MEET JAKE DRAKE, BULLY BUSTER.
When Jake was three years old at Miss Lulu's Dainty Diaper Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast! Why? Because Jake was kind of smart and not a tattletale, and he had no big brother to protect him. He was a perfect bully magnet.
But everything changed the year Jake was in second grade. That's when SuperBully Link Baxter moved to town. Jake had his hands full just trying to survive, until class project time. Who did the teacher assign to be Link's partner? You guessed it.
Jake has to use all his smarts -- and his heart as well -- to turn himself from Jake Drake, Bully Magnet, to Jake Drake, Bully Buster.
傑克一直搞不懂,學校這些每天在教導他們的大人們不是應該很聰明、很厲害嗎?為什麼他們始終沒辦法解決校園霸凌的問題?為什麼霸凌每一年都不斷在學校重演?在他二年級時,燙手山芋落到傑克手上。林克,那個超級霸凌王搬到他家附近,轉進他的學校,成為他的同班同學,甚至和他是同組夥伴。
然而,傑克毫無疑問就是林克最美味的俎上肉。他唯一能做的只有自己勇敢面對,並且想辦法解決。安份守己的傑克,竟被迫必須成為霸凌終結者……他,該怎麼做?他,辦得到嗎?
【本書重點議題】
校園霸凌與暴力事件
目前教育部積極推動「防止校園霸凌事件」,可見校園的霸凌(無論是肢體或語言上的欺壓作為),對學生來說,都是校園中層出不窮的惱人問題。本書由主角傑克現身說法,直接陳述他遭遇霸凌事件時的心境與處理方式。
從一開始剖析霸凌者與被霸凌者的特質、分析霸凌者的行為,到最後決定由自己來改變與霸凌者之間的關係,清晰描寫出學校大多數遭遇霸凌者的無奈心聲,最後也讓讀者反思霸凌者被貼上標籤的心境或根源。
[本書國際媒體好評]
出版者週刊(Publishers Weekly):這本書無疑品格教育與衝突處理程序的必備教材,對於正要進入大量閱讀階段的讀者,也極具吸引力。
兒童文學評論(www.childrenslit.com):這本寫實的小小說以充滿魅力的角色和真實的情境吸引許多年輕讀者。
邦諾書店(Barnes & Noble):這幽默的故事講述了一個最普遍的問題。
——中文簡介摘自遠流出版《我是傑克,霸凌終結者》