[LM_NET] BOOK: Charlie's stoory by Friel

[Frederick Muller <mullinator52@YAHOO.COM>]

Friel, Maeve._Charlie's story._Peachtree, 1997 [1-56145-315-3]
  Charlie is a girl is is living with her Uncle and his family ever since her unwed 
mother abandoned her in a shopping mall when at the age of 4.  She is now is a 
suburban private school and she is not accepted.  It gets worse when her fellow 
students find out she was abandoned.  She is bullied viciously by the trendy girls 
at the school and the teachers either don't see it or ignore it because "girls 
don't do that."  Life isn't very good at home either because everyone there totally 
ignores the whole story of how she was abandoned.  This 121 page book shows how 
bullying can get out of hand if it is not checked.  After a peak, the story 
resolves itself a little too neatly for my comfort but the story is a good read 
with a good message.  It takes place in England so the reader has to deal with some 
"Britishisms."


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Frederick Muller, Librarian
Halsted Middle School (Grades 6-8)
59 Halsted Street
Newton, NJ  07860

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www.halsted.org/br.htm

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Copyright Frederick B. Muller
                
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