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1) Heaven
Author
Language
English
Description
Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters. These raw and realistic portrayals of bullying are counterbalanced...
Author
Language
English
Description
Written by a teenager who was bullied throughout middle school and high school, this kid-friendly book offers a fresh and relatable perspective on bullying. Along the way, the author offers guidance as well as different strategies that helped her get through even the toughest of days. The Survival Guide to Bullying covers everything from cyber bullying to how to deal with fear and how to create the life you dream of having. From inspiring "roems"...
Author
Publisher
Perseus Distribution Services
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Morgan McCracken combats bullying by using his head instead of his fists. When this fails him, he runs. Why is he getting bullied? Partly because he's a redhead. Also, he's one of those 13-year-olds who has already developed facial hair. And he prefers hanging out in his garage attic, his McFactory, where he does his thinking, dreaming, and inventing, rather than hanging out with other people. Except, maybe, the girl across the street, Robin Reynolds....
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.
12) Jake and Lily
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twins Jake and Lily have a very close relationship, but when they turn eleven, their parents give them separate bedrooms and Jake begins to spend time with a group of neighborhood boys. Lily is devastated as she struggles to make friends, and Jake is faced with a bully.
16) Posted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When cell phones are banned at their school, students start communicating through sticky notes left all over the school, triggering a wave of bullying activities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Because his family has moved again Josh Baxter is starting at a new school for the third time in two years, and this time he has really started off on the wrong foot--but when his mother takes away the video games that have become his refuge because of his poor grades, Josh realizes he has to come up with a new strategy for success.
18) Sisters
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"'One of her generation's most intriguing authors' (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ends and the other begins. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Marlin, a stutterer, can talk smoothly and freely with the jungle animals that populate his father's zoo in South America--until a mysterious man-eating black jaguar that his father catches and brings back home talks back.
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