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Books About Teasing & Bullying
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My Footprints by Phi BaoUpset after being bullied, Thuy, a Vietnamese American, pretends she is different creatures, including an especially strong, wonderful being made up of her two mothers and herself. Includes note about the phoenix and the Sarabha
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The Boy In The Orange Cape by Adam Ciccio "Every day Corey wears an orange cape. Even at bedtime. Even at school. The other children tease him, but Corey doesn't mind. After all, he wears his cape for a reason . . . Billy would rip the cape off every day. And every day, Corey would show up with a new cape. Then, one of the boys found the very noble reason why Corey was wearing a cape"
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Macca the Alpaca
by Matt Cosgrove
Enjoying days spent splashing in puddles and giving great cuddles, Macca the quirky alpaca is challenged to prove the value of smarts and kindness when he bumps into a big bullying llama. Illustrations.
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The Pout-Pout Fish and The Bully-Bully Shark
by Deborah Diesen
When their games at the park are disrupted by a bullying shark, Mr. Fish struggles to find the courage to stand up for himself and his friends while establishing rules for respect and kindness that everyone can follow.
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Super Manny Stands Up!
by Kelly DiPucchio
A heartwarming tribute to standing up for what's right and finding one's inner superpowers finds fearless little Manny donning his cape and imagining himself saving the world from zombie bears, evil cloud monsters and alien robots before encountering a real-life bully at school.
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I Didn't Stand Up
by L. M. Falcone
A bystander watches as classmates are bullied, but doesn't help until it's too late and they become the next victim
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Swing by Michael Hall Racing to the playground to claim the swings, four letters of the alphabet spar and bully, making each other feel inferior, before kindness and empathy reshape their perspectives, helping them to form the word, “LOVE.”
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Lunch Box Bully by Wilhelm HansWhen none of his friends’ suggestions for outwitting a lunch-stealing bully work, Max decides to bring lunches that the bully will not enjoy while responding with friendship, in a skill-building reader that includes bonus material for children and adults on how to find help with bullying.
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I Walk with Vanessa : A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness
by Kerascot
A wordless story inspired by real events follows the actions of a little girl who inspires her community to stand up to bullying when a classmate is treated badly and she chooses to stand by her side, an act of kindness that leads to greater acceptance, understanding and the discovery of strength in numbers. By the illustrators of Malala's Magic Pencil.
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The Proudest Blue : A Story of Hijab and Family
by Ibtihaj Muhammad
The Muslim-American Olympic medalist and social justice activist presents a vibrantly illustrated story about two sisters who endure criticism and bullying when they begin school on the first day the elder wears her beautiful blue hijab.
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Sam is My Sister
by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Evan, Sam, and Finn fish, climb trees, and play astronauts together, but when Sam wants to have long hair and wear dresses, Evan is confused until he learns what it means to be transgender
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Bling Blaine : Throw Glitter, Not Shade by Rob Sanders"Blaine's a boy who loves to shine . . . well actually, he loves to sparkle. Whether it's his uniform, his book bag, or even his baseball cap, Blaine's all about the bling. But when his bling rubs some people the wrong way, and the bullying begins, Blaine--along with the entire school--starts to lose his shine. Can Blaine's friends bring back his glimmer and gleam by glittering up their own wardrobee?
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The Bear in My Family
by Maya Tatsukawa
Likening his bossy older sister to a bear who is very loud, strong and messy, a young child reconsiders his views about the advantages of having a bear in the family when he encounters a group of playground bullies.
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How to Be a Lion
by Ed Vere
"When Leonard the lion and his friend Marianne, a duck, are confronted by a pack of lion bullies, they find a creative way to stand up for themselves"
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Camp Scare
by Delilah S. Dawson
When the mean girl in her cabin at summer camp turns all the other girls against her, with the exception of a strange girl named Jenny, Parker Nelson discovers there's a deep, dark secret to making friends.
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Carlos Gomez is a member of the only Mexican American family in town, so he's used to being the odd one out. A lisp, a penchant for girl glamor, and being picked on by the class bully don't help either. But now there's a talent show coming up, and Carlos is performing with the BMX stunt team. What could possibly go wrong?
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Real Friends
by Shannon Hale
The Newbery Honor-winning author of Princess Academy traces the roller-coaster challenges of first friendships as demonstrated by her own experiences from kindergarten through fifth grade, years marked by cliques, bullies and her efforts to gain popularity. Illustrated by the best-selling artist of the Princess in Black series.
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Making Friends
by Kristen Gudsnuk
When she and her friends are placed in different classes and begin liking different things at the start of seventh grade, Dany inherits a magic sketchbook and uses it to create a perfect best friend, but this best friend soon becomes far from perfect
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Hello, My Name Is Poop
by Ben Katzner
"Poop is a normal kid, with normal problems--you know, parents, homework, bullies. He used to have a normal name, too. But then he moved to a new school, and everything went down the toilet. That's the bad news. The good news: Turns out some names are special. Some names come with powers. Turns out those bullies really stepped in it"
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Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
by Tae Keller
When Jennifer Chan, a new girl who believes she can find aliens, goes missing, Mallory Moss sets out to find her and must figure out why Jennifer might have runand face the truth inside herself.
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Clues To The Universe
by Christina Li
As friends Ro and Benji face bullying, grief, and their own differences, they must try to piece together clues to some of the biggest questions in the universe
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Stranger Things : The Bully. #1
by Greg Pak
Tyler and his friends make a truce with the pirate crew to save Stef and the guys from an elder guardian, and Tyler stands up to his bully
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The Night Bus Hero
by Onjali Q. Raâuf
When he is shamed by a schoolmate after playing a prank on a homeless man, troublemaker and bully Hector decides to turn over a new leaf, but wonders if anyone will take him seriously.
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Stuntboy, In The Meantime
by Jason Reynolds
While leading a double life as Stuntboy, who secretly keeps all the other superheroes super safe, Portico Reeve tries to keep his parents’ marriage together, deal with his anxiety and an enemy who vows to prove there is nothing super about him.
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One Kid's Trash
by Jamie Sumner
Hugo becomes cool for the first time in his life due to his extraordinary talent for garbology, the science of decoding people's trash, and lets it all go to his head.
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Ben Yokoyama And The Cookie Thief
by Matthew Swanson
When schoolyard bully Flegg McEggars steals Ben's fortune, Ben takes Flegg to Kid Court, where he learns crime comes in many forms and that the real villains are not always the people we first suspect.
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Claudia and Mean Janine / : Full-color Edition
by Raina Telgemeier
Claudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister
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Sugar and Spite
by Gail D. Villanueva
Sneaking into her grandfather’s potions lab to brew a love spell that she hopes will stop a classmate’s bullying, herbalist trainee Jolina is surprised by the bully’s increasingly friendly overtures, before a magically consequential storm begins to gather.
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The Supervillain's Guide To Being A Fat Kidby Matt WallaceTired of constantly being bullied by eighth-grade hotshot Johnny Pro, Max gets some advice from imprisoned supervillain Master Plan to get even but soon learns that his help comes at a high price.
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