[LM_NET] HIT: Book suggestions needed

[Jody Newman <newjody@COMCAST.NET>]

Hi Netters:

here's the request...
 
 some titles of books, 4th or 5th grade reading level, focusing on a 
boastful/bullyish/obnoxious
 child (preferably a boy) with consequences included in the book. A friend is 
having some difficulty with
 her son who is very bright and is exhibiting this behavior to a younger sister and 
a few kids his own
 age. The little boy is a good kid...the little sister deserves it, but the mom 
wants to curb the
 behavior. 

Here's the replies...

1.  The Bully of Barkham Street by Mary Stolz - What made Martin 
Hastings, the 'bully' of A Dog on Barkham Street, behave the way he did? 
Martin resolves problems of his own in 'a sensitive study of a lonely, 
frustrated boy. The [family] relationships are exceptionally well drawn.'

2. Are you familiar with the David Mortimore Baxter series by Karen 
Tayleur. The series is a hoot with the moralistic background (not
blatant, but David finds for himself, that his own actions are what 
escalate the troubles.) My kids love the books and they're never on
the shelf. TITLES: Liar/ Excuses/ Manners/ Secrets/ Spies/ Promises/ The 
Truth/ Wild/ Chicken/ Haunted

3. Not sure if these exactly fit the bill, but here are a couple of 
possiblities:

a.  The Boy Who Lost His Face - Louis Sachar. A boy allows his friends 
to pressure him into mistreating an old neighbor woman,
      and immediately a series of odd coincidences convince him he's 
being punished.

b.  Fourth Grade Rats - Jerry Spinelli. A boy's friend convinces him 
that now that they're in fourth grade they need to start pushing
      the younger kids around.

4.  My favorite in this vein would have to be The Voyage of the Dawn 
Treader, one of the Narnia chronicles. Surely reading about Eustace 
Clarence Scrubb and his reformation would influence any child.

Thanks to everyone for your help on this one!

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Jody Newman
Library Aide, retired
Stow, MA
newjody@comcast.net 

"All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" Rev Wm E Channing
                                
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