Maddie Stands Tall

by Louise Leblanc, Marie-Louise Gay (Illustrator), Sarah Cummins (Translator)

When Maddie finds out that her little brother Julian is being terrorised by a group of bullies in school, she decides that her gang should confront the problem, head on. Her father has been telling her that she has to look out for her younger brothers. Julian, however, has been staying home from school, sick with fear, but when he finds out that Maddie is going to fight the bullies, he tells all. Now it's up to Maddie to come up with a new solution to make sure that not only will there be no more violence, but also no more fear and silence.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 26, 2005

About the author

Louise Leblanc, the Quebecois novelist, was born in 1942 in Greater Montreal. She began as a professor of French before later becoming a model, a TV journalist and researcher.

In 1983, she released her first novel for adults entitled "37 ½ AA". It won the Robert-Cliche prize.

Reviews

[Gillian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maddie picks on her younger brothers and calls them names - just like most big sisters out there. But her behaviour comes back to haunt her when she discovers that Julian is being bullied at school and it’s making him sick! In and around the petty squabbles of who is taking who to the Valentine dance, Maddie forms up a gang to fight back at the bullies. It doesn’t quite turn out the way she planned though ... Lovely book centred on dealing with bullies at school.