The bluford series is a widely read collection of contemporary american young adult novels set. Last chance to confess his love endless summer full free maverick movie duration. The book hatchet, which darrells english teacher, mr. Darrell mercer, a 9th grader at bluford high, is at the center of this story. When scrawny freshman darrell transfers to bluford high, he worries he will be. Darrell deals with being the new student at bluford high, and dealing with a new bully. Thats what darrell mercer faces when he and his mother move from philadelphia to california. The series draws its name from the school which many of the characters attend.
This book is very consuming and realistic, like many others in the series. This book is very consuming and realistic, like many others in the series also. Bluford high, named after guion guy bluford, americas first black astronaut. After he got picked on and bullied by darrel mercer. Darrell mercer and his mother jackie are moving from philadelphia to california because of her new job, and mom says its best to move in with his uncle jason. This story is about cindy gibson, a bluford freshman who first appears in lost and found. All twentyone of the bluford series books are available in audiobook format.
In trouble at bluford high school for fighting, martin faces an even bigger problem at home. Paul langans book the bully is about a boy who gets picked on in his school. He can either keep running from this bullyor find some way to fight back. The story the gun by paul langan is about a bully that ends up getting bullied and loses his bully reputation. Cindy struggles with a stormy relationship with her mother, ongoing trouble at school, a dangerous. Physically smaller than his peers, darrell quickly becomes a target for tyray hobbs, the freshman class bully. This was kinda like watching an ingmar bergman movie, afterwards you just want to take a.
She loved them so much she asked if there was a movie. Topics explored in the books include bullying, school violence, teenage pregnancy, divorce, peer pressure, and substance abuse. The bluford series is a collection of twentyone young adult novels that focus on the lives of a group of high school students and their families. Darrell and his mother move to the bluford area in the middle of the school year. Tyray, the new bully, darrell mercer, the new kid from detroit, and amberlynn bailey, the beautiful girl both darrell and tyray are crushing over. The bully by paul langan tells about darrell mercers experience with a bully at school. Frankie, the most feared homeboy from his neighborhood, is hunting him. He went to franklin high school in philadelphia and had friends like malik stone, big reggie, and mark. This is what happens to darrell in the summer before he starts high school.
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