Moxie
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Jennifer Mathieu
Now a Netflix Original Film directed by Amy Poehler. "Sweet, funny, and fierce. Read this and then join the fight."—Amy Poehler An unlikely teenager starts a feminist revolution at a small-town Texas high school in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, author of Down Came the Rain and The Truth About Alice. Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with an administration at her high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment, and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Viv's mom was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s, and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She's just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. As Viv forges friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.Moxie girls fight back!
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Author
Jennifer Mathieu
Pages
336
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Published Date
2017-09-19
ISBN
1626726345 9781626726345
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"3.5 stars<br/><br/>“For all the teenage women fighting the good fight. And for my twelfth-grade Current Topic teacher for calling me a feminazi in front of the entire class. You insult me, but you also sparked my interest in feminism, so really, the joke is on you. Revenge is best served cold, you jerk”<br/><br/>Honestly this part was the best part of the book and it isn’t even part of the story. I love how the author is saying “FU” without saying it and without being super mean. <br/><br/>The first 150 pages out of 352 pages is super boring and slow. That is about 42% of the book plus all the romance scenes that makes the book feel slow. I wish in the beginning had more “girl power” scenes. <br/><br/>It doesn’t help that on her own Villain is extremely boring. In the beginning she is the quiet girl that tries to get by unnoticed. She gets better later in the book but that is also because she has other girls to bounce off of. <br/><br/>The romance was bad. It felt like it was there just because. Seth wasn’t a character. He was whatever the plot needed him to be. Plus a love interest and nothing else. He was cool with moxie because he is supposed to be the love interest. And we can’t make him a bad love interest right? He did something that was slightly uncool quick have him apologies and say he will trie to be less of a a**hole because that’s what good boyfriends do. Now, we need him to be ignorant because he is a guy. We need to teach now that guy’s aren’t perfect. Be surprised when a different guy that earlier sexually assaulted a girl, have raped a different girl. Wait now he has to apologies. I can go into the book, erase all the romance and interaction with Seth and nothing would change. If they really wanted to push the message that some guys are jerks and some are ignorant i think there are multiple things they should of done:<br/><br/>1: have Seth interact with people other than Vivian. Throughout the entire book i think the only people Seth has talked to is Vivian and his parents. Other than that it is always characters talking about Seth. He doesn’t even have any lines with his friends. <br/>2. have more to do with the plot. Seth is so useless i can erase him from the book and it would be exactly the same except better<br/>3. Give him a personality. He only exist to be Vivian’s love interest and to be the “nice” guy.<br/>4. Keep him in the same school. The fact that he is a transfer student sends the message that all boys in the school are jerks except the hot transfer student because he is a transfer. Know there are boys that also joined in but they have no lines. They are just there so that Seth could be right and Seth can look good. <br/>5: Don’t make him the hot transfer student. If he was in the same school he could be the boy Vivian had a crush on for years but never had the guts to talk to. Or the guy that was annoying but turns out to be cool. Or the childhood friend. Just make him anything but the hot transfer student that is only personality is being supportive.<br/>6. Keep them friends. The focus of this story is girls. I am not saying boys have no part in the story. Seth has nothing to do with the story. He can be in it just get rid of the romance.<br/><br/>I think that some other boys should have some lines. Also get rid of John because he has no impact on the story. He barley has any lines. <br/><br/>Besides all that the feminist parts after 150 pages was really good and fun. If that was the entire book i would of bumped it up a star."
"This one was so good but it was kind of a quick read and just a fun book to read without a lot of emotional attachment to the characters! "
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Kamryn Maley