Flipped

**Flipped**

 * By: Wendelin Van Draanen**

**SUMMARY/REVIEWS**
In this romantic middle school aged comedy, Julianna Baker and Bryce Loski have been neighbors ever since Bryce moved into the neighborhood the summer going into second grade. It was love at first site...for Juli at least. For Bryce, life up until the 8th grade consisted of strategic ploys to avoid her. Told in a he-said-she-said style, the two main characters share their sides to the same series of events. The two grow up together and we soon see a change in the demeanor of Bryce and Juli. Despite being polar opposites, the two seem to have something brewing....has something flipped?

**AUTHOR BIO**


Wendelin Van Draanen as born January 6, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of chemists who emigrated to the U.S. from Holland. She worked as a high school math teacher and computer science teacher before writing became her career in 1997. Her first book was published in 1997, and since then her titles have been nominated for State Award Master Lists all over the country. Her books have been translated into many foreign languages, and have been optioned for film and television projects. She lives in California with her husband and two sons. Her hobbies include the “Three R’s”: Reading, Running and Rock ‘n’ Roll (1).

**OTHER CHILDREN'S LITERATURE**
__Shredderman Series__: //Shredderman 1: Secret Identity// (2004), //Shredderman 2: Attack of the Tagger// (2005), //Shredderman 3: Meet the Gecko// (2005), //Shredderman 4: Enemy Spy// (2004). (2)

__Sammy Keyes Series__: //Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief// (1998), //Sammy Keyes and the Skeleton Man// (1998), //Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy// (1999), //Sammy Keyes and the Runaway Elf// (1999), //Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Mustache Mary// (2000), //Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy// (2001), //Sammy Keyes and the Search for Snake-Eyes// (2002), //Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception// (2003), //Sammy Keyes and the Psycho Kitty Queen// (2004), //Sammy Keyes and the Dead Giveaway// (2005), //Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things// (2007), //Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash// (2008), //Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher// (2010), //Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls// (2011). (2)

__The Gecko & Sticky Series__: //The Gecko & Sticky: Villian's Lair,// //The Gecko & Sticky: The Greatest Power,// //The Gecko & Sticky: Sinister Substitute// (2010), //The Gecko & Sticky: The Power Potion// (2010). (2)__Non Series__: //How I Survived Being a Girl// (1997), //Flipped// (2001) (major motion picture), //Swear to Howdy// (2003), //Runaway// (2006), //Confessions of a Serial Kisser// (2008), //The Running Dream// (2011). (2)

**AWARDS**
2003 (3)= Won: //Virginia Young Readers Program Award,// Won: //South Carolina Children's Book Award// //2004 (3)=// Won: //California Young Reader Medal,// Won: //Nevada Young Readers Award,// Nominated: //Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award//

**HISTORICAL CONTEXT**
__Flipped__ was published in 2001 by Random House Publishing. In 2010, a film adaptation from Castle Rock Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures was released in the United States (3).

**MAJOR THEMES**
Major themes include: Romance Comedy Friendship Family Morals/manners

**CITATIONS**
1)http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/vandraanen/content/author.html 2)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelin_Van_Draanen 3)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped

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