New Kid (a teenage fiction)

Authors Note (and facts)

Thank you so much for reading!!!!! I really hope you enjoyed my first book! I worked really hard on it and I know that it isn't perfect. Message me any new ideas and vote if you thought this book was good, thanks again!

Check out my other books The Timer and Eight Days.

-Bee yoursellf

Facts about bullying.

1. Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year.

2. Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying.

3. 17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month or more within a school semester.

4. 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4% of the time.

5. By age 14 less than 30% of boys and 40% of girls will talk to their peers about bullying.

6. Over 67% of students believe that schools respond poorly to bullying, with a high percentage of students believing that adult help is infrequent and ineffective.

7. 71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.

8. 90% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying.

9. 1 in 10 students drop out of school because of repeated bullying.

10. As boys age they are less and less likely to feel sympathy for victims of bullying. In fact they are more likely to add to the problem than solve it.

11. Physical bullying increases in elementary school, peaks in middle school and declines in high school. Verbal abuse, on the other hand, remains constant.

https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-bullying