YA ficiton related to bullying- Rhyme Schemer
Rhyme Schemer by K.A. Holt
Kevin Jamison is the 7th-grade big bully and his journal talks about the people he picks on, his parents are both doctors but he doesn't see himself as wealthy and he feels that no one knows he exists and even when they do it’s only to point out all his mistakes.
His four older brothers are all portrayed as perfect while he is the mistake baby, and so his middle-school angst is taken out in poetry, one day when his brother throws his journal out of the car window Kevin’s reign as the school bully goes downhill.
A boy named Robin who Kevin bully finds the journal and begins to post the poems inside of it all around school and Kevin goes from bullying people to being bullied.
In the end, his librarian makes his family read the poetry and Kevin’s few faithful friends pull him out of the dark, and he has a happy ending.
His four older brothers are all portrayed as perfect while he is the mistake baby, and so his middle-school angst is taken out in poetry, one day when his brother throws his journal out of the car window Kevin’s reign as the school bully goes downhill.
A boy named Robin who Kevin bully finds the journal and begins to post the poems inside of it all around school and Kevin goes from bullying people to being bullied.
In the end, his librarian makes his family read the poetry and Kevin’s few faithful friends pull him out of the dark, and he has a happy ending.
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