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1) Blubber
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
2) Heaven
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A 14-year old student who is bullied mercilessly for having a lazy eye develops a friendship with a female classmate who suffers similar treatment from tormentors, in the new novel from the internationally best-selling author Breasts and Eggs.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder. Single father Todd is relaxing at the beach with his son, Anthony, when he catches sight of a man approaching from the water's edge. As the man draws closer, Todd recognizes him as Jack, who bullied Todd relentlessly in their teenage years, but now seems overjoyed to have "run into" his old friend. Jack suggests a meal to...
4) My new team
Author
Series
Little Rhino volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A new chapter book series from Major League Baseball's 2006 National League MVP, Ryan Howard! Every day when Little Rhino comes home from school, he finishes his homework, grabs his bat, his glove, and runs outside to meet Grandpa James. They always practice catching and hitting in the backyard. Playing baseball with grandfather is Little Rhino's favorite thing to do, especially when he pretends to be a real Major League homerun hitter. One afternoon,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Longing to hide from the world after the trauma of her parents' divorce and the terrible bullying inflicted on her in school, teenaged Shelley moves with her timid mother to a remote cottage in the English countryside where all goes well, until an intruder invades their reclusive life and nothing is ever the same again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a "buddy bench monitor" for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from above, a story emerges... Joey's "bird's eye" drawings...
7) The merman
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In a small town on the west coast of Sweden, Nella defends her brother Robert from bullies and, when she reaches out for help from her friend Tommy, learns the secret behind his brothers' mysterious behavior.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old new girl Anna Hunt decides to make an investigative podcast about how fellow classmate Rachel Riley went from being the most popular girl in school to the most hated"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope.
Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Mason's learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Mason's best friend, Benny
...10) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
11) Lunch from home
Author
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a child's favorite packed lunch is met with disparaging comments at the school lunch table? In a classroom of sandwiches, four students stand out with their homemade, culturally-specific lunches. But before they can dig in and enjoy their favorite foods, their lunches are spoiled by scrunched noses and disgusted reactions from their sandwich-eating classmates. Follow each of the four students as they learn to cope with their...
12) Blackbird fly
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
13) Ghost girl
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up...
14) Stuck on Earth
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a secret mission to evaluate whether the human race should be annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old boy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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Description
"In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Even those...
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For twelve-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover--movies and Ouija and talking about boys. But when they decide to sneak out to go to the abandoned rail yard on the outskirts of town, little do they know that their innocent games will have dangerous consequences. Later that night, Cora Landry is discovered on the tracks, bloody and clinging to life, her friends nowhere to be found. Soon...
17) Felix ever after
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Coming of age in the shadow of northern England's shipyards, young Dominic is torn between the extremes of his shipbuilder family's lifestyle, a complex bully to whom he finds himself irresistibly drawn, and the tightrope-walking girl he loves.
19) Restart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to dilapidated 1950s Marshfield, California where he is forced to fend for himself against a ring of malicious bullies.
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