Over 180 Students and Their Teachers Are Reading and Discussing: The Prize: A Novel About Bullies and Victims and What Drives Them by M. LaCourt

It's been six weeks since LaCourt began her "Promote Cooperation and Literacy in Our Schools" project. Now there are over one hundred eighty students from eleven different states reading and discussing The Prize with their teachers.-And they will be discussing their experience with the author before the end of the school year. The Prize is a fictionalized account of LaCourt's successful "Live and Let Live" bully prevention program.

In an effort to expand her bully-prevention efforts, LaCourt invites educators to participate in a project designed to Promote Cooperation and Literacy in Our Schools. The author will donate ten copies of The Prize to fifty school libraries where an adult educator will lead a reading/discussion group with ten or more students and submit feedback to the author about the project.

Educators interested in participating can find more information on the author's web site
http://www.lacourt-m.com or contact the author directly at lacourt@wi.rr.com or 262-797-9857

"The Prize: A Novel About Bullies and Victims and What Drives Them" Author: M. LaCourt
ISBN: 1-58982-066-5-Release date: March 2003 Binding: Soft Cover-Page count: 288
Dimensions: 5 x 8 Retail cost: $22.00-Distribution: pdbookstore.com-Baker & Taylor
Publisher: American Book Publishing

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"The story is filled with wonderful twists and turns. The author has captured the dialogue and characterizations of the troubled youth in a superlative manner. This is an excellent teaching tool. I would put it on the same level as Holes in its appeal to both the teaching and the young adult communities. The development of the relationships is done in a wonderfully ironic fashion. We rated this book a very high four hearts." -Bob Spear, Book Sense Review

"This book is a real gift to every teen who struggles with peer relationships. For the rest of us, it is the perfect antidote to the dreary message of The Lord of the Flies. The Prize demonstrates that self-interest is not a human trait to be rejected or restrained. Rather, it is the essence of what makes cooperation work. Kudos to LaCourt for the creative way she shares a profound insight into human nature." -Deborah Bishop, M.A., Couples and Family Counselor

The Prize is a phoenix that rises from the ashes of the Columbine tragedy in 1999. Anyone interested in this most invasive problem in our school system will enjoy this novel. I personally, couldnt put The Prize down. Sydney had me hooked with his initial question, "If the fit between people can spiral them down into the destruction of both, why cant it work the other way around?"-Kate Holmes, A RebeccaReads.Com Associate Reviewer

Oh My Gosh Ms. LaCourt, I absolutely fell in LOVE with "The Prize". It's exactly the world I'm living in. Kids will be able to relate because it isn't a watered down version of what kids are thinking about and it isn't made to be what adults would like kids to keep there mind on and be thinking about. The prize is so full of honesty about our society and everyday life that it's hard to believe you're not a character in the book. -Rachel Johnson, age 13, New Moon Magazine Girl's Editorial Board Member