The battle between the Nerd Girls and the ThreePees has finally gone too far. Principal Mazer is determined to end the feud before any more damage is done. (You should have seen the art room once the ThreePees attacked the Nerd Girls locked inside.). Now all six girls must work together to represent the Aardvarks [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bullying’
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
I’ve not yet read half of the Young Hoosier nominees for the coming school year, but I have found my winner. I want everyone to read Out of My Mind (Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010) by Sharon Draper. I’ve been a fangirl of Sharon Draper ever since my most reluctant readers convinced me that [...]
Warp Speed by Lisa Yee
Lisa Yee takes us back to Rancho Rosetta Middle School in Warp Speed (Scholastic 2011). Marley Sandelski may be my favorite student at Rancho Rosetta. (And I loved Millicent Min, Girl Genius and So Totally Emily Ebers. I’ve missed Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time, but it’s on my TBR). Why is Marley my favorite? Well, [...]
The Force May It Be with You!
I have been hearing good things about these two books by Tom Angleberger, and I am glad I finally moved them to the top of my TBR pile for Christmas reading. I laughed all they way through both titles and can’t wait to release these into the classroom. I already had students begging to take them [...]
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
If you think your life is bad, you should check out the problems Junior faces every day. Junior was born with a medical condition that left him with an oversized head, a lisp, and seizures. Now he is a moving target for every bully on the Spokane Indian Reservation where he lives. His parents, along [...]
Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies by Erin Dionne
Celeste’s life used to fit her as comfortably as her favorite outfit–track pants and a hoodie that hid her perfectly round body. But now life is not so comfortable ever since her aunt Doreen secretly entered her in the Miss Husky Peach pageant. What will her classmates say if she’s crowned beauty queen for fat [...]
Dear Bully
Seventy young adult authors tell their stories of being bullied, bullying others, or just standing by in Dear Bully (Harper Teen 2011). If you ever feel you are alone, this collection of essays will assure you that you are not. Lisa Yee writes of regret for going along with the crowd. RL Stine laughed to [...]
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Jennifer Brown has written a powerful, intense, and important novel with Hate List (Little, Brown, and Company 2009). I had to read this in small doses to give myself time to think. Even now that I’m done I find my thoughts returning to Valerie and all she went through. I appreciate that Jennifer Brown takes a [...]
