 Um, the bullies don't get punished in any real way. And the protagonist who has engaged in the bullying and acted terribly, um, at the end of the book, she becomes a target and she just has to deal with it. You know, no adult steps in and says, this is wrong or God is watching or anything like what parents want to see in books. So blubber has been banned quite a bit. And even Margaret, um, for its explicit discussion of menstruation, um,