Thank you, dear reader, for taking the time to get to know Viv and her friends. Always remember that Moxie Girls Fight Back!
xoxoxo,
Jennifer Mathieu
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank my mother for buying the book Girls Can Be Anything by Norma Klein and reading it to me when I was little.
I would like to thank all the Moxie girls and women I have met along the way who inspire me daily.
Thank you to Kathleen Hanna and Bikini Kill for creating songs that I love as much at forty as I did at twenty. Especially “Rebel Girl” and “Feels Blind.” xoxoxoxo
A million thanks to my wonderful editor, Katherine Jacobs, for her continued brilliance and care.
I am forever grateful to my amazing agent, Kerry Sparks, and the entire team at Levine Greenberg Rostan for always looking out for my best interests and moving mountains when necessary.
Thank you to the entire team at Macmillan and Roaring Brook Press, especially Mary Van Akin and Johanna Kirby, two of the Moxiest ladies in the publishing business.
A big thanks to the faculty, staff, and students of Bellaire High School for their encouragement and support of my second career. I am Cardinal Proud!
Un abrazo muy fuerte for the lovely Domino Perez for reading over portions of an early draft.
Many thanks to Dee Gravink for his small-town Texas stories, including the one about cruising the funeral home.
So many thanks to all the friends who support me on this writing journey, especially Kate Sowa, Jessica Taylor, Julie Murphy, Christa Desir, Summer Heacock, Tamarie Cooper, Karen Jensen, Leigh Bardugo, Ava Dellaira, Emmy Laybourne, the YAHOUs as well as Valerie Koehler, Cathy Berner, and all the lovely people at Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston.
Thank you to my family members who continue to be my biggest fans, with an extra special thank you to my wonderful husband, Kevin, who knows that when a father takes care of his own child, it’s not called babysitting. I couldn’t do any of this without you. Texas-sized love to you and Elliott forever.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Mathieu started writing stories when she was in kindergarten and now teaches English to high school students. She won the Teen Choice Debut Author Award at the Children’s Choice Book Awards for her first novel, The Truth About Alice. She is also the author of Devoted and Afterward. She lives in Texas with her husband, son, dog, and cat. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Names: Mathieu, Jennifer, author.
Title: Moxie: a novel / Jennifer Mathieu.
Description: First edition. | New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2017. | Summary: In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016057288 (print) | LCCN 2017028191 (ebook) | ISBN 9781626726345 (Ebook) | ISBN 9781626726352 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250104267 (pbk.)
Subjects: | CYAC: Feminism—Fiction. | High schools—Fiction. | Schools—Fiction. | Sexism—Fiction. | Zines—Fiction. | Mothers and daughters—Fiction. | Texas—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.M4274 (ebook) | LCC PZ7.M4274 Mox 2017 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Note from the Author
Acknowledgments
Also by Jennifer Mathieu
About the Author
Copyright
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