How to Beat the Bully

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The text for this book is set in Bembo Std.
Manufactured in the United States of America • 1211 FFG
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Starkey, Scott.

How to beat the bully without really trying / Scott Starkey.—1st ed.
p. cm.

“A Paula Wiseman Book.”

Summary: Rodney, an admitted coward, moves to Ohio where the middle-school bully immediately singles him out, but when a stray baseball knocks the bully out just as he is about to beat Rodney up, Rodney gains an undeserved reputation as a tough guy.

ISBN 978-1-4424-1685-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4424-1693-2 (eBook)

[1. Bullies—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction. 3. Ohio—Fiction. 4. Humorous stories.] I. Title.
PZ7.S7952Ho 2012
[Fic]—dc23
2011019439