![]() Sometimes they can change things forever. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. In middle school, words aren’t just words. But the funny thing about running is, once you’re in the race, anything can happen. Is he a good runner? Well, no, he’s terrible. With a new friend and a new team, Joseph finds himself off the sidelines and in the race (quite literally) for the first time. First, his Resource Room teacher encourages (i.e., practically forces) him to join the school track team, and second, he meets Heather, a crazy-fast runner who isn’t going to be pushed around by Charlie Kastner or anybody else. So he spends most of his time avoiding school bully Charlie Kastner and hiding out in the Resource Room, a safe place for misfit kids like him.īut then, on the first day of seventh grade, two important things happen. With an overactive mind and phobias of everything from hard-boiled eggs to gargoyles, he struggles to understand his classes, let alone his fellow classmates. If middle school were a race, Joseph Friedman wouldn’t even be in last place-he’d be on the sidelines. It’s a great way to support a blog(ger) you love. Click on the book covers to go their Amazon pages.ĭisclaimer: I use affiliate links for Amazon and will make a cent or two if you buy using these links. Just a note that while most of these books have already been published, I’ve also included a few forthcoming titles, so feel free to bookmark this and return to it as more of these get published. Hopefully, overall, your kids find these middle-grade books about bullying to be empowering. In some of these books, readers will get a peek into the mind of bullies and see how they are often propelled by their own insecurities. I like that in these stories, bullies do not triumph because the bullied party finally speaks up, shuts the bully up by winning them over or finds someone else who will speak up for them. For several of these books, bullying is the plot. In this list, you’ll find books in which bullying is a major subplot. I wish I had these books about bullying when I was between ages 8-12. Often, parents don’t know that their kids are getting bullied, and even when they do, they may be dismissive or their desire to help may seem to worsen things. It’s pretty easy for all kinds of kids to be bullied and it can make kids feel alone, small, and helpless. I was bullied in elementary school and in what Americans call middle school as well. Like many lists about important themes, this list of middle-grade books about bullying has been on my mind for a long time.
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