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Reviewed by Rosie Malezer for Readers' Favorite
The Terrible Terabytes is a children’s book from the One Creepy Street series, written in rhyme by Lee Jordan and illustrated by Drew Rose. Annica is a teenage witch who is running late for school. With so many morning chores, and a broom that does not go very fast, she does her utmost to arrive on time. As she walks in the door, she sees all of her ghoulish class mates, including ghosts, scarecrows and werewolves. Three of her class mates – Terabytes which resemble giant globs of green jelly with mean faces – send out a text message to each member of the class, insulting the way they look and telling them that they are no good. This upsets everybody who receives a message, including Annica. School security arrives and they come up with a plan to take all of the bullies’ power away. In banding together, the students who’d been bullied unite against the perpetrators, rendering them small and powerless.
With social media being so popular in today’s society, The Terrible Terabytes encompasses cyber bullying which has become a very real problem. Lee Jordan has written a clever tale of a school which is extremely diverse in its student population, yet each one of them is a potential bullying victim with insecurities that can easily be preyed upon. With young children as the target reading audience, Lee Jordan has found a way to not only present the book in an entertaining way with rhyme, but accompany each message with beautifully designed illustrations which help show the hurt and emotion felt by the bullies and their victims. While some of the text might be quite tricky for a younger audience, the illustrations help get the message across that bullying is not okay under any circumstances. I recommend this book to those aged 5-12 years of age.
