![]() As a member of Wendy's clique, Jill participates in the bullying without remorse, though Wendy and Caroline are usually the instigators. Although she is not the heaviest student in their class, Wendy and her best friend and sidekick Caroline are Linda's chief tormentors and bully her both physically and psychologically (forcing her to say things such as "I am Blubber, the Smelly Whale of Class 206"). The story takes place in Radnor, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. Linda gives an oral class report about whales and is hence nicknamed " Blubber" by her peers. The narrator of the story is Jill Brenner, a Pennsylvania fifth-grader who joins her classmates in ostracizing and bullying Linda, an awkward and overweight girl. ![]() Blubber is a children's novel by Judy Blume first published in 1974. ![]()
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