According to the Ambassadors 4 Kids Club, one out of every four students is bullied—and 85% of these situations never receive intervention. Parents, students, and teachers have amped up solving the bullying problem for a networked generation of kids.
Written by bestselling author Nancy Rue, each book in the Mean Girl Makeover trilogy focuses on a different character’s point of view: the bully, the victim, and the bystander. The books show solid biblical solutions to the bullying problem set in a story for tween girls.
Sorry I’m Not Sorry tells the story of Kylie Steppe, former queen bee of Gold Country Middle School. After bullying a fellow GCMS student, Kylie has been expelled—and she has to attend mandatory counseling. Without her posse to aid her and other peers to torment, Kylie focuses on the person who stole her GVMS popularity crown: Tori Taylor. As Kylie plots revenge on Tori, she attends therapy sessions, where she reveals a few details that might explain why she finds power in preying on her middle school peers. After a rough year with bullying backfire, will Kylie decide to become more empathetic with her peers?
It's hard for tweens to imagine why a bully acts the way she does. Sorry I’m Not Sorry shows girls that they hold the power to stop bullying through mutual understanding and acts of love.
I received this book in return for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
My rating: four of five stars
This book was wonderful. A story of bullying from the perspective of the bully. It is actually book three in the "Mean Girl Makeover" series. That being said, you don't really get a great look at the situation that this book starts from. I assume it is in books one and two. This story starts with a meeting between Kylie (the main character), the school administrators and her parents.
Kylie does't see what she's being doing as bullying. She thinks other girls are just jealous of her. To try and appeal her expulsion from school, she is jumping through the principal's hoops. Weekly she meets with Lydia (a counselor) and daily volunteers at a summer day camp, helping underprivileged kids with dance. expelled from school.
Over the summer, Kylie begins to change. In the process, she becomes the victim of bullying herself. The girls who were her friends now are blaming her for everything that happened and retaliating by posting horrible photo-shopped pictures to instagram.
This book is a great one for the tweens and teens. Many will be victims of bullying or be bullies themselves. I highly recommend this book to parents of young girls. I plan on getting the series to share with my girls.
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