If I Could Be Like Jennifer Taylor by Barbara Ehrentreu

The more of a reaction you show, the more satisfied he gets and will continue Try to avoid reacting when a bully is bothering you. If you are a victim, remember – IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT! Try to follow these tips: Remember this: if you stand around watching a friend or fellow student bullied, to them it feels you are part of the ‘bully group’ because you are watching and doing nothing to help them out. if you are afraid of the bully, then tell the teacher or grown-up not to reveal your name.be a friend to the student who is bullied and tell them to tell a teacher.if someone encourages you to join them in bullying another student, say NO!.walk away and get a teacher and let them know what you saw.If you see a friend bullied on school grounds, here are a few tips: At times, a bully might not like someone because of the way he/she looks, what he/she wears, the color of his skin and race, so the way they respond to this person is by bullying them. stealing their money with threats like, “Give me your money or else!”īullies feel superior when they do any of these things, without any regard to how the other person feels.Boys or girls threaten other children by physical means like: Will Carolyn become a cheerleader and become popular? Does she continue to keep Jennifer’s secret? Or will she be a target of this mean girl again?īullying can be physical or verbal. She is constantly questioning herself and her motives. Knowing it is wrong, Carolyn continues to keep Jennifer’s secret from her parents and friends and becomes closer to Jennifer. When Jennifer invites Carolyn to sleep over to make her over and teach her to tumble, Carolyn learns Jennifer’s secret and lies to her own friends to cover it up. Jennifer takes on Carolyn as a pity project since she can’t be seen with someone who dresses in jeans and sweatshirts. When she is paired for a Math project with the girl who tormented her in middle school, Jennifer Taylor, she is sure it is going to be another year of pain.With Carolyn’s crush on Jennifer’s hunky Junior quarterback Brad, her freshman year in high school looks like a rerun of middle school.Īfter Jennifer’s the only student who knows why she fell in gym class, Carolyn is blackmailed into doing her math homework in return for Jennifer’s silence. Hyperventilating when she gets nervous doesn’t help. She is convinced that the only thing keeping her from happiness is her too heavy for fashion body and not being a cheerleader. Of course, please contact me if you need any clarification.Ĭarolyn Samuels is obsessed with the idea of being popular. The following discussion questions are good for either a book club discussion or for use in a classroom by a teacher after the book has been read.

If I Could Be Like Jennifer Taylor by Barbara Ehrentreu