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Publisher
Ned Ediciones
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Adolescents forget their childhood toys to deal with a new partner: their sexualized body that makes them strange and uneasy. It is there where the temptation of bullying appears as a false exit: manipulating the body of the other in different ways (neglect, aggression, exclusion, injury) allows them to protect theirs.
Los adolescentes olvidan sus juguetes infantiles para vérselas con una nueva pareja: su cuerpo sexualizado que les produce extrañeza...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013, c2012.
Language
English
Description
Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy, studious Carley becomes the target of vicious bullies. But the real danger at Sacred Sisters goes much deeper. The only person Carley can talk to is "Angel," a kindred spirit she met online. Carley tells Angel everything-- about her younger sister, about school, about the sudden death of her former...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Jolina can't take Claudine's bullying any longer! The taunts and teasing are too much. Though Jolina knows she's still in-training to use her grandfather's arbularyo magic, she sneaks into his potions lab to get her revenge. Jolina brews a batch of gayuma, a powerful love potion. And it works. The love potion conquers Claudine's hateful nature. In fact, Claudine doesn't just stop bullying Jolina -- now she wants to be Jolina's BFF, and does everything...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Robin Loxley, the 5th grade outlaw of Nottingham Elementary, tells all! From Epic! Originals comes a comic-inspired illustrated novel series that treats growing up as an adventure. Fifth grade has just started, and the school bully, Nadia, already rules recess with an unfair Playground Tax. Robin refuses to be pushed around, but all she can think about is winning back her best friend, Mary Ann, after a disastrous fallout over the summer. To do so,...
10) Save me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
What begins as an ordinary day for lunch mom volunteer Rose McKenna quickly morphs into a harrowing event that will spiral her life out of control. When a tragedy occurs at her daughter's elementary school, Rose transforms from heroine to villain in a matter of hours after she is forced to make a life-changing moral decision. As the media seeks to vilify her and her community shuns her, Rose continues on an intense weeklong search for the truth. Suspecting...
11) Hoy no juegas
Author
Series
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Going to school used to be fun for Ana and her classmates, but ever since the new girl, Emma, started bossing people around, the fun has left. When Emma starts being outright mean to the other kids, Ana and her friends will have an even bigger problem to solve. Through teamwork and bravery, the class tries to make a change for the better for themselves and for Emma.
Ir a la escuela sol̕a ser divertido para Ana y sus compąeros de clase, pero desde...
13) Jumped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 involved.
Author
Publisher
Anaya
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Mason Buttle es el chico más grande y sudoroso de su clase, y todos saben que apenas es capaz de leer y escribir. Estos problemas, sin embargo, no son nada comparados con la aflicción que siente por la muerte de su mejor amigo. Mason, que es el niño más honesto del mundo, no entiende por qué el teniente Baird no se cree la historia que le ha contado sobre lo que ocurrió ese día. Menos mal que su nuevo amigo, el diminuto Calvin Chumsky, un divertido...
Author
Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends Book, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group,LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fifth grade was the worst year of Marc's life. He stunk at gym class, math was too hard for him, the school lunch was horrible, and his class field trip was ruined because he couldn't swim. But what was most awful thing about fifth grade? Kenny Williamson, the class bully, who calls himself the 'King of the Jungle.' When Marc's mother tells him that his Uncle Jake is coming to stay for the whole summer, Marc can't wait. Uncle Jake is a for real, super-cool...
18) Don't scream!
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Jack finds a cell phone on the bus, he hears a strange voice on the other end that makes him do bad deeds, but no one believes the voice on the cell phone is real.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When bullying threatens to destroy a teen's life, painful memories resurface for dedicated high school teacher Laura Reed and pediatrician J. C. Fullerton. With the support of the Sweet Magnolias, they bring the town together to ensure that a promising student's future isn't ruined. And to establish once and for all that bullying has no place in Serenity, South Carolina.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of a high school boy on the verge of committing a horrendous act of violence. The troubled student is brought back from the brink by a mentor teacher and the redemptive powers of a play the teacher convinces him to perform.
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