By: Doug Wilhelm Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 224 Publication Date: April 06, 2005 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Release Date: March 24, 2005
Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail forum at school in which they publicize their experiences. Unexpectedly, lots of other kids come forward to confess their similar troubles, and it becomes clear that the problem at their school is bigger than anyone knew. The school principal wants to clamp down on the operation, which she does when the trio, in their zealousness for revenge, libel a fellow student in what turns out to have been a setup. Now a new plan of attack is needed . . .
This suspenseful story of computer-era underground rebellion offers fresh perspectives on some of the most enduring themes in fiction for young readers.
Best book ever and you will learn how mean bullying really is This is a really goood book. It will teach kids for all ages how mean and bullying really is to other kids and how it affects their parents. If your kid is getting bullied or bullying someone give them this book and they will learn how to stop it!
A deeply inspiring novel for all ages To Doug Wilhelm:
Today I checked The Revealers out from our school library. I thought it was going to be just another novel about the lives and troubles of kids. But it wasn't. I discovered a message. The book you wrote is powerful, and it made me think. About how better our world could be if we just said the truth. About how bullying is not just one kid picking on another.
Because bullying leaves scars. On your heart, and in your head. You begin to believe that just because this one person harasses you, your life will be miserable. And then you stop trying to stand up for yourself, to fight back.
I completely agree with what Turner said about isolation. Isolation started it all. Except that I understood it in a different sense. I believe that one of the most important keys to bullying is isolation. You keep them away from their friends, just for a few minutes and they're helpless. That's the way it is in modern society. I also agree with what Elliot said about traveling in a pack and how it's safer. You straggle away from your herd of pals, and *CHOMP* the bullies isolate and destroy you, just like what you would see in a video game.
Your book inspired me to try out the same project in my school. I wondered, will the results be higher or lower because it's an elementary school? Will the stories be different?
I think everyone should read your book. Because they will understand it, no matter what. Your book is so inspirational, so deep that I could cry. Thank you, for writing such a good book.
Doha, Qatar
Matt D.'s Revealers Reveiw Can you imagine a place where only the popular survive, and the weak and nerdy are constantly tortured? You should, because it's right under your nose, and it is called Middle School. Russell and his friends Catalina and Elliot, are the basementmain characters of Doug Wilhelm's The Revealers. Russell and friends are bullied badly, until they do something about it. In Darkland (Parkland) Middle School there is a social pyramid. The higher your are the better. Russell, Elliot, and Catal, completely isolated. Russell wants help, so he teams up with Elliot and then Catalina. Once in a team, they started standing up to bullies. The bullies didn't like that, so they tried to pull them down more. In response to this, Russell and friends made a newsletter called the Revealer. It let kids who have been bullied share their stories. That makes the authors of the Revealer, the Revealers. Once the Revealer starts doing some good, it is used against Revealers. All of the good that was done started falling apart. Bullies rise up again and the Revealers are blamed. Now they must win it back...
Review of revealers Russell , Catalina and Elliott , the main characters in The Revealer , are all victims of different bullying. Catalina gets bullied emotionally by the mean "popular" girls writing lies and rumors about her. Elliott gets bullied physically by the mean "jocks" and Russell gets bullied physically and emotionally by the tough guy in school. When they all get bullied they can't stand it so they decide to take a stand and stop it. Catalina is a tall slinky skinny girl. She moved to the united states with her father from the phillipines. Because of what she looks like she gets bullied. The girls in her school bully her about her skin color , where she came from , and her mother , which they do not know at all. Elliott is basically a geek. He gets bullied by everyone and so therefor people think its alright to bully him. But its not. He obssessed about dionsuars , and he practically lives in the prehistoric age , and this couldn't possibly help him with his bullying situation. And finally theres Russell. He used to have friends. But that all changed in 7th grade. He now basically has no friends. Hes not geeky but hes not popular. When he starts getting bullied , and see's other people getting bullied also he decides to become friends with them and they try to stop bullying. When Catalina tries to take a stand and stop the bullying in her school she decideds to publish a story telling about her life and disproving all the lies and rumors.This does make the mean girls stop bullying her as frequently and it makes her some friends. Elliott takes a different approach. He decides to fight back. This actually went wrong for him. It just made the bullying worse. And finally theres russel. He decides to try and stand up to the bullying. Although this doesnt work for him in the beginning it does eventually work out for him. These are all kids that get bullied. They took a stand and tried to stop it and they do eventually slow down the bullying in their school.
Friendship Your new friend is nice, sweet, and a lot like you. You both love sports, and you both have the same opinion about things. But your friend who's popular, says your new friend is at the bottom of the social pyramid. "A low life." she says. In The Revealers, Doug Wilhelm stresses friendship. Like Russel, you need help and information. Russel meets up with Elliot, a nerd and bully target since kindergarten. Russel is actually starting to make friends with him. But when the popular kids make fun of him, Russel is stuck. One friend, and me at the bottom, or no friends, and me at the middle? Russel is really being made fun of now. If he leaves Elliot, he'll never get bully information! Then he meets Catalina. She has no friends, and Elliot quickly starts to find things in common. After the popular kids in school lie about her, she writes the truth and sends it to every kid in 7th grade. Catalina soon makes friends after they know the truth. Russel decides to become friends with Elliot, and he feels he made the right choice. So if you're still stuck from the first paragraph, don't be judged by who your friends are. You're friends, and that's all that matters!
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