Text Messages Episode 39 Books about Bullying

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The Misfits by James Howe (Atheneum,

2001)

Out of the Pocket by Bill Konigsberg (Dutton,

2008)

Shine by Lauren Myracle (Amulet, 2011)

It Gets Better edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller (Dutton, 2011)

Rage: A Love Story by Julie Anne Peters

(Knopf, 2009)

Bitter End by Jennifer Brown (Little Brown,

2011)

The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney (Little,

Brown, 2010)

Burn by Suzanne Phillips (Little, Brown,

2008)

Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King

(Little, Brown, 2011)

Dear Bully edited by Megan Kelley Hall and

Carrie Jones (HarperTeen, 2011)

The Bully in the Book and the Classroom by C.J. Bott (Scarecrow,

2004)

More Bullies in More Books by C.J. Bott (Scarecrow, 2009)

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Text Messages Episode 39 Books about Bullying

More Recommended Books about Bullying

Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser (Simon

& Schuster, 2000)

Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher (Greenwillow,

2001)

Shooter by Walter Dean Myers (Amistad,

2004)

Endgame by Nancy Garden (Harcourt,

2006)

Hate List by Jennifer Brown (Little, Brown,

2009)

Project X by Jim Shepard (Knopf, 2004)

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (Razorbill,

2007)

By the Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead by

Julie Anne Peters (Hyperion, 2010)

Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003)

Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte

(HarperCollins, 2006)

Freak Show by James St. James (Dutton,

2007)

For updates on the newest bully books,

visit C.J. Bott’s website: www.bulliesinbooks.com

C.J. Bott

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