I wrote this book review for my school news paper. Here you go!Have you ever been a new student? Bryce Loski has: he moved into a new town and immediately met Julianna Baker. She couldn’t control herself; she had a crush on him. Poor Bryce went to a new school and to make matters worse, Juli was in his class. Bryce went through a whole new torture; a girl had a crush on him. The kids in his second grade would sing, “Bryce and Juli sittin’ in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G!” But our friend Juli had a whole different story. She needed a friend, someone besides her brothers, someone her age. When Bryce moved in, she lost herself in his eyes.
Wendelin Van Draanen caught her readers in a way they can all connect. At some point or another everyone has had a crush on someone. Everyone could connect with Juli and everyone can connect with Bryce. Ms. Draanen knows how to touch her audience in a way that it would take other author years to perfect.
The way that Ms. Draanen described what Bryce and Juli saw in there day to day lives was just incredible. She could perfectly move between the personalities of Bryce and Juli in such a way that you’d think that the book was written by two authors, one male and one female. She made her audience feel for her characters.
Many of SJHS’s students have read this book. Samantha Carter, an eighth grader at SJHS, said, “I like the romance in it; it also reminds me of my friends.” Samantha read this book because it was recommended to her by Erika Frischknecht, an eighth grader at SJHS. According to Erika, she loves Flipped because it’s a cute love story, and she sees a lot of our school’s personalities in it.
This book is definitely a page turner. You want to know what crazy thing Juli is going to do next. You want to know how Bryce is going to handle it, and once you’ve read it all the way through you can’t stop thinking about it. It makes you realize that some people aren’t what they seem; it makes you stop and think about the way that you treat people, not just your friends but the people you don’t necessarily get along with.
Most girls fantasize about boys they like Ms. Draanen put it to words what how most girls feel about the boys they like, how they think about them and how they will do crazy things to get the boy’s attention. She also had the ability to show the girls how boys feel when a girl crushes them.
Recently in August, Flipped was made into a movie. When I watched it I was amazed at how accurate it was. Juli looked exactly how I had imagined her. Bryce, though he didn’t have blue eyes, still looked exactly how I had imagined him. There were things in the movie that were slightly different, because instead of modern day times it was set back in the fifties, so of course it wouldn’t be exactly like the book. Over all, all the characters, and key details were perfect. So if you have already read the book and not seen the movie, then I would definitely recommend this to you.
I rated this book a 5 out of 5 for the following reason: it makes you realize that some people aren’t always what they seem on the outside; it’s what on the inside that matters. People shouldn’t be judged by the way they dress or the way they act. It’s what is inside that matter the most. Flipped can be found in any public library, school library, classroom library, or any bookstore.
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