BOOKS: Help kids who feel 'different' | Coeur d'Alene Press
When I was in the sixth grade, I was tormented by a boy in my class who teased me about my freckles. One day he tried to count the freckles on my face. I wanted to disappear. I didn’t want to come back to school. I went into the school library and picked up a book entitled, “The Different One.” The book was about a girl who was different from her classmates and that she had a hard time enduring the taunts of her classmates. The book described her home life and how she overcame her depression over being “different.” From this book I learned to celebrate my freckles and anything else t...
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