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Literature Lists



Kindergarten through 3rd Grade

• A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon (Blue Sky Press)

• Beautiful Oops! by Barney Saltzberg (Workman Publishing, 2010)

• Ish by Peter H. Reynolds (Candlewick Press, 2004)

• Nobody Knew What to Do: A Story about Bullying by Becky Ray McCain, illustrated by Todd Leonarado

• One by Kathryn Otoshi (KO Kids Books, 2008)

• The Recess Bully by Alexis O’Neill, illustrated by Laura Huliska-Beith (Scholastic Press, 2002)

• Zero by Kathryn Otoshi (KO Kids Books, 2008)

3rd Grade through 6th Grade

• Better Than You by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Adam Gustavson (Borzoi Books, Alfred Knopf, 2011)

• Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes (HarperTrophy, 1996

• First Grade King by Karen L. Williams and Lena Shiffman (Clarion Books, 1992)

• Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber (Houghton Mifflin, 2000)

• Just Kidding by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Adam Gustavson (Tricycle Press, 2006)

• My Secret Bully by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Abigail Marble (Tricycle Press, 2004)

• Confessions of a Former Bully by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Beth Adams (Tricycle Press, 2010)

• Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Patrice Barton (Random House, 2013)

• Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie dePaola (Harvest Books, 1979)

• Sorry! by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Maurie J. Manning (Tricycle Press, 2006)

• Too Perfect by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Lisa Fields (Tricycle Press, 2009)

• Trouble Talk by Trudy Ludwig, illustrated by Mikela Prevost (Tricycle Press, 2005)

Sixth Grade through High School

• Bitter End by Jennifer Brown (Little Brown, May 2011)

• The Bully by Paul Langan

• Burn by Suzanne Phillips (Little, Brown, 2008)

• Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories edited by Megan Kelley Hall and Carrie Jones (HarperTeen, September 2011)

• Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King (Little, Brown, October 2011)

• Holes Louis Sachar

• It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller (Dutton, March 2011)

• The Misfits by James Howe (Atheneum, 2001)

• The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney (Little, Brown, 2010)

• Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg (Dutton, 2008)

• Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters (Knopf, 2009)

• Shine by Lauren Myracle (Amulet, April 2011)

The following are more controversial titles for your high-school-aged students:

• Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)

• By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters (Hyperion, 2010)

• Endgame by Nancy Garden (Harcourt, 2006)

• Freak Show by James St. James (Dutton, 2007)

• Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser (Simon & Schuster, 2000)

• Hate List by Jennifer Brown (Little, Brown, 2009)

• Project X by Jim Shepard (Knopf, 2004)

• Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte (HarperCollins, 2006)

• Shooter by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad, 2004)

• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Razorbill, 2007)

• Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher (Greenwillow, 2001)