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Leggings Revolt

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Eric and his buddies have left behind their all boys school to attend high school with girls.

Eager to find his place in this exciting new world, Eric joins the student life committee, unaware that he is expected to enforce the school's strict dress code. The dress code is particularly harsh on the girls he is keen to get to know. Eric finds this awkward, but it's nothing compared to the position he finds himself in when the whole school revolts.

This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don't like to read!

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    • Kirkus

      February 1, 2016
      Eric has just moved to a new school with a strict principal. However, Mr. Germinato seems most concerned with the school dress code, which applies only to girls. It's clear to Eric and to the other seventh-graders that the dress code is unfair to girls, which is ironic, since their school is named after a famous early local feminist. Eric (presumably white) finds himself immediately attracted to Daisy, a Chinese-Canadian girl who loves colorful fashion. He decides to try to help fight the dress-code rules by getting onto the Student Life Committee but quickly learns that he has no power there at all to change things and must in fact enforce the rules. When he is faced with turning Daisy in for a dress-code violation, however, he decides to organize a schoolwide rebellion: they will all wear forbidden leggings to school. How will the increasingly authoritarian Mr. Germinato respond? By making a boy her main character but putting the book's focus on the injustice done to girls, Polak might well appeal across the gender line, although the narrative becomes a bit preachy about sensitivity to girls' rights. The principal becomes a cardboard-cutout villain, and the characters have far less depth than is typical for Polak, but the novel moves swiftly and may provoke some thought. Thin but nevertheless intriguing. (Fiction. 10-14)

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  • OverDrive Read
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Languages

  • English

Levels

  • ATOS Level:4.4
  • Lexile® Measure:630
  • Interest Level:6-12(MG+)
  • Text Difficulty:2-3

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