Sticks and Stones Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy

Emily Bazelon

eBook - 2013

NATIONAL BESTSELLERBeing a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well.No writer is better poised to explore this territory than Emily Bazelon, who has established herself as a leading voice on the social and legal aspects of teenage drama. In Sticks and Stones, she brings readers on a deeply researched, clear-eyed journey into the ever-shifting landscape of teenage meanness and its sometimes devastating consequences. The result is an indispensable book that takes us from school cafeter...ias to courtrooms to the offices of Facebook, the website where so much teenage life, good and bad, now unfolds.Along the way, Bazelon defines what bullying is and, just as important, what it is not. She... more