Author: UZOR, TIFFANY

Nonfiction:
(use the numbers in the parenthesis to help you locate the book)
It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying and Creating a Life Worth Living (306.76 IT)
A collection of testimonials written to teenagers from celebrities, political leaders, and other individuals on the happiness they found in life after they suffered through bullying and torment in their youths because of their sexual orientation.
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Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity and Jealousy by Rachel Simmons (305.23 ODD)
A collection of writings in which girls discuss their own experiences of being bullied or bullying other girls.
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Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope by Olivia Gardner (302.3 GAR)
Presents a selection from thousands of letters written to offer comfort and support to Olivia Gardner, a girl who became the victim of bullying after suffering an epileptic seizure in school, and whose story was heard by sisters Emily and Sarah Buder who took it upon themselves to start the letter writing campaign.
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Books about Bullies and Bullying

Fiction and Non-fiction books in our library dealing with the topic of bullying.

This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
(FIC ELL) Realistic
Bullied because of an incident in his past, eighth-grader Logan is unhappy at his new school and has difficulty relating to others until he meets a quirky girl and a counselor who believe in him.
Losers by Matthue Roth
(FIC ROT) Humor
Russian-born teenager Jupiter Glazer tries to fit in with his American classmates and ends up becoming the target of a bully . and developing a crush on a popular girl who is friendly to him.
Dreamrider by Barry Jonsburg (FIC JON)
Realistic
Harangued by his father about his weight and bullied in the many schools he has attended, teenaged Michael finds some comfort in his ability to experience lucid dreaming.

Brutal by Michael Harmon (FIC HAR) Realistic
Forced to leave Los Angeles for life in a quiet California wine town with a father she has never known, rebellious sixteen-year-old Poe Holly rails against a high school system that allows elite students special privileges and tolerates bullying of those who are different.
The Bully by Paul Langan (FIC LAN) Realistic
Ninth-grader Darrell Mercer and his mother move to the Bluford area in the middle of the school year where, Darrell quickly becomes a target for Tyray Hobbs, the freshman class bully.
Burn by Suzanne Phillips (FIC PHI) Realistic
Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences.
By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters (FIC PET) Realistic
High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
Kissing the Rain by Kevin Brooks (FIC BRO)
Mystery
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.
Inventing Eliot by Graham Gardner (FIC GAR) Realistic
Elliot, a victim of bullying, invents a calmer, cooler self when he changes schools in the middle of freshman year, but soon attracts the wrong kind of attention from the Guardians who "maintain order" at the new school.
Indigo’s Star by Hilary McKay (FIC MCK) Realistic
Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target of school bullies.

Endgame by Nancy Garden (FIC GAR)
Realistic
Fifteen-year-old Gray Wilton, bullied at school and ridiculed by an unfeeling father for preferring drums to hunting, goes on a shooting rampage at his high school.
Exposure by Patricia Murdoch (FIC MUR)
Realistic
Julie, tired of being bullied and not fitting in, gets a chance for revenge when her brother captures her chief tormentor, Dana, in a compromising position, but she learns that getting even does not feel as good as she thought it would.
Hit Squad by James Heneghan (FIC HEN)
Realistic
Students in an upscale high school decide to take on the bullies and take back their school, with decidedly mixed consequences.
Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia (FIC WIL)
Realistic
The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get help.
Freak by Marcella Pixley (FIC PIX) Realistic
Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.
Bullyville by Francine Prose (FIC PRO) Realistic
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center on September 11th, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local preparatory school and encounters a vicious bully whose cruelty compounds the aftermath of the tragedy.
Kiss Me Kill Me by Lauren Henderson (FIC HEN)
Mystery
Longing to be part of the in-crowd at her exclusive London school, orphaned, sixteen-year-old Scarlett, a trained gymnast, eagerly accepts an invitation to a party whose disastrous outcome changes her life forever.
The Ruling Class by Francine Pascal (FIC PAS)
Realistic
Sick of being bullied and harassed, a new girl at a wealthy suburban Dallas high school plots
revenge on the girls in the ruling clique.
Shooter by Walter Dean Myers (FIC MYE)
Realistic
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson (FIC AND)
Realistic
After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.
Don’t Call Me Ishmael by Michael Gerard Bauer
(FIC BAU) Romance
Fourteen-year-old Ishmael Leseur is certain that his name is the cause of his unhappy school life as the victim of the worst bully in his class, but when a new boy arrives, he shows Ishmael that things could be different.