Want to learn more? Reading is definitely a great place to start. Check these books out on school violence and then get up and Do Something.
Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold, a book that deals with dating violence. Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus.
Odd Girl Speaks Out by Rachel Simmons. A collection of stories from teens that dealt with bullying. Excerpt: "When you're a freshman, everyone seems to dominate over you, but if I could just find someone weaker than myself, I would have that much more power. And then I found my target."
Big Mouth, Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates. Excerpt :"Life consists of facts, and facts are of two kinds: Boring and Crucial. I figured this out for myself in the eighth grade. Wish I could patent it! A Boring Fact is virtually any fact that doesn't concern you. Or it's just trivial, a nothing fact. (Like the annual rainfall in, let's say, Bolivia. Crucial to the Bolivians, but boring to everyone else.)"
Bang! by Sharon Flake Excerpt: "BANG! Guns really sound like that, you know. BANG! And people bleed from everywhere, and blood is redder than you think. And little kids look funny in caskets. That's because they ain't meant to be in one, I guess."
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