The second book of the Adventures of Gillian the Meddlesome series is The Grizzling. A children's novel about a new class member at St. Bailey's junior school, Jake Goodwin, who is a charming and charismatic person on the outside but deep down, Gillian Smith discovers that he is a mean bully. Gillian attempts to reason with the bully but does not succeed, which means one thing: Gillian must teach Jake about the Grizzling.