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Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu

by Book Blog


Posted on September 6, 2019


 

 

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu is all about a quiet, make-no-waves girl, Vivian, who finally gets fed up.  Her mom had bmoxie book covereen a teenaged rebel, listening to punk rock and protesting, but Viv is scared of attention; she just wants to finish high school and get out of her small town.  Eventually, enough small things start to bother her, so she takes a page out of her mom’s past, and makes a ‘zine (a short magazine, or a collection of related flyers), copies it, and puts it in the girls’ bathrooms at school.  It starts to snowball, and other girls start taking up the Moxie mantle.

 

The book itself is well-written and the characters are well-defined, but the POV is all Viv, which I appreciated.  I really liked that each of the ‘zines, and all the other flyers mentioned in the book are included.  They are cute, and you can totally see teens making them.  Viv has to find her own courage to make Moxie, and to fess up to being its creator, she also makes new friends, has to deal with her mom dating, has issues with other family members, and faces misunderstandings with the cute new student, Seth.  10/10 Hanff reccommends!


Tags: super cute, grrrrl power, moxie, small town, equality

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