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Children's Fiction Bullying

Stitches

by (author) Glen Huser

Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Initial publish date
Oct 2003
Category
Bullying, Theater, Peer Pressure
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888995780
    Publish Date
    Oct 2003
    List Price
    $9.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554980642
    Publish Date
    Oct 2003
    List Price
    $9.95

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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 11 to 13
  • Grade: 6 to 8
  • Reading age: 11 to 13

Description

Travis has been waiting to get to junior high. When that time finally comes, things are both better, and worse, than he had hoped. On the plus side are two great new teachers. On the minus side there's Shon Docker, Travis's old tormenter from elementary school.

Travis lives in a trailer park outside a small prairie town. His mother, a country-and-western singer, is on the road a lot; his father is long gone. When things get crazy at his house, he can always visit his best friend, Chantelle, a smart disabled girl with several wild biker brothers.

Travis knows he's different. He loves to sew and play with puppets. He wants to become a professional puppeteer. It all makes him a target for Shon and his friends. As Travis and his friends happily prepare a puppet production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the school graduation festivities, Shon's anger and prejudice erupt in violence.

About the author

From his earliest years, Glen Huser has loved to write and read and draw and paint. That’s when he wasn’t losing himself in the dark cocoon of a movie theatre or picking out old-time radio standards and Broadway musical hits on the piano. As a teacher and school librarian for a lengthy career in Edmonton, he worked his passions for art and literature into school projects such as Magpie, an in-house quarterly featuring writing and art from students. In his off hours, he wrote movie reviews for a local weekly, children’s book reviews for The Edmonton Journal, and got his small ink landscapes into galleries. As he worked on a degree in Education and then a Masters in English at the U of A, he had the good fortune to work under the tutelage of Rudy Wiebe, Margaret Atwood and W. O. Mitchell. For several years he was a sessional lecturer in children’s literature, information studies and creative writing at the U of A in Edmonton and UBC in Vancouver. His first novel Grace Lake was shortlisted for the 1992 W.H. Smith-Books in Canada First Novel Award. He has written several books for young adult readers including the Governor General’s Award-winner Stitches and the GG finalist Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen. Short stories have appeared in a number of literary magazines, most recently Plenitude and Waterloo University’s The New Quarterly. Glen’s current home is Vancouver where he continues to write as well as pursue interests in art and film studies.

Glen Huser's profile page

Awards

  • Long-listed, OLA Red Maple Award
  • Commended, SSLI 2004 Book Awards - Honor Book
  • Commended, CCBC Our Choice
  • Commended, Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice
  • Winner, Governor General's Literary Awards: Text

Editorial Reviews

...a classic scapegoats-vs.-bullies story...

Horn Book, STARRED REVIEW

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