![]() ![]() Following the footsteps of her activist mother, who died before Margie was two, the girl organizes a protest march to change the dress code. ![]() Humiliated and angry, Margie becomes aware of how the school treats binary genders differently: the dress code applies only to girls, and only three girls make the quiz bowl team. Margie Kelly, assumed white, has a rough initiation to middle school-she gets dress coded first thing for wearing a skirt that’s slightly too short, then fares poorly at quiz bowl team tryouts, ending up as alternate while her best friend Daniela, who is Mexican American, lands a regular spot. ![]() A sixth grader’s battle for justice is the topic of this thought-provoking feminist novel featuring a determined heroine living in suburban Austin, Tex. ![]()
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