What Parents Should Know
Parents need to know that they should expect plenty of
sexual and body-part humor typical of middle schoolers,
covering erections, periods, etc. A boy who switches bodies
with a girl gets his period; the girl in the boy's body tries
to learn how to pee. The differences between boys and girls are
talked about and stereotyped while the characters work out what
gender means.
Families can talk about what stereotypes both sexes face and how to deal with them. They can also talk about how to deal with peer pressure.
Common Sense Media Review
GENDER BLENDER is
Freaky Friday
for the sexes.
Blake
Nelson weaves a fun and light tale among the confusion that
is middle school. Boys and girls have a hard enough time
dealing with the changes that are happening to them, but
dealing with the changes in the opposite sex is even more
confusing. When ex-friends Emma Baker and Tom Witherspoon
accidentally switch bodies, they are forced to take a harder
look at what stereotypes and expectations are placed on both
sexes.
Nelson takes readers on a fun ride into the mysteries that surround the differences between boys and girls. Readers will giggle, sigh, and see themselves in the characters and parents will love the questions and discoveries that characters make about themselves and each other.
Do people expect boys to be strong and win all the time? Why are girls expected to do well in school? What pressure does society put on both?
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