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Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Second-grader Lola has a wonderful family, a great teacher, and the best friend ever, Josh, and they all help her feel better after she is teased and forbidden to play team sports at recess for having accidentally hurt classmate Juan during a soccer game.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Karen has to get glasses! She doesn't want them, especially because school pictures are going to be taken soon. But she picks out some pretty pink ones and thinks she looks very grown-up. Then Yicky Ricky at school starts calling her names, like Owl Girl and Googly Eyes. If Karen wears her glasses for the school picture, Ricky will make fun of her. If she doesn't wear them, she'll feel like she's afraid to be herself. Glasses or no glasses, that...
3) Blubber
Author
Series
Language
English
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.
5) Sparkle boy
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Three-year-old Casey wants what his older sister, Jessie, has--a shimmery skirt, glittery painted nails, and a sparkly bracelet--but Jessie does not approve. After two boys tease Casey about his appearance, Jessie evolves to a place of acceptance and celebration of her gender creative younger brother"--
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 12
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sydney moves away and is replaced by newcomer Olivia, Alexis becomes the focus of hurtful teasing by the Best Friends Club and begins to wonder if an offhand remark she made when first meeting Olivia may have been taken the wrong way.
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a classmate makes fun of her name, eight-year-old Stella picks a new one for herself, but discovers that the name she abandoned suits her just fine.
14) Love is love
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy becomes upset when he is teased for having two dads, but viewing his friend's family (with a mom and a dad) as not all that different from his own, he realizes the best way to counter the ridicule is to be proud of who his fathers are and know that it is love that makes a family.
15) Kersplatypus
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When a strange little creature appears out of nowhere after the big rains, Australian animals wonder what in the world he could possibly be..."--Jacket.
16) Daisy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because she is teased at school, Daisy hangs her head a lot, which leads to a new hobby of collecting lost and broken items and to a real treasure-- a new friend.--
17) Lunch from home
Author
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random HOuse LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Ray, Preeti, Mina, and Niki bring their favorite lunches to school, their classmates scrunch their noses and act disgusted, but the four children learn to stand up for their lunches and cultural backgrounds. Based on the real-life childhood experiences of chefs Ray Garcia, Preeti Mistry, Mina Park, and Niki Russ Federman.
18) The misfits
Author
Series
Misfits (James Howe) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.
19) Bird Boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new boy nicknamed Bird Boy by teasing classmates enjoys imaginative flights as various birds, gaining self-confidence and new friends.
20) Secret identity
Author
Series
Shredderman volume 1
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman!
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