Hello, Universe
by Erin Entrada Kelly
Age: 9+
Interests: friendship, diverse characters, Filipino folktales, guinea pigs, bullying, deafness/hearing impairment, first crush, shyness
A Year Down Yonder
18 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in Books, books 11+ Tags: bad behavior, bullying, grandparents, Great Depression, high school, poverty, romance, small town life, violence
A Year Down Yonder
by Richard Peck
Age: 11+
Interests: Great Depression, small town life, grandparents, high school, poverty, bullying, romance
Harriet the Spy
28 Jun 2017 3 Comments
in Books, books 10+, Classics Tags: adolescence, bad behavior, bullying, city life, friendship, New York, school, writers
Harriet the Spy
by Louise Fitzhugh
Age: 10+
Interests: middle school, writing, adolescence, friendship, bullying, city life, New York, bad behaviour
The View from Saturday
02 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in Books, books 9+ Tags: bookworms, bullying, cooperation, friendship, puzzles, school, teachers
The View from Saturday
by E. L. Konigsburg
Age: 9+
Interests: school, teachers, friendship, academic competitions
A Monster Calls
11 Apr 2013 1 Comment
in Books, books 12+ Tags: bad behavior, bullying, death, family, grieving, illness, monsters, single parent
A Monster Calls
text by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd
illustrated by Jim Kay
Age: 12+
Interests: illness, death, grieving, monsters, nightmares
The Hundred Dresses
23 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
in Books, books 7+ Tags: artists, bullies, bullying, class, fashion, friendship, school, teasing
by Eleanor Estes
illustrated by Louis Slobodkin
Harcourt Brace & Company, 1944
80 pp., 7 chapters
Age: 7 +
Interests: school politics, teasing & bullying, peer pressure, friendship, fashion, art
Also by this author: Ginger Pye, The Moffats, The Witch Family
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