Books
Books
Available in the IMC
Non Fiction
Michael Hershorn - Cool
It!: Teen Tips to Keep Hot Tempers from Boiling Over
Covers the topic of bullying (154.2
Her)
Michael Thomas – Best Friends, Worst Enemies:
Understanding the Social Lives of Children
Discusses cliques and bullies (305.23 Tho)
Rachel Simmons - Odd Girl Out: The Hidden
Culture of Aggression in Girls
Discusses the negative impact that aggression can have on the lives of teenage
girls. (305.2 Sim)
School Shootings
- One of the essays debates
the impact of bullying (371.78 Sch)
Fiction
Peter Beere -
School for Terror - When
a popular teacher is drowned, Alsion must decide if the killer is the opular
bullying Lynsey (F Feere)
Peter Bloor -
Tangerine -
Kevin Brooks -
Kissing the Rain -
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight and bullied by his class
mates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a murder. (F
Brooks)
Martha Brooks -
Being with Henry -
Forced out of his home by a bullying stepfather, sixteen-year-old Laker
moves to another town and strikes up an unexpected friendship with a frail, but
determined old man (F Brooks)
Robert Cormier -
The Chocolate War -
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing
to join in the school’s annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of
the school bullies. (F Cornier)
Robert Cormier -
We All Fall Down -
Chris Crutcher -
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
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Dwayne Epstein -
The Cooler King -
Marty Berger has always been bullied by Ricky Hyde, but Marty’s love of
old movies and magical videotape bring help in the form of Steve McQueen. (F
Epstein)
Kathe Koja -
Buddha Boy - Justin spends
time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies
torment and call Buddha Boy and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen,
himself and the entire school. (F Koja)
Walter Dean Myers -
Shooter -
Anne Schraff -
Return to Gallows Hill -
The students at Jefferson High learn a shocking lesson about cruelty when
a strange new student arrives on the scene.
These books are available through Jersey Cat (Interlibrary Loan)
Vivian Alcock The Trial of Anna Cotman
Judy Bear Heartless Hero
Brock Cole The Goats
Harry Clifford Brown Sundays in August
Suzy McKee Charnas The Kingdom of Kevin Malone
Michael Coleman Weirdo’s War
K. C. Constance Brushback
Bradley Denton One Day Closer to Death
Diane Duane So You Want to be a Wizard
George McDonald Frasier Flashman
Jake Hucks Death of a Dad
Graham Gardner Inventing
Elliot
Maurice Gee The Fat Man
David Lynn Fortune Telling
Peg Kehret Escaping the Giant Wave
Steven Krol Moonkid and Liberty
Steve Lattimore
Circumnavigation
Robert Lipsyte One Fat Summer
David T. Lloyd Boys
Sue Mayfield Drowning Anna
Perry Nodelman Behaving Bradley
Frank E. Peretti Hangman’s Curse
W. R. Philbrick Young Man and the Sea
Adam Rapp The Buffalo Tree
Keith Ridgway The
Long Failing
John Rowell The Music of Your Life
Jim Shepard Project X
Dorothy Speak Object of your Love
Don Trembath A Fly Named Alfred
Diane Tullson Edge
Alan Watt Diamond Dogs
Beth Yahp The
Crocodile Fury