flipped
wendelin van draanen
published by scholastic
copyright 2001
212 pages
fiction
juli baker falls for bryce the minute he moves in when they are both seven. she holds on to that crush to the eighth grade until bryce starts saying mean things about her and makes fun of her uncle. bryce has always been a little weirded out by juli but things start to change when he starts to see her in a whole new way. after trying to kiss her in front of everyone at school bryce tries to prove his love to juli by planting a sycamore tree in her yard because her favorite tree to climb was a big sycamore tree that was cut down. juli doesnt know what to feel because she doesnt know why bryce has acted the way he has. but after he plants the tree she decides to forgive him. i love this story because it is so cute and so real. every girl have a crush on a boy and every boy get weirded out by the girl who likes them. i would recomend this book to everyone and the only problem i see is the one swear word in the book.