Locker 572 Book Review

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The person that I've read about who had to overcome something is a girl named Sheridan in the book Locker 572 By: L.T KoDZo. She finds a journal after being assigned to a new locker, locker 572. The journal belonged to a girl named Ribbon and its basically an autobiography and as Sheridan reads she finds out that Ribbon was bullied and committed suicide because of it. Sheridan is devastated and comes to find out she gets bullied just like Ribbon because she has locker 572. Sheridan continues to get bullied and has to find out a way to overcome this.

Students in the U.S alone are bullied and because of that 14% of students have thought about suicide and 7% has attempted to committed suicide. Bully victims are between 2 to

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