![]() Though Juli and Bryce are the protagonists of the novel, Van Draanen also focuses a lot on family dynamics in general. ![]() Flipped is yet another reminder of why I love character-driven stories. It’s so realistic that I felt as though I was reading something that could have been written by twelve-year-old me! It was really interesting to read about the same event from the different perspectives of Juli and Bryce and to see how their views of the world change over time. Let me just start by saying that Van Draanen is a master at channeling her inner middle school voice. When one of my best friends realized I had never read Flipped as a kid she immediately urged me to read it. The more they learn about each other the more topsy-turvy the story becomes as their attitudes flip in different directions. ![]() In this middle grade novel, Wendelin Van Draanen tells the story of two kids whose opinions of each other change over the course of several years. In fiction, it’s common for love interests to last forever and for desires to seem set in stone once they appear however, nothing is permanent in Flipped. We’re all constantly changing whether we’re conscious of it or not, yet sometimes this fact is ignored in books. ![]()
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