Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is certain that his name is the cause of his unhappy school life as the victim of the worst bully in his class, but when a new boy arrives, he shows Ishmael that things could be different.
"Copyright 2006 by Michael Gerard Bauer ; First published in 2006 in Australia by Scholastic Australia ; First published in 2007 in the United State by Greenwillow Books"-- T.p. verso.