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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom	comment	From Louis Sachar, the creator of Wayside School and Holes.Despised by his peers and dismissed as an uneducatable menace by his teachers, troublesome fifth grader Bradley Chalkers is content to spend his time at school alone - until a new transfer student and a empathetic school counselor turn his world upside down...
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_158e2891	type	Wondrous Ladies Room
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_158e2891	comment	Wondrous Ladies Room: Subverted. Bradley expects the girls' washroom to be fancier and have toilets with pink water, but after he goes inside, he realizes it's the same as the boys' washroom.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: Bradley at first appears to be a classic case, with lines like, "Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you." As the reader soon learns, he is a lonely social misfit who's alienated even from his family.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Bradley's imagines his animal figurine collection to be alive, and his friends.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Probably In-Universe as well. No, Carla is not teaching religion by telling Jeff and Colleen that Zen monks will automatically respond in kind to anyone who greets them. In defending herself to the board, Carla cites patient confidentiality to justify keeping confidences, which is brushed aside with the reply that one doesn't need to keep promises made to children. Actually, Carla does. Although the book was written prior to HIPAA, even then, breach of patient confidentiality could get you sued and cost you your license. (And none of the confidential statements in this story fall under the exceptions.)
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_3b2014fb	type	Mad Libs Catchphrase
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_3b2014fb	comment	Mad Libs Catchphrase: Bradley's is "Call [X] if you don't believe me."
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_469e3e2f	comment	Probably In-Universe as well. No, Carla is not teaching religion by telling Jeff and Colleen that Zen monks will automatically respond in kind to anyone who greets them.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_4a57732a	comment	Friendless Background: Prior to meeting Carla, Bradley has no human friends. He bullies his classmates at school and talks to his animals at home.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The book begins with Bradley giving an sarcastic smile that might have been a frown to his fifth grade class, and ends with Bradley giving a sarcastic frown that might have been a smile to his animal collection.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_534bf3ee	type	Deceptively Silly Title
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_534bf3ee	comment	Deceptively Silly Title: The title references two short scenes that have nothing much to do with the plot, which is about a depressed, lonely, and troubled boy coming out of his shell.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: The whole story is about Bradley gradually becoming a better person. He stops being a bully and starts making some friends.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Bradley. Thanks to Carla, he loses his gift for lying about halfway through the story.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_7f746d79	type	Fired Teacher
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_7f746d79	comment	Fired Teacher: Variant in that it's not a teacher but the school's new guidance counselor who gets fired after the parents get up in arms about having one at all, and especially over the advice she's been giving the kids - among other things, one of them claims she's "teaching religion" just by mentioning zen monks to a couple of students. Furthermore, Carla is hired as a teacher at a different school.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_838748cb	type	Sour Outside, Sad Inside
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_838748cb	comment	Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Bradley. To others, he's a bully, with lines like, "Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you." As the reader comes to learn, he's a lonely social misfit, who's alienated even from his family.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Bradley imagines this between two of his animals, Ronnie the rabbit and Bartholomew the bear.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_86a5c427	type	Kiddie Kid
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_86a5c427	comment	Kiddie Kid: Bradley: He's in fifth grade and still talks to his animal collection. Justified, as the author is showing that, behind Bradley's bullying exterior, he is a social misfit. It is a sign of Character Development that when he starts to make real friends, he gives away one of his animals.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: A group of loudmouthed "Christian Mothers for Decency" petition the school board to get rid of Carla because she was supposedly corrupting the schoolchildren. They succeed.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_9abe931d	type	Quicksand Sucks
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_9abe931d	comment	Quicksand Sucks: Used in one of Bradley's play sessions. Ronnie falls into a bog and is roundly told by the other animals that they hate her, and stand there watching her be sucked to her doom whilst begging for help after Bradley hears Carla's been fired, mirroring how he feels nobody cares that he's just lost his only friend because of office politics. He retcons this to the other animals saving Ronnie after Carla and Ronnie say goodbye to each other.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: At one point, Carla tells two students, Jeff and Colleen, that Zen monks will respond in kind to anyone who says "Hello" to them. Colleen misinterprets this obvious lesson in manners and goes home to tell her parents that she wants to convert from Catholicism to become a Zen monk. Her parents promptly complain to the board that Carla is teaching religion. The example falls under this trope, as opposed to Comically Missing the Point, because this is one of the factors that gets Carla fired.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_a0ee1da5	type	Kitsch Collection
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_a0ee1da5	comment	Kitsch Collection: Bradley owns a collection of small animals, which he talks to as though they are alive. They're given a lengthy introduction, and several parts of the story are made up of the adventures he acts out through them.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_a7ba94de	type	Inferiority Superiority Complex
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_a7ba94de	comment	Inferiority Superiority Complex: Bradley bullies the other kids because he figures that if they hate him, it will sting less if he never liked them in the first place. This creates a Vicious Cycle: as evidenced by the friends he later makes, few people hate Bradley unless peer pressure's involved, but because he fears that they will, he bullies them, and then they truly hate him, reinforcing his fear and making him an even bigger bully.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: This is one of Bradley's many problems. His hostility stems from him not really knowing how to make friends.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Carla reads to Bradley from J. D. Salinger's Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. One of the animals in Bradley's collection is a glass unicorn with a broken horn.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Carla, the school counselor. Having helped Bradley come out of his shell and make friends, Carla is fired and has to leave the school.
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There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_f3594e1	type	The All-Concealing "I"
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom / int_f3594e1	comment	The All-Concealing "I": Midway through writing a book report, Bradley realizes that, since the whole thing was in first-person, he never actually learned the viewpoint character's name, or even their gender.
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