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Description

Ella is nervous about the first day of school in her new town, but wearing her grandmother's good luck hat makes her feel better--until the other students tease her and call her names.

2) Dinosaur boy

Author

Oakes, Cory Putman

Series

Dinosaur boy volume 1

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Sprouting a tail and spikes over the summer before fifth grade, Sawyer, a boy with the dinosaur gene, is bullied in school, but when his tormentors begin to disappear, it is up to Sawyer, his best friend Elliot, and a mysterious new girl to rescue them from a galactically horrible fate.

3) Bullying and me: schoolyard stories

Author

Shapiro, Ouisie

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Description

Relates the real life experiences of people who have been victims of emotional and physical bullying.

4) Weird!

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Series

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Description

When Luisa becomes the target of a school bully, she changes everything about herself to avoid being bullied.

5) The icarus show

Author

Christie, Sally

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Description

David's plan to avoid being bullied by not reacting is put to the test when a note and a feather is slipped into his bag, prompting him to leave his safe world in search of answers.

6) Sticks and stones: defeating the culture of bullying and rediscovering the power of character and empathy

Author

Bazelon, Emily

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

c2013

Physical Desc

viii, 386 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Description

Bazelon defines what bullying is and, just as important, what it is not; explores when intervention is essential and when kids should be given the freedom to fend for themselves; dispels persistent myths about bullying; and takes her readers into schools that have succeeded in reducing bullying and examines their successful strategies.

7) The Recess Queen

Author

O'Neill, Alexis

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Mean Jean is the biggest bully on the school playground until a new girl arrives and challenges Jean's status as the Recess Queen.

8) Bo and the school bully

Author

Smith, Elliott

Series

Bo at the Buzz

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Description

Nocturnals (Easy readers)
Grow and read

When Bo stands up to a bully, he finds himself in the spotlight. Read to find out how Bo handles the situation, and what it means to be a friend. Bo’s life is always buzzing. And not just because he lives upstairs from The Buzz, a barbershop.

9) Slithery shakedown

Author

Hecht, Tracey

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Slim Goodbody's life skills 101

Three unlikely friends--Tobin, a pangolin, Bismark, a sugar glider, and Dawn, a fox--stand up to a big bully snake.

10) Why are you picking on me?: dealing with bullies

Author

Burstein, John

Series

Publisher

Crabtree Pub. Company

Pub. Date

c2010

Physical Desc

32 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Description

Bully-free world
World Free of Bullying

Bullying is one of the scariest and potentially damaging negative behaviors children can face. Slim Goodbody helps young students learn to recognize the different kinds of bullying and presents strategies for dealing with even the toughest situations.

11) Making a bully-free world

Author

Hall, Pamela

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Description

Black Lagoon picture books

Offers different techniques for dealing with bullying, including standing up to the bully, reporting bullying to an adult, and being an upstander.

12) The bully from the Black Lagoon

Author

Thaler, Mike

Series

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Description

A new student's reputation as a bully proves to be unfounded.

13) Dare to be kind: how extraordinary compassion can transform our world

Author

Velasquez, Lizzie

Publisher

Hachette Books

Pub. Date

2017.

Physical Desc

224 pages ; cm

Description

"In this daring, revelatory book, Lizzie reveals the hidden forces that give rise to self-doubt, shame, and cruelty, and empowers us to redirect them to unlock empathy and kindness for ourselves and others. She pulls from examples in her own life-such as battles with anxiety and coping with disappointment-to share uplifting insight on how we can overcome obstacles in our path and move forward with greater positivity and the right mental attitude....

14) The pout-pout fish and the bully-bully shark

Author

Diesen, Deborah

Series

Pout-pout fish adventures volume 6

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Mr. Fish finds the courage to speak up for his friends when a shark comes to the park and bullies them.

15) Rhyme Schemer

Author

Holt, K. A

Description

Kevin has a bad attitude. He's the one who laughs when you trip and fall. In fact, he may have been the one who tripped you in the first place. He has a real knack for rubbing people the wrong way-and he's even figured out a secret way to do it with poems. But what happens when the tables are turned and he is the one getting picked on? Rhyme Schemer is a touching and hilarious middle-grade novel in verse about one seventh grader's journey from bully-er...

16) King of the playground

Author

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

Publisher

Atheneum

Pub. Date

1991

Physical Desc

[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

17) The Thanksgiving visitor

Author

Capote, Truman

Publisher

Distributed by Random House

Pub. Date

c1996

Physical Desc

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.

Description

A boy recalls his life with an elderly relative in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.

18) Do you know me?

Author

Scott, Libby

Series

Tally (Libby Scott) volume 2

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Description

Tally Olivia Adams is a twelve-year-old (just) autistic girl faced with the prospect of a week-long end-of-the-year class trip, which worries her, because there will be "teams" and "activities" and "competition" all of which terrifies her, especially whenshe finds out she is not bunking with her friend Aleksandra; the other girls on her team are often nasty, especially Skye--and Tally needs all the life-skills she has learned to cope with and expose...

19) Nobody knew what to do: a story about bullying

Author

McCain, Becky R

Publisher

Albert Whitman & Company

Pub. Date

2001

Physical Desc

[24] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.

Description

When bullies pick on a boy at school, a classmate is afraid, but decides that he must do something.

20) Facing bullying

Author

Finne, Stephanie

Series

Facing life's challenges

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