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Moxie

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available
Moxie girls fight back!
Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school where the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.
Viv's mom was a punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s, so now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She's just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. Pretty soon
Viv is forging friendships with young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, and she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.
Moxie is a book about high school life that will make you wanna riot!
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 10, 2017
      At Viv’s Texas high school, no one stops the boys from wearing T-shirts that degrade women, while girls get sent home for minor dress code violations. Boys—mainly football jocks—harass girls in classes and corridors without consequence. Viv, a junior, is used to it, but one day she decides that enough is enough. Inspired by her mother’s days as a rebellious Riot Grrrl, Viv creates and circulates issues of Moxie, a girl-power zine, at school. More girls take Moxie-endorsed action with each issue, and because Viv hasn’t owned up to being behind it, other girls get into the act and things snowball. Mathieu (Afterward) isn’t going for nuance: the jocks are total jerks, the all-male administration is unfailingly sexist, and the Moxie spirit crosses cliques and racial boundaries with an intersectional ease that can be elusive in real life. But seeing the girls changing their definitions of what’s acceptable as they become radicalized is satisfying and moving, both for Viv and for readers. If it’s depressing that Viv has to reach back to the ’90s for models, perhaps this unapologetically feminist book will help change that. Ages 12–up. Agent: Kerry Sparks, Levine Greenberg Rostan.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Suzy Jackson voices young, determined Vivian, a high school junior who is tired of the boys in her school treating her and her female classmates like objects. Vivian is ready to do something new-- something gutsy. Inspired by some crazy-awesome girl bands and photos from her mother's defiant teenage years, she sets out to change things. Secretly writing and distributing hundreds of zines isn't easy, especially when so many of Vivian's classmates are hesitant to respond to the motto "Moxie girls fight back!" In this beautifully narrated audiobook, listeners follow along with Viv as she learns just what it takes to change the perspective of a school, a city, and, eventually, herself. V.C. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:840
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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