About Escape to the Garage: Family Love Overcomes Bullying
Unable to do classwork in first grade, Aimee Eddy is called a retard by her teacher. This label follows her throughout elementary school and forcing her to endure daily bullying from classmates and teachers alike. Low self-esteem and hopelessness threaten to swallow her.
Despite the hardships at school, she finds love and acceptance in one place-the family garage. Aimee, her siblings, and cousins disappear into their imaginations. There they build forts in the junkyard and roll down hills in inner tubes. The love her family shares with her at the garage gives her the courage to withstand the deep depression school produces.
Then tragedy strikes, and the family loses the garage. Without this place of refuge, how will she find the strength to stand up to bullies?
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Aimee Eddy is assistant executive director for The One Life Project, formerly The National Youth Internet Safety and Cyberbullying Taskforce. She received a Savings Lives award for her work as an anti-bullying advocate in 2019.
At a young age she developed a love for writing, and it has become her passion. As someone who struggles with mental illness and as a former target of bullying, she writes about her path to recovery, coping techniques, and different aspects of mental illness in her blog Finding the Light. You can find more about Aimee and read her blog at www.aimeeeddygross.wordpress.com.
Aimee Eddy grew up in Western New York. She now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and rescue dog, Esther. When she’s not writing she enjoys woodburning and spending time with her family.