I'm not Invited

By Claire Burbank

Amelia Maskin had never experienced drama in school before…until sixth grade. Amelia and her two best friends, Ellie and Reyna, had been best friends since kindergarten. They were super excited to finally be going into sixth grade, to be older kids. They weren’t expecting it, but some new kids were coming into their grade to learn a

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bill Burbank
• Release date: Sep 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9780997564792

Claire Burbank

Claire Burbank is 12 years old & lives with her family in Nottingham. I always knew I had a passion for writing. In any free time I get, I think, "I want to write!" There are three reasons I do: 1. It's really fun to tell my own fictional stories with detail, drama & comedy. 2. I want to publish my books so the world can read them and enjoy them. 3. I want people to know the important issue of bullying but have a good time learning about it in a fun way It all started back in third grade when I made a little book about bullying. (Available on iTunes, just search Claire Burbank) It was about this girl named Amelda and she gets bullied. She gets teased about her appearance and how she was different from the others. I had watched many movies about bullying and had seen some people get bullied and didn't even realize it. I wanted to make up for all of those times I didn't stand up for the other person and those times I might have been apart of the teasing by writing a little book. It probably took me about ten minutes to write this little 7 paged picture book. I brought it to my classroom and showed it to my guidance counselor, who was the person it was dedicated to. She recognized my care for bullying and put it on the school website. When it was taken down for the next piece of news to be shown, I wanted people to keep viewing it. So, I decided to publish it along with the help of my dad and his many IT director friends. It was a long process, but we ended up publishing it on iTunes, and I wanted to keep writing. So, I decided to make and publish more books about bullying, realistic fiction or not so realistic fiction. I currently have published 9 books, I have worked really hard on all of these books, I appreciate it and hope it helps Stop Bullying.

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Other Titles by Claire Burbank

Bullying (The Bully Book)

Claire Burbank Book Collection V1

Claire Burbank Book Collection V2

Five Crows

Sassy Tomatoes

Mo Lemont

Loop of Dreams

Magically Acquainted

Acknowledgements

To: My family for supporting everything I do and to everyone who read one of my books and learned lessons about bullying, friendship and treating each other as we would want to be treated.

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A NEW START

Ellie, Reyna and I have been best friends since we met in kindergarten for our first year of Mountain View Elementary. I’m Amelia Maskin and I live in Fairmount New Jersey. I’m eleven years old and I’m going into the sixth grade with my two best friends! I’m so excited to be big kids with my BFFs! We are going to have so much fun! …or at least that’s what I thought…

I heard from some other people that there were going to be a lot of new kids joining sixth grade, which I was kind of feeling neutral about. I was ready to go to school knowing everyone, like the way it was since we were younger, but at the same time I was ready to make some new friends!

Amelia! Reyna exclaimed as I walked onto the bus.

Hi! I replied, ready for the first day of school.

Reyna and I always ride the bus together since our houses are near each other, and we meet Ellie at school.

"I’m kind of nervous since the