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1) Flamer
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance"--Back cover.
2) Delicates
Author
Series
Sheets volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander Earth as a ghost with nothing more than a sheet for a body, soon became one of Marjorie's only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular kids at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she'll be labeled as a freak who sees...
Author
Series
Monstrous volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bullied by her classmates, Sarah, a Korean American girl growing up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors, channels her rage into her art and cosplay until it threatens to explode
4) Jo & Rus
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Introduced by a mysterious one-eyed cat, a bullied middle school student and a high school rock-band musician forge an unexpected friendship that helps them better understand themselves and what they really want from life"--
5) Bedhead Ted
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ted discovers that his wild red hair is actually a gift rather than a curse when he helps his best friend search for the Brookside Beast--a giant raccoon terrorizing the town.
6) Cuatro ojos
Author
Publisher
Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"When Rex finds out he needs glasses, he's beyond miserable. Dealing with the bullies at school, his family being broke, and an embarrassing lack of friends, he has way too much on his plate already"--Provided by publisher.
7) Kit Feeny
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When plucky Kit Feeny moves to a new town, he immediately makes an enemy of the sadistic school bully and must struggle to find friends who share his interests.
10) Horse trouble
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: There's nothing Kate loves more than being around horses. But her best friend is allergic to them, so Kate has to take riding lessons without her. Kate's forced to navigate some of life's hardships-like the mean girls at the stable who tease her and her body insecurities-all on her own. To make matters worse, Kate is continually falling off her horse. To Kate, her tween years feel like one unfair punishment after another. Can...
Author
Series
Meesh volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Meesh is a bad demon. "Bad" in that she always sees the good in those around her--which isn't how a demon is meant to feel or act. Bullied by the other demons, twelve-year-old Meesh is more likely to be found reading magazines from Plumeria City--the fairy realm--and fangirling about the fairy princesses. But when disaster strikes and all of demon-kind is threatened, Meesh must journey to other worlds in search of help. As luck would have it, she...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Starting a new school in the fall with her friend Shirley, everything is going well for Jamila until Shirley pulls her into a new assignment: stop Chuck Milton, a school bully who is using blackmail and intimidation to become school president--an assignment that will involve a bit of breaking and entering.
13) My perfect life
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"...this collection continues to spotlight the life of teenager Maybonne Mullen. She suffers through the utterly relatable insults of junior high and the excruciating embarrassment caused by her little sister, Marlys. Hovering in the background, however, is a broken home, parents struggling with addiction, a grandmother who takes her granddaughters from the diverse big city to a bewilderingly bland small town. Yet fitting into the new school and surroundings...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lilly desperately wants to be one of the "cool girls" at Memorial Middle School, so she is thrilled to be invited to Tania's birthday party; but Tania is actually interested in Lilly's older brother, Hank, and when that does not work out she turns on Lilly, bullying her and making her life miserable--until a suggestion from her favorite teacher, and a campaign against bullying, provides Lilly with a connection to other victims in her school and an...
15) A silent voice
Author
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]-
Language
English
Description
"Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?"--provided from Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bullied nerd Virgil Hawkins wasn't the kind of kid you'd normally find on the streets at a protest--but like everyone else in the city of Dakota, he was fed up. Unfortunately, the first time he stood up to raise his voice, the world turned upside down. The experimental tear gas released that day left some of his classmates maimed or dead...but it left Virgil, and others, with stunning new abilities. Virgil has power inside him now--real power, the...
Author
Publisher
BiG, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]-
Edition
US edition.
Language
English
Description
"Leopold is just like every other boy in town... except that he can turn himself invisible! Perhaps when he grows up, Leopold will use his powers to fight the forces of evil, but for now, he just wants to have a little fun--sometimes at his sister's expense."--Provided by publisher
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