Sticks and Stones

By Beth Goobie

Jujube is thrilled when Brent asks her out. She is not so happy when the rumors start flying at school. Pretty soon her name is showing up on bathroom walls and everyone is snickering and sniping. When her mother gets involved, Jujube’s reputation takes another hit. Deciding that someone has to take a stand, Jujube gathers all the other girls who are labeled sluts—and worse—and tries to impress on her fellow students the damage that can be done by assigning a label that reduces a person to an object.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Jan 1, 2002
• ISBN: 9781551433950

Beth Goobie

Beth Goobie grew up in a family in which the appearance of a normal childhood hid many secrets. She moved away to attend university, became a youth residential treatment worker and studied creative writing at the University of Alberta. She is the award-winning author of over twenty novels, including The Pain Eater, The Lottery, the CLA Award-winning Before Wings, and the adult novel The First Principles of Dreaming. Beth makes her home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Reviews for Sticks and Stones

[ringenka · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The bright yellow lockers with the red graphitti shouting "SLUT" on the cover will draw teens to pick up Sticks and Stones. The high interest content in the book will keep them reading. Jujube is a freshman in highschool. On Friday, she attends a dance with a guy from school, when she returns to class the following week, rumors have been spread about just how far Jujube goes on a first date. The book describes the evolution of her feelings from embaressment to anger to fighting back. The Orca Soundings series is written for low-level readers, although younger audiences might be able to read the book, the concepts are for teenagers.

[tildagustafsson_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Sticks and Stones was an interesting book.It was about a girl who was with a guy one night and everybody at her school found out and started calling her names and wrote her name all over the bathrooms.The girl got really upset and told her mom. Her mom then went to the school's principle and told him to erase everything in the bathrooms but the principle said they didn't have enough money so the girl herself, went into the boy's bathrooms and looked at all the names in there and gathered together the girls whose name was written down and they made a little club and erased it themselves and that was the end. I thought it was an interesting book while i was reading it but i thought it had a bad ending.

[auntkrissy · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Part of the Orca series: high interest stories for teens with reading levels from 2.0 to 4.5. Accelerated Reader quiz available. Interesting cover may be offensive to some but will attract others. The book cover features a picture of a locker bank with one of the lockers vandalized with the word 'slut' in red paint.

[nms09 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This book starts off in a high school dance and goes out into the parking lot in the back seat of a car. That is where the stories begin to occur. Everyone thinks that Trudy and Brent had relations togther and the talking begins. Everyone calls Trudy easy and a slut because they think she gave it up. Trudy knows the truth and she does not like the name calling and the looks. She uses the rumors that were written on the bathroom stalls and uses them to make people aware of how words can hurt people, but it does not mean that those words are the truth.

[sandystiles · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Quick read for girl who doesn't like to. STory line is that a high school student on her first date with a boy, goes into the backseat of his car with him to get some equipment out (she thinks) when he starts forcing himself on her. She explains that she is interested, but it gets around that she is "easy". Graffiti around the school about her being a slut is very hurtful. She finds a creative way to make the situation better.

[okmliteracy7 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

In this page-turner, Jujube can't even walk through the halls without being laughed at or called a "slut". Since the principal won't do anything about it, she decides to take matters in her own hands. Will Jujube ever feel the same?Navjot T.

[peonygoat_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

After developing an unearned reputation as a slut, Jujube finds a novel way to take on her tormentors and help a group of girls win back their self-esteem.