good - Katrina

Teacher's ed. Because three-year-old Jake was kind of smart and not a tattletale, and he had no big brother to protect him. He was a perfect bully magnet. 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 when the teacher assigned him to be Link's partner? Jake uses all his smarts and his heart to turn himself from Jake Drake, Bully Magnet, to Jake Drake, Bully Buster.

This book takes a surprising turn with making the bully character very fallible and human. Jake's final solution, and the ending, is a tad idealistic, but Clements writes in a way that does not talk down to the reader and makes Jake an endlessly relatable character--particularly to those who have experienced bullying in the past.

week 35

This is a book about Jake Drake who is having trouble with a bully at school. Jake wants to know why the teachers at school cannot get rid of bullies of they are so smart. Jake takes problems into his own hands to get rid of the bully. This would be a good book for fourth graders. This book would be good for a lesson on bullying, and what teachers and students can do to stop bullies, and to show bullies that what they are doing is hurting other students.