Moxie
MoxieJennifer Mathieu
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Moxie (2017)

Jennifer Mathieu

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.

ISBN:
9781444963540
Length:
352 pages

Genres: young adult

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Reviews3

Loved it

this was such a feel-good book we have so much girl power and feminism i just really enjoyed seeing all of these girls in this high school coming together it just made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside seeing them banding together and working as one

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Loved it

it's super empowering super fun, and it's another one of those books that is just it really hits the nail on what teenagers are actually like its very realistic it has a very healthy love interest in relationship which I absolutely love I love everything about Moxie