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Lauren's fed up. She's been dumped by her boyfriend and pushed around by her parents. Everyone seems to be making decisions for her - she's even got to share a bedroom with her annoying little sister. Which is why she decides to take a new class at school: Law for…
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1 author picked Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this classic novel; it is one of my old favorites.
Nowhere in the genre of young adult literature does there seem to be an author more subversive than Paula Danziger; here (and in the companion novel The Cat Ate My Gymsuit), she directly encourages the young reader to question adult authority and suggests that with protests and education about what rights the law gives (and withholds from) young people, it might be possible to effect change and increase their rights.
I also found it great that the novel shows the protagonist’s parents in raw realism–the father as…
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