Molly Frost witnesses Olivia get dress coded by the principal and another teacher because she has on a tank top and she refuses to take her sweatshirt from around her waist and put it on. She is fed up with girls getting in trouble for getting their dress. Molly starts a podcast called Dress Coded and starts to have different girls from her middle school come on and talk about their experiences like Liza who was wearing the same thing as Molly and Liza got dress coded and Molly did not. As the podcast continues some high school girls come and tell about when they were dress coded in middle school and how even now it has affected them. As the book continues the themes of embarrassment, shame, and a good way to change things comes about.
There is a side-story of Molly's brother Danny who is selling vape paraphernalia to middle-schoolers along with his own addiction to it.
I loved how the book was written in different forms: podcast script, text messages, letters, and just regular writing. Great character development and reality of what does go on in school and how girls feel.
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