Hot issues, cool choices!
Subtitle: facing bullies, peer pressure, popularity and put-downs
By: Sandra McLeod Humphrey.
Edition: 1st American pbk. ed.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9781591025696
Subjects: Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.; Success in children -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature..; Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 132).
Table of contents: title: Angelina and me (compassion, respect for others); title: Me, myself, and I (fitting in, peer pressure); title: Musical chairs (exclusion, peer pressure); title: No, no, a thousand times no! (empathy, acceptance); title: Birthday blues (empathy, peer pressure); title: Hot dogs and other dogs (community service, peer pressure); title: Frosted cupcakes and no-name jeans (friends, exploitation); title: Testing, testing ... (ridicule, harassment); title: Promises, promises (social manipulation); title: Short, shorter, shortest (physical aggression); title: Follow the leader (name-calling, spreading rumors); title: Crazy critters and creepy crawlies (accepting differences); title: Cool, cooler, coolest (name-calling, friends); title: Warning : mine field ahead (cyber bullying); title: Nobody likes new (accepting differences, exclusion); title: One, two, three and counting (name-calling, harassment); title: Pain, pain, go away (harassment, exclusion); title: Truth or dare (dusting, peer pressure); title: Ôsimon say so (exclusion, peer pressure); title: Operation meltdown (name-calling, harassment); title: Seriously uncool (labels, peer pressure); title: Snap, crackle, pop! (̂boiling over retaliation); title: For the sake of the team (ridicule, harassment); title: When all else fails (harassment, suicidal thoughts); title: Going, going, gone! (exclusion, humiliation); title: How do you spell b-u-l-l-y? (a bully as words).