Flipped

by Wendelin Van Draanen

Book Overview

The first time she saw him, she flipped. The first time he saw her, he ran. That was the second grade, but not much has changed by the seventh. She says: "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." He says: "It's been six years of strategic avoidance and social discomfort." But in the eighth grade everything gets turned upside down. And just as he's thinking there's more to her than meets the eye, she' s thinking that he's not quite all he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375811745
• ISBN13: 9780375811746
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

This Book Is Everything Buy It Now

This book is so cute and it’s amazing it’s a childhood type of romance book and it’s the best book and movie in the world she fell for him and he fell harder!!

FLIPPED - A book for everybody. Worth reading.

This book is so awesome! I love the book and the movie. This book teaches a lot of things as well, important things about life.

Flipped is the best book

This book is just amazing,right now flipped is the only book my little cousin is and will read, we saw the movie and she started reading it she said she loves it

Great coming-of-age (and age-appropriate) romance for all ages

This book is a classic. I read it when I was a kid and recently read it again to prepare to read it aloud to my class and enjoyed watching Bryce and Juli grow and grow to live and love all over again. There's so many themes in this story that makes it more than just a romance novel. It's a heartwarming, tear-jerking, and nostalgic story that reminds everyone of how it felt like to flip over someone and learn how to forgive just as confidently.

This book is vary charming and keeps you interested I absolutely loved it

This book is really touching in the way that it shows you that true happiness doesn't come Frome nice things or welth but Frome the people you care about and that looking past someone's exterior to learn if there are more than the sum of their parts is something everyone should do

You'll flip for Flipped

Wendelin Van Draanen has given us a book with two points of view. This is not a book from either a boy's or girl's point of view but both. Each chapter tells Julianna's or Bryce's point of view. Julianna thinks Bryce is dreamy. Bryce thinks Julianna is annoying. Until one day.... This book is more than a love story; it is a book about growing up and figuring out who you are. Julianna and Bryce both learn to look beyond the surface to see what really matters and end up discovering themselves along the way. Julianna learns from those around her. The relationship she builds with her father and Bryce's grandfather Chet help her discover who she is and where she fits in. How she sees the world and her inner strength is expressed through her relationship with her sycamore tree. Bryce learns from his grandfather and in a strange way his father. He learns to "see" beyond the surface; beyond the outside of a house, beyond the look of a person, beyond a scraggly old tree and see what lies beyond. Through his experiences he sees Julianna, his grandfather, and Julianna's sycamore tree in a whole new light. This book will make you laugh and make you cry. Wendelin Van Draanen's words bring Julianna and Bryce to life. You feel their emotions and change along with them. I would recommend this book to anyone. So flip down to the library or bookstore and pick up Flipped.

Amazing book

...I picked up the book and read its back cover -- it seemed like fluffy romance to me. I was about to put it back when I realised that the author was Wendelin Van Draanen. Being a huge Sammy Keyes fan, I decided that even if it WAS fluff, it would be worth a read. And so I bought it.It took me a chapter or two to get into it, but by the time I finished it (less than two days, if I remember correctly -- I couldn't put it down) I'd fallen in love with Bryce and Juli, Bryce's grandfather Chet, Juli's father, even Juli's brothers. The book has a little romance in it, but not as much as the book's cover made it out to be. It is not a romance by any means; instead, it is a book about growing up -- but the concept is presented in a modern, real, noncondescending way.The book is downright funny many times, but poignant and serious at others. The chapter when Juli visits her uncle made an impression on me in particular, as well as the chapter when Bryce finally begins to "see" people -- his father, his grandfather, and at last, Juli.Though the Sammy Keyes books are well-written, Ms. Van Draanen has absolutely proved (to me, at least) that she is much more than a writer who merely entertains. It takes a very talented writer to cause the reader to become involved in the story, to care about the characters. It takes a gifted writer to involve the reader in the story and characters, to show the change the characters go through in the story, and to really make the reader -think-. Ms. Van Draanen is a gifted writer. Bryce's change is not only touching, but believable; Juli is not the know-it-all she seems to be, but a deep and beautiful young woman. And the story makes the reader question his or her own way of living -- a "fakeness" that I have been seeing in people so much more acutely as I grow up.I cannot recommend this book enough. Wonderful job, Ms. Van Draanen, on a truly wonderful book.

Charming and wonderful

"Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss . . ." Bryce Loski's grandfather tells him. "But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare."From the moment the Loski family moves into town, Juli Baker finds herself drawn to their young son, Bryce. Even before his family finishes unloading the moving van, Bryce finds himself running away from her, and so their relationship remains for the next six years. All Bryce sees is the weird girl from across the street that lives in a messy house and climbs way too high up the ancient sycamore tree at the school bus stop. For her part, Juli can't get past Bryce's dreamy blue eyes and the scent of watermelon wafting from his hair.And then comes the day that everything begins to change.Told by both Bryce and Juli in alternating first-person chapters, this book is more than a simple romance. It isn't about two people overcoming obstacles in the path to true love. Instead, it details the creation of those obstacles, deftly illustrating how the reality of human perceptions and emotions differs from the ideal notion of love at first sight. In Bryce and Juli, Ms. Van Draanen has created a pair of living, breathing, three-dimensional characters, and the more we learn about the two of them, the less inevitable a happy ending seems to be.By contrasting the points of view, this "he-said/she-said" story shows the difference between our thoughts and our actions. What we think about what we say and do doesn't matter; it's what people see us saying and doing that counts. However, while Bryce learns that the best of intentions can't necessarily excuse unkind actions, both he and Juli come to realize that they both have to look beneath the surface to see the truth about each other. Perhaps the poor condition of the Baker house-and what it says about their family-doesn't tell the simple story Bryce assumes it does, and perhaps Bryce's beautiful blue eyes aren't a strong enough reason for Juli to pursue him.This story's initial light, breezy, funny style drew me in immediately. The more I read, the more caught up I became in the emotion of the characters, and the more I began to care about both of them. Fortunately, Ms. Van Draanen remained true to the complexity of her creations, providing an ending that perfectly satisfied, without being simple or pat. With all due respect to her Sammy Keyes books, I certainly hope this isn't the last time we see this sort of work from her.

What a great book!

Bryce thinks that Juli Baker is crazy. Not only does she follow him around everywhere, but she raises chickens, climbs trees, and is loud and annoying. He doesn't know how to shake her and to make her lose interest in him! Juli thinks that Bryce Loski is perfect. He has dreamy blue eyes and he lives next door - what else could a girl want? But when Juli discovers what kind of person Bryce really is, she doesn't know what to do. She likes him, doesn't she? Bryce makes a terrible mistake, and Juli hates him for it. But when she's gone, he thinks of all the cool things she's done. Bryce discovers what kind of person Juli really is, and he really likes her. How did things flip? This is a great book, one of the best that I've read in a long time. You get to be a part of Juli's and Bryce's lives, seeing how they feel about each other, and how they deal with their families. Do you think Juli and Bryce get together? Read it and find out!

A very entertaining book!

Ever since the first time Juli Baker looked into Bryce Loski's bright blue eyes for the first time when he moved in next door when they were both seven years old, she knew that one day they would be together, and for six years, every time she looked at Bryce, she thought "My Bryce. Still walking around with my first kiss." Unfortunately, Bryce did not feel the same way about Juli. Every time he saw her, he wanted to run. That is until 8th grade, which is when they flipped. Juli suddenly had no feelings left for Bryce. However, for the first time, Bryce took a good look at Juli and from then on, could not quit looking at her. After that, the story takes many twists and turns, until a you are left with a cliffhanger.When I bought "Flipped" I didn't know what to expect because all of Wendelin Van Draanen's other novels have been mysteries, and I didn't know how her first attempt at another genre would turn out. However, I found "Flipped" to be funny, original and entertaining. I hope Ms. Van Draanen will write a sequal.