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1) Unlocked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Holden Harris is an autistic eighteen-year-old who is bullied at school. Ella Reynolds is the head cheerleader who befriends Holden but has problems of her own at home.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by The New York Times as "a writer to watch, " a tragicomic adventure about a troubled adolescent boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library-on-wheels. "An archivist of his mother, " Bobby Nusku spends his nights meticulously cataloging her hair, clothing, and other traces of the life she left behind. By day, Bobby and his best friend Sunny hatch a plan to transform Sunny, limb-by-limb,...
4) Starfish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, twelve-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.--
Author
Series
Lemonade war volume Book 6
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Evan and Jessie Treski have waged a lemonade war, sought justice in a class trial, unmasked a bell thief, and created a professional magic show. Yet for all their skills and talents, both find themselves being singled out this summer for reasons beyond their control. Natural-born leader Evan, who is always good at making new friends, discovers he is at the mercy of a bully on the summer school playground, and is pressured to act in a way he never...
7) Not little
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dot proves she is not little by standing up to a school bully.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Felix Love has never been in love, painful irony that it is. He desperately wants to know why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. He is proud of his identity, but fears that he's one marginalization too many-- Black, queer, and transgender. When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages-- after publicly posting Felix's deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned-- Felix comes up with a plan for revenge....
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Blaming her husband for her son's fatal car accident, high school guidance counselor Beth Maller rails against everyday injustices at her job and eventually risks her career to launch a campaign against bullying and the persecution of LGBTQ students.
10) The real deal
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Best friends Gabe and Oliver tackle family problems, bullying, and the challenge of dealing with the new kid in their sixth grade class, Reuben, who refuses to talk--and no one knows why.
12) Chasing Pacquiao
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When Bobby is unwillingly outed he turns to boxing, finding a hero in Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, but when Pacquiao publicly denounces homosexuality, Bobby must discover a hero within himself.
Bobby's motto is self preservation. That's how he survived his notoriously violent high school unscathed. Being out and queer would put an unavoidable target on his back, especially in a Filipino community that frowns on homosexuality. When Bobby is unwilling...
13) Teddy spaghetti
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
On his first day at a new school, Teddy learns to stick up for himself and the thing he loves most--spaghetti.
14) One kid's trash
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When his father moves them halfway across Colorado, eleven-year-old Hugo O'Donnell is surprised that his remarkable talent for garbology makes him popular for the first time in his life.
16) I love my name
Author
Publisher
Bellwood Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Eight-year-old Tahirih finds courage and a connection to her namesake, a nineteenth-century Persian woman poet, women's rights activist, and follower of Báb.
17) Why?
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
18) Protected
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Hannah's world is in pieces and she doesn't need the school counsellor to tell her she has deep-seated psychological issues. With a seriously depressed mum, an injured dad and a dead sister, who wouldn't have problems?
Hannah should feel terrible but for the first time in ages, she feels a glimmer of hope and isn't afraid anymore. Is it because the elusive Josh is taking an interest in her? Or does it run deeper than that?
Author
Series
Mighty Meg volume 3
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When Meg's classmate, Jackson, suddenly becomes strong and mean, she wonders if he might be turning into a supervillain.
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