Moxie

"I love stories of unlikely people who inadvertently start a revolution not because they want to but because they just can’t live with the status quo any longer. Even in the age of the #MeToo movement it can feel impossible to confront sexual harassment. Systems of power and oppression long in place make it seem like that is the way life is and should always be. But sometimes all it takes is one fed up one high school junior to shake up the world. This book is about a girl confronting the accepted sexism in her school is poignant, funny, and sneaks in rebellious inspiration where you least expect it. When we read fiction, we are that character. We have all the potential that the heroine does. We leave that story cognitively changed, if only on the micro-level. Fiction plants seeds of what is possible. Someone once said to me that you “can’t teach passion.” Maybe. But you can inspire it. Fiction inspires the imagination, which can encourage real world action."