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Mike Thaler
The bully from the Black Lagoon
Synopsis
A new student arrives at school with a fearsome reputation already trailing him — did he really eat the teacher's pet? Beat up every kid at his last school, twice? Told from the perspective of a nervous classmate, this Black Lagoon picture book follows an imagination running wild with playground rumor, before the story arrives at a gentler truth: the "bully" isn't who anyone assumed.
Part of Mike Thaler and Jared Lee's long-running Black Lagoon picture book series, which pairs an anxious child narrator with an exaggerated fear about ordinary school life.
Genres
Characters
HubieProtagonist
Butch PounderAntagonist
Frequently asked questions
Does this book need to be read in a specific order with others in the series?
This title functions as a standalone story and does not require knowledge of previous entries in the series to follow the plot. Each book in the collection focuses on a different school-related figure or situation that the protagonist encounters.
Is this story based on real events or people?
The narrative is a work of fiction that explores the common childhood experience of anxiety regarding new social encounters at school. It is not based on true events or specific real-world individuals.