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A review by library_brandy
Cornered: 14 Stories of Bullying and Defiance by Matthue Roth, Lish McBride, Sheba Karim, Celeste Lecesne, David Yoo, Kate Ellison, Elizabeth A. Miles, Rhoda Belleza, Jamie Adoff, Brendan Halpin, Josh Berk, Mayra Lazara Dole, Zetta Elliott, Jennifer Brown, Kirsten Miller
3.0
Picked this up as an ARC, as something to consider for the 8th grade summer reading We Want Something About Bullying requirement.
No.
I'm not saying it was bad--like any anthology, it had its ups and downs. Some stories are fantasy-based, others are realistic--and props for the realistic ones actually addressing teens considering suicide, and I think that's where my sticking point is--I respect the choice but it's not something I'm going to hand to an 8th-grader when they'll be reading without much guidance. (I say this because this year's rising 8th graders are last year's rising seventh graders, who took the wildly wrong message from James Preller's amazingly realistic Bystander.)
An additional purchase at best, in part because not many teens read anthologies anyway (which is a shame). (but not a shame when it comes to this one.)
No.
I'm not saying it was bad--like any anthology, it had its ups and downs. Some stories are fantasy-based, others are realistic--and props for the realistic ones actually addressing teens considering suicide, and I think that's where my sticking point is--I respect the choice but it's not something I'm going to hand to an 8th-grader when they'll be reading without much guidance. (I say this because this year's rising 8th graders are last year's rising seventh graders, who took the wildly wrong message from James Preller's amazingly realistic Bystander.)
An additional purchase at best, in part because not many teens read anthologies anyway (which is a shame). (but not a shame when it comes to this one.)