SuitabookResponding to sustained bullying
Tate returns after avoiding a former best friend whose humiliation, exclusion, gossip and pranks have affected her throughout high school.
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Penelope Douglas - Author
This is a high-school novel about a former friendship becoming a sustained campaign of humiliation, exclusion, gossip and increasingly sadistic pranks. Tate returns from France determined to confront the situation rather than keep avoiding it.
My name is Tate. He doesn't call me that, though. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all. No, he'll barely even speak to me. But he still won't leave me alone. We were best friends once. Then he turned on me and made it his mission to ruin my life. I've been humiliated, shut out, and gossiped about all through high school. His pranks and rumors got more sadistic as time wore on, and I made myself sick trying to stay out of his way. I even went to France for a year, just to avoid him. But I'm done hiding from him now, and there's no way in hell I'll allow him to ruin my senior year. He might not have changed, but I have. It's time to fight back. I'm not going to let him bully me anymore. ***This novel contains adult/mature young adult situations. It is only suitable for ages 18+ due to language, violence, and sexual situations.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a high-school novel about a former friendship becoming a sustained campaign of humiliation, exclusion, gossip and increasingly sadistic pranks. Tate returns from France determined to confront the situation rather than keep avoiding it.
Tate returns after avoiding a former best friend whose humiliation, exclusion, gossip and pranks have affected her throughout high school.
Tate spends a year in France to avoid the former friend, then returns determined not to let the situation control her senior year.
The book directly signals bullying, humiliation, social exclusion, gossip, sadistic pranks, emotional distress, language, violence and sexual situations.
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