Did you have some unrequited crushes of your own? Or have annoying people crushing on you?
A: I was like young Juli, with a massive crush on the neighbor boy, and like young Juli, I’m sure I was incredibly annoying.
But being a high school teacher was the real inspiration for writing Flipped.
I’d see students with mondo crushes and want to say to the girls, “Oh, honey, he is so not worth it,”
or to the guys, “She may be hot, but that’s all she’s got,”
but of course I’m their teacher and there’s no way they can imagine that I know how they feel.
So I wrote Flipped as a way of talking to teens about seeing others for who they are instead of what they look like.
I wish I’d found a book like it when I was growing up. It would have helped me a lot.
Q: It’s great to hear the story from both Bryce’s and Juli’s point of view—
was it your plan from the beginning to tell this in alternating chapters?
A: My plan was two viewpoints, but originally I envisioned the book to be one that had two sides— Bryce’s side and Juli’s side—
where you would have to flip the book over to read the other point of view and the sections would meet in the middle.
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