Anti-Bullying

This is a collection of books, websites, and Akron/Summit County area resources to help prevent bullying and cyberbullying, as well as ensure safe and healthy online activity.

Web Resources

Cyberbullying
Bad Apple by Laura Ruby - Tola Riley, a high school junior, struggles to tell the truth when she and her art teacher are accused of having an affair.
Dancergirl by Carol M. Tanzman - Rendered famous when a friend posts videos of her dance routines online, Ali Ruffino hopes to pursue a professional career only to be targeted by mean-spirited detractors and a ruthless stalker.
One Night that Changes Everything by Lauren Barhnholdt - A shy high school junior spends a frenzied night trying to retrieve her private notebook from a vengeful ex-boyfriend.
LOL… OMG!: What Every Student Needs to Know About Online Reputation Management, Digital Citzenship and Cyberbullying by Matt Ivester - Includes information on topics such as: digital citizenship, reputation management, and responsible content creation.
Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope by Olivia Gardner with Emily and Sarah Buder- After suffering a seizure in middle school, Gardner was taunted and teased by classmates for two years. Two concerned sisters began a letter-writing campaign to bolster the girl’s spirits, and thousands responded in kind.
Teen Cyberbullying Investigated : Where do Your Rights End and Consequences Begin? by Tom Jacobs - Helps teens understand their rights with regard to free speech and privacy and the Internet through an examination of landmark cases involving charges of cyberbullying.
Frequently Asked Questions about Cyberbullying by Teri Breguet - Cyberbullying is a form of bullying in which the perpetrator chooses to harass his or her victim through a technological device. Examines cyberbullying, including what to do if you are being cyberbullied.

Bullying
Cracked by K.M. Walton – When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten, but also facts about themselves and their families that reveal they have much in common.
Loss by Jackie Morse Kessler - A lifetime of being bullied has left fifteen-year-old Billy angry and frightened, but when he is tricked into becoming Pestilence, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with the power to inflict diseases, he travels through time and memory to find Death in hopes of escaping his fate.
Born Ugly by Beth Goobie - To say Shir is unpopular is an understatement. She is a target of casual cruelty in high school. Even though she tries to remain invisible, bullies find ways of tormenting her viciously.  Worse still, she’s also an outcast in her own
family.
Leverage by Joshua Cohen – High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.
Playground by 50 Cent – Thirteen-year-old Butterball is teased mercilessly about his weight. He hates the Long Island suburb his mom moved them to. And now he’s stuck talking to a totally out-of-touch therapist named Liz. Liz tries to uncover what happened that day on the playground–a day that landed one kid in the hospital and Butterball in detention.
Rotters by Daniel Kraus - Sixteen-year-old Joey’s life takes a very strange turn when his mother’s tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he’s never known, and who’s the town pariah.
 Dear Bully: seventy authors tell their stories - This book collects essays about being the bully, the bullied, or the bystander written by some of YA’s most popular authors, including Carrie Ryan, R. L. Stine, Jon Scieszka, Melissa Walker, A. S. King, and many others.
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers – Regina, a high school senior in the popular–and feared–crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims.
Fight to the End by David Gregory – At Michael’s private school, both the students and staff harass him for reasons nobody can pinpoint. He has no friends until he meets Xavier, two years younger and also bullied by the same people. When violent and vicious bullying continues to intensify, Michael knows he must leave to survive; Xavier, accepting Michael is his only protection, flees with him.
The Fat Boy Chronicles: Inspired by a True Story by Diane Lang and Michael Buchanan – Overweight and bullied by his classmates, teenaged Jimmy Winterpock relates in his English class journal the life-changing events of his freshman year in high school.
By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters – 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.
Blank Confession by Pete Hautman - A new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turning himself in to the police for killing someone.
Stuck on Earth by David Klass - On a secret mission to evaluate whether the human race should be annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old boy.
Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S.King -Overburdened by his parents’ bickering and a bully’s attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver – After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie - Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot
Hate List by Jennifer Brown -Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.

Online Life – Computers, Blogs, and Social Networking
My Life Undecided by Jessica Brody – Fifteen-year-old Brooklyn has been making bad decisions since, at age two, she became famous for falling down a mine shaft, and so she starts a blog to let others make every decision for her, while her community-service hours are devoted to a woman who insists Brooklyn read her “Choose the Story” books.
The Edumacation of Jay Baker by Jay Clark - In small-town Ohio, fifteen-year-old Jay Baker’s popular new blog helps him navigate high school as he faces off against his mortal enemy, meets the girl of his dreams, and watches his parents’ relationship implode.
Little Blog on the Prairie by Cathleen Davitt Bell - Thirteen-year-old Genevieve’s summer at a frontier family history camp in Laramie, Wyoming, with her parents and brother is filled with surprises, which she reports to friends back home on the cell phone she sneaked in, and which they turn into a blog.
The Vinyl Princess by Yvonne Prinz - Allie, a sixteen-year-old who is obsessed with LPs, works at the used record store on Telegraph Ave. and deals with crushes–her own and her mother’s–her increasingly popular blog and zine, and generally grows up over the course of one summer in her hometown of Berkeley, California.
Entr@pment : a High School Comedy in Chat by M. Spooner - Two teenage girls assume false identities online in order to test the fidelity of their boyfriends. Told in the form of chat room communications.
Click Here by Denise Vega – Seventh-grader Erin Swift writes about her friends and classmates in her private blog, but when it accidentally gets posted on the school Intranet site, she learns some important lessons about friendship.
Access Denied by Denise Vega – In eighth grade, computer whiz Erin Swift learns a lot about friendship, relationships with boys, maturity, guilt, and forgiveness.
The Julian Game by Adele Griffin - In an effort to improve her social status, a new scholarship student at an exclusive girls’ school uses a fake online profile to help a popular girl get back at her ex-boyfriend, but the consequences are difficult to handle..
Social Networking edited by Roman Espejo - This non-fiction discusses the rights and responsibilities of teens in regard to social networking sites.
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