Waiting on Wednesday: Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine and is meant to showcase upcoming books that you can't wait to read.

My anxiously awaited title this week is:

Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories
Edited by: Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones
Publish Date: September 6, 2011
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 352
Genre: Nonfiction
Audience: Young Adult

From Goodreads:

You are not alone.

Discover how Lauren Kate transformed the feeling of that one mean girl getting under her skin into her first novel, how Lauren Oliver learned to celebrate ambiguity in her classmates and in herself, and how R.L. Stine turned being the “funny guy” into the best defense against the bullies in his class. 

Today’s top authors for teens come together to share their stories about bullying—as silent observers on the sidelines of high school, as victims, and as perpetrators—in a collection at turns moving and self-effacing, but always deeply personal.

This is one of those books I wish would have been published a couple weeks earlier, either that or I had been able to get an ARC of because I was hoping to have it finished before the start of the school year. I really want to find a way to incorporate this book into my literature and English classes. I'm already imagining how I can use this book along with the picture book One by Kathryn Otoshi in order to address the bullying problem that seems to be so rampant in schools today.