What is the bully book part mystery, part tragedy, part comedy. He just wanted to tell a good story about a kid detective. My life as i have known it is over but i am going to make sure that my future is not so horrible. But the author, eric kahn gale, didnt intend to make an antibullying statement. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. There is a book that teaches how to be a bully and its about to ruin eric haskins life. As the novel progresses, the two documents inform each other and their relationship is made clear, while eric grows ever closer to the bully. Then he hears about the bully book, a cryptic guide that gets right inside the head of the bully. Nov 08, 2012 the rules governing sixth grade are often a mystery, but for eric haskins, its a mystery he needs to solve, and fast. How did the friendship between melody and eric get destroyed. Eric haskins, the new sixthgrade bully target, is searching for answers. The story takes place in a small town where children have been bullying each other for a very long time. Eric haskins always prided himself on being normal, but it begins to haunt him when kids in his class begin tormenting him, isolating him from his wouldbe friends and allies.
The bully book is a novel by eric kahn gale, best know for his involvement with the musical theatre company team starkid the bully book is told through alternate entries of the actual bully book and journal entries of tenyearold eric haskins the story of the bully book is told in chapters that alternate between passages from the actual bully book and entries from 10 year. I thought the bully book was a a great debut novel. Upon entering 5th grade he is mercilessly tormented by a group of boys that turn the entire class against him. Sixthgrader eric haskins is having the worst year ever. The bully book by eric kahn gale fantastic fiction. Its a raw account of middleschool bullying, featuring perspectives from both the top and bottom of the. Eric is the main protaganist and the outcast of his sixgrade class at school. Determinedly normal eric haskins is dumbfounded when his best friend, just back from camp, joins with a couple of other boys to call him grunt at the beginning. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Abandoned by his best friend, teased by his classmates, and victimized daily by bullies, he struggles to understand his. First his friend from 5th grade donovan doesnt show up for a while then appears very different than last year with eric. The bully book, a debut novel by eric kahn gale due out from harpercollins in january, is a semiautobiographical novel that alternates between passages from a bullying manual the bully book.
Eric kahn gale wrote this book based on his experiences of being bullied in the sixth grade. Dec 26, 2012 the bully book, partly a mystery novel and partly a coming of age story, could be the book that makes the cyber generation turn from being bystanders to upstanders, as in standing up against bullies. Its full of winding twists and turns that dont unravel until the very end. But eric hears a conspiracy theory about the bully book, a manual that has been passed down from 5th grader to 5th grader throughout the years. Eric cant figure out why hes the grunt until he hears about the bully book, a cryptic guide that teaches you how to make trouble the rules governing middle school are often a mystery, but for eric haskins, theyre a mystery he needs to solve, and fast. But as he begins to investigate the author of a manuscript on bullying, he learns to accept himself. This book is loosely based on incidents that happened to him in sixth grade. The rules governing sixth grade are often a mystery, but for eric haskins, its a mystery he needs to solve, and fast.
Written in a firstperson, journalstyle format, the bully book follows the school year of eric haskinsa seemingly average kid who finds himself the target of. Hes a normal, average kid, until sixth grade starts. Starkid writer eric kahn gale embarks on bully book tour. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the bully book.
I have two good friends who i have been friends with since the 1st grade. Eric haskins becomes obsessed with the bully book, going to great lengths to figure out why he is the chosen grunt. Readers know that eric s right, because interspersed with his journal entries chronicling his miserable year are excerpts from the titular bully book, which advises, you have to create yourself. The bully book by eric kahn gale overdrive rakuten. The bully book all the tropes wiki fandom powered by wikia. The juxtaposition of erics journal against the bully book allows readers to see both the bullies methodology and erics unwitting complicity. Sixthgrader eric haskins writes intervening journal entries that detail his growing awareness that he has become his grades targeted grunt. A lot of the events in the book are based on things that happened to me when i was in elementary school, said gale, who invented the bully book as a literary device. After discovering that these kids picked him based off of a bully book, eric goes on a mission to find this book and discovers that this is a horrible history that repeats itself every year in the sixth grade. The bully book by eric kahn gale is an overall good book that explains exactly that.
The bully book is an amazingly well crafted novel that i found intriguing and addicting. Originally selfpublished as an ebook by a member of team starkid, the bully book is now ava. Because of a book and its rules, i have become the most despised person in this school. It turns out that there is a book passed down every year from the sixth graders called the bully book. The bully book begins like a howto manual for becoming a bully, in this case the person who decides the social pecking order at school. The bully book the free library of philadelphia overdrive. Hilarious and compelling, the bully book is a mustread for every tween, tween parent, librarian and educator. He is nicknamed the grunt since he is the outcast of his school. The chapters alternate between a mysterious manuscript of this manual and the journal entries of a kid named eric haskins. He is tormented by his classmates and he cant figure out why. The person in your class that is not ugly or goodlooking, smart or stupid, mean or nice, funny or boring. Originally selfpublished as an ebook by a member of team starkid, the bully book is now available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook editions. The topic of bullying is a hotbutton issue, not only in the book but in the world today.
What did eric figure out after he read who the grunt is. Written in a firstperson, journalstyle format, the bully book. I finished it in two days but i wouldnt recommend it for anyone under the age of 9 because of some inappropriate language. That is played right into the bully book, he let the book and being the grunt rule his life. And unlike many of us who experienced something awful growing up, he finds them. Who told the other eric had learned of the bully book. Except this years grunt, eric haskins, isnt giving up to the bullieshes trying to find more about them to stop them. As the novel progresses, the two documents inform each other and their relationship is made clear, while eric grows ever closer to the bully book and the dark secret at the heart of. Chicago public schools digital library the bully book. The bully book, aimed at readers 8 and up, tells the story of sixthgrader eric haskins. The bully book is a novel by eric kahn gale, best know for his involvement with the musical theatre company team starkid the bully book is told through alternate entries of the actual bully book and journal entries of tenyearold eric haskins. Nov 05, 2012 the rules governing sixth grade are often a mystery, but for eric haskins, its a mystery he needs to solve, and fast. Eric haskins may be this years grunt, but hes not going to stay at the bottom of the social ladder forever.
Have you ever bullied someone or been bullied yourself. When and where did daniel want to meet eric to talk about the bully book. If so, you will be able to relate to the main character in this book, eric haskins. The story of the bully book is told in chapters that alternate between passages from the actual bully book and entries from 10 yearold eric haskins journal. Erics quest to uncover the bully book is genuinely suspenseful. In eric kahn gales novel the bully book, sixth grader eric haskins becomes the victim of an ongoing conspiracy outlined in a kidcreated manual, also called the bully book. And to keep yourself safe, you have to create other people too, like the grunt.
The bully book and journal entries from sixthgrade bullying victim eric haskins. Eric kahn gale there is a book that teaches how to be a bully and its about to ruin eric haskins life. Who is the person that blew off eric at the beginning of 6th grade. And unlike many of us who experienced something awful. Each fall, a selected group of sixth graders receives the book and uses it to choose a grunt, a victim to be teased, humiliated, alienated, and tortured. The bully book is 230 pages long and was a pretty easy read for me. The bully book book ottawa public library bibliocommons. Author gale alternates chapters from a mysterious manuscript about manipulating to become the top dog with the journal of eric haskins, underdog, who for reasons he cant fathom has been designated the. Dec 26, 2012 the juxtaposition of erics journal against the bully book allows readers to see both the bullies methodology and erics unwitting complicity. Eric haskins is in sixth grade and is seemingly the new target of the bullies in school.