Showing posts with label young adult novel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label young adult novel. Show all posts

Monday, July 22, 2013

The Bully or the Victim: Leech Mob Novel Questions School Profiling




More than 4,000 teens commit suicide each year because of bullying. Sure, it’s great advice for youths to talk to their parents, teachers, and even the police if they are victims of bullying and school violence. But most kids don't want to admit they’ve been bullied because they feel embarrassed, so they keep quiet. Leech Mob: A Novel about a Connecticut Gang by John Harwood shows how the main character Kelly Hayes chooses to fight back against the bullies, who, in his case, are star students, teachers, administration, and cops.

The novel is set in the early 1990s, before the long term effects of bullying on the victim were acknowledged. Kelly's teachers look the other way, the school administrators do not investigate complaints, and even the city cops “profile” youths before the term was ever used.  Kelly keeps the bullying a secret from his mother, a common response in teens, so she is unaware of the actual problems he faces. He believes that fighting is his only option, and he becomes a problem that the system wants to eliminate. 

Order a copy of Leech Mob through our website: www.leechmobnovel.com. I was having problems with Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble so please order the Leech Mob Novel through the products page at www.leechmobnovel.com so I can continue to support myself and you will definitely get a copy of the book without problems or delay. 

Hear the first two chapters on audio book - with artwork and video interviews with author John Harwood:
Or check out our website: www.leechmobnovel.com 

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Leech Mob: A Novel about a Connecticut Gang is pure entertainment


Hey Guys,
After 8 years of writing Leech Mob: A Novel about a Connecticut Gang, I believe that it’s finally ready for ya! I promise you, your high school teachers will hate it –which means they’ll never assign you Leech Mob homework, so you have to be daring enough to read it on your own
         But what’s the novel about, you ask?  Basically kids torturing each other.  We do what we do best.  We get into street fights, we pull school pranks, we go to cool raves.  You’ll learn how to make poon-tang–not what you think.  Wait!  I think I should say here that you shouldn’t try anything that you read in this novel.  We got arrested a bunch of times–not good on the old college application!  So, this ain’t your regular novel. 

Order a copy of Leech Mob through our website: www.leechmobnovel.com. I was having problems with Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble so please order the Leech Mob Novel through the products page at www.leechmobnovel.com so I can continue to support myself and you will definitely get a copy of the book without problems or delay. For more on the story, including a few excerpts, visit our website at www.leechmobnovel.com 


Hear the first two chapters on audio book - with artwork and video interviews with author John Harwood: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/LeechMobNovel

Or get a copy of Leech Mob here: www.leechmobnovel.com