Posted: A Story About Bullying, Friendship, and Social Media

With multiple starred reviews, dont miss this humorous, poignant, and original contemporary story about bullying, broken friendships, social media, and the failures of communication between kids. From John David Anderson, author of the acclaimed Ms. Bixbys Last Day.In middle school, words arent just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever.When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in school are leaving notesthough for every kind and friendly one, there is a cutting and cruel one as well.In the middle of this, a new girl named Rose arrives at school and sits at Frosts lunch table. Rose is not like anyone else at Branton Middle School, and its clear that the close circle of friends Frost has made for himself wont easily hold another. As the stickynote war escalates, and the pressure to choose sides mounts, Frost soon realizes that after this year, nothing will ever be the same.