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1st Edition
Published on 23. July 2013
208 pages
978-1-4424-5809-3 (ISBN)
Description
The award-winning author of Anything But Typical ?delivers an honest message about surviving bad situations and remaining true to oneself and one's friends? (Publishers Weekly) in this insightful exploration of middle school bullying from multiple perspectives.
Elizabeth Moon grew up around dogs. Her mom runs a boarding kennel out of their home, so she's seen how dogs behave to determine pack order. Her experience in middle school is uncomfortably similar.
Maggie hates how Elizabeth acts so much better than everyone else. Besides, she's always covered in dog hair. And she smells. So Maggie creates a fake profile on a popular social networking site to teach Elizabeth a lesson.
What makes a bully, and what makes a victim? It's all in the perspective, and the dynamics shift. From sibling rivalries to mean girl antics, the varying points of view show the many shades of gray in this illuminating novel from the award-winning author of Anything But Typical?because middle school is anything but black and white.
Elizabeth Moon grew up around dogs. Her mom runs a boarding kennel out of their home, so she's seen how dogs behave to determine pack order. Her experience in middle school is uncomfortably similar.
Maggie hates how Elizabeth acts so much better than everyone else. Besides, she's always covered in dog hair. And she smells. So Maggie creates a fake profile on a popular social networking site to teach Elizabeth a lesson.
What makes a bully, and what makes a victim? It's all in the perspective, and the dynamics shift. From sibling rivalries to mean girl antics, the varying points of view show the many shades of gray in this illuminating novel from the award-winning author of Anything But Typical?because middle school is anything but black and white.
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Nora Raleigh Baskin is the ALA Schneider Family Book Award-winning author of Anything But Typical. She was chosen as a Publishers Weekly Flying Start for her novel What Every Girl (Except Me) Knows, and has since written a number of novels for middle graders and teens, including The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah, The Summer Before Boys, and Ruby on the Outside. Nora lives with her family in Connecticut. Visit her at NoraBaskin.com.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1: The Answering Voice
- Chapter 2: The Fisher-Rees Birthday Party
- Chapter 3: Eyes and Teeth
- Chapter 4: The Millennial Generation
- Chapter 5: The Answering Voice II
- Chapter 6: What Doesn't Kill You
- Chapter 7: Nothing Left to Lose
- Chapter 8: Coincidence
- Chapter 9: Mass Hysteria
- Chapter 10: Trash
- Chapter 11: School Spirit
- Chapter 12: Just Kidding
- Chapter 13: No Witness to the Persecution
- Chapter 14: Department of Homeland Security
- Chapter 15: Empathy is Overrated
- Chapter 16: The Trouble with Urinals
- Chapter 17: Hurricane Helen
- Chapter 18: And Then There are the Chickens
- Chapter 19: Found in Middle School Dumpster and Partially Eaten by a Rat
- Chapter 20: Here Comes the Bride
- Chapter 21: Absolute Power Absolutely
- Chapter 22: Who's Top Dog Now?
- Chapter 23: Inside of a Dog
- Chapter 24: PC
- Chapter 25: The Crucible
- Chapter 26: House Arrest
- Chapter 27: Spiking the Ball
- Chapter 28: The Greek Chorus
- Chapter 29: And Then Came Goat
- Chapter 30: Tag, You're it
- Chapter 31: Tropic of Cancer
- Chapter 32: Inside of a Human
- Afterword
- About Nora Raleigh Baskin
- Copyright
