Book Details
This is a great book for tween girls to use to spot bullying, stop bullying, and to speak out against it. This book is an easy to read book that offers readers pull out quizzes, pages on real life experiences and quotes, as well as "what would you do" scenarios for the reader to fill out. At the end of the book, readers sign an anti bullying pledge and clever comebacks to bullying.
Review
The American Girl Publishing Company aims their non fiction books at real life obstacles that kids may go through. From making friends to learning how to defend yourself against bullies, this book goes all the way. This book is easy to read, fun to use, and is written in language geared towards kids. With bullying being so prevalent in the news today we see that kids are coming up against these challenges at an earlier than ever age and are unprepared how to defend themselves against bullying. Parents of kids who are being bullied find it hard to communicate with their children and this books offers kids and their parents opportunities to work together in fill in the blank scenarios and questions. The only fault that I found with this book was that it is geared just to tween girls. I know that this is the population it serves, but is anyone up for starting an American Boy collection?
Interest Age/Reading Level
9-12 years old/tween
Criswell, P. (2009). Stand up for yourself: Dealing with bullies and bossiness and finding a better way. New York: American Girl Publishing.
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