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Nothing's Fair In Fifth Grade: Pleading The Fifth
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Nothing's Fair In Fifth Grade: Pleading The Fifth |
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05/23/09
anyway, looking at them now... fat shaming?! i'm not sure the concept would have occurred to me in fifth grade, which makes me wonder if these books are introducing the concept more than demoralizing it.
05/23/09
Reading this post makes me think of this one book that's driven me crazy for weeks...it's about a girl who starts her first day of high school, and she wakes up with a pimple and steals her mom's pancake makeup, then drinks Coke floats (like a rootbeer float but with Coke ew) for breakfast. And then on the school bus she finds out her friend Gretchen got tits over the summer, and blah blah she wore white boots that were too small.
Also there's a mean giant blond girl with acrylic nails, and someone gets in a shitload of trouble and ends up in a cop car. And there's a home ec class involved somehow.
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I still remember the smelly egg-salad sandwiches as being her worst character trait.
05/22/09
Finally a book I actually had as a child (I think I'm a bit younger than the target audience...)
Yay!
05/22/09
Man, I have to find this book now, and re-read it. Even if I am 27.
05/22/09
Yeah, I might have been a little too invested in these books. ;)
05/22/09
It's a shame that those two books have been out of print for over a decade.
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That said, the book borders on tween-nihilism, I swear. So downbeat. And the last-chapter revelation, when Elsie can finally "see her shoes," is a strange moment of pseudo-happiness worthy only of a Todd Solondz movie, I think.
05/22/09
@fol_de_rol: And you know what's weird? On the cover, and by the descriptions, Elise just isn't that fat. I know because even when I was pregnant I could still see my feet. Yep, that line stuck in my mind.
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And a boyfriend gives her a puppy because it bonds for life? Unless this is another book I"m thinking of.
05/22/09
I loved this book.
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