History Literature / Flipped

* LongingLooks: When having lunch after the bachelor auction, Bryce can't help but staring at Juli despite having lunch together with a [[DudeMagnet popular beautiful girl]], Sherry.

* ChickMagnet: Bryce is quite popular among the female students --including the most popular one like Shelly Stalls-- but he doesn't seem to be flattered. Especially ever since he realized to have developed a crush on Juli literally.

* DirtyCoward: Juli thinks that Bryce is this after he [[spoiler: laughs with Garrett about how Juli's family may have bad genes]]. Chet also thinks Bryce acts this way, though he's a bit gentler about expressing it.

* FreudianExcuse: During the awkward family dinner, it's implied that Bryce's father is so mean-spirited in part because he feels trapped in his role as a suburban bread-winner and that he regrets having given up his early dreams as a saxophone player in a band.

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Juli asks herself this about Bryce following her conversation about Chet breaking off an engagement with a DisposableFiancee, and she realizes that she's only been infatuated with Bryce's looks. She doesn't know a thing about him, and thus decides to no longer nurture her crush following his ListOfTransgressions. [[spoiler: At the end of the story, when Bryce shows he's changed by planting a sycamore tree in her yard, she decides that she'll talk to him to see what kind of person he is.]]

* ChickMagnet: Bryce is quite popular among the female students --including the most popular one like Shelly Stalls-- but he doesn't seem to be flattered. Especially upon he realized to have developed a crush on Juli literally.

* GreenEyedMonster: Juli is like this about Shelly and Bryce, but it's mainly PlayedForLaughs. Then PlayedForDrama, with AgeAppropriateAngst, when [[spoiler: Bryce sees her win over Jon/Eddie at the BachelorAuction and tries to kiss her]]. Juli is naturally furious that [[spoiler: Bryce spoiled her good time with Jon/Eddie, where she was just being nice to the latter]], and also that [[spoiler: as she puts it, he only shows interest when she's moved on.]]

* ChickMagnet: Bryce is quite popular among the female students --including the most popular one like Shelly Stalls-- but he doesn't seem to be flattered. Especially upon he realized to have fallen for Juli literally.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Juli acts this way towards Bryce after he apologizes for throwing away Juli's eggs [[spoiler: and for laughing with Garrett about her uncle being disabled]]. This makes him feel worse than the period in which [[spoiler: she hated him following him saying her eggs probably had salmonella]] because she stops acknowledging he exists.

* GreenEyedMonster: Juli is like this about Shelly and Bryce, but it's mainly PlayedForLaughs. Then PlayedForDrama, with AgeAppropriateAngst, when [[spoiler: Bryce sees her win Jon at the BachelorAuction and tries to kiss her]]. Juli is naturally furious that [[spoiler: Bryce spoiled her good time with Jon, where she was just being nice to the latter]], and also that [[spoiler: as she puts it, he only shows interest when she's moved on.]]

* InconvenientAttraction: By the time Bryce realized to have fallen genuinely in love with Juli, he tries his best to fight his feelings for her. So does Juli upon learning about Bryce's cowardice, [[spoiler:particularly when he didn't stop Garrett's joke about her mentally-disabled uncle, Daniel]].

* LikeFatherLikeSon: After hearing that Mrs. Loski is [[spoiler: contemplating divorcing her husband]], Juli becomes more determined to not talk to Bryce [[spoiler: following his attempt to kiss her]] because she doesn't want to end up like Mrs. Loski. Bryce has this obstacle to overcome.

* MaybeEverAfter: At the very end of the book, Juli following a whirlwind emotional rollercoaster due to [[spoiler: trying to get over Bryce since she thinks he's a DirtyCoward only for him to try and kiss her and then plant a new sycamore tree]] decides to go thank him and talk to him.

* PoorCommunicationKills: A case of YouDidntAsk. What starts breaking Juli's rose-colored view of Bryce is when she catches him throwing away her eggs, and realizing he's been doing it for two years. If he had just told her to stop delivering them, instead of tossing them in secret, she would have because she could've used the money.

* InconvenientAttraction: By the time Bryce realized to have fallen genuinely in love with Juli, he tries his best to fight his feelings for her. So does Juli upon learning about Bryce's cowardice, particularly when he didn't stop Garrett's joke about her mentally-disabled uncle, Daniel.

* ChickMagnet: Bryce is quite popular among the female students --including the most popular one like Shelly Stalls-- but he doesn't seem to be flattered.

* ChickMagnet: Bryce is quite popular among the female students --including the most popular one like Sherry Stalls-- but he doesn't seem to be flattered.

* InconvenientAttraction: By the time Bryce realized to have fallen genuinely in love with Juli, he tries his best to fight his feelings for her. So does Juli upon learning about Bryce cowardice, especially when he didn't stop Garrett's joke about her mentally-disabled uncle, Daniel.

* DirtyCoward: Juli thinks that Bryce is this after he [[spoiler: laughs with Garret about how Juli's family may have bad genes]]. Chet also thinks Bryce acts this way, though he's a bit gentler about expressing it.

* DudeNotFunny: Invoked when Mr. Loski makes a nasty joke about [[spoiler: disabilities running in the Bakers' family, especially more when his son could have suffered the same fate at birth due to the umbilical cord strangling him.]] Bryce becomes regretful when he doesn't do the same with Garret making an identical joke and Juli calls him out for it.

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Juli acts this way towards Bryce after he apologizes for throwing away Juli's eggs [[spoiler: and for laughing with Garret about her uncle being disabled]]. This makes him feel worse than the period in which [[spoiler: she hated him following him saying her eggs probably had salmonella]] because she stops acknowledging he exists.

* JerkassRealization: Bryce gets this about himself about the eggs, as well as when he [[spoiler: laughs with Garret about Juli's uncle]]. He also realizes that his father is not the nicest person, which is a shocking thing to see.

** Garret laughs about Juli's [[spoiler: uncle being disabled and thinking it has to do with genes]].

** So Bryce following the eggs fiasco starts to realize there is more to Juli than meets the eye, especially after rereading the news article about her attempt to [[spoiler: save the sycamore tree]]. He then reveals to Garret that he knows [[spoiler: Juli's uncle is diabled, and Garret insults Juli]], and then [[spoiler: tries to kiss Juli at the Basket Boy luncheon when sounding like a GreenEyedMonster]].

** Juli and Bryce call out each other for their actions, Juli for being a StalkerWithACrush, and Bryce for not telling her about the eggs, [[spoiler: for laughing with Garret about her uncle, and then for trying to kiss her because she had chosen another boy at the auction mentioned above]].

A he-said-she-said [[{{Pun}} chick lit]]/teen romance novel by Creator/WendelinVanDraanen taking place in circa [[TheNineties 1994-2000]] about a boy named [[DeadpanSnarker Bry]][[JerkWithAHeartOfGold ce]] and a girl named [[AbhorrentAdmirer Juli]][[DaddysGirl anna]]. When they meet in second grade, Juli becomes infatuated with Bryce and clings to him like a parasite. But Bryce doesn't feel like returning the favor, him being girl-phobic and easily embarrassed. Bryce does everything he can to keep his wannabe girlfriend at bay for the next few years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from one another. The story follows them from grade school to junior high, through triumph and disaster, family drama and first love, as they make the discoveries that will define who they are - and who they are to each other.

It was released in 2000 to acclaim and several awards, and it got a movie adaptation in 2010 which received mixed reception and bombed at the box office.

* AdultFear: Addressed in-story. When Mr. Loski implies that Juli's uncle is [[spoiler: is mentally disabled due to genes]], Chet reveals that it was actually due to [[spoiler: the umbilical cord being wrapped around his neck twice.]] Mrs. Loski bursts into tears because [[spoiler: the same thing nearly happened to Bryce as a baby.]] There is Bryce's fear that if things had gone wrong, then his dad wouldn't love him as much or sacrifice for him the way Juli's father did.

* BachelorAuction: Bryce is put through this and is sold to the most popular girl in school, Shelly. He is not happy about this however because he wanted to be bid on by Juli who bid on the boy before him.

* CourtlyLove: Bryce and Julie never even kiss although they are only in eighth grade when the story ends.

* AlphaBitch: Not according to Bryce at first but in Juli's narrative chapters, fellow classmate Shelly Stalls is this

A he-said-she-said [[{{Pun}} chick lit]]/teen romance novel by Creator/WendelinVanDraanen taking place in circa 1994-2000 about a boy named [[DeadpanSnarker Bry]][[JerkWithAHeartOfGold ce]] and a girl named [[AbhorrentAdmirer Juli]][[DaddysGirl anna]]. When they meet in second grade, Juli becomes infatuated with Bryce and clings to him like a parasite. But Bryce doesn't feel like returning the favor, him being girl-phobic and easily embarrassed. Bryce does everything he can to keep his wannabe girlfriend at bay for the next few years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from one another. The story follows them from grade school to junior high, through triumph and disaster, family drama and first love, as they make the discoveries that will define who they are - and who they are to each other.

** So Bryce following the eggs fiasco starts to realize there is more to Juli than meets the eye, especially after rereading the news article about her attempt to [[spoiler: save the sycamore tree]]. He then reveals to Garret that he knows [[spoiler: Juli's uncle is diabled, and laughs with him about it]], and then [[spoiler: tries to kiss Juli at the Basket Boy luncheon when sounding like a GreenEyedMonster]].

* ListOfTransgressions: Juli lists them to her mother after [[spoiler: Bryce tries to kiss her]]: not only did he throw away her eggs and make fun of their yard, but he also [[spoiler: laughed at her uncle being disabled and tried to blame it on Garret]] and as far as she knows has never stood up for her.

* GenkiGirl: Arguably, Juli during a couple of scenes in their second grade. By the time the main story starts she's grown up.

* CatFight: Between Shelly and Miranda [[spoiler: at the Basket Boy auction]].

* DudeNotFunny: Invoked when Mr. Loski makes a nasty joke about [[spoiler: retardation running in the Bakers' family, especially more when his son could have become retarded at birth due to the umbilical cord strangling him.]] Bryce becomes regretful when he doesn't do the same with Garret making an identical joke and Juli calls him out for it.

* ExiledToTheCouch: What happens to Mr. Loski after [[spoiler: he makes cutting remarks about the Bakers being "trash" and about caring for a "retarded" family member, after his own son nearly suffered the same fate due to the umbilical cord being wrapped around his neck twice at birth.]]

* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Juli acts this way towards Bryce after he apologizes for throwing away Juli's eggs [[spoiler: and for laughing with Garret about her uncle being retarded]]. This makes him feel worse than the period in which [[spoiler: she hated him following him saying her eggs probably had salmonella]] because she stops acknowledging he exists.

* FromBadToWorse: Juli describes things going this way after the sycamore tree is chopped down.

* HardTruthAesop: There's some truth to the old adage of "there's more to others than what meets the eye." Sometimes this leads to HiddenDepths, but sometimes it means that there's nothing good underneath a person's surface. Sometimes there's nothing under a person's surface at all.

* JerkassRealization: Bryce gets this about himself about the eggs, as well as when he [[spoiler: laughs with Garret about Juli's retarded uncle]]. He also realizes that his father is not the nicest person, which is a shocking thing to see.

** Garret laughs about Juli's [[spoiler: uncle being retarded and thinking it has to do with genes]].

* ListOfTransgressions: Juli lists them to her mother after [[spoiler: Bryce tries to kiss her]]: not only did he throw away her eggs and make fun of their yard, but he also [[spoiler: laughed at her uncle being "retarded" and tried to blame it on Garret]] and as far as she knows has never stood up for her.

** So Bryce following the eggs fiasco starts to realize there is more to Juli than meets the eye, especially after rereading the news article about her attempt to [[spoiler: save the sycamore tree]]. He then reveals to Garret that he knows [[spoiler: Juli's uncle is retarded, and laughs with him about it]], and then [[spoiler: tries to kiss Juli at the Basket Boy luncheon when sounding like a GreenEyedMonster]].

** Following the argument where Chet angrily explains that the Baker's have to support Uncle David's upkeep, and that he became[[spoiler: retarded due to a random accident at birth]], Chet then takes Bryce out for a walk to keep him away from the Loski parents' meltdown. By the time the meltdown is over, Mr. Loski is sleeping on the couch.

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Subverted. Bryce comes off this way from the perspective of Juli's parents and friends. In reality he's got lots of depth; he just also happens to be a raging StepfordSmiler and is deliberately repressing it. Just as she's finally giving up on him, he starts to show it...
** Actually also played straight. After getting over her pining for Bryce, Juli actually comes to learn that she really knows little to nothing about Bryce as the two never had a ''real'' conversation. It wasn't until Bryce attempted to make amends for his previous callousness that the two actually started to bond.

* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Mr. Loski accuses Chet of this when Chet spends his time helping Juli with yard work rather than tossing a ball with his grandson Bryce. Chet then defies the trope by explaining why he helps, and Bryce feels that he doesn't deserve that bonding anyway.

* AdultFear: Addressed in-story. When Mr. Loski implies that Juli's uncle is [[spoiler: is retarded due to genes]], Chet reveals that it was actually due to [[spoiler: the umbilical cord being wrapped around his neck twice.]] Mrs. Loski bursts into tears because [[spoiler: the same thing nearly happened to Bryce as a baby.]] There is Bryce's fear that if things had gone wrong, then his dad wouldn't love him as much or sacrifice for him the way Juli's father did.

* BigBrotherInstinct: Robert Baker for his brother David. Juli's narration mentions that both her grandparents are dead and he dropped out of college so chances are, Robert had to quit school to care for David.

* RashomonStyle: Shows the events in the movie and book from the perspectives of both Bryce and Juli, which are quite different, especially at the start.

* BettyAndVeronica: Juli and Shelly/Sherry (and later Miranda) for Bryce. Subverted in that Bryce has no interest in Shelly; he only uses her to annoy Juli.

* ShipperOnDeck: [[spoiler: It's implied that Mrs. Baker is this for Bryce and Juli. In Juli's last POV chapter, Mrs. Baker encourages Juli to listen to what Bryce has to say, even after she explained his attempt to kiss her at the Basket Boy auction. She also privately tells Bryce to give Juli more time alone before reaching out to her as opposed to telling him to leave Juli alone.]]

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to the UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo between Juli And Bryce, but also to how the feelings of each of them for the other make them feel, and [[{{Pun}} to Bryce's]] PerspectiveFlip.
---> '''Juli''': The first time I saw Bryce Loski, I flipped.
---> '''Bryce''': ''(acknowledging his crush on Juli)'' Garrett was right. I had flipped.