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Stand Up For Yourself And Your Friends: Dealing With Bullies And Bossiness And Finding A Better Way (2011)

by Patti Kelley Criswell(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Middle Grade & Children's

publisher

American Girl

review 1: Stand up for Yourself and your Friends is a catalogue all about how girls can identify bullying, and how they can handle it when bullying happens. The main point of the book is not to find a solution to bullying, but instead to find solutions to handling bullying when it happens in life. I chose this source because there are several forms Martini uses to get the information across whether that is through quizzes, scenarios, quotes, or by using an anti-bullying pledge for the girls to sign and follow at the end of the book. Overall, this book can enhance my knowledge by learning and teaching practical ways to learn and handle bullying.
review 2: This book uses many similar features as "Friends: Making Them and Keeping Them" (also by Criswell) - quizzes, true sto... moreries, short pieces of advice - but it delves into more difficult issues. Many girls need help dealing with bullies and bossiness throughout their elementary school years. They need to deal with friends who talk behind their backs, or classmates who tease them. Maybe they have a friend who's warm and kind one day, and the next turns a cold shoulder. These aren't easy waters to navigate alone. As Criswell writes in the introduction, "There's no one right way to handle bullying. That's why this book gives you lots of tips to try, such as clever comebacks. ways to ignore someone who bullies, and ways to get help from an adult you trust. You'll find advice from girls who have been there, and you'll learn how to stand up for other people, too, when they need it most. We can all do our part to make the world a kinder, safer place." (p. 3)My daughter is quite soft-spoken at school (not at home!) and she was dealing with a difficult situation at school one year. This book helped her understand the hurtful words another girl was saying and name the behavior; it also helped her find some words and actions she could take to stop the bullying. Best of all, it helped her see that she didn't just need to absorb these hurtful words - she could and should stand up for herself. less

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