BLUBBER
What you do comes back to you!
This is what happened to Wendy, the girl that bullied and harassed Linda Fischer, an overweight child in her class in the fifth grade. Linda was doing a report on animals as the other children were doing. A little girl named Jill Brenner did hers on the Lion, then Linda started her report on the Whale. Wendy, last name unknown whispered to her friend Donna "That's what she looks like, so we'll call her that 'Blubber". Then as the name was passed on around the classroom, the bell rang and it was time to go home for the day.
On the way home from school on the bus, Wendy made up a song in the tune of Beautiful Dreamer. "Blubbery Blubber, blub blub blub blub." the little girl burst into tears as her coat was snatched from her lap "She's got her blubber to keep her warm!" Wendy announced to the entire bus load of children. As the story goes on, Wendy forces Linda to eat a piece of chocolate that she says is a chocolate covered ant, in actual, it's just a plain piece of chocolate from a box from Wendy's house.
As the child's nose is held and she is forced to open her mouth, Wendy commands her to "Chew and swallow" after Linda swallows the chocolate, the children all say in a sing song, "Blubber ate an ant!" Linda turns green and throws up her lunch all over herself and her desk, there is no lunchroom in the small school, that only has fifth and sixth grade. At the middle of the book, Jill Brenner attempts to defend Linda because Wendy lies and says that the girl told the police that Jill and her friend Tracy Woo, a Chinese American girl threw rotten eggs into Mr. Machinist's mail box because he never hands out candy to children on Halloween.
It was in reality that Wendy threw the rotten eggs and SHE told the police that Jill and Tracy did it. The girls are made to rake Mr. Machinist's back yard one Sunday, after the girls eat a lunch that Tracy's mother brings, Tracy needs the toilet, so does Jill. Instead of ringing the mans doorbell, the girls pee on Mr. Machinist's trees. The next day at school Wendy bullies Jill and then begins making LINDA her friend. Then toward the end of the book, Jill asks one of the girls "Do you have to do everything Wendy forces you to do?"
Now it's ten years into the future, Linda lost weight as she grew taller, she also was a lucky girl and never got acne. Jill Brenner also grows into a lovely young woman, But Wendy gets severe acne, then she gains fifty pounds in one year. The way she treated Linda and Jill went right back to her. Linda and Jill are beautiful girls, where Wendy is morbidly obese and has acne scars all over her face. Wendy goes up to Jill and Linda on their tenth high school reunion, and says to them both
"I'm sorry I called you names and bullied you! Please forgive me. I am so sorry! I was just a jealous person and was very spoiled because I was the only girl in my family. I have five brothers, all older and I had a twin sister that died at three days old because we were premature. I was a mean little girl and I am so very sorry and I want you to forgive me!"
Tears are streaming down Wendy's face and Jill and Linda both begin crying, they hug Wendy and forgive her. Then something happens, Wendy begins to lose her weight that she gained from eating food to hide her pain. Then a skin cream is brought onto the market for acne scars. Wendy uses it and her face clears for the first time since she was fourteen years old. Wendy gets married, has a daughter named Julie and tells her to never pick on anyone, to be nice, but don't take anything off other people. Both Jill and Linda marry and they tell their children the same thing.