The Bully of Barkham Street

by Mary Stolz

Other authors: Leonard Shortall (Illustrator)

Series: Barkham Street (2)

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Mary Stolz	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Shortall, Leonard	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0064401596, Paperback)

What made Martin Hastings, the ‘bully’ of A Dog on Barkham Street, behave the way he did? Martin resolves problems of his own in ‘a sensitive study of a lonely, frustrated boy. The [family] relationships are exceptionally well drawn.’ —BL.

Boys’ Club of America Junior Book Award 1964

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The story of a fat, eleven-year-old bully whose efforts to reform his behavior meet with continual failure until his performance playing the bugle at a school assembly, a revealing argument with his older sister, and a lost fight help him to change both feelings and thoughts.… (more)