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.
She is a member of SCBWI.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. and several of her reviews have been on Acewriters and Celebrity Café. In addition, her children's story, “The Trouble with Follow the Leader” and an adult story, “Out on a Ledge” are published online She has written book reviews for. She hosts Red River Writers Live Tales from the Pages on Blog Talk Radio every 4th Thursday. Her blog, Barbara’s Meanderings,, is networked on both Facebook and Blog Catalog. Barbara is a NY Literature Examiner for with several articles for them. Three of her poems are published in the anthology, Prompted: An International Collection of Poems. If I Could Be Like Jennifer Taylor, Barbara’s first YA novel, published by MuseItUp Publishing,was inspired by Paula Danziger.In addition, one of her short stories is in the anthology, Lavender Dreams, which is a memorial released by MuseItUp Publishing. When she received her Masters degree she began writing seriously. Barbara, a retired teacher with a Masters degree in Reading and Writing K-12 and seventeen years of teaching experience lives with her family in Stamford, Connecticut.
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