Tales from the Bully Box
By Cat Woods, Linda Brewer, Steven Carman and
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Bullying stinks, but knowing what to do about it can make things better. In Tales from the Bully Box, you will find short stories about kids just like you. They get bullied, and sometimes they even bully. But most of the time, they are bystanders who have to figure out what to do when they witness the bullying all around them.
In "Hailey’s Shooting Star," one-handed Hailey proves her worth on the basketball court and as a friend. In "The Eyes on the Back of My Head," you’ll get to stare straight into Mike Mansky’s soul with a pair of super-secret laser eyes. Filled with stories that take readers on a journey from the classroom to summer camp and the basketball court to the mall, Tales from the Bully Box inspires kids to be the best friends they can be.
Cat Woods
Cat Woods has a passion for pirates, chai tea, and underdogs. She gathers novel fodder from captaining her crew of four children, two dogs, and one Dear Hubby. Her middle grade novel, Abigail Bindle and the Slam Book Scam, is slated for release in 2015 from Elephant’s Bookshelf Press. When she’s not writing, Cat hangs out in her garden watching her favorite birds and dreaming of the ocean from her home in land-locked Minnesota. She keeps track of her writing projects at www.catwoodsbooks.com and blogs about bugs, bullies, and other cool stuff at Cat 4 Kids: www.catwoodskids.com.
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Tales from the Bully Box - Cat Woods
Tales from the Bully Box
Copyright 2014 Elephant's Bookshelf Press, LLC
Published by Matt Sinclair at Smashwords
Editor: Cat Woods
Cover Design: Sarah Tregay
Book Design: R.C. Lewis
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Table of Contents
Once Bullied, Now BRAVE
Real Help for Real Problems
Making the World a Better Place, One Story at a Time
Publisher's Note
Hailey's Shooting Star by Steven Carman
Every Camp Has a Bully by Cat Woods
Rosemary's Apples by Sarah Tregay
One Above Zero by K.R. Smith
The Popcorn Tree by Cat Woods
Two Heads Are Better Than One by Linda Brewer
Emergency Exit by Eden Grey
Blindsided by Lauren Neil
Eyes on the Back of My Head by Cat Woods
Pork Rinds and Tacos by Precy Larkins
Preview: Abigail Bindle and the Slam Book Scam by Cat Woods
About the Authors
Once Bullied, Now BRAVE
For over a year, I woke up every morning and dreaded going to school, because I knew the bully would be there. I went through each day, trying to stay under her radar so I wouldn't get noticed and picked on. I would come home crying from the events that happened during the day. But then I realized I was doing it all wrong. I decided I wanted to be BRAVE. From that day on, I woke up confident, and I looked forward to going to school, because I knew things were going to change.
I took a stand against the bully instead of trying to go unnoticed. I encouraged others to stand with me, and our actions started a spark that grew into a flame—a flame that currently burns brighter and stronger than any bully's blaze. We are gathering an army to stand up for those who need help. Our troops extend throughout communities. Teachers, principals, police officers, parents, and friends are our allies. We are part of something bigger than ourselves. We are a unit that cares for each other, fights for each, and supports each other.
You do not have to go through this alone. Reach out to your community, take a stand for yourself and others who need it, Build Relationships Against Violence Everywhere.
I am BRAVE. Are you?
Alexandra Wacker
Founder of the BRAVE anti-bullying program
Real Help for Real Problems
For the first time in over thirty years of teaching I have seen a program that empowered my students to take a stand against bullying. Bullying is something that has been around since before I became a teacher, but the BRAVE program is new. BRAVE stands for Building Relationships Against Violence Everywhere and was started in response to the hurtful atmosphere found in our schools. Every month, two high school students worked with my class to build a unit
that would stand together give students ideas to use when they were bullied or saw bullying taking place.
I still remember the morning one of my students came in very upset after getting off the bus. There was a young boy getting bullied to the point of tears and my student wanted to do something about it. So we talked about the BRAVE ideas. The next morning four of my students met me in the hallway with excitement, because what they tried worked! They felt so empowered and encouraged to continue fighting bullying everywhere. Obviously, I have heard numerous stories from my students about what they are doing to stop bullying since then. Our school and our community is a better place, but we all need to continue to be BRAVE.
Nancy Siebenahler
Elementary Teacher
Making the World a Better Place, One Story at a Time
As a child advocate, a mom, a speech coach, a math tutor, and a former preschool teacher and youth director, I know kids. I write for kids, I work with kids, and I raise kids. I know the pitfalls that each age brings, and I know the effort it takes to reach your potential, no matter what that might be. I know how hard it is to put yourself into the world to be accepted or rejected on somebody else's whim. Because of this, I also know what bullying looks like, sounds like, and feels like.
I know how damaging it can be. I know that kids who are bullied struggle in school. I know that kids who are teased think they can't do anything right. I know that picking on someone can change who they are and what they would have become.
More importantly, I know that bullying can be stopped.
We all have decisions to make. Every day, we choose to be nice or mean. We choose to offer a helping hand or to walk on by. We choose to start rumors or to stop them. Each day, one thousand times a day, we choose how we will act toward those around us. These moments are our stories, and the endings are a direct result of the choices we make.
There is no magic bullet or school program or no-tolerance policy in the world that can stop bullying until we choose to stop it. Change starts with us. Kindness starts with us. Building relationships against violence everywhere, every day, starts with each one of us individually.
Four years ago, my daughter was bullied so badly she begged to be home-schooled rather than face the students who tormented her. Three years ago, she stood up for herself against the ringleader who made her life miserable. Two years ago, she created a program for a fourth grade class to teach kids how to work together and look out for each other. One year ago, that program was expanded to all classes in grades 3-5. This year, an anthology of short stories will be published to honor the lessons she, the students, the teachers and the community learned because of her experiences.
Within BRAVE, kids learned to trust teachers when they had problems. They learned the difference between getting their feelings hurt and being bullied. They learned how to intervene when someone was being picked on. They learned how to talk to their parents and how to say, No.
They learned respect—for themselves, for each other and for their teachers. They became a community—a unit—that worked together.
Creating a community built on trust and respect is the only way to stop bullying in its tracks. But that starts with a single choice and the resulting story.
As a writer, I wanted to show how we are all responsible for the way we behave. I wanted to show how being