![]() ![]() ![]() When moving to a new school, grade six student Brian becomes the immediate and irrational target of the class bully Cody, who also terrorises Brian’s sister Tara, who is in her first year at school. ![]() Junior novel STOP the Bully was borne from author Karen Tyrrell’s experiences as a bullied child (read the interview at and later as a teacher bullied by a parent. The advice I was given to ‘ignore them – they’ll go away if they don’t get a reaction’ was not only incorrect, but in fact spurred the bullies on to step up their attacks in order to get a response – they do it until they get a reaction when you don’t stand up for yourself. Like the protagonist Brian in Karen Tyrrell’s STOP the Bully, I was the shy, unconfident, head-down new kid, and an easy target to those ‘testing’ me out. I, like many people, was bullied as a child. ![]()
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