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48 pp.
| Putnam |
September, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-25704-9$17.99
(4)
K-3
When the popular girls ask sixth-grader Lyla, a new student, to join their clique, she's pleased. But then they start a Facebook campaign against her after she sticks up for an unpopular boy, and soon the bullying becomes out of hand. The topical story with Polacco's distinctive pencil and marker illustrations concludes with a heavy-handed question for readers: "What would you do?"