ISBN Moxie : A Zoella Club 2017 novel book Children & teenagers English Paperback 400 pages

This should be a must read for students. I would normally never say that. It seems a bit preachy to try to dictate what students read, but this book is so chock full of how to start a revolution for the hearts and minds of your fellow students, that I am seriously feeling ticked that I didn't have this book when I was in school.I don't want to talk about what this story is about or how much I liked the main the character. Instead I would like to focus on the very real anger and frustration she feels at being a girl in a school that regularly devalues females while simultaneously elevating boys of lackluster talents. I felt some real comparisons to Steubenville were in Moxie in the way the entire town was crazy in love with the High School Football team (they shut down the restaurants on the day of a game!?) and yet couldn't spend money on the winning girls soccer team. Arrgh, isn't this so American High School!Hello? Title IX calling, we have something to talk about.But it was the fun and catchy way that she started to talk about and get other students at the school to talk about the way girls and boys were treated and how the standards for everything from dress code (there didn't seem to be one for the guys) and speaking up in class were so very different.Something else I really appreciate about this story and what was the absolute realest thing ever is that not all the girls agreed with her. They didn't think her speaking up could do anything and they felt she only made things worse. Or even more astounding, they were helping to keep this crazy system going, basically they were cheerleading the oppression in ways I can't fully comprehend.I so relate to this because I have lost friends, long term ones because of my opinions on the rights of women and I have heard the same damn arguments; 'this doesn't help,' 'don't rock the boat,' 'men don't like opinionated women,' 'you sound angry or aggressive or hysterical or judgmental or lesbian or unwomanly when you speak up about equal rights.'But this book is just the right thing at the right moment and I love it so much.