Bully Books

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly one-third of teens reported being bullied from middle school to high school in 2007.  Bullying takes many forms but most often starts as one-on-one physical bullying at the elementary level.  As students grow older, emotional and cyber bullying tend to dominate.  This booklist is designed for...anyone working with teens and tweens to help address, through literature, the emotional and physical aspects of bullying and its effect on the bullies, the bullied, and the bystanders.
~Sara Konery and Cassandra Rondinella, "Bully Books" (VOYA October 2012)

All books are young adult fiction unless otherwise noted.


Names Will Never Hurt Me by Jaime Adoff

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Leverage by Joshua Cohen

Breaking Point by Alex Flinn

Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope by Olivia Gardner with Emily and Sarah Buder [302.34 Gardner]

Right Behind You by Gail Giles  [eBook only in the library catalog]

Teen Queens and Has Beens by Cathy Hopkins

Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance, and Cookery by Susan Juby

Boy Girl Boy by Ron Koertge

The Girls and Poison Ivy by Amy Goldman Koss

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl by Barry Lyga

Dough Boy by Peter Marino

Drowning Anna by Sue Mayfield

Shooter by Walter Dean Myers

By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters

Bystander by James Preller [J Fiction]

Who I Am by M.L. Rice

Scrawl by Mark Shulman

Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser

Crossing Lines by Paul Volponi

Jumped by Rita Garcia-Williams

Ironman by Chris Crutcher