New Book “Expelled” Follows One Family’s Fight Against School Bullying — and a Daughter’s Own Expulsion

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Anna Andrews has written "Expelled," a book based on her family’s experience with school bullying, published through Christian Faith Publishing. The book centers on Andrews’s youngest daughter, Emma, who the book says was targeted by persistent bullying starting at age eleven, with teachers dismissing the family’s requests for intervention.

The book recounts how Emma’s response to persistent bullying resulted in her expulsion and transfer to an alternative school serving students with behavioral challenges. The book follows her time there, where, per the announcement, she encounters other students with their own difficult histories, and traces what happens when she later attempts to return to mainstream school and finds that rumors and judgment follow her into the classroom.

Andrews describes the book as drawn from her family’s own experience. "This book needed to be written," she said in the announcement. "So many families are suffering in silence while schools fail to take meaningful action. I hope our story gives voice to those who feel unheard and shines a light on the urgent need for real change." The publisher positions the book as examining institutional indifference through the perspectives of Emma, her family members, and her parents.

"Expelled" is available in bookstores and through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble.

Stories like Andrews’s surface periodically in the wider conversation about how schools handle bullying complaints — including cases where students facing discipline say the underlying problem was bullying that administrators failed to address. For Studio CarryOnHarry, the recurring pattern in these accounts, of families feeling unheard until a crisis forces the issue, is the more interesting story than any single book.

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