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	Mathieu, Jennifer. MOXIE New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017 IL YA ISBN 978-1-62672-635-2 (3 booktalks)
Click on the book to read Amazon reviews	Booktalk #1 When Mitchell Wilson tells the new girl to make him a sandwich, it’s not a compliment. Nice girl Vivian is used to sexist comments and offensive t-shirts from the boys at her Texas high school, but Lucy is not. Lucy’s reactions make Viv think about a lot of things, from her mom’s teen years and the Riot Grrrl ‘zines she used to publish to the unfairness of how her female classmates are treated today. The ‘boys will be boys’ point of view from administration and staff has to be challenged. When she makes her own anonymous ‘zine, Moxie, and passes copies out around school, she begins to see how many girls have been harassed and assaulted by some of the boys. Moxie starts awareness and actions that may be out of Viv’s control. Her boyfriend Seth is not a jerk, but can he possibly understand how the she feels? #moxiegirlsfightback Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2018-2019 Booktalk #2 Vivian Carter is tired of the way things are at her Texas high school, where football players rule the school, and the administration casually ignores their demeaning comments toward girls, T-shirts with suggestive and degrading comments, and sexual harassment in the hallways--while shaming girls for minor dress code violations. Taking a cue fom her mother’s hidden box of 90’s PNW Riot Grrrl memorabilia, Viv creates an anonymous zine asking “Moxie Girls” to call out these inequities and encourages others to take a stand against their school’s systemic sexism. Things take off: her zine gets attention, builds a movement, and creates an unlikely group of allies. Moxie Girls fight back and East Rockport High School will never be the same! (Elizabeth Metcalf, Redmond Middle School https://evergreenbookaward.org/) Booktalk #3 Viv has had enough of her Texas high school’s sexist, football-loving, and small- minded world. Taking a page from her feminist mother’s past, she rocks the student body with her underground “zine,” and she brings together a seeminglydisparate group of girls who find they have a lot to share. (Connecticut Nutmeg Award https://www.nutmegaward.org/)
	SUBJECTS: Feminism -- Fiction. High schools -- Fiction. Mothers and daughters -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. Sexism -- Fiction. Texas -- Fiction. Zines -- Fiction.

Mathieu, Jennifer.
MOXIE
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2017
IL YA
ISBN 978-1-62672-635-2

(3 booktalks)

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Booktalk #1

When Mitchell Wilson tells the new girl to make him a sandwich, it’s not a compliment. Nice girl Vivian is used to sexist comments and offensive t-shirts from the boys at her Texas high school, but Lucy is not. Lucy’s reactions make Viv think about a lot of things, from her mom’s teen years and the Riot Grrrl ‘zines she used to publish to the unfairness of how her female classmates are treated today. The ‘boys will be boys’ point of view from administration and staff has to be challenged. When she makes her own anonymous ‘zine, Moxie, and passes copies out around school, she begins to see how many girls have been harassed and assaulted by some of the boys. Moxie starts awareness and actions that may be out of Viv’s control. Her boyfriend Seth is not a jerk, but can he possibly understand how the she feels? #moxiegirlsfightback Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2018-2019

Booktalk #2

Vivian Carter is tired of the way things are at her Texas high school, where football players rule the school, and the administration casually ignores their demeaning comments toward girls, T-shirts with suggestive and degrading comments, and sexual harassment in the hallways--while shaming girls for minor dress code violations. Taking a cue fom her mother’s hidden box of 90’s PNW Riot Grrrl memorabilia, Viv creates an anonymous zine asking “Moxie Girls” to call out these inequities and encourages others to take a stand against their school’s systemic sexism. Things take off: her zine gets attention, builds a movement, and creates an unlikely group of allies. Moxie Girls fight back and East Rockport High School will never be the same!
(Elizabeth Metcalf, Redmond Middle School https://evergreenbookaward.org/)

Booktalk #3

Viv has had enough of her Texas high school’s sexist, football-loving, and small- minded world. Taking a page from her feminist mother’s past, she rocks the student body with her underground “zine,” and she brings together a seeminglydisparate group of girls who find they have a lot to share. (Connecticut Nutmeg Award https://www.nutmegaward.org/)

SUBJECTS:    Feminism -- Fiction.
                        High schools -- Fiction.
                        Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
                        Schools -- Fiction.
                        Sexism -- Fiction.
                        Texas -- Fiction.
                        Zines -- Fiction.