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The Misfits
by James Howe
Four misfits run for student government. Their platform: stop the names.
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you have been called a name that stuck and want a book that takes that seriously as a political problem not just a personal one
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Four seventh-grade friends — the fat kid, the gay kid, the tall girl, the angry kid — decide to run for student government on a No-Name-Calling platform. They don't win. That's not the point. Howe wrote this in 2001, before most schools had anti-bullying policies, as a direct argument that name-calling is a form of violence and that the kids most targeted by it deserve a political response, not just a therapeutic one. The book that launched No Name-Calling Week in schools across America. The most explicitly political middle grade novel on this shelf and the one that most directly tells kids that the personal is political.
