History Literature / TheBullyBook

* TheGenericGuy: [[spoiler:This is the reason why Eric and the Grunts are chosen.]]

''The Bully Book'' is a novel by Eric Kahn Gale, best known for his involvement with the musical theatre company Creator/TeamStarKid.

* ButtMonkey: The Bully Book instructs the reader to pick a "Grunt," which means ButtMonkey. Effectively, the Grunt is the social Omega, a pariah, the torment of whom can draw everyone else together.
* CanonWelding: The fictional Arborland school district (based on Eric Kahn Gale's hometown of Ann Arbor, {{UsefulNotes/Michigan}}) is also the setting of WebVideo/LittleWhiteLie. WordOfGod is the sequel to The Bully Book, taking place in high school, will explicitly link the two, confirming that [[AlphaBitch Tanya Freemont]] is one of the Bully Book's readers and [[ButtMonkey Kevin Bushwald]] one of the Grunts.

* CanonWelding: The fictional Arborland school district (based on Eric Kahn Gale's hometown of Ann Arbor, {{UsefulNotes/Michigan}}, is also the setting of WebVideo/LittleWhiteLie. WordOfGod is the sequel to The Bully Book, taking place in high school, will explicitly link the two, confirming that [[AlphaBitch Tanya Freemont]] is one of the Bully Book's readers and [[ButtMonkey Kevin Bushwald]] one of the Grunts.

The story of ''The Bully Book'' is told in chapters that alternate between passages from the actual Bully Book and entries from 10 year-old Eric Haskin’s journal. As the novel progresses, the two documents inform each other and their relationship is made clear, while Eric grows ever closer to The Bully Book and the dark secret at the heart of Arborland Elementary School.

There is a book that teaches how to be a bully, and it will ruin Eric Haskins’ life. It all starts when his best friend, Donovan, ditches him and befriends Adrian Noble, the tallest kid in class, and a karate-kicking ten-year-old Eric calls Jason Crazy-Pants. The three boys systematically tease and humiliate Eric, eventually turning the entire class against him. When even that isn’t enough, they sabotage the friendship of his grade-school crush, Melody Miller.

How did 5th grade go so wrong so fast? Adults offer little help: Eric’s single mother doesn’t listen, and Tony Clark, the school’s principal, misinterprets every situation. In a chance encounter with a 6th grade loser, Eric learns of a school-district-wide conspiracy theory: "The Bully Book." According to local legend, a devious 10-year-old wrote a Machiavellian manifesto for the 5th grade, instructing its readers how to gain power in the school. The Bully Book’s linchpin is the selection of a "Grunt"--the kid who will become "the lowest of the low." The Grunt unites the class around a common goal (making his life miserable) and gives the possessor of The Bully Book a platform on which to demonstrate his dominance. The Grunt is selected through a specific, but mysterious process. Eric believes that discovering the specifications used to determine the Grunt will allow him to change himself in the necessary way, and escape The Bully Book’s all-encompassing grasp.

* BigBad: Adrian Noble. Eric also begins searching for the kid who originally wrote the Book [[spoiler: Tony Clark, his school principal.]]
* ButtMonkey: Eric and all the other Grunts.

How did 5th grade go so wrong so fast? Adults offer little help: Eric’s single mother doesn’t listen, and Tony Clark, the school’s principal, misinterprets every situation. In a chance encounter with a 6th grade loser, Eric learns of a school-district-wide conspiracy theory: “The Bully Book.” According to local legend, a devious 10-year-old wrote a Machiavellian manifesto for the 5th grade, instructing its readers how to gain power in the school. The Bully Book’s linchpin is the selection of a “Grunt”—the kid who will become “the lowest of the low.” The Grunt unites the class around a common goal (making his life miserable) and gives the possessor of The Bully Book a platform on which to demonstrate his dominance. The Grunt is selected through a specific, but mysterious process. Eric believes that discovering the specifications used to determine the Grunt will allow him to change himself in the necessary way, and escape The Bully Book’s all-encompassing grasp.

Eric becomes a detective of The Bully Book, seeking out its former Grunts in the middle school, perusing historical documents, and even coming into possession of a single page of the storied text. Meanwhile, the world is growing up around him. Melody begins “going out” with one of his key tormentors, Jason Crazy-Pants, and his mother carries on a relationship with Tony Clark, his principal.

''The Bully Book'' is told through alternate entries of the actual Bully Book and journal entries of ten-year-old Eric Haskins.

'''''The Bully Book''''' is a novel by Eric Kahn Gale, best known for his involvement with the musical theatre company Creator/TeamStarKid.

'''''The Bully Book''''' is a novel by Eric Kahn Gale, best know for his involvement with the musical theatre company Creator/TeamStarKid.

'''''The Bully Book''''' is a novel by Eric Kahn Gale, best know for his involvement with the musical theatre company [=Creator/TeamStarKid.=]

* MindScrew: All hints given by Creator/TeamStarkid just before release.

'''''The Bully Book''''' is a novel by Eric Kahn Gale, best know for his involvement with the musical theatre company Creator/TeamStarKid.

''The Bully Book'' is a novel by Eric Kahn Gale, best know for his involvement with the musical theatre company {{Team StarKid}}.

!!Tropes in this novel include:

* MindScrew: All hints given by TeamStarkid just before release.
* TheGenericGuy: [[spoiler: This is the reason why Eric and the Grunts are chosen.]]