• Age: 7 to 9
• Grade: 2 to 4

Rilla is not about to let some playground bullies stop her fun!

Ms MacArthur's class is pumped about the fitness challenge at the park — it's where kids from local schools compete in a series of events such as chin-ups, a tire run, a bicycle obstacle course and monkey-bar swinging. The winner will get a brand-new bike! But when Rilla and her classmates, Lauren and Nicholas, go to the park to practise, a threatening bully and his sidekicks stop them. Will they ever get to use the playground — or hope to win any of the fitness challenge events?

Though bullying is a serious topic many kids face, Nancy Wilcox Richards's tone is funny, light and positive, and in the end, the Bayfield kids succeed in pulling together to curb the bully's behaviour.

Les livres de Nancy Wilcox Richards sont largement
inspirés de ses expériences d'enseignante. Nancy aborde des thèmes qui
touchent particulièrement les jeunes du niveau primaire comme
l'intimidation, l'amitié ou l'entraide. Nancy habite en Nouvelle-Écosse.

Nancy Wilcox Richards taught elementary school for a number of years. She is the author of How to Tame a Bully, How To Outplay A Bully, How to Handle a Bully, How to Be a Friend and How to Fix a Lie, as well as the Farmer Joe series of picture books and We're All Friends Here. All are published by Scholastic Canada Ltd. She lives in Hebbville, Nova Scotia.

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