn't wait around to see what Wendy would do next. I opened the door to a toilet and locked myself in the booth. I was really shaking. That way I knew I was safe.
  Nobody called me Baby Brenner during lunch. Donna and Caroline moved their desks together and Wendy invited Laurie to eat with her. Linda sat alone at her desk, the way she used to.
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conversations.value: Blubber
  I thought about making a run for it, but Wendy had Caroline, Donna and Linda on her side and I wasn't sure I had anyone on mine. So I said, "You touch me and you're dead!"
  Caroline is bigger than me and stronger too. As she came toward me I shouted, "You always do what Wendy says? Don't you have a mind of your own?"
  I didn't wait around to see what Wendy would do next. I opened the door to a toilet and locked myself in the booth. I was really shaking. Before I came out I checked underneath to make sure there were no feet in sight. That way I knew I was safe. 
  Nobody called me Baby Brenner during lunch. Donna and Caroline moved their desks together and Wendy invited Laurie to eat with her. Linda sat alone at her desk, the way she used to.
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conversations.value: Do you know four more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Rochelle didn't answer right away and for a second I was sorry I'd asked her. But then she finished chewing, swallowed whatever was in her mouth, and said, "Why not?"
  Tuesday morning, on the way to school, Irwin called me some of his best names. I said, "The same to you," and everybody laughed, but not at me.
  When we got back to class Mrs. Minish stayed out in the hall, talking to the teacher from the next room. When he shoved his hands in my face I said, "What's so great about that? Anybody can do it."
  Robby took the pins out of his fingers and handed them to me. I stuck one through the top layer of skin of every finger, being careful not to flinch as I did. Then I stood up, held my hands out straight, and walked around making zombie noises.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Robby, Winters.
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conversations.value: Rochelle didn't answer right away and for a second I was sorry I'd asked her. But then she finished chewing, swallowed whatever was in her mouth, and said, "Why not?"
  Tuesday morning, on the way to school, Irwin called me some of his best names. I said, "The same to you," and everybody laughed, but not at me. 
  When we got back to class Mrs. Minish stayed out in the hall, talking to the teacher from the next room. So Robby Winters had plenty of time to stick pins through his fingers and do his zombie act. When he shoved his hands in my face I said, "What's so great about that? Anybody can do it. "
  Robby took the pins out of his fingers and handed them to me. I stuck one through the top layer of skin of every finger, being careful not to flinch as I did. Then I stood up, held my hands out straight, and walked around making zombie noises.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last four paragraphs?
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conversations.value: When Sally's family moves to Miami Beach for the winter of 1947, she's excited and nervous at the same time. What will school be like in Florida? Will she make any friends? Will she fit in so far away from home?
  But none of this stops Sally from having the most amazing adventures. One minute she's a famous movie star, or a brilliant detective; the next she's found the Latin lover of her dreams—her classmate Peter Hornstein. And what about the Freedmans' neighbor, old Mr. Zavodsky, who looks suspiciously like Hitler in disguise?
  Sally's life is a movie played inside her head, and Miami Beach is her best setting yet. If only she didn't have so much to worry about...
  Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She's just moved from New York City to the suburbs, and she's anxious to fit in with her new friends, so when they form a secret club to talk about boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can believe Margaret doesn't have a religion. And Margaret can't tell them the truth: that she can talk to God anyway, about everything that's on her mind—including Philip Leroy, the best-looking boy in sixth grade.