Clearly written, these stories will help teachers, parents, and students to recognize the bullying experience but can be appreciated by all and should attract a general audience. Recommended.
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Principals and Other Schoolyard Bullies
Onze récits percutants qui explorent les cicatrices invisibles laissées par les brimades, des cours d’école aux couloirs du pouvoir.
Everybody knows that bullying is not limited to physical violence or intimidation and that bullies don't necessarily look or dress like thugs. Through the voices of boys and girls, men and women, Nick Fonda recounts events and puts words to feelings and emotions that mark people's lives. His characters include the biased principal who wreaks havoc as he protects his own pets, wicked adoptive parents, and the neighborhood tough who, with his parents' approval, terrorizes anybody smaller than him.
These eleven intriguing stories, ably illustrated by Denis Palmer, will charm, surprise, and stir readers. A thought-provoking delight for educators, parents, and students, in fact, anybody who has been confronted by abuse of power, be it subtle or flagrant.
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Nick Fonda est un auteur et journaliste canadien, reconnu pour son regard acéré sur les réalités sociales. Ancien enseignant et reporter primé, il a publié des ouvrages de non-fiction et de fiction, dont Roads to Richmond (2010), salué pour son portrait des Cantons-de-l’Est. Principals and Other Schoolyard Bullies (2012), son premier recueil de nouvelles, confirme son talent pour mêler sensibilité et humour dans l’exploration de thèmes difficiles.
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Fonda manages to get to the heart of a social problem in an entertaining, thought-provoking book that is both a pleasure to read and a call to awareness.
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