Teasing Trouble (Hopscotch Hill School) - Softcover

Tripp, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1584857676 ISBN 13: 9781584857679

Publisher: Amer Girl, 2004

Synopsis

Spencer likes to make the class laugh, but when it hurts Hallie's feelings Miss Sparks helps the whole class understand the difference between joking and teasing.

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Gr. 1-2. When Hallie loses her two front teeth, her classmates are cheerfully supportive, with one exception. Spencer, who prides himself on his jokes, teases Hallie repeatedly, until she becomes angry and lashes out, calling him "a big, mean bully." When the teacher intervenes, Spencer learns to think before he jokes, and Hallie vows to speak up promptly when she feels hurt. At the end of the book, an eight-page section entitled "Dear Parents" offers practical advice on teaching children to show consideration for others, to use humor in positive ways, and to deal with bullies. Unlike most books in which one child bullies or teases another, this lively telling offers both children's points of view. Allen captures the body language of primary-grade children in a series of brightly colored illustrations. Though real-life schoolyard problems are seldom resolved so neatly, kids and parents may find hope as well as some useful tactics in this appealing book from the Hopscotch Hill School series. Carolyn Phelan
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About this edition

• Publisher: Amer Girl
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1584857676
• ISBN 13: 9781584857679
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Allen Joy