Flipped
Wendelin Van Draanen (2001)
“Two kids see the same events from opposite sides — and the reader discovers that the truth is never as simple as one person's version of it.”
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A story built on the gap between what we think we know about people and what turns out to be true — Creech uses journey and memory where Van Draanen uses dual perspective
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Multiple perspectives on the same events, with a focus on how appearances distort judgment — Palacio extends the technique to a larger cast
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Young love complicated by circumstance and the gap between how the world appears and what it actually is — Yoon's protagonist, like Juli, must learn to see past surfaces
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Another coming-of-age novel where the narrator's limited perspective IS the point — Chbosky, like Van Draanen, builds meaning in the gap between what the narrator sees and what the reader understands