After her first-grade daughter, Katie, was roundly bullied for having what was considered a gender-inappropriate Star Wars thermos, the author, purveyor of a popular blog on Chicago.now, wrote a post that went into overdrive. Here, she offers concrete advice on dealing with bullying, something one in five teens say they have experienced in the last year. In this book she brings together the expertise of leading authorities with the candid accounts of families dealing first hand with peer victimization to present proven strategies and tools for teaching children how to speak up and carry themselves with confidence, call each other out on cruelty, resolve conflict, cope with teasing, taunting, physical abuse, and cyberbullying, and be smart consumers of of technology and media.

Pt. 1. Katie's story -- pt. 2. Kids at high risk for peer victimization -- pt. 3. Where do we go from here? Prevention, intervention, and reconciliation -- Conclusion.