By the time I was in 6th grade, I kinda didn’t want to go to school every day. By the time I was in 9th grade, I really didn’t want to go, and by the time I was in 12th grade, I dreaded going. The problem was bullying. In 6th grade I was awkward and was shy and read SFF when that was totally completely really uncool. I remember reading the Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey and a boy telling me, You have to read that nothing book because you’re nothing, too. By 9th grade, the insults were more pointed, the isolation sharper. Sometime after that the threat of…