BOOKS IN THE LOWER SCHOOL LIBRARY
Bullying, Emotions, Friendship, Positive Self-Image, Healthy Eating, Attention-Deficit
BULLIES & BULLYING
Fiction:
Jake Drake: Bully Buster. Andrew Clements
Bootsie Barker Bites. Peggy Rathmann
How to Lose All Your Friends. Nancy Carlson
The Hundred Dresses. Eleanor Estes
Chrysanthemum. Kevin Henkes
Goggles. Ezra Jack Keats
Thank You, Mr. Faulker. Patricia Pollaco
Blubber. Judy Blume
Stepping on the Cracks. Mary Downing Hahn
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. by Bette Bao Lord
Crash. Jerry Spinelli
Wringer. Jerry Spinelli
The Boy Who Lost His Face. Louis Sachar
My Brother is a Superhero. Dyan Sheldon
The Bully of Barkham Street. Mary Stolz
Bully. Judith Caseley
Crabby Gabby. Stephen Cosgrove
Hooway for Wodney Wat. Helen Lester
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. Patty Lovell
The Recess Queen. Alexis O’Neill
Mr Lincoln’s Way. Patricia Polacco
Don’t Laugh at Me. Steve Seskin
Tyrone and the Swamp Gang. Hans Wilhelm
Camp Big Paw. Doug Cushman
Great-Uncle Dracula. Jayne Harvey
Playground Bully. Marcia Jones
The Thanksgiving Visitor. Truman Capote
The Pet Lovers Club in Love Me, Love My Werewolf. Stephen Roos.
The Wrecker. David Skinner
The Secret Super Powers of Marco. Meredith Willis
Non Fiction:
Bullies are a Pain in the Brain
EMOTIONS, FRIENDSHIP
Fiction:
There are hundreds of fiction books, spanning all reading levels that deal
with friendship as well as books that deal with various emotions. Here is a short list.
Enemy Pie. Dereck Munson
The New Kid. Katie Couric
Dancing in the Wings. Debbie Allen
When Sophie gets Angry: Really, Really Angry. Molly Bang
The Important Book. Margaret Wise Brown
The Pain and the Great One. Judy BLume
Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day. Jamie Lee Curtis
Grasper: A Young Crab’s Discovery. Paul Owen Lewis
It’s Okay to be Different. Todd Parr
Fancy Feet. Patricia Reilly Giff
The Girl with 500 Middle Names. Margaret Haddix Pereson
Judy Moody. Meegan McDonald
Addy’s Little Brother. Connie Rose Porter
Kaya’s Hero: A Story of Giving. Janet Beeler Shaw
Hilary and the Rich Girl. Suzanne Weyn
City Dog, Coutry Dog. Susan Stevens Crummel
Teasing Trouble. Valerie Tripp
Non Fiction:
Why Can’t I Be Happy All the Time: Questions Children Ask About Feelings.
Handling your Ups and Downs: A Children’s Book About Emotions. Joy Wilt
Emotional Ups and Downs. Enid Fisher
Feeling Angry. Althea
Feeling Jealous. Althea
Feeling Scared. Althea
Feeling Shy. Althea
I Have Feelings Too. Terry Berger
Telling the Truth. Althea
Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Faces. Ed Emberley
When I Was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up
Life Doesn’t Frighten Me at All. Maya Angelou
Getting Along with Your Friends. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Being Friends. Althea
A Smart Girl’s Guide to Friendship Troubles: Dealing with Fights, Being Left Out,
& the Whole Popularity Thing. Patti Kelley Criswell
Cliques, Phonies, and Other Baloney. Trevor Romain
POSITIVE SELF-IMAGE
Fiction:
The Greedy Triangle. Marilyn Burns
From Here to There. Margery Cuyler
Horace. Holly Keller
The Black Snowman. Phil Mendez
Jenna and the Troublemaker. Hiawyn Oram
Dreams of Victory. Ellen Conford
All the Way Home. Patricia Reilly Giff
Dork in Disguise. Carol Gorman
The Birthday Room. Kevin Henkes
Someday Angeline. Louis Sachar
HEALTHY EATING
Non Fiction:
Health and Food. Dorothy Baldwin
Food and Health. Enid Fisher
Diet and Nutrition. Brian Ward
Good for Me: All About Food in 32 Bites. Marilyn Burns
Foodworks: Over 100 Science Activities and Fascinating Facts That Explore the Magic
of Food.
ATTENTION-DEFICIT
Fiction:
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key. Jack Gatos
What Would Joes Do? Jack Gatos
Joey Pigza Loses Control. Jack Gatos
NANCY’S LIBRARY
Nancy Spencer has a collection of books that she is happy to lend to parents.
Stop by her office to check one out. Here are the titles (in no particular order!):
The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander. Barbara Coloruso
Bullies are a Pain in the Brain. Trevor Romain
The Unwritten Rules of Friendship: Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Make Friends.
Elman & Kennedy-Moore
Words Are Not for Hurting. Elizabeth Verdick
You Can’t Say You Can’t Play. Vivian Paley
What Do You Stand For: A Kids’ Guide to Building Character. Barbara Lewis
Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children. Thompson
& Grace
Helping Children Grieve. Theresa Huntley
See Jane Win. Sylvia Rimm
How Jane Won. Sylvia Rimm
Odd Girl Out. Rachel Simmons
Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip,
Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence. Rosalind Wiseman
School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. Peggy Orenstein
Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women and Giftedness. Barbara Kerr
Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood, and the Search for Meaning. Kerr & Cohen
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys. Kindlon & Thompson
Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-asked Questions About Raising Boys. Michael
Thompson
The Wonder of Boys: What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into
Exceptional Men. Michael Gurian
What Stories Does My Son Need? A Guide to Books and Movies That Build Character.
Michael Gurian
The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life.
Michael Gurian
Positive Discipline. Jane Nelsen
Coaching Kids for Dummies. Rick Wolff
The Sports Parenting Edge. Rick Wolff
Good Sports: The Concerned Parent’s Guide to Competitive Youth Sports. Rick Wolff
Not Much Just Chillin’: The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers. Linda Perlstein
Please Don’t Sit on the Kids: Alternatives to Punitive Discipline. Clare Cherry