Fiction

Frankie and her best friend Sam are different. They find starting high school challenging with its long list of rules. Frankie has no idea how she will manage. Once given the chance to compete in the Battle of Bands, she gets super excited, until she...

Sheep loves playing with cars. Little Turkey loves to cook. The other students in their class laugh at them. While on a field trip, they save the day and change how the others act toward them and each other. This book comes with a separate workbook...

Pecas is a small owl that gets picked on at school. One day, he meets a girl who loves his spots. She changes the way his classmates view him, and, more importantly, how he feels about himself.

Braulio picks on a different person every day. No one stands up to him until a new student comes to school. This picture book teaches children that bullies are frequently bullied themselves.

In a picture book that many children will be able to identify with, a young mouse named Ramon fears many things: the dark, bullies, swimming, thunder, and being separated from his mother. Luckily, she is always able to make him feel better.

After emigrating to a new country, Juan is very nervous about starting school. To make things even worse, a classmate bullies him relentlessly from day one. Juan feels shame and anger, and then he wants to get back at her. He devises a plan with his new...

From international superstar Dolly Parton comes this inspirational picture book about a dog named Billy the Kid who travels to Nashville to join a country band. After encountering some bullies, he's afraid that his dream will never come true. Luckily,...

In Flora's class, there is a new kid who makes fun of everything and everybody. Flora comes up with a solution before the teacher could even address the situation.

A fox arrives at school and begins to pick on a little boy. Things get increasingly worse, and the boy begins to get scared. He eventually confides in his mother. This picture book teaches the importance of talking to adults when bullying occurs.

Miguel does not want to go to school. When he grabs his backpack, it feels heavier than usual. Raul wakes up sad. He puts on his heavy armor made of sadness, loneliness, and anger. In this story about bullying, children will learn how to rid...

Mike is sick and tired of listening to his parents argue and dealing with bullies who won't leave him alone. His life becomes even more complicated when a tree starts to grow in his wall.

Rosita knows that her neighbor is a vampire, but no one believes her, not even her best friend Archie. As soon as the neighbor helps the kids in dealing with the bullies, they start to get along with him. The adults in the neighborhood, however, are...

Kalina and her family must flee their homeland. The children at her new school make fun of her. Playing the violin gives her solace. During a storm, the lights go out at school. Kalina plays the violin to calm her classmates down, and everyone learns...

Frankie loves rock music, pizza, and waffles. She has trouble concentrating, doesn't know her father, and gets bullied by her classmates. She knows she is different but isn't sure why. Could she be an alien? One day, she sneaks into her mother's room...

Told in verse, this is the story of Ellie, who is tired of constantly being fat shamed. She finds solace in swimming because, in the water, she feels weightless. She meets Catalina, a friend who does not judge her, and starts seeing a new therapist. ...

Benjamin, a little red fish, is invited to be member 11 of a gang. He enjoys it at first, but later realizes that the other fish fear them instead of admiring them. He opts for friendship and respect over bullying.

Macca the alpaca lives in peace and harmony until Harmer the llama starts picking on him. Even though Macca is much smaller, he decides to show him that he is strong.

Wanda's classmates make fun of her Polish name and her one faded dress. She tells them that she owns 100 dresses, and enters drawings of them in the school's art contest before she moves away. Only after she is gone do the students discover her...

This fresh adaptation of the Three Billy Goats Gruff promises to delight with its amusing illustrations. Young readers will learn about comparative sizes, as well as not to be afraid of bullies.

Anne loves fall in Avonlea, especially going to school with her best friend Diana. Everything changes when a new student arrives who makes fun of her red hair. Anne never thought she could feel so angry. How will she get over this?

Lala does not feel like she fits in with her family or at school, where her classmates ignore her and secretly make fun of her. She is having a very rough time dealing with her father's death. She shares his fascination of insects. After getting in...

Calvin is sad because his friends next door are moving and Harper, the school bully, will live in the house! In the meantime, he's excited about the upcoming science fair. Calvin will have to decide what to do when the facts do not prove his theory. ...

Rosa's friends do not want to go swimming with her because, due to her weight, she makes a big splash and takes up a lot of space. She's horrified when she learns that she is referred to as the big-butted hippo. At first, she believes her friends when...

Eleven-year-old Impy has always felt at home at the Renaissance Faire where her parents work. She starts middle school in the fall. She will soon learn that it's not so easy to spot heroes and villains in the real world like it is at the festival. ...

From a small village in Japan comes this story of universal relevance and appeal that teaches a valuable lesson. Chibi, or Tiny Boy, is shunned and teased by his classmates for being 'different.' An insightful new teacher encourages Chibi to finally...

Max has a big problem when he starts middle school: a bully named Doug keeps stuffing him in his locker. Everything would be different if only Max could be a hero like in his beloved comic books.

At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem.

Gabriel has moved to a new country where everything strikes him as strange. The language is different, he has a pair of archenemies at school, and his math teacher appears to be an alien that wants to attack Earth. Good thing he is an expert in super...

Crock runs away from his village because he is tired of being laughed at by the older boys. He decides to go hunting to prove he is as good as they are, but nothing could prepare him for what falls into his trap!

In this installment, Billie B. loses her first tooth and has a run-in with the school bully.

Ulises, the new boy at school, gets picked on because he would rather hang out with the girls than play soccer with the boys. Trouble ensues when a theatrical production put on by Ulises and his friends interferes with the boys' sports. Readers will...

From the very first day Auggie and Julian met, it was clear they were never going to be friends, with Julian treating Auggie like he had the plague. Over one million people have read Wonder and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy...

Heidi has had just about enough of mean Melanie, so she decides to cast a little spell. Will it have its desired effects on Melanie and on her?

Heidi attends public school after being homeschooled. She encounters common issues, such as bullying and fearing the unknown, as do many new students, but there is something a little different about Heidi. She's a witch! Her spells do not always have...

A young boy named Carlitos shares the joys (and sometimes the aggravations) of life with his older special needs brother Enrique. The book carries a wonder message about acceptance and anti-bullying.

Daniela is not happy that she has to stay at her grandmother's house while her family moves. When she explores the attic, she gets the surprise of a lifetime. She finds a mouse inside an old trunk that turns out to be an extraterrestrial! Thus begins...

Malena hates going to swim class because the other kids make fun of her weight. Once the instructor tells her to think positively about herself, her whole outlook changes.

Kinney does a masterful job of making the mundane life of boys on the brink of adolescence hilarious. Greg is a conflicted soul: he wants to do the right thing, but the constant quest for status and girls seems to undermine his every effort. His attempts...

Tricia struggles in elementary school because she has difficulty learning to read. Her classmates call her dumb, in spite of her many talents. Finally, in fifth grade she is lucky enough to have a teacher who is able to recognize her problem and help her...