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Bully
Patricia Polacco takes on cliques and online bullying
Lyla finds a great friend in Jamie on her first day of school, but when Lyla makes the cheerleading squad and a clique of popular girls invites her to join them, Jamie is left behind. Lyla knows bullying when she sees it, though, and when she sees the girls viciously teasing classmates on Facebook, including Jamie, she i...more
Lyla finds a great friend in Jamie on her first day of school, but when Lyla makes the cheerleading squad and a clique of popular girls invites her to join them, Jamie is left behind. Lyla knows bullying when she sees it, though, and when she sees the girls viciously teasing classmates on Facebook, including Jamie, she i...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
September 13th 2012
by G.P. Putnam's Sons
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Oct 02, 2012
Lisa Vegan
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Patricia Polacco fans; for discussing cyber-bullying and bullying in general
It was ready at the library today. I picked it up today. I read it today. Now I’ll have to wait ½ year for her next book. I’ve been caught up for a while with all Polacco’s books so I’ve been waiting book to book. This was a worthwhile one to wait for.
I think this story does an admirable job of addressing the subject of cyber-bullying, in this case among some sixth graders.
I realize that this book and several other books by this author-illustrator could (almost) go on my san-francisco shelf. I a...more
I think this story does an admirable job of addressing the subject of cyber-bullying, in this case among some sixth graders.
I realize that this book and several other books by this author-illustrator could (almost) go on my san-francisco shelf. I a...more
Polacco shines a light on the current battle children are facing today, bullying. Bullying has gone far beyond words on the playground as today’s generation of children attack each other anonymously and without accountability. As I read this story each page tugged on my heart strings and evoked different emotions. This is a must read for students, teachers, and parents as it highlights the value of friendship and the effects of tormenting others.
Here is the blurb:
Patricia Polacco takes on cliq...more
Here is the blurb:
Patricia Polacco takes on cliq...more
Apr 04, 2013
Barbara
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3 of 5 stars
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When Lyla Dean's family moves to the San Francisco area, she is relieved to make friends with another new student, Jamie Aldrich. But their friendship is threatened when she is invited to join popular girls Gage, Kenyon and Maeve at their table. Although Lyla knows it's wrong, she says nothing when the girls leave cruel comments on other students' Facebook pages. As she watches her younger brother and Jamie become victimized by the school bullies, she decides to stand up to Gage on Jamie's behal...more
I like this book because it is a picture book about bullying that can be used with older students. I love using picture books with 5th, 6th, 7th graders, but too often they are a bit immature. This one is of a girl, Lyla, coming to a new school who instantly is befriended by another new student, a boy named Jamie. The school has its niches for the jocks, art students, toughs, geeks and nerds, and after a while they both start to fit in. When Lyla starts to be noticed because of her good grades a...more
Lyla and Jamie are the new kids at school. They are 6th graders and not members of the popular crowd. After earning good grades and joining the cheer leading squad suddenly the popular girls befriend Lyla. While hanging out with them she witnesses the popular girls harass fellow classmates online through Facebook. This changes how she feels about being accepted by them, especially when they write mean things about Jamie on his Facebook page. When she puts some distance between herself and the po...more
•Brief summary
Lyla is new to the school and doesn't know anyone, but on the first day of school she meets Jamie. They become the best of friends and hang out all the time. Lyla is starting to know the other students also, she decides to try our for the cheer leading team and MAKES IT! This makes he become popular, and she slowly starts leaving Jamie behind. Once she sees how the popular girls bully their classmates and even Jamie she ditches them and goes back to Jamie. Will the popular girls ge...more
Lyla is new to the school and doesn't know anyone, but on the first day of school she meets Jamie. They become the best of friends and hang out all the time. Lyla is starting to know the other students also, she decides to try our for the cheer leading team and MAKES IT! This makes he become popular, and she slowly starts leaving Jamie behind. Once she sees how the popular girls bully their classmates and even Jamie she ditches them and goes back to Jamie. Will the popular girls ge...more
I've been looking forward to this book since I heard about it. And after I heard the news of Amanda Todd's suicide, I was interested in it even more. This is a topic which needs to be talked about with young kids. So a book for Elementary students about cyber bullying? What a great idea - bring it on!
Well, this book delivered. It is simple in plot and words, perfect for older kids in Elementary school. It reminded me somewhat of those classic (classic for me - remember I'm only 18!) kids shows,...more
Well, this book delivered. It is simple in plot and words, perfect for older kids in Elementary school. It reminded me somewhat of those classic (classic for me - remember I'm only 18!) kids shows,...more
Bully by Patricia Polacco was a worthy and helpful read. This story is about a girl named Lyla and her brother who move to a new school from out of town. When she arrives she meets a boy named Jamie who is not popular in the school. They become fast friends and it is quickly noted that to get connected with school Lyla should own a laptop and cell phone, and start a facebook page. Lyla starts to get the highest grades in school and even get selected for cheerleading squad. Here she finds out who...more
Lyla Dean has just moved to San Francisco. She makes a new friend at school named Jamie Aldrich and she thinks he is pretty cool. Soon Lyla draws the attention of the popular kids and once she makes the cheer squad, she is hanging with the popular kids more than Jamie. She soon finds out that their special activity is not a nice one and after deciding to not hang with them, she finds their harassment a little bit more than she can bare.
Great concept to teach kids abut bullying. The ending poses...more
Great concept to teach kids abut bullying. The ending poses...more
Polacco usually creates characters with which readers make connections easily. This is certainly true with Bully which introduces Lyla, a middle schooler moving to a new school. Lyla wants to be like other girls with cell phones and facebook. Even with savvy parents who are strict about technology rules, Lyla still becomes the victim of cyber-bullying. Parents might not understand the ins and outs of cyber-bullying and this book is an excellent primer.
Fans of Patricia Polacco will appreciate her...more
Fans of Patricia Polacco will appreciate her...more
I've been anxious to see Polacco's newest book, so when it came in my most recent book order, I immediately pulled it out to read. This particular story is obviously written for an older audience than some of her others, and feels a bit more "preachy." With the inclusion of cell phones and laptops and facebook, it is a frank depiction of what some tweens and teens have to deal with. It will be housed in the oversized fiction section. I will be curious to see the response from students, faculty a...more
A nice addition to Patricia Polacco's wealth of stories about real life situations. I think the bully's punishment should have been more severe, but realistically speaking, it is probably more of an accurate depiction of what would have happened to the bully. I think it is important to note, however, that the popular kids are not always the ones who do the bullying. Sometimes bullies can be loners who pick on other loners simply for something to do. I would read this to introduce the topic of bu...more
PB:46
A powerful and well written book that shows how technology has increased the way bullies can hurt people in schools. Reading this story was an eye opener and gives readers a look into what things can happen to kids in school. This book had a great message in the story as well as illustrations that will help readers understand the storyline better. I would recommend that every middle school student read this book; this would make for a great read aloud in a classroom as well. This is the kin...more
A powerful and well written book that shows how technology has increased the way bullies can hurt people in schools. Reading this story was an eye opener and gives readers a look into what things can happen to kids in school. This book had a great message in the story as well as illustrations that will help readers understand the storyline better. I would recommend that every middle school student read this book; this would make for a great read aloud in a classroom as well. This is the kin...more
3.5 stars -- Reading this book, I was once again endlessly thankful there were no such things as smartphones and social networking when I was a bullied junior high student. The resources modern bullies have at their fingertips to destroy others' lives is simply devastating.
Bully is a sadly realistic story of a girl whose friendship with a boy who has been labelled the class "loser" makes her the focus of both real-life and cyberbullying. It is obviously meant to be shared with a middle school a...more
Bully is a sadly realistic story of a girl whose friendship with a boy who has been labelled the class "loser" makes her the focus of both real-life and cyberbullying. It is obviously meant to be shared with a middle school a...more
I absolutely loved this book because we rarely see books about cyber bullying although it extremely prevalent today. Bully introduces social class as well, as main character Lyla and her new friend Jamie separate those in their school into groups such as popular and unpopular. When Lyla joins the cheerleading team and becomes part of the popular crowd and Jamie is left behind, and she notices her new popular friends teasing other classmates, Jamie included, on Facebook. Lyla luckily realizes tha...more
Another realistic book by Patricia Polacco, this time dealing with bullying. The new girl at school is accepted with the in-crowd, but pays the price for remaining friends with a "loser". Cyber-bullying is addressed. At the end, she asks, "What would you do?" Should the bullied kids just transfer to a new school? As with most books on bullying, the resolution is not clearly apparent. This is what I find challenging about books on bullying. Great to open this up for classroom discussion. Pair thi...more
Bully is a very contemporary story about Lyla, a girl who goes to a new school and falls victim to wanting to "fit in" - the story is very similar to the movie Mean Girls and I think that is a great story about how bullying comes in all forms, especially today. It depicts cyber bullying, bullying via texts, and of course, in-person bullying. The illustrations are vivid and really help bring the story to life. The situations are realistic and allow children to identify with the characters quite e...more
Patricia Polacco did a very good job describing bullying in a modern world. How quickly rumors and accusations can be made when computers, internet and cell phones are involved! Very glad to be past those high school years! Also, the story left on a bit of a cliff hanger asking the reader to think about what they would do next. I thought this was a very interesting way to end a book and added to the ability to make this a wonderful read aloud to share with intermediate to middle school aged stud...more
Lyla is friends with Jamie. They eat lunch together and watch sci-fi movies on Fridays. Jamie is also computer savvy and helps Lyla set up a Facebook page on her computer. Lyla makes the cheerleading squad and wins some awards at school. The popular girls take note of her and invite her into their group. Lyla begins to pays less attention to Jamie. But, when Lyla watches her new friend Gage surf the computer to leave nasty and hurtful remarks on the Facebook pages of targeted classmates, includi...more
Lyla was very nervous about starting sixth grade at her new school, but she met Jamie on her first day and they immediately became friends. Lyla found herself fascinated by the three popular girls in school, who completely ignored her. She managed to get their attention when she got the top grade on an essay. Lyla tried out for cheerleading and made the team. Lyla even negotiated with her parents to get a laptop and Jamie helped her put together a Facebook page. Suddenly the popular girls starte...more
This book is extraordinary. I loved every minute of it. I think this book was so realistic.This book is a very good look at bullying in the new millenium. The use of technology to bully is very popular with kids in our society today. This book is an excellent tool to use to get the conversation started with students about bullying. Also, I think it is important that students understand that being silent about bullying helps to perpetuate bullying. I love this book.
Lyla is new in school. She is really lucky to make friends with Jamie the very first day .As the year goes on she gets good grades, becomes a cheerleader and makes friends with the "popular" girls. But then she's accused of stealing an important test. Who could have really done it and why was Lyla accused? Jamie helps her solve both mysteries. Patricia Polacco gives us a question to answer at the end of the book. See what you think!
- Willi (RBB Staff)
- Willi (RBB Staff)
Like most of Polacco's books, this has the format of a picture book but the content of a longer J fiction book. This one, dealing with cyberbullying, is ripe for discussion. It may date quickly (mentions MySpace even with a 2012 copyright date?) but the desire to join with the popular girls at the expense of a real, if unpopular, friend, is a universal one, as is the ability to make someone's life miserable with almost-invisible-to-adults online and text bullying.
Polacco's book explores forms of bullying from school to cyberspace. Though Lyla, the narrator, and her friends are in sixth grade, I think this book would be an appropriate read-aloud for students in grades 3-5. I also would recommend it to children that are being bullied--by adding it to a bullying pathfinder, parents would be able to find this title to help their children, whether they are the victims, the bullies or the bystanders.
A lengthy picture book that covers the problem of "cyber bullying" With mentions of Facebook and cell phones, I think this book has it's finger on the pulse of a hot issue today, but has strong potential to feel a bit dated in a few years. There's a real "after school special" feeling to this one, and it opens with a large, bold-face question, "What would you do?" Sure to be a favorite in school libraries.
It's so hard to give Patricia Polacco 3 stars, but this book just didn't do it for me. There really wasn't anything new in terms of the bully experience. I also felt it didn't have the "heart" I love about her books. I will say the book did provide an opportunity to introduce Facebook to the girls and the dangers behind social media. I'm not sure they still got it, but it planted the seed.
This story could be taken right from the news, with one girl being picked on and bullied by other kids to the point of even being accused of things by grown-ups. As always, Polacco deals with a tricky subject with sensitivity and gentleness. Illustrations are spot-on. Challenge at the end is clear. Excellent book for school-aged kids.
This was not one of my favorite Patricia Polacco books. I appreciate her "To My Readers" note on the back jacket flap about the reason she wrote this book about bullying, but I thought the story was less complex than her other titles. It does, however, address the dangers of cyber-bullying, which is definitely worth talking about with kids.
Great book to read with older students who are beginning to start dabbling in Facebook and other social media sites. Our school is really focusing on bullying lessons and this would be a great way to give perspective. Students can almost come up with other possible solutions for what to do when students don't get along. Other creative projects such as a pledge to not bully could be a school wide focus.
This is definitely a book for older students. Polacco does not specify what grade the students in her book are in, but they are probably in middle school: 6th, 7th or 8th grade most likely. The bullying in the book is primarily cyber bullying, on computer and cell phone. A good story; pretty long for a picture book.
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Oct 04, 2012 06:50pm
Thanks. Yes, I did really like it.
Oct 04, 2012 07:00pm