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The ABC’s of Bullying Prevention: a Comprehensive Schoolwide Approach. Kenneth Shore, $18.95

Dr. Kenneth Shore, family and educational psychologist and author of books such as Keeping Kids Safe and Special Kid's Problem Solver, presents an innovative plan to address bullying prevention across all participants in a school community.


The Anti-Bullying and Teasing Book for Preschool Classrooms. Barbara Sprung, Blythe Hinitz & Merle Froschl, $20.95

In preschool, children encounter their first experiences in forming and joining social groups outside their family. It is natural for them to experiment with social interactions while learning about their world. In this guide, teasing and bullying are addressed as a continuum of intentionally hurtful behavior, from making fun of someone to repetitive physical abuse. Creating a caring environment at the beginning of school reduces the need for children to assert themselves through negative behavior such as teasing and bullying. With The Anti-Bullying and Teasing Book, teachers of young children can address this behavior before it develops.


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Break the Bully Cycle: Intervention Techniques & Activities to Create a Respectful School Community. SiriNam Khalsa, $23.95

Boys' bullying is usually overt, while girls' is more covert, and thus may be overlooked. Every teacher needs tools for recognizing and addressing bullying in the classroom, as well as other areas of the school. The author discusses how to make schools safe and offers practical ideas to help victims change their behavior.


Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain DVD. Trevor Romain, $43.95 Grades 2-8, 25 minutes

Strategies for helping bullies, targets and bystanders and the secrets for becoming bully-proof!

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The Bully Blockers Club. Teresa Bateman, illustrated by Jackie Urbanovic, $8.95

Lotty Raccoon is excited. This year she has a new teacher, new backpack, and new shoes. But her enthusiasm quickly wanes when Grant Grizzly begins bullying her. She notices other kids are being bullied by Grant, too so she gathers everyone together and they form a club — The Bully Blockers Club. Now when Grant tries to bully someone, the other kids speak up.


Bully Blocking: Six Secrets to Help Children Deal with Teasing and Bullying. Evelyn Field, $19.95

This confidence-boosting book aims to help children overcome the damaging effects of teasing and bullying, and to develop practical skills and attitudes to improve their self-esteem and quality of life. Bully Blocking will be an invaluable resource for parents, teachers, educators and counselors working with children at risk of or experiencing bullying.


The Bully, the Bullied and Beyond: Help for Bullies, Victims and Bystanders. Esther Williams, $44.95 (Grades 5-12)

This book will provide you with a comprehensive set of lessons that will help eliminate bullying in your school. It includes more than 300 pages of insights and skill-building activities for children who are bullies, bully victims and bystanders.

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The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander, 2nd Edition. Barbara Coloroso, $21.95; CD $16.95

Barbara Coloroso now brings her extensive experience in conflict resolution, parent education and her tremendous passion to the topic of bullying. She argues that the solution is in prevention and that the focus should be on raising confident and resilient children by "teaching them how to think, not just what to think". She discusses hazing, school cliques and the "double whammy" of racist bullying. Responsibility is placed on the parents, schools and communities to take early action with appropriate interventions, not punishment, for the bullies and onlookers, in addition to providing support for the victim. Coloroso also discusses the weakness of "zero tolerance" policies, which might be easy to administer but don't address the deeper issues. The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander is an accessible guide for concerned parents, educators and communities on the topic of bullying and violence that urges us all to take a stand.


The Bully and Me: Stories That Break the Cycle of Torment. Helen Carmichael Porter, $29.95

The stories in The Bully and Me are first person accounts by both victims and bullies. Descriptive narratives of what happens to real people, they are based on Porter’s observations, countless interviews, personal experience, and imagination. The book explores the idea that victims and bullies are two sides of the same coin and that the healing of both lies in dealing with this paradox. There is not a lot of real violence in these stories though there is some. Much is implied in threats, taunts, gossip, e-mails, gestures, and language and it is always designed to torment and ridicule. This is not a self-help book; it is about listening to and thinking about the stories of bullying that happen everyday in our homes, our schools, and our communities.


Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying. Samer Hinduja & Justin Patchin, $47.95

Cyberbullying is the intentional and repeated act of causing harm to others through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. The authors help educators understand the potential consequences of this deliberate behavior and present strategies for effective identification, prevention, and response. Focusing on the way technology can facilitate or magnify bullying behavior; this comprehensive resource offers information, guidelines, and resources to give students the protection they need.

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Bullying from Both Sides: Strategic Interventions for Working with Bullies & Victims. Walter Roberts, $44.95

Today’s bullies and victims are far more complex than traditional labels make them out to be. As a result, educators can’t rely on conventional methods to break the cycle of maltreatment. Bullying from Both Sides challenges educators to work effectively with bullies as well as the victims, and gives them effective tools to do it. Roberts offers tangible information to help educators understand and recognize the range of students at risk for victimization and aggression. The book also provides counselors, administrators, and teachers with a four-point intervention plan that covers:

  • Surveying students to prevent school violence
  • Safeguarding victims
  • Determining when (and how) to contact parents
  • Handling female bullying and cyber-bullying
  • Counseling for immediate and long-term support, and more

Bullying in the Girl’s World: a School-Wide Approach to Girl Bullying. Diane Senn, $37.50 (Grades 3 – 8)

Bullying in the Girl’s World provides the information required to motivate change and develop the skills and strategies to make it happen.


Bullying in Schools: How Successful Can Interventions Be? Edited by Peter Smith, Debra Pepler & Ken Rigby, $34.95

Bullying in Schools: How Successful Can Interventions Be? is the first comparative account of the major intervention projects against school bullying that have been carried out by educationalists and researchers since the 1980s, across Europe, North America and Australasia. Bullying in schools has become an international focus for concern. It can adversely affect pupils and in extreme cases lead to suicide. Schools can take action to reduce bullying and several programs are available, but do they work? In fact, success rates have been very varied. This book surveys thirteen studies and eleven countries. Working on the principle that we can learn from both successes and failures, it examines the processes as well as the outcomes, and critically assesses the likely reasons for success or failure. With contributions from leading researchers in the field, Bullying in Schools is an important addition to the current debate on tackling school bullying.

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Bullying in Secondary Schools: What it Looks Like and How to Manage It. Keith Sullivan, Mark Cleary & Ginny Sullivan, $46.95

A practical guide to dealing with bullying in secondary schools, this book looks at the a wide range of contributing issues such as adolescent development, social context, key features of healthy (and unhealthy) schools and the effectiveness of bystander responses. Written primarily for secondary school teachers and administrators, this book will also be of interest to students, parents, counselors and educators at all levels.


Bullying Prevention for Schools: a Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful Anti-Bullying Program. Allan Beane, $42.00

Bullying can be found in every school system, school, and classroom. It is destructive to the well-being of students, creates unsafe schools, and impacts learning. School personnel, parents, and communities are increasingly realizing the importance of putting effective anti-bullying strategies and policies in place that will create safe, caring, and peaceful schools where all students feel a sense of belonging and acceptance. Bullying Prevention for Schools is a step-by-step guide to implementing an anti-bullying program in individual schools or throughout a district.


Bullying & Proactive Inclusion of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Guide for Educators. Autism Ontario, $1.25

This pamphlet is a collection of ‘best practice’ responses to bullying of ASD students and the development of action plans for educators at all levels.


Bullying, Rejection & Peer Victimization: a Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. Monica Harris, Editor, $84.50

Both children and adults who experience chronic peer victimization are at considerable risk for a host of adverse psychological consequences, including depression, aggression, even suicidal ideation. Bullying, Rejection, and Peer Victimization addresses bullying across the developmental spectrum, covering child, adolescent, and adult populations.

The contributors offer in-depth analyses on traditional aggression and victimization (physical bullying) as well as social rejection (emotional bullying). Peer and family relationships, relational aggression, and cyber-bullying are just a few of the important topics discussed.

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Bully-Proof Your Classroom Teaching Kit (K-3). Scholastic Books, $29.99

This practical kit for primary school teachers includes six picture books with lessons for teaching children strategies to handle bullying in effective and appropriate ways. The kit also includes information for educators on bullying, a teaching guide with lessons, activities and reproducibles and a two-sided poster to hang in the classroom.


Bully-Proofing Your School has been one of the most widely used affective programming resources in Canada. Popular both as a first approach to this type of programming, and also for its transparency when used in conjunction with other conflict resolution, anti-bullying or peer mediation approaches. The revised and re-designed third edition is now conveniently divided into three books: Working with Victims and Bullies in Elementary School; Administrator's Guide to Staff Development in Elementary School, and Teacher's Manual and Lesson Plans for Elementary Schools.

Bully-Proofing Your School: Working with Victims and Bullies in Elementary Schools. Carla Garrity, et al, $41.50

Volume one, Working with Victims and Bullies, is intended to help school personnel understand the psychology of bullies and their victims. The manual lays out intervention strategies aimed at both supporting the victims of bullying and at helping bullies develop the skills needed to change their behavior. A guide to helpful books and videos and several pages of reproducible materials is included.

Bully-Proofing Your Elementary School: Teacher's Manual and Lesson Plans. Carla Garrity, et al, $47.95

The second volume, Teacher's Manual and Lesson Plans, contains everything that instructors need to put the Bully-Proofing program into effect, including a complete classroom curriculum, strategies for fostering parent collaboration, and a helpful resource guide. Reproducible materials are included. Finally, the third volume in the series

Bully-Proofing Your Elementary School: Administrator's Guide to Staff Development. Carla Garrity, et al, $35.50

The Administrators Guide to Staff Development contains everything needed to educate your staff about the Bully-Proofing program, including strategies for training, information on scheduling, and a helpful resource guide. Reproducible handouts and transparency masters are included.

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New in the popular Bully-Proofing Your School Series …

Bully-Proofing for High Schools (Grades 9-12)

High school is a particularly challenging environment where student behavior problems—including the bully-victim dynamic—may develop into violent confrontations. Bully-Proofing for High Schools is a must-have resource. Specific approaches teach staff how to decrease the likelihood of violence, empower students, and create an environment where teachers can teach and students can learn. The CD-ROM includes the “School Climate” survey, letters, forms, and worksheets.

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Program Implementation Guide Book. Jill McDonald & Sally Stoker, $42.95

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Strategies and Interventions. Jill McDonald & Sally Stoker, $43.50

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Student Curriculum. Jill McDonald & Sally Stoker, $62.50

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: CD-ROM. Jill McDonald & Sally Stoker, $42.95


Children and Bullying; How Parents and Educators Can Reduce Bullying at School. Ken Rigby, $23.99

Scarcely a day goes by without reports of school bullying or recommendations for quick fixes to the problem. Parents and educators are often left trying to solve a difficult issue without sufficient evidence to support suggested remedies. Children and Bullying is a vital resource in the quest to create safe learning environments. Drawing on a wealth of research, Ken Rigby provides clear explanations and effective strategies for combating bullying among children and preventing children from becoming involved in bullying situations:

  • Offers a collaborative approach to the school-based bullying problem
  • Emphasizes the crucial role student bystanders can play in countering bullying, and how to promote positive bystander behaviors
  • Examines contentious research, such as the role genetics or parenting in early childhood may play in creating bullies and victims
  • Answers to FAQs by parents in the final chapter are often controversial but intended to stimulate thought

Creating a Safe & Friendly School: Articles by Elementary Educators. $23.95

Discover practical, adaptable ideas for helping children bring a climate of trust, caring, and respect from the classroom to all other areas of the school community — buses, hallways, lunchrooms, playgrounds, special-area classrooms, and bathrooms. Elementary teachers, counselors, and principals share real-life insights in these seventeen articles drawn from leading educators. Complementing their stories is an extensive resource list offering books, articles, videos, and websites with more ideas for nurturing a positive climate that helps all children learn.

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Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress. Nancy Willard, $41.50

This valuable resource provides school counselors, administrators, and teachers with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. It addresses real-life situations that often occur as students embrace the Internet and other digital technologies … The book provides detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the Internet and personal digital devices, including cell phones. Appendices contain reproducible forms for assessment, planning, and intervention, as well as detailed student and parent guides.


Cyber-Bullying: Issues and Solutions for the School, the Classroom and the Home. Shaheen Shariff, $41.95

Cyber-bullying is expanding with the use of modern technology — home computers and personal mobile phones — and provides youth with ‘an arsenal of weapons for social cruelty’. Addressing the policy vacuum relating to the boundaries of on-line supervision through informed guidelines for school administrators, teachers, parents and policy-makers, this book will help all stakeholders navigate the emerging challenges relating to student freedom of expression, privacy, safety and discipline in cyber-space.


Cyber.Rules: What You Really Need to Know about the Internet. Joanie Farley Gillispie & Jayne Gackenbach, $30.00

This guide for clinicians, educators and parents leads the reader through the tricky and fast-changing terrain of the Internet, offering practical and valuable advice for working with a complex issue.

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Empowering Bystanders in Bullying Prevention, Grades K-8. Stan Davis with Julia Davis, $34.95 (Includes a 50-minute DVD)

Provides a research-based, practical approach for empowering student bystanders … The book presents specific techniques for teaching empathy and social problem solving skills, limiting the social rewards of bullying behavior, and building a partnership between students and staff to change school-wide attitudes toward bullying. Includes a 50-minute DVD in which author Stan Davis provides an in-depth discussion accompanied by PowerPoint slides to help illustrate and expand on important points.


Extraordinary Evil: a Brief History of Genocide. Barbara Coloroso, $18.00

In this remarkable and timely new book, bestselling author Barbara Coloroso turns her attention to genocide: what it means; where it begins; where it must end. Through an examination of three clearly defined genocides—of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire; the Jews, Roma, and Sinti in Europe; and the Tutsi in Rwanda—Coloroso deconstructs the causes of genocide and its consequences, both to the immediate victims and to the fabric of the world at large, and proposes the conditions that must exist in order to eradicate this evil from the world. Based on the author’s twenty years of research and extensive travel, Extraordinary Evil is an urgently needed work in an age when acts of genocide seem to occur more frequently and are in the public’s consciousness more than ever before.


Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens, 3rd Edition. Earl Hipp, $17.50

Proven, practical advice covers everything you need to know about stress management and life management, from coping with stress to being assertive, building supportive relationships, taking risks, making decisions, staying healthy, dealing with fears and misconceptions, recognizing perfectionism, using positive self-talk-even growing a funny bone.

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Gender, Bullying and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools. Elizabeth Meyer, $31.50

Educator, researcher and author Elizabeth Meyers looks at the key gender issues related to bullying and harassment in schools and offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help positively transform the culture of their school and reduce the incidences of gendered harassment. The text features sections that speak specifically to administrators, teachers, counselors, student leaders and community and family members.


Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids. Maia Szalavitz, $36.00

An investigative exposé of the brutal conditions in treatment programs for troubled teens, fueled by rigorous reporting and shocking first-person accounts. The troubled-teen industry, with its scaremongering and claims of miraculous changes in behavior through harsh discipline, has existed in one form or another for decades, despite a dearth of evidence supporting its methods. And the growing numbers of programs that make up this industry are today finding more customers than ever. Weaving careful reporting with astute analysis, Maia Szalavitz has written an important and timely survey that will change the way we look at rebellious teens and the people to whom we entrust them. The book also contains a thoughtfully compiled guide for parents, which details effective treatment alternatives. Help at Any Cost is a vital resource with an urgent message that will draw attention to a compelling issue long overlooked.

How NOT to Be a Bully Target: a Program for Victims of Childhood Bullying. Terry Centrone, $34.95. (Grades 3-6)

This program helps targets of bullying behavior to appreciate and tap into their own inner-strengths. The self-confidence building techniques in How NOT to Be a Bully Target help young children to realize that they deserve to be treated with dignity. They learn how to avoid being the target of bullies. The activities in the book enable students to withstand bully attacks and encourage kindness, empathy, and acceptance. Students discover that positive self-regard is a quality that they can and must nurture. It is the key to not becoming a bully target.


How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression: Elementary Grade Lessons and Activities That Teach Empathy, Friendship and Respect. Steve Breakstone, Michael Dreiblatt & Karen Dreiblatt, $39.95

How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression helps educators engage bullies, victims and bystanders and teach healthy behaviors to create a safe school environment.

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Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns About Bullies. Howard Binkow, illustrated by Susan Cornelison, $19.95 (Grades 1-3)

Howard learns who he can talk to about the bullies at school.


It's a Girl's World. Directed by Lynn Glazier, National Film Board of Canada. $24.95 (DVD format, 67 minutes)

It's a Girl's World takes us inside the tumultuous relationships of a clique of popular 10-year-old girls. Playground bullying captured on camera shows a disturbing picture of how these girls use their closest friendships to hurt each other to win social power in the group. Meanwhile, their parents struggle through denial and disbelief as they become aware of the serious consequences of this behaviour … This documentary shatters the myth that social bullying among girls is an acceptable part of growing up.


The Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts: How to Keep Cool, Stay Safe and Get Along. Naomi Drew, $17.95

From taunts and teasing to physical assault, many kids face difficult, even dangerous situations at school, at home, and in the community. How can they avoid conflict and defuse tough situations? Written by a well-known expert on conflict resolution and peacemaking, incorporating the results of a nationwide survey of kids ages 10-15, this book offers practical, realistic answers. Author Naomi Drew describes common forms of conflict, the reasons behind conflicts, and positive ways to deal with difficult circumstances. Through self-tests and exercises, young people discover whether they are conflict-solvers or conflict-makers. They learn how to stand up for themselves without getting physical, and how to deal with people who don't want to resolve conflicts in a peaceful way." Includes tips for:

  • countering bullying
  • calming down, lessening stress and tension
  • letting go of anger and resentment
  • eliminating put-downs and other hurtful language
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A Leader's Guide to the Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts. Naomi Drew, $28.95

This Leader's Guide brings the student book, The Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts, into the classroom with lesson plans and reproducible handout masters.

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Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope. Olivia Gardner, Emily Buder & Sarah Buder, $16.25

Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and Sarah Buder. The girls were so moved by Olivia's story that they initiated a letter-writing campaign to help lift her spirits. It was a tender gesture of solidarity that set off an overwhelming chain reaction of support, encouragement, and love.

In Letters to a Bullied Girl, Olivia and the Buder sisters share an inspiring selection of messages that arrived from across America—the personal, often painful remembrances of former targets, remorseful bullies, and sympathetic bystanders. Though addressed to Olivia, the letters speak to all young people who have been bullied, offer advice and hope to those who suffer, and provide a wake-up call to all who have ever been involved in bullying.


Lucy and the Bully. Claire Alexander, $18.95 (Preschool to Grade 1)

Lucy turns a bully into a friend.


Mean Girls: Creative Strategies and Activities for Working with Relational Aggression. Kaye Randall & Allyson Bowen, $30.95 (grades 3 to 12)

This book provides professionals with resources, insights, strategies and reproducible worksheets for working with girls who are Relationally Aggressive (RA) and the young people who have been victimized by this type of bullying. The strategies in this book are designed to increase awareness of Relational Aggression, encourage empathy and tolerance, and improve self-control and coping skills. It explores the underlying causes of RA, particularly in girls. Other forms of RA are explored including cyber-bullying and other types of electronic bullying. Included are reproducible lessons and activities for individuals, small groups, classrooms, and entire schools.

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The No-Fault Classroom: Tools to Resolve Conflict & Foster Relationship Intelligence. Sura Hart & Victoria Kindle Hodson, $27.95

Offering far more than discipline techniques that move aggressive behavior out of the classroom to the playground or sidewalk, The No-Fault Classroom leads students ages 7–12 in developing skills in problem solving, empathic listening and conflict resolution that will last a lifetime. Interactive and step-by-step lessons, construction materials and adaptable scripts give educators the tools they need to return order and co-operation to the classroom and jumpstart engaged learning.


No Fishing Allowed: Reel In Bullying. Carol Gray & Judy Williams. DVD Kit $72.95; Student Workbook $7.95; Teacher Manual $16.50

No Fishing Allowed is a violence prevention program that addresses various elements of bullying behaviors. Through the use of the Teacher’s Manual, Student Workbook and accompanying DVD (each sold separately), this program:

  • Emphasizes empowerment strategies for all students who are affected by bully/target relationships
  • Provides teachers with information, ideas and activities to address bullying attempts and other unfriendly social interactions
  • Allows teachers to organize efforts toward establishing peaceful, friendly and accepting learning environments for all students

No Kidding About Bullying. Naomi Drew, $47.99 (Grades 3-6)

125 ready-to-use activities to help kids manage anger, resolve conflicts, build empathy and get along. Includes a CD-ROM with reproducible handouts, bonus activities, forms for parents and more.

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121 Strategies for Bully Proofing Your School! Erika Karres, $34.95

Insights, tips, stories activities and reproducible worksheets for grades 6 to 10.


Owning Up! Curriculum: Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying, and Injustice. Rosalind Wiseman, $77.95 (Grades 6-12)

The Owning Up Curriculum presents a unique and comprehensive approach to preventing youth violence by providing a structured program for teaching students to own up and take responsibility — as perpetrators, bystanders, and targets — for unethical behavior. Students learn to recognize that they have a responsibility to treat themselves and others with dignity and to speak out against injustice.

By targeting the root causes of bullying and other forms of social cruelty, Wiseman exposes the cultural expectations that teach young people to humiliate and dehumanize others as the way to achieve power and respect, then challenges them to transform this dynamic. The program also addresses the nuanced ways in which racism, classism, and homophobia are expressed in our culture and affect social cruelty and violence.

A CD-ROM of reproducible program forms and student handouts is included with the curriculum.


Perfect Targets—Asperger Syndrome and Bullying: Practical Solutions for Surviving the Social World. Rebekah Heinrichs, (Foreword by Brenda Smith Myles), $23.95

Provides helpful guidelines for administrators, teachers and parents. The tools are specifically designed/adapted for the challenges faced by students with AS.

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“Please Stop, I Don’t Like That!” 6 Magic Words to Be Respectfully Assertive. Sandy Ragona, $19.95

Please Stop, I Don’t Like That!” Using these six simple words, Joey and his friends learn to stand up for themselves and solve problems quickly. From name-calling to arguing to sexual harassment, they learn to be respectfully assertive. Discussion and activity ideas are included to help children extend their understanding of ways to stand up for themselves.


Please Stop Laughing at Us: One Survivor’s Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying. Jodee Blanco, $16.95

A sequel to The New York Times bestselling memoir, Please Stop Laughing at Me¸ this groundbreaking investigation walks down the hallways of today’s schools to find realistic solutions to the serious problem of bullying. Exposing weaknesses and vulnerabilities in the educational system, this vital social critique shows how to help both bullies and victims change for the better, why traditional punishment is counter-productive, how to inspire compassion in the classroom, and how to discipline a child in ways that benefit self-esteem.

Also available: Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Jodee Blanco, $14.25


Safe Teen: Powerful Alternatives to Violence. Anita Roberts, $21.95

An essential guide to preventing violence and building inner strength for teenagers, parents and educators. This powerful program provides adolescents with the body-language and verbal skills they need to deal with peer pressure, de-escalate violence and build self-esteem.

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Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying, Second Edition. Stan Davis & Julia Davis, $31.95 (for all grade levels)

This new edition is packed with practical guidelines and proven strategies for implementing a "whole school" approach for reducing bullying … Interventions to help aggressive youth internalize rules and develop conscience are paired with methods for helping targets of bullying. The book provides interventions for empowering bystanders and includes guidelines for working with parents.


The Schoolyard Bully: How to Cope with Conflict and Raise an Assertive Child, Kim Zarzour. $18.00

One of the best books available on the subject for Canadian parents, The Schoolyard Bully is fully revised and updated from the 1994 edition. "Zarzour offers practical suggestions to stop the cycle of bullying along with invaluable advice on raising a child who can meet intimidating circumstances with self-confidence and maturity -- one who knows how to be assertive in our increasingly aggressive world." She writes: "Bullying is not something that children grow out of"... "that the damage is devastating and long lasting... both victims and bullies need help..." and that "one in three schoolchildren may be involved at any one time."
 
The author's approach is designed to respond to the needs of both sides of the bullying equation. Chapter headings include: The Nature of Bullying, Understanding the Bully, Helping the Bully, Understanding the Victim, Helping the Victim -- The Parents' Role, and Helping the Victim -- The Role of School's Role. There is a bibliography, a list of resource groups and a recommended reading list.


See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It. James Garbarino, $18.50

In See Jane Hit, Dr. James Garbarino shows that the rise in girls' violence is the product of many interrelated cultural developments, several of which are largely positive … (B)ut nothing happens in isolation, and there's rarely such a momentous societal shift with absolutely no downside. One problem is that girls aren't being trained to handle their own physical aggression the way boys are: our methods of child-rearing culture include all sorts of mechanisms for socializing boys to express their violence in socially acceptable ways, but with girls we lag very far behind. At the same time, the culture has become more toxic for boys and girls alike, and girls' sexuality is linked with violence in new and disturbing ways. See Jane Hit is not just a powerful wake-up call; it's a clear-eyed, compassionate prescription for real-world solutions.

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Sex, Power & the Violent School Girl. Sibylle Artz, $29.95

In Sex, Power & the Violent School Girl, author Sibylle Artz looks at the disturbing phenomenon of violence among teenage girls. Her assertion that it must be understood in the context of other gender issues and girls' sense of powerlessness is vividly explored in six case studies. This is a fascinating glimpse into a troubled world and a clear call for action.


Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where Do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin? Thomas Jacobs, $18.50

In Teen Cyberbullying Investigated, Judge Tom Jacobs presents a powerful collection of landmark court cases involving teens and charges of cyberbullying and cyberharassment. This riveting, informative guide will help young people understand what cyberbullying is and is not, recognize when they may be its victims or perpetrators and learn tactics for successfully dealing with it.


Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence. Kenneth V. Hardy & Tracey Laszloffy, $33.50

Teens Who Hurt presents a framework and specific strategies for working with violent youth and their families. Looking at the complex interplay of individual, family, community, and societal forces that lead some adolescents to hurt others or themselves the authors discuss effective ways to address each of these factors in clinical and school settings. The book provides essential guidance on connecting with aggressive teens and their parents and managing difficult situations that are likely to arise.

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Understanding Girl Bullying and What to Do About It. Julaine Field, Jered Kolbert, Laura Crothers & Tammy Hughes, $47.95

Understanding Girl Bullying helps school professionals break the cycle of social and relational aggression and heal the divide between girls by giving students the tools to work through their problems thoughtfully and constructively.


Understanding Girls’ Friendships, Fights and Feuds: a Practical Approach to Girls’ Bullying. Valerie Besag, $48.95

Girls’ bullying is more subtle and less physical than that perpetrated by boys; however, it can be just as powerful and the emotional repercussions of bullying among girls can be more destructive and longer lasting than the effects of more obvious forms of bullying. Teachers report that quarrels between girls are far more time-consuming and difficult to resolve than the disputes of boys, yet not enough information is available to guide them on dealing with girls’ fighting and unhappiness caused by their relationships with other girls, many of whom may have been their closest friends.

Val Besag provides an in-depth understanding of girls’ bullying, exploring the mechanisms and language that girls use to entice some into their groups and exclude others. The book offers detailed practical advice for dealing with girls’ bullying, which will help both students and teachers to understand and combat different kinds of bullying, as well as comprehensive guidance for preventing or reducing bullying activities among girls, including:

  • Whole school approaches
  • Programs for developing emotional literacy and resilience
  • Approaches for dealing with gangs
  • Using methods such as art and drama
  • Developing conflict resolution skills
  • Student/parent programs
  • Peer support programs

This is key reading for teachers, trainee teachers, educational psychologists and social workers, academics and researchers in the field, and others who have an interest in creating bully-free schools and societies.

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Violence Prevention for Adolescents: a Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Creating a Positive School Climate (Leader's Manual). Diane de Anda, $38.95 (Grades 6-12)

This comprehensive program is designed for use in classrooms or small groups in schools and other settings. Students learn positive coping strategies, cognitive restructuring techniques, and anger management skills through discussion, demonstrations, group and individual activities, relaxation procedures, and more. The Leader’s Manual includes a free copy of a 13-minute Self-Relaxation Audio CD as well as an 8-page reproducible pre/posttest.

Violence Prevention for Adolescents: a Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Creating a Positive School Climate (Student Workbook). Diane de Anda, package of 10, $45.95

The Student Workbook is an integral part of the program and is required for each student. The workbook contains fill-in-the-blank worksheets, illustrations, motivational activities, and homework assignments. The Student Workbook is available in packets of 10.


We Want You to Know: Kids Talk About Bullying. Deborah Ellis, $21.95

Through her association with a community anti-bullying campaign launched in Haldimand, Norfolk, and neighboring communities in Southern Ontario, children’s author Deborah Ellis asked students from the ages of nine to nineteen to talk about their experiences with bullying. The results are thoughtful, candid, and often harrowing accounts of “business as usual” in and around today’s schools. The kids in this book raise questions about the way parents, teachers, and school administrators cope with bullies. They talk about which methods have helped and which ones, with the best of intentions, have failed to protect them. And some kids reveal how they have been able to overcome their fear and anger to become strong advocates for the rights of others.

This is a book for reading and sharing. Each interview is followed by questions that will encourage open discussion about the nature of bullying and the ways in which individuals and schools could deal more effectively with bullies and their victims. And additional comments from international students reveal how much kids the world over have in common in the way they experience and deal with bullies. 

These kids have something to say. It’s time we listened.

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Resources for Teachers and School Administrators

The ABC’s of Bullying Prevention: a Comprehensive Schoolwide Approach. Kenneth Shore, $18.95

Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, and Violence among Girls: a Developmental Perspective. Martha Putallaz & Karen Bierman, $40.95

And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment and Emotional Violence. James Garbarino & Ellen deLara, $19.99

The Anti-Bullying and Teasing Book for Preschool Classrooms. Barbara Sprung et al, $20.95

Break the Bully Cycle: Intervention Techniques & Activities to Create a Respectful School Community. SiriNam Khalsa, $23.95

The Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8. Allan Beane, $34.95

Bullied Teacher, Bullied Student: How to Recognize the Bullying Culture in Your School and What to Do About It. Les Parsons, $21.95

Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do. Dan Olweus, $29.95

Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying. Samer Hinduja & Justin Patchin, $47.95

Bullying from Both Sides: Strategic Interventions for Working with Bullies & Victims. Walter Roberts, $44.95

Bullying in Schools and What to Do About It. Ken Rigby, $14.95

Bullying in Schools: How Successful Can Intervention Be? Edited by Peter Smith, Debra Pepler & Ken Rigby, $34.95

Bullying in Secondary Schools: What It Looks Like and How to Manage It. Keith Sullivan et al, $46.95

Bullying in the Girl’s World: a School-Wide Approach to Girl Bullying. Diane Senn, $37.50 (Grades 3 – 8)

Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools: the Next Generation of Prevention. Maurice Alias & Joseph Zins, $32.50

Bullying Prevention: Creating a Positive School Climate and Developing Social Competence. Pamela Orpinas & Arthur Horne, $79.95

Bullying Prevention & Intervention: Realistic Strategies for Schools. Susan Swearer, Dorothy Espelage & Scott Napolitano, $36.95

Bullying Prevention for Schools: a Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing a Successful Anti-Bullying Program. Allan Beane, $42.00

Bullying & Proactive Inclusion of Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Guide for Educators. Autism Ontario, $1.25

The Bullying Problem: How to Deal with Difficult Children. Alan Train, $21.95

Bullying, Rejection & Peer Victimization: a Social Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. Monica Harris, Editor, $84.50

Bullying: a Whole School Approach. Amelia Suckling & Carla Temple, $50.95

Bully-Proof Your Classroom Teaching Kit (K-3). Scholastic Books, $27.99

Bully-Proofing Your School: a Comprehensive Approach for Middle Schools. Marla Bonds, et al, $62.50

Bully-Proofing Your School: Working with Bullies and Victims in Elementary School, 3rd Edition. Carla Garity et al, $41.50; Administrator’s Guide, $35.50; Teacher’s Manual & Lesson Plans, $47.95

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Program Implementation Guide Book. Jill McDonald & Sally Stoker, $41.95

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Strategies and Interventions. Jill McDonald & Sally Stoker, $43.50

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: Student Curriculum. Jill McDonald & Sally Stoker, $62.50

Bully-Proofing for High Schools: CD-ROM. Jill McDonald & Sally Stoker, $42.95

Children and Bullying; How Parents and Educators Can Reduce Bullying at School. Ken Rigby, $21.99

Confronting Bullying: Literacy as a Tool for Character Education. Roxanne Henkin, $20.30

Creating a Bully-Free Classroom Grades 1-3: an Effective Framework with Strategies and Activities that Build a Safe Classroom Community Where All Children Thrive. Carol McMullen, $24.99

Creating a Safe & Friendly School: Articles by Elementary Educators. $23.95

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats, and Distress. Nancy Willard, $41.50

Cyber-Bullying: Issues and Solutions for the School, the Classroom and the Home. Shaheen Shariff, $41.95

Cyber.Rules: What You Really Need to Know about the Internet. Joanie Farley Gillispie & Jayne Gackenbach, $30.00

The Development and Treatment of Girlhood Aggression. Debra Pepler et al (eds), $93.95

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An Educator’s Guide to Safe Schools. Eric Roher & Robert Weir, $49.00

Eliminating Bullying in Grades PK-3. Sandy Raona & Kerri Pentel, $29.95

Empowering Bystanders in Bullying Prevention, Grades K-8. Stan Davis with Julia Davis, $34.95 (Includes a 50-minute DVD)

Extraordinary Evil: a Brief History of Genocide. Barbara Coloroso, $18.00

Gender, Bullying and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools. Elizabeth Meyer, $31.50

Getting Beyond Bullying and Exclusion PreK-5: Empowering Children in Inclusive Classrooms. Ronald Mah, $47.95

Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls. Lyn Mikel Brown, $25.95

Girls’ Violence: Myths and Realities. Christine Alder & Anne Worrall (eds), $25.95

Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids. Maia Szalavitz, $36.00

Helping Schoolchildren Cope with Anger: a Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention. Jim Larson & John Lochman, $29.95

How NOT to Be a Bully Target: a Program for Victims of Childhood Bullying. Terry Centrone, $34.95. (Grades 3-6)

How to Stop Bullying and Social Aggression: Elementary Grade Lessons and Activities That Teach Empathy, Friendship and Respect. Steve Breakstone, Michael Dreiblatt & Karen Dreiblatt, $39.95

In Control: a Skill-Building Program for Teaching Young Adolescents to Manage Anger. Millicent Kellner, $35.95

It's a Girl's World. Directed by Lynn Glazier, National Film Board of Canada. $24.95 (DVD format, 67 minutes)

Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope. Olivia Gardner, Emily Buder & Sarah Buder, $16.25

Mean Girls: Creative Strategies and Activities for Working with Relational Aggression. Kaye Randall & Allyson Bowen, $30.95 (grades 3 to 12)

The No-Fault Classroom: Tools to Resolve Conflict & Foster Relationship Intelligence. Sura Hart & Victoria Kindle Hodson, $27.95

No Fishing Allowed: Reel In Bullying. Carol Gray & Judy Williams. DVD Kit $72.95; Student Workbook $7.95; Teacher Manual $16.50

No Kidding About Bullying. Naomi Drew, $47.99 (Grades 3-6)

No Room for Bullies — From the Classroom to Cyberspace: Teaching Respect, Stopping Abuse, and Rewarding Kindness. Jose Bolton & Stan Graeve (eds), $17.95

121 Strategies for Bully Proofing Your School! Erika Karres, $34.95

Owning Up! Curriculum: Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying, and Injustice. Rosalind Wiseman, $77.95 (Grades 6-12)

Ready-to-Use Violence Prevention Skills: Lessons & Activities for Elementary Students. R. Begun & F. Huml, $35.99; Secondary Schools, $35.99

School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse: See It, Stop It, Prevent It with Dignity and Respect. Gail Pursell Elliott, $31.95

School Violence Intervention: a Practical Handbook, 2nd Edition. Jane Conoley & Arnold Goldstein, $88.95

Schools Where Everyone Belongs: Practical Strategies for Reducing Bullying, Second Edition. Stan Davis & Julia Davis, $31.95 (for all grade levels)

Sex, Power, & the Violent Schoolgirl. Sibylle Artz, $29.95

Social Aggression Among Girls. Marion K. Underwood, $39.50

Stop the Bullying: a Handbook for Teachers. Ken Rigby, $18.95

Teens Who Hurt: Clinical Interventions to Break the Cycle of Adolescent Violence. Kenneth Hardy & Tracey Laszloffy, $33.50

They Don’t Like Me: Lessons on Bullying and Teasing from a Preschool Classroom. Jane Katch, $20.95

Think First: Addressing Aggressive Behavior in Secondary Schools. Jim Larson, $32.95

Understanding Girl Bullying and What to Do About It. Julaine Field, Jered Kolbert, Laura Crothers & Tammy Hughes, $47.95 & Giselle Potter, $18.99

Understanding Girls’ Friendships, Fights and Feuds: a Practical Approach to Girls’ Bullying. Valerie Besag, $48.95

Violence Prevention for Adolescents: a Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Creating a Positive School Climate (Leader's Manual). Diane de Anda, $38.95 (Grades 6-12)

Violence Prevention for Adolescents: a Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Creating a Positive School Climate (Student Workbook). Diane de Anda, package of 10, $45.95

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Resources for Parents

The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander: From Pre-School to High School, How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence, 2nd Edition. Barbara Coloroso, $21.95; CD $16.95

Bullyproofing Your Child: a Parent’s Guide. Carla Garrity, $24.50

Cliques: 8 Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle. Charlene C. Giannetti & Margaret Sagarese. $22.00

Easing the Teasing: Helping your Child Cope with Name-Calling, Ridicule and Verbal Bullying. J. Freedman, $22.95

Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying. Cheryl Dellasega & Charisse Nixon, $15.50

A Journey Out of Bullying: From Despair to Hope. Patricia Scott, $15.95

Mom, They’re Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems. Michael Thompson, et al. $21.00

Odd Girl Out: the Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. Rachel Simmons, $20.50

Perfect Targets: Asperger Syndrome and Bullying: Practical Solutions for Surviving the Social World. Rebekah Heinrichs, $23.95

Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman’s Inspirational Story. Jodee Blanco, $14.25

Please Stop Laughing at Us: One Survivor’s Extraordinary Quest to Prevent School Bullying. Jodee Blanco, $16.95

Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends & Other Realities of Adolescence. Rosalind Wiseman, $22.95

Safe Teen: Powerful Alternatives to Violence. Anita Roberts, $21.95

The Schoolyard Bully: How to Cope with Conflict and Raise an Assertive Child. Kim Zarzour, $18.00

See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It. James Garbarino, $18.50

Sugar & Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls’ Violence. Debora Prothrow-Stith & Howard Spivak, $31.95

Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where Do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin? Thomas Jacobs, $18.50

We Want You to Know: Kids Talk About Bullying. Deborah Ellis, $21.95

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Resources for Kids & Teens

Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet: How to Deal with Bullies. Catherine DePino, $11.95 (6-10)

Bullies are a Pain in the Brain. Trevor Romain, $10.50 (Gr4-9)

Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain DVD. Trevor Romain, $43.95 Grades 2-8, 25 minutes

The Bully Blockers Club. Teresa Bateman, illustrated by Jackie Urbanovic, $8.95

Bully Blocking: Six Secrets to Help Children Deal with Teasing and Bullying. Evelyn Field, $19.95

The Bully, the Bullied and Beyond: Help for Bullies, Victims and Bystanders. Esther Williams, $44.95 (Gr5-12)

The Bully: a Discussion and Activity Story. Rita Y. Toews, Illustrated by Jon Ljungberg, $10.95 (4-8)

The Bully of Barkham Street. Mary Stoltz, $8.99 (Gr4-8)

Bully on the Bus: the Decision is Yours. Carl W. Bosch, $8.95 (Gr2-6)

Bullying — The Truth. Aidan Macfarlane & Ann McPherson, $9.95 (13-15)

Bye-Bye, Bully! A Kid’s Guide for Dealing with Bullies. J.S. Jackson, $8.95 (PS-3) 

Cool It! Teen Tips to Keep Hot Tempers from Boiling Over. Michael Hershorn, $20.95

The Deal with It Series — Bullying: Deal with It Before Push Comes to Shove. Elaine Slavens & Brooke Kerrigan, $12.95; Arguing: Deal with It Word by Word. Elaine Slavens & Steven Murray, $12.95; Fighting: Deal with It without Coming to Blows. Elaine Slavens & Steven Murray, $12.95; Gossip: Deal with It Before Word Gets Around. Catherine Rondina & Dan Workman, $12.95; Racism: Deal with It Before It gets Under Your Skin. Anne Marie Aikins & Steven Murray, $12.95; Competition: Deal with it From Start to Finish, Mireille Messier & Steven Murray, 12.95; Peer Pressure: Deal with it Without Losing Your Cool. Elaine Slavens & Ben Shannon, $12.95; Teasing: Deal with it Before the Joke's On You. Steve Pitt & Remie Geoffroi, $12.95; Cyberbullying: Deal with It and Ctrl Alt Delete It. R. MacEachern & G. Charette, $12.95

Don’t Be a Menace on Sundays: the Children’s Anti-Violence Book. Adolph Moser, $21.95 (Gr4-7)

Don't Pick on Me: How to Handle Bullying. Rosemary Stones, $9.95 (Gr3-8)

Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens, 3rd Edition. Earl Hipp, $17.50; Leader's Guide $27.50

Getting Equipped to Stop Bullying: a Kid’s Survival Kit for Understanding and Coping with Violence in the Schools. Becki Boatwright et al, $16.50 (Gr. 7-up)

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Give and Take: Conflict Resolution Activity Book. Jim & Joan Boulden, $7.95 (Gr3-6)

Hot Stuff to Help Kids Chill Out: the Anger Management Book. Jerry Wilde, $12.95 (Gr6-9)

How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies. Kate Cohen-Posey, $10.50 (Gr6-10) 

Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns About Bullies. Howard Binkow, illustrated by Susan Cornelison, $19.95 (Grades 1-3)

I Wrote on All Four Walls: Teens Speak Out on Violence. Fran Fearnley (ed), $12.95 (teens)

The Kids’ Guide to Working Out Conflicts: How to Keep Cool, Stay Safe and Get Along. Naomi Drew, $17.95 (10-15); Leader’s Guide, $28.95

King of the Playground. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, $7.99 (PS-3)

Lucy and the Bully. Claire Alexander, $18.95 (Preschool to Grade 1)

Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks: a Real Girl’s Guide to Getting through the Day with Smarts and Style. Erika Shearin Karres, $9.95 (Gr8-up)

My Name Is Not Dummy! A Children’s Problem-Solving Book. Elizabeth Crary, $9.95 (PS-2)

My Secret Bully. Trudy Ludwig, $19.95 (Gr4-9)

Name Calling. Itah Sadu, $8.95 (Primary) 

Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy. Rachel Simmons, $19.95 (Gr9-up)

Playground Push-Around: Bully & Victim Activity Book (K-2), Jim & Joan Boulden, $6.95

“Please Stop, I Don’t Like That!” 6 Magic Words to Be Respectfully Assertive. Sandy Ragona, $22.95

Push & Shove: Bully & Victim Activity Book (Gr3-7), Jim & Joan Boulden, $6.95

The Recess Queen. Alexis O’Neill & Laura Huliska-Beith, $23.99 (Gr2-5)

Stop Picking on Me: a First Look at Bullying. Pat Thomas, $8.50 (K-3)

What Do You Know about Bullying…with illustrated storylines. Pete Sanders, $12.95 (10-up)

Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Me? Terence Webster-Doyle, $22.95 (Gr. 4-6)

The Kids' Guide to Working Out Conflicts: How to Keep Cool, Stay Safe and Get Along. Naomi Drew, $21.95

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