Katie Ellison is not a liar. It's just that telling the truth is so ... tricky. She knows she shouldn't be making out with a drama club hottie behind her football-player boyfriend's back. She should probably admit that she can't stand eating quahogs (clams), especially since she's running for Quahog Princess in her hometown's annual Quahog Festival.
Bullying is a perennial and highly damaging problem affecting many thousands of children - boys and girls of all ages. It is a matter of desperate concern for those affected and for their parents and teachers, and is among the issues most frequently raised by kids in their emails to the authors' website. Bullying is currently much in the media spotlight and the target in the UK of a major government-sponsored initiative.
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
Stefan Fatsis, a Wall Street Journal reporter and National Public Radio regular, recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game's strange, potent hold over them -- and him. Scrabble might truly be called America's game. More than two million sets are sold every year and at least thirty million American homes have one. But the game's most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of "living room players.
That’s what Max thought. All his life he’d been called stupid. Dumb. Slow. It didn’t help that his body seemed to be growing faster than his mind. It didn’t help that people were afraid of him. So Max learned how to be alone. At least until Freak came along.
Freak was weird, too. He had a little body – and a really big brain. Together Max and Freak were unstoppable.
