We have developed a school pledge to reinforce this idea:
As a member of the Hillside community, I will:
Be honest and treat others with respect;
Keep on trying and always do my best;
Take turns, be kind, and show others I care.
To make Hillside safe, I will do MY SHARE!
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Parent/Teacher Resources for Bullying
WEBSITES:
www.kidsareworthit.org
BULLYING BEHAVIORS CHART*
MILD MODERATE SEVERE |
PHYSICAL AGGRESSION |
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- Defacing property
- Stealing
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- Physical acts that are demeaning and humiliating, but not bodily harmful (e.g., de-panting)
- Locking in a closed or confined space
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- Physical violence against family or friends
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- Threatening with a weapon
- Inflicting bodily harm
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SOCIAL ALIENATION |
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- Setting up to look foolish
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- Ethnic Slurs
- Setting up to take the blame
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- Publicly humiliating (e.g., revealing personal information)
- Excluding from group
- Social rejection
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- Maliciously excluding
- Manipulating social order to achieve rejection
- Malicious rumor-mongering
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- Threatening with total isolation by peer group
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VERBAL AGGRESSION |
- Mocking
- Name calling
- Dirty looks
- Taunting
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- Teasing about clothing or possessions
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- Verbal threats of aggression against property or possessions
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- Verbal threats of violence or of inflicting bodily harm
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INTIMIDATION |
- Threatening to reveal personal information
- Graffiti
- Publicly challenging to do something
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- Defacing property or clothing
- Playing a dirty trick
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- Taking possessions (e.g., lunch, clothing, toys)
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- Threats of using coercion against family or friends
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- Coercion
- Threatening with a weapon
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RACIAL AND ETHNIC HARASSMENT |
- Joke telling with racial or ethnic targets
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- Exclusion due to ethnic or cultural group membership
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- Racial or ethnic slurs, put downs
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- Verbal accusations, insults
- Public humiliation
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- Destroying or defacing property due to ethnic or cultural group membership
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- Physical or verbal attacks due to group membership
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Bully Bibliography
-includes easy, fiction, nonfiction, and AV
-books are available in Hillside Media Center
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Bat
Author: Bateman, Teresa. Urbanovic, Jackie,
Title: The Bully Blockers Club
Summary: When Lottie is bothered by a bully at school, she helps start a club
where everyone is welcome.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Bot
Author: Bottner, Barbara. Rathmann, Peggy,
Title: Bootsie Barker Bites
Summary: Bootsie Barker only wants to play games in which she bites, until one day her friend comes up with a better game.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Bro
Author: Brown, Marc Tolon.
Title: Arthur's April Fool
Summary: Arthur worries about remembering his magic tricks for the April Fool's Day assembly and Binky's threats to pulverize him.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Cap
Author: Caple, Kathy.
Title: The Wimp
Summary: Arnold the pig and his sister Rose give two bullying classmates a
taste of their own medicine when Arnold decides he doesn't have to be
a wimp anymore.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Car
Author: Carle, Eric.
Title: The Grouchy Ladybug
Summary: A grouchy ladybug who is looking for a fight challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size or strength.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Car
Author: Carlson, Nancy L.
Title: Loudmouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully
Summary: After having his lunch repeatedly stolen by a bully twice his size,
Loudmouth George and his friend Harriet teach him a lesson he'll never
forget.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Cas
Author: Caseley, Judith.
Title: Bully
Summary: Mickey has trouble with Jack, a bully at school, until he decides to
try being nice to Jack and making him a friend.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E CHA
Author: Chapman, Carol. Oechsli, Kelly.
Title: Herbie's Troubles
Summary: Herbie's attitude toward school quickly changes the day he meets Jimmy John.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Chr
Author: Christelow, Eileen.
Title: Jerome Camps Out
Summary: Jerome the alligator is looking forward to the Swamp School camping trip, until he and his friend learn that Buster, the class bully, will
be there, too.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Col
Author: Cole, Joanna Hafner, Marylin,
Title: Bully Trouble.
Summary: Fed up with the mean treatment of Big Eddie, pals Arlo and Robby
devise a plan for getting back at the bully
Call Number: EASY BOOK E DOD
Author: Dodd, Lynley.
Title: Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
Summary: A small black dog and his canine friends are terrorized by the local
tomcat.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Haz
Author: Hazen, Barbara Shook. Ross, Tony,
Title: The Knight Who was Afraid of the Dark
Summary: When the castle bully discovers bold Sir Fred is secretly terrified of the dark, he tries to stir up trouble between that brave Knight and
his Lady Wendylyn.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Hen
Author: Henkes, Kevin.
Title: Chrysanthemum
Summary: Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E How
Author: Howe, James, 1946- Sweet, Melissa,
Title: Pinky and Rex and the Bully
Summary: Pinky learns the importance of identity as he defends his favorite
color, pink, and his friendship with a girl, Rex, from the neighborhood bully.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Kra
Author: Kraus, Robert, 1925- Aruego, Jose,
Title: Leo the Late Bloomer.
Summary: Leo, a young tiger, finally blooms under the anxious eyes of his
parents.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Les
Author: Lester, Helen. Munsinger, Lynn,
Title: Hooway for Wodney Wat
Summary: All his classmates make fun of Rodney because he can't pronounce his name, but it is Rodney's speech impediment that drives away the class
bully.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Lev
Author: Levert, Mireille.
Title: Eddie Longpants
Summary: Eddie is really tall and the kids at school tease him, especially
Pete. Later Pete finds himself in trouble and only the tall kid can
rescue him.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Lio
Author: Lionni, Leo, 1910-
Title: Swimmy
Summary: When all his brothers and sisters have been swallowed bu a hungry tuna - Swimmy, the only black fish of the entire school, is left alone in
dangerous waters! He decides to explore the unknown depths of the
ocean until at last he devises for himself and his newly adopted
brothers and isters a safer way to live iin this world.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Lov
Author: Lovell, Patty, 1964- Catrow, David,
Title: Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Summary: Even when the class bully at her new school makes fun of her, Molly remembers what her grandmother told her and she feels good about
herself.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Mcc
Author: McCully, Emily Arnold.
Title: Grandmas Trick-or-Treat
Summary: Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take Pip and her friends trick-or-treating on Halloween.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Med
Author: Meddaugh, Susan.
Title: Martha Walks the Dog
Summary: Martha the talking dog rescues the neighborhood from a bully dog with the help of a parrot.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Mer
Author: Merrill, Jean. Cooper, Floyd,
Title: The Girl Who Loved Caterpillars : a Twelfth Century Tale from Japan
Summary: In this retelling of an anonymous twelfth-century Japanese story, the young woman Izumi resists social and family pressures as she befriends caterpillars and other socially unacceptable creatures.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Mor
Author: Morimoto, Junko. Morimoto, Isao.
Title: The Two Bullies
Summary: Two bullies, one from China and one from Japan, inadvertently
intimidate one another before meeting face to face and never fight as
a result.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Mos
Author: Moss, Peggy, 1966- Lyon, Lea, 1945-
Title: SaySsomething
Summary: A child who never says anything when other children are being teased or bullied finds herself in their position one day when jokes are made
at her expense and no one speaks up.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Nic
Author: Nickle, John.
Title: The Ant Bully
Summary: Lucas learns a lesson about bullying when he is pulled into the ant
hole he has been tormenting.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Num
Author: Numeroff, Laura Joffe. McPhail, David M.,
Title: Why a Disguise?
Summary: Relates how a disguise can be used to evade the school bully, Mom's
lima beans, and other unpleasant things.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E One
Author: O'Neill, Alexis, 1949- Huliska-Beith, Laura,
Title: The Recess Queen
Summary: Mean Jean is the biggest bully on the school playground until a new girl arrives and challenges Jean's status as the Recess Queen.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Pee
Author: Peet, Bill.
Title: Big Bad Bruce
Summary: Bruce, a bear bully, never picks on anyone his own size until he is
diminished in more ways than one by a small but very independent
witch.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Pol
Author: Polacco, Patricia.
Title: Mr. Lincoln's Way
Summary: When Mr. Lincoln, "the coolest principal in the whole world,"
discovers that Eugene, the school bully, knows a lot about birds, he
uses this interest to help Eugene overcome his intolerance.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Rat
Author: Rathmann, Peggy.
Title: Ruby the Copycat
Summary: Ruby insists on copying Angela, until her teacher helps her discover
her own creative resources.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Ros
Author: Rosenberg, Liz. Gammell, Stephen,
Title: Monster Mama
Summary: Patrick Edward's fierce monster mother helps him deal with some
obnoxious bullies.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Ros
Author: Ross, Tony.
Title: Is It Because?
Summary: Questions why a bully treats others as he does in rhyming text.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Sci
Author: Scieszka, Jon. Wolf, A. Smith, Lane,
Title: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Summary: The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Sor
Author: Sorel, Edward, 1929- Carlesimo, Cheryl.
Title: The Saturday Kid
Summary: Leo wonders why Morty always causes him trouble, but after spending a Saturday with his violin teacher and then seeing himself in a newsreel at the movies, Leo doesn't worry about Morty anymore.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Wab
Author: Waber, Bernard.
Title: Ira Sleeps Over.
Summary: A little boy is excited at the prospect of spending the night at his
friend's house but worries how he'll get along without his teddy bear.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Wil
Author: Wilhelm, Hans.
Title: Tyrone and the Swamp Gang
Summary: Almost everyone has joined Tyrone's Swamp Gang. But now the bully Tyrone is after Boland and his friends to join too or else!
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Wil
Author: Wilhelm, Hans, 1945-
Title: Tyrone the Horrible
Summary: A little dinosaur named Boland tries several ways of dealing with the biggest bully in the swamp forest, until finally hitting on a
successful tactic.
Call Number: EASY BOOK E Yas
Author: Yashima, Taro, 1908-
Title: Crow Boy
Summary: A shy Japanese boy under the influence of an understanding teacher, surprises everyone with his talent.
Call Number: FICTION F ADL
Author: Adler, C. S.
Title: Help, Pink Pig!
Summary: Moving to Los Angeles to live with her mother, a lonely girl escapes
the boredom and torment of a neighborhod bully by entering a fantasy
world with her magical toy pig.
Call Number: FICTION F Ayr
Author: Ayres, Katherine.
Title: Macaroni Boy
Summary: In Pittsburgh in 1933, sixth-grader Mike Costa notices a connection
between several strange occurrences, but the only way he can find out
the truth about what's happening is to be nice to the class bully.
Includes historical facts.
Call Number: FICTION F Bro
Author: Brooks, Bruce.
Title: Boot
Summary: Boot, an orphan, dislikes some of the more physical aspects of hockey, but in protecting his younger sister from a bully, he learns that
aggression can be appropriate at times.
Call Number: FICTION F Coh
Author: Cohen, Barbara. Duffy, Daniel M.,
Title: Molly's Pilgrim
Summary: Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school,
Molly is embarrassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
Call Number: FICTION F Cov
Author: Coville, Bruce. Coville, Katherine,
Title: The Monster's Rng
Summary: A timid boy, eager to frighten the school bully on Halloween night,
acquires a magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous
monster.
Call Number: FICTION F Cox
Author: Cox, Judy. Fisher, Cynthia,
Title: Mean, Mean Maureen Green
Summary: With help from Adam, a boy in her third grade class, Lilley gains
enough confidence to stand up to the school bus bully, Mean Maureen
Green.
Call Number: FICTION F Cre
Author: Crew, Linda. Robinson, Charles, 1931-
Title: Nekomah Creek
Summary: Nine-year-old Robby loves his noisy and somewhat unconventional
family, but unwanted attention from a counselor and a bully at school
make him self-conscious about just how unconventional his family might look to outsiders.
Call Number: FICTION F Cri
Author: Crisp, Marty. Kelley, True,
Title: My Dog, Cat
Summary: Ten-year-old Abbie, bullied at school for being small, wants to get a big black dog, but two months of living with a little Yorkshire
terrier changes his mind about a number of things.
Call Number: FICTION F Dad
Author: Dadey, Debbie. O'Malley, Kevin, 1961-
Title: King of the Kooties
Summary: Nate's new friend Donald is being teased by the meanest girl in fourth grade, but after several failed attempts, he comes up with a plan to
make her stop.
Call Number: FICTION F Eri
Author: Erickson, John R., 1943- Holmes, Gerald L.,
Title: The Case of the Car-Barkaholic Dog
Summary: Stranded in town, Hank the Cowdog finds himself drawn into a dangerous situation involving his sister Maggie and a terrible bully named
Rambo.
Call Number: FICTION F Est
Author: Estes, Eleanor, 1906- Slobodkin, Louis, 1903-
Title: The Hundred Dresses.
Summary: In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped
little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
Call Number: FICTION F Fie
Author: Fields, Terri, 1948-
Title: Missing in the mountains
Summary: To avoid further encounters with a bully on the ski slope, Jarod and
his younger sister cross over the ski area boundary, become stranded
in a snow cave, and fearfully wait to be rescued.
Call Number: FICTION F Fre
Author: Frederick, Heather Vogel. Comport, Sally Wern,
Title: The Black Paw
Summary: Two fifth-graders who are the targets of bullies and a mouse spy who has not only lost her job but is also on a mobster rat's hit list,
meet at Washington D.C.'s International Spy Museum and go under cover to help each other out.
Call Number: FICTION F Hah
Author: Hahn, Mary Downing.
Title: Stepping on the Cracks
Summary: In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II,
eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy
when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and
decides to help him.
Call Number: FICTION F His
Author: Hiser, Constance. Smith, Cat Bowman,
Title: Ghosts in Fourth Grade
Summary: James and his friends turn the old Hathaway house into a haunted house to scare Mean Mitchell, the class bully, on Halloween night.
Call Number: FICTION F Joo
Author: Joosse, Barbara M. Truesdell, Sue,
Title: Alien Brain Fryout : a Wild Willie Mystery
Summary: When the neighborhood bully starts following Willy, Lucy, and Kyle
around and acting goofy, they suspect that he's been abducted by
aliens until Scarface the parrot presents another possibility.
Call Number: FICTION F Kin
Author: King-Smith, Dick. Rayner, Mary,
Title: Babe : the Gallant Pig
Summary: A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to
success.
Call Number: FICTION F Kor
Author: Korman, Gordon.
Title: Radio Fifth Grade
Summary: Mayhem breaks out in the fifth grade when the Venice Menace bullies his classmates into letting him become a regular guest on "Kidsview," the school's radio program.
Call Number: FICTION F Lev
Author: Leverich, Kathleen. Lorraine, Walter,
Title: Hilary and the Troublemakers
Summary: A homework-eating owl, an angry piggy bank, several talking sheep, and some snow people help Hilary to make the right decisions at home and at school.
Call Number: FICTION F Lev
Author: Levy, Elizabeth.
Title: Third Grade Bullies
Summary: Being short and having moved four times in the last three years makes Sally defensive, so although she tries to help a classmate stand up to two bullies, she gets off to a bad start in her new school.
Call Number: FICTION F Lin
Author: Lindberg, Becky Thoman. Poydar, Nancy,
Title: Speak Up, Chelsea Martin!
Summary: Third-grader Chelsea Martin deals with a bully, has a fight with her best friend, and learns to speak up.
Call Number: FICTION F Mag
Author: Maguire, Gregory. Clayton, Elaine,
Title: Three Rotten Eggs
Summary: The students of Miss Earth's class in rural Vermont experience an
eventful spring when they become involved with a bullying new student,
a competitive egg hunt, and genetically altered chicks.
Call Number: FICTION F MAR
Author: Martin, Ann M., 1955- Tang, Susan,
Title: Karen's Bully
Summary: Bobby, the class bully, is moving into Karen's neighborhood and she'll have no peace until she declares war on the bully.
Call Number: FICTION F Mea
Author: Mead, Alice.
Title: Junebug and the Reverend
Summary: Having moved out of the housing project and into a new home along with his mother and sister, ten-year-old Junebug discovers that bullies are everywhere and that the elderly can make great friends.
Call Number: FICTION F Mye
Author: Myers, Laurie. Yaccarino, Dan,
Title: Surviving Brick Johnson
Summary: Afraid of getting maimed for making fun of Brick, the husky new kid in his fifth-grade class, Nick decides that even his baseball collection
will not protect him so he signs up for karate class, despite his
little brother's reassurances that Brick is not a bully.
Call Number: FICTION F Nix
Author: Nixon, Joan Lowery.
Title: Laugh Till You Cry
Summary: Thirteen years old and a budding comedian, Cody has little to laugh
about after he and his mother move from California to Texas to help
his sick grandmother and he finds himself framed by his jealous cousin
for calling in bomb threats to their school.
Call Number: FICTION F NIX
Author: Nixon, Joan Lowery.
Title: Caught in the Act
Summary: Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son,
and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder.
Call Number: FICTION F Par
Author: Park, Barbara. Brunkus, Denise,
Title: Junie B. Jones and that Meanie Jim's Birthday
Summary: Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite
everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps
her deal with the situation.
Call Number: FICTION F Pau
Author: Paulsen, Gary.
Title: Danger on Midnight River
Summary: Daniel is a good swimmer but is he good enough to save the bullies who were earlier teasing him.
Call Number: FICTION F Pfe
Author: Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948- DeLuna, Tony,
Title: Sara Kate Saves the World
Summary: Sara Kate is disappointed that her super powers aren't more heroic,
until she uses her x-ray vision to make the school bully leave her
alone.
Call Number: FICTION F Pil
Author: Pilkey, Dav, 1966- Ontiveros, Martin,
Title: Ricky Ricotta's Giant Robot
Summary: Ricky Ricotta, a small mouse, saves a giant robot from his evil
creator, Dr. Stinky, and in turn, the robot protects Ricky from the
bullies at school and it saves the city from Dr. Stinky's plan to
destroy it.
Call Number: FICTION F Rob
Author: Roberts, Willo Davis.
Title: The Kidnappers
Summary: No one believes eleven-year-old Joey, who has a reputation for telling tall tales, when he claims to have witnessed the kidnapping of the class bully outside their expensive New York City private school.
Call Number: FICTION F Ros
Author: Rosner, Ruth.
Title: I Hate My Best Friend
Summary: Annie and Nina are super best friends and do everything together until Nina's cousin Irina arrives from Russia to live with the family.
Call Number: FICTION F Sal
Author: Salisbury, Graham.
Title: Under the Blood-Red Sun
Summary: Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes
drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December, 1941.
Call Number: FICTION F Ski
Author: Skinner, David, 1963-
Title: The Wrecker
Summary: Theo, the boy genius, enlists Michael, the new kid, as his ally in a
secret plan to "wreck" the bully of the eighth grade once and for all.
Call Number: FICTION F Tac
Author: Tacang, Brian.
Title: Bully-Be-Gone
Summary: Budding-inventor Millicent Madding launches her latest invention to
disastrous results, and she has only days to create an antidote before
the local bullies wreak havoc and her dearest friendships are
destroyed forever.
Call Number: FICTION F Van
Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin. Biggs, Brian,
Title: Secret Identity
Summary: Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class
bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman!
Call Number: FICTION F Wal
Author: Wallace, Carol, 1948- Wallace, Bill, 1947- Gurney, John,
Title: Bub, Snow, and the Burly Bear Scare
Summary: A young moose, his mother, and his animal friends team up to fight a bully of a grizzly bear one long, hard winter, and make friends with
some humans in the process.
Call Number: FICTION F Whi
Author: White, E. B. 1899-
Title: Charlotte's Web.
Call Number: FICTION F Wil
Author: Williams, Karen Lynn. Shiffman, Lena,
Title: First Grade King
Summary: Relates the experiences first-grader Joey King has at school: making friends, learning to read, and dealing with the class bully.
Call Number: FICTION F Wil
Author: Willis, Meredith Sue.
Title: The Secret Super Powers of Marco
Summary: Marco believes he has special powers that help him make friends with the class bully and deal with some tough situations in the rough
neighborhood where they live.
Call Number: FICTION F Woj
Author: Wojciechowski, Susan. Natti, Susanna,
Title: Beany and the Meany
Summary: When Meany's best friend Carol Ann pairs with the new girl at school to create a science project, Meany must work with Kevin the bully.
Call Number: NONFICTION 302.3 Rom
Author: Romain, Trevor. Verdick, Elizabeth.
Title: Bullies are a Pain in the Brain
Summary: A serious yet humorous guide to dealing with bullies.
Call Number: NONFICTION 302.3 San
Author: Sanders, Pete.
Title: Bullying
Summary: Discusses bullying, why it occurs, and how it can be handled.
Call Number: NONFICTION 303.3 Ham
Author: Hammerseng, Kathryn M., 1962- Garbot, Dave,
Title: Telling isn't Tattling
Summary: Distinguishes between telling and tattling and explains the
motivations behind tattling.
Call Number: NONFICTION 303.6 Joh
Author: Johnston, Marianne.
Title: Dealing with Bullying
Summary: Describes what is meant by bullying; then goes on to explain why
bullies act as they do, how to deal with them, and how to stop being
one.
Call Number: NONFICTION 921 PAULSEN
Author: Paulsen, Gary. Paulsen, Ruth Wright,
Title: My Life in Dog Years
Summary: The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Phillippines;
Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
Call Number: VIDEOTAPE E Ama
Author: Sendak, Maurice. Brown, Marcia. Steig, William, 1907- Keats, Ezra J.
Title: The Amazing Bone and other Caldecott Classics
Call Number: DVD F My
Author: Muniz, Frankie.
Title: My Dog Skip
Summary: Who says best friends have to be human? Not Wille Morris (Frankie
Muniz), who receives a talented terrier named Skip for his birthday.
With Skip's remarkable and unconventional help, Willie and Skip turn
bullies into friends, tangle with hapless moonshiners, and even win
the affections of the prettiest girl in school.
Call Number: VIDEOTAPE F Leg
Author: Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.
Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Summary: The legend of the new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, the local bully,
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