Author: Jennifer Mathieu
Publisher & Date: Square Fish, 18 Sep 2018
Page Count: 352 pages
ISBN: 978-1250104267
Age/Reading Level: 12-18/Grades 7-12
Representation: Female main character
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Book Information
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.
Challenges & Bans
This book has been challenged for threatening societal norms and pushing agendas that challenge traditional roles.
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Awards & Accolades
YALSA Teens’ Top 10 (finalist), Amelia Bloomer Book List (selection), Junior Library Guild (young adult selection), NPR & Los Angeles Public Library Best Books of 2017, CCBC Choice (selection),
