Kevin is number five in his family; the only one in middle school; "the accident, the oops!" Petey, the brother before him, treats him with contempt and physically picks on him. Their parents, both doctors, rarely focus on him and are occupied with their careers.
The result? Kevin picks on others at school. He is the bully.
His latest avenue of hurting others is writing poems in his notebook. Then one day he rips a page out of a library book and circles words on the page to make a poem. Of course poem makes fun of someone. He posts in the hallway for the school to view.
Then one of his victims finds his poetry notebook and the tables turn. Kevin finds out what it is like to be bullied.
An interesting point of view-usually books are written from the point of view of the victim.
The book is written free verse poetry.
Strategies: character development, synthesize, figurative language, inferring, compare/contrast with *Lisa Graff's book-Lost in the Sun*.
Points to discuss/warnings: cruel behavior, Kevin mentions a girl's body part and uses the slang word-(b--b), disrespect to adults, defacing property
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