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You can find links to purchase her books on her website. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram Where Can I Buy This Book? Visit her website for more information about Carrie and her passions. She has written books for young adults and this is her first middle grade novel. In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie, an eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion.

Messages that went beyond dress code-looking out for each other, standing together, and speaking out.Ĭarrie Firestone is a writer and a teacher that turned her childhood worries into action. Carrie Firestone is the author of the middle grade novels Title TK and Dress Coded, which was a Booklist Editors Choice and was described by the New York Times as 'a much-needed reminder that certain fights are worth fighting,' as well as the acclaimed young adult novels The Loose Ends List and The Unlikelies.

They can stand up for their beliefs and be activists.

To inspire the youth and to show them they have power.

Educators can see the impact their good intentions have on the youth.

Students being dress coded, and more specifically girls being dress coded, is a topic that can spark a lot of debate.

Chapters alternate between podcasts and letters that Molly writes in this deeply satisfying, variously inclusive journey with a wonderfully flawed main character. With timely, important anecdotes that ring painfully true, Firestone (The Unlikelies) cuts to the heart of the damage that dress coding can inflict. Get instant access to all your favorite books. Narrated by Cassandra Morris, Taylor Meskimen, Kim Mai Guest, Tara Sands, Sharinna Allan, Sophie Amoss, Andrea Emmes, Caitlin Kelly, Krystel Roche, Asia Mattu, and Courtney Lin.

As the students protest, Molly learns the power of her voice and finds the strength to handle hardships at home, namely her brother’s vaping addiction and dealing of vape pods to middle schoolers. Dress Coded audiobook written by Carrie Firestone. Molly begins Dress Coded: a Podcast, where students share their experiences and together try to challenge the rules.

It’s the latest example of the school’s unfair rules, which target young women (“the girls with boobs and butts, the prettiest girls, and the girls with long legs”) and fail to account for socioeconomic and other circumstances that can make the code challenging to adhere to. Everyone blames Olivia, but she’d only removed her sweatshirt to cover a period blood stain on her white jeans. When Olivia Bonaventura, a girl in Molly Frost’s eighth grade class, is dress coded for wearing a tank top with spaghetti straps, it results in the class camping trip being canceled.