In her new book, Miley Cyrus: Miles To Go, which hit bookstores on Tuesday, pop star Miley Cyrus describes her tortured pre-teen years Tennessee and reveals that she was teased mercilessly by fellow classmates.

“The girls took it beyond normal bullying. These were big, tough girls,” she explains in her newly-released autobiography Miley Cyrus: Miles To Go. “I was scrawny and short. They were fully capable of doing me bodily harm.”

Miley, 16, describes those early years as “friendless, lonely and miserable.”

“Classmates would say, ‘Your dad’s a one-hit wonder. You’ll never amount to anything – just like him.’”

The Hannah Montana star, who refers to her bullies as the “Anti-Miley Club,” recalls one incident when she was challenged to a fight in the school lunchroom.

“Three girls strutted up and stood towering over me….They started cussing me and telling me to get up. I sat there, frozen. I didn’t know what to do. Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore. I wasn’t chicken. What could they do to me? I was surrounded by people. I stood up, still a foot shorter than they were, and said, “What’s your problem? What did I ever do to you?’”

She adds, “They shoved me in [a locker]. I was trapped. I banged on the door until my fists hurt. Nobody came. I spent what felt like an hour in there, waiting for someone to rescue me, wondering how my life had gotten so messed up.”