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Gender Blender
- By Blake Nelson
- Genre: Coming of Age
Common Sense Media says
Fun switcheroo tale is good for gender-role talk.
Parents say
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that they should expect plenty of sexual and body-part humor typical of middle schoolers, covering erections, periods, etc. A boy who switches bodies with a girl gets his period; the girl in the boy's body tries to learn how to pee. The differences between boys and girls are talked about and stereotyped while the characters work out what gender means.
What's the story?
Emma and Tom used to be great friends in fourth grade, but by sixth grade they were practically enemies; all they did was fight. Things take a freaky turn when they have an accident and find themselves stuck in the other person's body!
Tom has to figure out how to be a girl and Emma has to work out what being a boy means -- and they both have to find their way back into the right body before time runs out.
Is it any good?
GENDER BLENDER is Freaky Friday for the sexes. Blake Nelson weaves a fun and light tale among the confusion that is middle school. Boys and girls have a hard enough time dealing with the changes that are happening to them, but dealing with the changes in the opposite sex is even more confusing. When ex-friends Emma Baker and Tom Witherspoon accidentally switch bodies, they are forced to take a harder look at the stereotypes and expectations placed on both sexes.
Nelson takes readers on a fun ride into the mysteries that surround the differences between boys and girls. Readers will giggle, sigh, and see themselves in the characters, and parents will love the questions and discoveries that characters make about themselves and each other.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about the stereotypes both sexes face and how to deal with them. How are girls sterotyped, and why are these assumptions not always true? How about boys?
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Very informative!
It was very informative. If anyone is afraid of talking to their parents then this answers a lot of questions.
It was funny and a good, easy book to read!
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omg soo good!
this book is so good!
its 4 gurl and boys
i related 2 everything that happened like when she got her period
i really loved it it was so funny!
i love blake nelson's books
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LOL Hilarious!
This is a hilarious book about a boy and a girl in middle school who switch bodies. In the book they mention some stuff that kids up to 10 wouldn't understand and it would be to inappropriate for them. Over all it's a very good and funny book for ages 12 and up.
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A must read book!
This book is amazing!
I read it early 08..
and i LOVED IT!!!!
I admitt every preteen-teen reads it!
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Tee-hee! Hilarious!
I thought it was very amusing, but sort of inapro-pro! Hilarious though.
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i have not read it but it sounds good
it sounds o.k. but kind of gross!!!i cant wait to read it but i cant document it that makes me kind of mad!
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| Author: | Blake Nelson |
| Book type: | Fiction |
| Genre: | Coming of Age |
| Publisher: | Delacorte Press |
| Publication date: | September 11, 2007 |
| Number of pages: | 192 |
| Paperback price: | $8.99 |
| Publisher's recommended age(s): | 9 - 12 |
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