I like how Paterson explains that bullies are often made that way due to things outside their control and should be helped rather than hurt.I love the friendship that grows between Jess and Leslie.All of the characters have depth nobody is two-dimensional.The book is well-written, exciting, and interesting through the whole story.I used to have a Harper hardcover edition of this book, but I lent it to someone, and never got it back. I have since found out that the book was first made into a movie in 1985, but I have yet to see it. They made Leslie, a brown-haired tomboy, into a blonde manic pixie dream girl. I bought the book, read the book, and adored it, then, I watched the 2-hour long special effect movie, and was thoroughly disappointed. My desire to read the book came after seeing that it was being made into a movie, and wanting to know what it was about first. At the time, I didn't know the origin of the quote, but I recognized the example about 20 years later when I first read the book. The first time I knew anything about this book was from an example sentence in an elementary school textbook which used a quote from the book as an example sentence.
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