Bullying

The following titles are recommended fiction and non-fiction that deal with bullying issues. The key stage/s to which titles are most appropriate are provided and additional keywords indicating any other main themes are given for each fiction title. All the recommendations can be borrowed from LSE, but publication details are also provided should you prefer to purchase .If a book is out of print, this is indicated by (OP) after the book title. Websites concerned with bullying can be found in the Social, Cultural, and Spiritual Awareness section of our listing of recommended websites for PSHE and Citizenship.

Browne, Anthony
Willy the Wimp
Picture Corgi 0552549355 £5.99 KS1
Additional Keywords: Friendship

Cave, Kathryn
Something Else
Puffin 0140549072  £4.99 KS1
Additional Keywords: Friendship;Tolerance;Prejudice

Damjan, Mischa
Big Squirrel and the Little Rhinoceros
North South 1558588825 £4.99 KS1
Additional Keywords: Animals;Friendship;Size

Durant, Alan
Big Bad Bunny (OP)
Orchard 1841217433 KS1
Additional Keywords: Manners

Genechten, Guido Van
Flop-Ear and his Friends
Cat's Whiskers 1903012716 £10.99 KS1/2
Additional Keywords: Friendship;Prejudice;Acceptance

Rosen, Michael
Little Rabbit Foo Foo
Walker 0744569451 KS1
Additional Keywords: Humour

Ross, Tony
Is it Because?
Andersen  1842702963 £9.99 KS 1
Additional Keywords: School

Bruce, Lisa
Oh, Omar! (OP)
Mammoth 0749728469
Additional keywords: School Stories;Families; Birthdays

Mark, Jan
Lady Long-legs
Walker 0744569524 £3.99
Additional keywords: School stories

Morgan, Michaela
Sausage and the Spooks
Black 0713654708 £3.99
Additional keywords: Fear;Ghosts; Cats; Dogs

Nimmo, Jenny
Invisible Vinnie
Corgi 0552549916 £3.99
Additional keywords: School stories

Wilson, Jacqueline
My Brother Bernadette
Mammoth 0749742232 £3.99
Additional keywords: Sexism; Gender; Stereotyping

Breslin, Theresa
Bullies at School
Canongate 0862415055, £3.50
Additional keywords: School stories

Cate, Dick (OP)
Bernard's Gang
Walker Bks 0744572428
Additional keywords: Bullying;Friendship;Gangs

Cherrington, Clare
Calling Tracy
Now Press 0952705907, £3.50
Additional keywords: Ice Skating; Sport; Disability; Emotions; Fear; Bravery

D'Lacey, Chris
Fly, Cherokee, Fly
Yearling 0552547891 £4.99
Additional keywords: Pigeon racing; Friendship; Leicester

Fine, Anne
Angel of Nitshill Road
Egmont, 1405201843 £3.99
Additional keywords: School stories

Gibbons, Alan
Chicken
Orion 1858810515 £4.99
Additional keywords: Families; Fear; Relationships

Goodhart, Pippa
Snooty Prune (OP)
Oxford Univ. P. 0199185913
Additional keywords: Bullying; Friendship; Letters; Pen pals

Gowar, Mick
Jimmy Woods and the Big Bad Wolf (OP)
Penguin 0140364293
Additional keywords: Dogs;Mysteries

Harris, Carmen (OP)
Charlie's New School
Orchard 1860390986
Additional keywords: School Stories

Laird, Elizabeth
Secret Friends
Hodder 0340664738 £3.50
Additional keywords: Death; Friendship; School; Appearance

Mark, Jan
Coconut Quins (OP)
Puffin 0140378596
Additional keywords: School stories; Gangs

Mark, Jan
Lady Long-legs
Walker.0744582962, £3.99
Additional keywords: School stories; Self-confidence

Mark, Jan (OP)
Taking The Cat's Way Home
Walker 0744536677
Additional keywords: Cats; School stories

Masters, Anthony (OP)
Bully!
Macdonald 075002884X, £4.50
Additional keywords: Gangs

Masters, Anthony
Freddy's Fox
Black 0713661925, £4.99
Additional keywords: Comic strips ; Foxes

Morpurgo, Michael
Conker
Mammoth 0749733764, £3.99
Additional keywords: Death; Dogs; Pets

Nimmo, Jenny
Invisible Vinnie
Corgi Juvenile 0552549916, £3.99
Additional keywords: School stories; Books

Robinson, Catherine
Pig Face (OP)
Corgi Juvenile 055254860X
Additional keywords: Nicknames; Friendship; School; Farms

Rosselson, Leon
Pumpkin's Downfall (OP)
HarperCollins 0006754724
Additional keywords: Animals, Cruelty, Nature

Blackman, Malorie
Thief!
Corgi 0552528080, £4.99
Additional keywords: Families; Fear; Feelings; Time Travel; Science Fiction

Byars, Betsy
Eighteenth Emergency
Red Fox 0099408678,  £3.99
Additional keywords: School stories; humour

Grindley, Sally
Feather Wars
Bloomsbury 0747563381, £5.99
Additional keywords: World War II; School; Bullying; Pigeons; Families; Evacuees; Dunkirk

McKay, Hilary
Indigo's Star
Hodder & Stoughton 0340875798, £5.99
Additional keywords: Families; Family break-up

Morgan, Michaela
Pom Pom (OP)
Barrington Stoke 190226049X
Additional keywords: Dogs

Sachar, Louis
Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
Bloomsbury 0747552576, £4.99
Additional keywords: Friendship;Self esteem

Bennett, Veronica
Monkey
Walker 0744583470, £4.99
Additional keywords: Disability; Acting; Romance; Teenagers; Growing Up

Blackman, Malorie
Tell Me No Lies
Macmillan 0330368206, £4.99
Additional keywords: Teenagers; Single Parent Families; Lies

Coleman, Michael
Tag
Orchard 1843621827, £4.99
Additional keywords: Gangs

Fine, Anne
Tulip Touch
Puffin 0140378081, £5.99
Additional keywords: Child abuse; Friendship
Gates, Susan
Cry Wolf
Scholastic 0590113607, £4.99
Additional keywords: Gangs; Peer pressure

Leeson, Robert
Red, white & blue
Collins 0007106254, £4.99
Additional keywords: Families; Fantasy; Letters; School

Lynch, Chris
Who the Man
Bloomsbury 0747562652, £5.99
Additional keywords: School Stories; Teenagers; Growing Up; Masculinity

MacPhail, Catherine
Tribes
Puffin 0141308826, £4.99
Additional keywords: Gangs

Masters, Anthony
Bullies Don't Hurt (OP)
Penguin.0140374841
Additional keywords: Child Abuse; Families; Stepfamilies; Sexual Abuse

Matthews, Andrew
Stiks and Stoans (OP)
Mammoth 0749737840
Additional keywords: Dyslexia; Diaries; Gangs

Pilling, Ann
Year of the Worm
Lion Publishing 0745942946,  £3.99
Additional keywords: Adventure; Lake District

Singer, Nicky
Feather Boy
Collins 0007120265, £4.99
Additional keywords: Fears

Ure, Jean
Get a Life
Orchard 1841218316, £4.99
Additional keywords: Homosexuality

Weatherly, Lee
Missing Abby
Doubleday 038560534X, £10.99
Additional keywords: Missing Persons; Gaming; Friendship; Self Image

Brindley, John
Rhino Boy
Dolphin 1858817978,  £4.99
Additional keywords: School; Families

Brooks, Kevin
Kissing the Rain
Chicken House
1904442196, £12.99
Additional keywords: Bullying; Thriller; Murder

Coleman, Michael
Weirdo's War
Orchard 1843621835, £4.99
Additional keywords:

Forde, Catherine
Fat Boy Swim
Egmont 1405202394 £4.99
Additional keywords: Swimming; Diet

Gardner, Graham
Inventing Elliot
Dolphin 1842552082 £4.99
Additional keywords: Peer pressure; Violence; School

Harrison, Michael
Carried Away (OP)
Oxford U. P. 0192719076
Additional keywords: Blackmail

Johnson, Pete
The Protectors, Puffin 0141314214 £4.99
Additional keywords: School; abuse of power

Hopkins, Cathy
Teen Queens and Has-beens
Piccadilly 1853407976 £5.99
Additional keywords: Romance; Teenagers; Friendship; Self esteem

Lobel, Gillian
Hazel: Not a Nut
Orchard 1843624486 £4.99
Additional keywords: Bulimia; Self Image; School; Leicester(shire)

Masters, Anthony
The Drop
Orchard 1841214272  £4.99
Additional keywords: Thrillers; Gangs; School

Moriarty, Jaclyn
Finding Cassie Crazy (OP)
Picador 0330420712
Additional keywords: Letters; Friendship; Relationships; Romance; Bereavement; Bullying; Humour

Naidoo, Beverley
Other Side of Truth
Puffin 0141304766 £4.99
Additional keywords: Refugees; Racism;Bullying; Politics; Asylum Seekers

Pielichaty, Helena
Getting Rid of Karenna
Oxford .U.P. 019275338X £3.99
Additional keywords: School

Riordan, James
The Cello
Oxford U.P. 0192719130 £6.99
Additional keywords: Homosexuality; Music;Cello; Paedophiles; Adolescence; Witch Hunts; Riots

Spinelli, Jerry
Stargirl
Orchard 1841210307 £5.99
Additional keywords: Individuality; School; Bullying; Peer Pressure

Brugman, Alyssa
Walking Naked
Faber 0571219268 £5.99
Additional Keywords: Bullying; Friendship;  Suicide; Peer pressure

Strelkoff, Tatiana
Allison
O'Brien
0862785596 £5.99
Additional Keywords: Adolescence; Growing Up; Lesbianism; Relationships; Romance

Donnellan, Craig (Ed)
Dealing with Bullies
Independence Educational 1861682557 2003 £6.95
KS4/16+

Green, Jen
I Feel Bullied (Your Feelings Ser.)
Wayland 0750223588 1999 £7.99
KS1

Edwards, Nicola
Talking Aout Bullying
Chrysalis1841388246 2003 £10.99
KS1/2

Hibbert, Adam
Why Do People Bully?
Hodder Wayland 0750243279 2004 £11.99 KS3/4

Johnson, Julie
Why Do People Join Gangs?
Hodder Wayland 0750227672 2001 £5.99 KS3

McPherson< Ann
Bullying
Oxford 0199112304 2004 £3.99 KS3/4

Medina, Sarah
Bullying: Why Does it Happen?
Heinemann 0431210039 2004 £10.99 KS2/3

Neustatter, Angela
Bullied
Watts 0749653876 2004 £10.99 KS3/4

Sanders, Bruce
Talking About Bullying
Watts 0749653922 2003 £10.99

Sanders, Pete
Dealing with  Bullying
F Watts 0749654945 2004 £1299
KS2/3

Sanders, Pete
What Do You Know About Bullying?
F Watts 0749637331 2000 £5.99
KS2

Solomon, Yvette
Dealing with Bullying (Dealing with)
Wayland 0750222875 Mar-98 £4.99
KS3/4

Stone, Rosemary
Gangs and Bullies
Evans Bros. 0237518104 Jan-98 £7.99
KS3/4