Sticks and Stones (Orca Soundings)

by Beth Goobie

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

813.6

Genres

Young Adult

Fiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

Orca Book Publishers (2002), Paperback, 86 pages

Description

Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. Jujube is thrilled when Brent asks her out. She is not so happy when the rumors start flying at school. Pretty soon her name is showing up on bathroom walls and everyone is whispering behind her back. When her mother gets involved, Jujube's reputation takes another hit. Deciding that someone has to take a stand, Jujube gathers all the other girls who have been labelled sluts�and worse�and tries to impress on her fellow students the damaging effects words can have on a person.

User reviews

LibraryThing member peonygoat

After developing an unearned reputation as a slut, Jujube finds a novel way to take on her tormentors and help a group of girls win back their self-esteem.

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LibraryThing member okmliteracy7

In this page-turner, Jujube can't even walk through the halls without being laughed at or called a "slut". Since the principal won't do anything about it, she decides to take matters in her own hands. Will Jujube ever feel the same?
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LibraryThing member SandyStiles

Quick read for girl who doesn't like to. STory line is that a high school student on her first date with a boy, goes into the backseat of his car with him to get some equipment out (she thinks) when he starts forcing himself on her. She explains that she is interested, but it gets around that she

is "easy". Graffiti around the school about her being a slut is very hurtful. She finds a creative way to make the situation better.

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LibraryThing member NMS09

This book starts off in a high school dance and goes out into the parking lot in the back seat of a car. That is where the stories begin to occur. Everyone thinks that Trudy and Brent had relations togther and the talking begins. Everyone calls Trudy easy and a slut because they think she gave it

up. Trudy knows the truth and she does not like the name calling and the looks. She uses the rumors that were written on the bathroom stalls and uses them to make people aware of how words can hurt people, but it does not mean that those words are the truth.

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LibraryThing member AuntKrissy

Part of the Orca series: high interest stories for teens with reading levels from 2.0 to 4.5. Accelerated Reader quiz available. Interesting cover may be offensive to some but will attract others. The book cover features a picture of a locker bank with one of the lockers vandalized with the word

'slut' in red paint.

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LibraryThing member TildaGustafsson

Sticks and Stones was an interesting book.
It was about a girl who was with a guy one night and everybody at her school found out and started calling her names and wrote her name all over the bathrooms.
The girl got really upset and told her mom. Her mom then went to the school's principle and told

him to erase everything in the bathrooms but the principle said they didn't have enough money so the girl herself, went into the boy's bathrooms and looked at all the names in there and gathered together the girls whose name was written down and they made a little club and erased it themselves and that was the end. I thought it was an interesting book while i was reading it but i thought it had a bad ending.

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LibraryThing member ringenka

The bright yellow lockers with the red graphitti shouting "SLUT" on the cover will draw teens to pick up Sticks and Stones. The high interest content in the book will keep them reading. Jujube is a freshman in highschool. On Friday, she attends a dance with a guy from school, when she returns to

class the following week, rumors have been spread about just how far Jujube goes on a first date. The book describes the evolution of her feelings from embaressment to anger to fighting back. The Orca Soundings series is written for low-level readers, although younger audiences might be able to read the book, the concepts are for teenagers.

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LibraryThing member Salsabrarian

Booktalk: Reputation. How does one earn a reputation? Sometimes you earn it on your own. If you're the kind who gets good grades, always helps people or is cool with everyone, no matter who they are, then you've probably got a good reputation. Sometimes though, people give you your reputation,

whether you like it or not. It's like Jujube's friend tells her: "It's a power rush sort of thing. They know they can turn you into anything they want. Unfortunately, Jujube finds out people at school have turned her into something she's not. How will Jujube fight a huge lie that everyone else wants to believe?

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