Please Stop Laughing At Me
Jacob Rakes
Summary
The book starts with Jodie reminiscing over her school years thinking of all of the suffering and trauma of her childhood, then skips back in time to her starting high school and wants to get some new friends at this new school. She ends up getting bullied and pushed around and she ended up moving to a new school. In this school she starts with a head start, she already had some friends.She goes to a party and it ends up being a disaster.She ends up getting bullied and has to move to a new neighborhood where some of her future classmates live and after her summer the school year came along and things take a turn for the worst. She starts to get bullied again after she failed to dissect a fetal pig and the kids started making fun of her for being a wimp. Jodee finishes the rest of the painful school year and starts her summer off with a two week stay at a university for kids that don't fit in and gets a lot of new friends. She goes back to school were she found some unexpectedly friendly (x)bullies that somehow forgot all about their past torture of Jodee. She ends up having a good school year and in the end Jodie overcomes her past experiences and goes to the high-school reunion .
Main character:Jodee Blanco
Conflict/ Resolution
In this book the main character Jodee Blanco must deal with bullying and depression from her classmates and friends. She overcomes these by talking with family and going to therapists. Although these don't stop the bullying it still helps with her emotional state. She ends up going to a summer program for kids who don't fit in to have people to relate with. This helps in the long run because when she goes back for her last year of high school she ends up getting friends and having a good time .
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