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How, many readers will ask, can I read about a person like ''that''?
But here's the horrible truth: while few of us have been a part of bullying so severe that someone had has died, equally few of us can claim that we have never spread gossip, been unnecessarily mean about or to another person or failed to stand up and be counted when someone else is being bullied and it doesn't affect us. ''Tease'' holds up a mirror to us all and it asks us all to be brave enough to judge ourselves.
The book also covers slut-shaming - there's little other than gossip that suggests Emma was hooking up with so many boys and even if she was, so what? - the pressure to have sex too early - and it's not even ''Emma'' who succumbs to that - and the way in which one strong negative personality can so strongly affect group behaviour in the pressure cooker environment of high school.
