Blubber (novel)

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Blubber is a children's novel by Judy Blume first published in 1974. The narrator is Jill Brenner, a Pennsylvania fifth-grader who joins her classmates in ostracizing and bullying Linda Fischer, an awkward and overweight girl. Linda gives an oral class report about whales and is hence nicknamed "Blubber" by her peers.