A young reader book by
Judy Blume.
This book tells the tale of a girl named Jill. She just wanted to be
well-liked, so she often followed the crowd. Even when the crowd in her fifth grade class decided to
taunt and
tease Linda, an
overweight child.
Jill just assumes it is all in good fun, but later she learns taunting can lead to more
outlandish acts of
cruelty. At this point she is faced with either going with the crowd, or refusing to take part is something she knows is wrong and has
gone too far.
This is a book that reminds me of how
cruel children really are, and how sometimes as adults we can be just as
awful.. even though we should know better.