- A book so important, it should be required reading for all students in middle school - Russell could not believe how much his life changed when he started Parkland Middle School or Darkland (which is what everyone else called it). Not only does Russell feel deserted by all of his friends, he also has to deal with being stalked by the scariest, meanest bully in the entire school. Would you put up with being beat up and tormented every day? Well, Russell decides he’s not going to, either! He teams up with two other seventh graders who are also being harassed by bullies. Soon they devise a plan to begin an “underground” publication distributed to the student body on the school’s network server. The letter, called The Revealer, details other students’ experiences and how they have been teased and mistreated by bullies at Parkland Middle. When the letter is sent to the student body and they begin reading about how terrible students feel when other people tease them and the way it destroys lives, suddenly being a bully becomes very uncool and not acceptable. Russell, Catalina, and are actually able to make a difference…that is, until they falsely accuse a student of cheating in their newsletter.
When their principal finds out about their letter and the student’s father threatens to sue for slander, she restricts the entire school body’s Internet access. Just when Russell, Elliot, and Catalina find acceptance, they again are the outcasts - the ones responsible for everyone losing their Internet privileges. At first, Russell feels beaten. He then makes the decision to not go down without fighting. He has a plan - though it’s risky, he knows he must be brave and be willing to reveal even more secrets than before. Can Russell win back everything he has lost?-
The Revealers is a thought-provoking book that will engage readers until the end. Even if you have never been bullied, we all can identify with some aspect of these three seventh graders’ lives. This book should be read by every teacher and student. It will make teachers think twice about dismissing “harmless” teasing and will cause students to think about the way they have treated their fellow classmates.
I think that the book was great, and I can really relate to the book. I like to analyze bullies like in the book.
ReplyDeletewell i think that the book is very good book to realate to and the way kids treat kids and the way they always teasing kids and always picking on other kids
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ReplyDeletethe only problems i have with bullying is it hurt peoples feelings
ReplyDeleteI think that this book is really cool but it aslo says the truth because people actually in the real world do get bully by another student or big people bully small people because they know that those people can not do nothing about it because they are scare that the person that bullies him/her are going to do something worst to them.
ReplyDeletei think it fun cool & exciting what a great book :)
ReplyDeleteI liked it because I'm not exactly popular at school either.
ReplyDeleteat my school we just finished the book it was really good we are now having to do a project about the revealer it is kinda cool we have options on what we can do. we can get in groups and to a thing called act it out were you do a little fully producted scene from the book. Write it where we can write a twenty-sixth chapter to the book. Research it where we create an ani-bulling slogan, % facts about bulling, and at least 3-5 proactive ways to prevent bulling.
ReplyDeleteCreate it developing a new character that will fit right in to the story perfectly we have to draw the character and write a one page description. finally the imagine it where we imagine that the book is being made into a movie. we have to design a poster for the movie. The poster must include the tittle, author, theme of story, a picture that represents the story as a whole or just a scene. Also pictures of famous people and names who we would have play the main roles. ( russell, elliot, catalina, big chris, richie, bethany). We also need a one page summary of the story the persuades people to see the movie. Well, me personaly i am doing the imagine it. My project is almost done. And another thing all 6th 7th and 8th graders at my school are reading and doing the same exact project. Most importantly are school has our name similar to parkland its park but another word at the end well bye
Can anyone give me the theme of this book?
ReplyDeletethe revealers is an awsome book anad i would read this book a million times
ReplyDeletei read the book its really good for kid to know not to bully
ReplyDeleteThis book teaches bullies not to bully. I HATE Richie
ReplyDeletethis book is amazing. . .! ! !
ReplyDeletewhat is the climax? Please tell me i have a report due
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