The Mystery Of The Cyber Bully

Marty Chan Mystery #4

by Marty Chan

How do you find a bully who lurks on the Internet and lashes out at helpless victims? Intrepid kid detectives Marty, Remi, and Trina must answer that question if they're to stop a cyber bully targeting their classmates.

In their toughest case yet, the sleuths must follow the electronic trail to their enemy, but the cyber bully outsmarts them at every turn, leaving the trio to wonder if they've met their match. When a ploy to expose the culprit goes wrong, Marty does the unthinkable and loses his best friend Remi's trust. Not only does Marty have to find the cyber bully, but he also has to find a way to win back Remi's friendship.

Marty Chan is back with the exciting fourth installment in the Marty Chan Mystery series.

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2010

About the author

Raised in Morinville--a small town north of Edmonton, Alberta--Marty Chan is a playwright, radio writer, television story editor, and young adult author.

Reviews

[Joy Norstrom · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this book after hearing Marty Chan speak at a conference. He was funny and authentic and I thought my kids might enjoy his work. I read the book out loud and the only complaint I had was a lack of dialogue tags. Sometimes it was hard to distinguish who was talking when it came to the female secondary characters. This wasn't the case for the main characters who were all very unique and multi dimensional. While the story is obviously about our protagonist's pursuit of a cyber bully, I appreciated the way Chan touches on multiple dimensions of diversity without getting preachy (ethnicity, body size and socio-economic class). This gave the kids and I lots of material to unpack, as did the themes of change and friendship. The kids also loved the Alberta setting with familiar locations.