Blubber — Judy Blume

Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy said about Linda. Jill crumpled it up and left it on the corner of her desk. She didn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just then. Jill wanted to think about Halloween.

But Robby grabbed the note, and before Linda stopped talking it had gone halfway around the room.

That's where it all started. There was something about Linda that made a lot of kids in her fifth-grade class want to see how far they could go -- but nobody, least of all Jill, expected the fun to end where it did.