This story, though it may portray bad plot involving violence, greatly explains the true sides of school bullying. Being a reader of this book at age 14 and being able to analyze it further as more than just the text on the pages, I can see that there is more to the book. In the book, the three parties of bullying are shown. In every act of bullying, there is the bully, the victim, and the bystander. Towards the end of the novel, you learn that had any one of those girls in the bullying act taken the time to think about what was going on or why they were doing what they were doing, the whle story would hve ended differently. This book in my opinion was entertaining and enjoyable to read because teenage children can sometimes relate to situations like this whether more serious or less dramatic. In all, it was a good book and when rating please remember that this is a fictional story but the author did spend many hours roaming various highschools and interpreting behavior amongst the students in order to develop the story.