Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories is a novel consisting of seventy stories by seventy YA authors about bullying. It was made as a reaction to the suicide of the bullying victim Phoebe Prince in 2010. The two authors and editors Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones started a Facebook group where they invited several authors to share and contribute their own story of bullying. 70 of the stories that were shared made it into the book that has become Dear Bully.
The stories are formed and expressed in several different ways, from short stories to poems to graphic expressions, but they all include one thing: Bullies. Either the author was bullied, stood by while someone else was bullied or bullied others, they all reflect on a time in their life that was unstable. The stories are all distressing, though the authors give an inspirational and upbuilding conclusion to the book.
Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories won the Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults 2012. The award was given to Megan Kelley and Carrie Jones, even though they didn’t write all the stories, yet they were the women behind the initiative. The book was published September 6h 2011 by HarperTeen.
