The following books contain characters who bully, themes of diversity and acceptance, or elements of friendship and cooperation. These books and the online resources listed below can be used to help teachers build "bully free" classrooms.
Liz Storey, Grand Valley State University
Picture Books and Easy Readers
Middle Grade Readers and Young Adult Books
Picture Books and Easy Readers
Alley Oops - Janice Levy
Andy Shane and the Very Bossy Delores Starbuckle - Jennifer Richard Jacobson
The Ant and the Big Bad Bully Goat - Andrew Peters
The Ant Bully - John Nickle
The Araboolies of Liberty Street - Sam Swope
Arnie and the New Kid - Nancy Carlson
Arthur's April Fool - Marc Brown
A Bad Case of Stripes - David Shannon
The Berenstain Bears and the Bully - Stan and Jan Berenstain
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing - Stan and Jan Berenstain
Bootsie Barker Bites - Barbara Bottner
Bug and Bear: A True Story of Friendship - Ann Bonwill
Bully - Judith Caseley
The Bully Blockers Club - Teresa Bateman
The Bully From the Black Lagoon - Mike Thaler
Bullies Never Win - Margery Cuyler
Butt Ugly - Lynn Montgomery
Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully - Audrey Penn
Chester's Way - Kevin Henkes
Chrysanthemum - Kevin Henkes
Clara and the Bossy - Ruth Ohi
Clara Caterpillar - Pamela Duncan Edwards
Cody and Quinn, Sitting in a Tree - Kirby Larson
Crickwing - Janell Cannon
Crow Boy - Taro Yashima
Ella the Elegant Elephant - Carmela D'amico
Frog's Best Friend - Marion Dane Bauer
Goal! = Mina Javaherbin
Goggles - Ezra Jack Keats
The Hero of Bremen - Margaret McFarland
Hunter's Best Friend at School - Laura Malone Elliott
It's Okay to Be Different - Todd Parr
Felita - Nicholasa Mohn
Frog and Toad are Friends - Arnold Lobel
Hazel's Amazing Mother - Rosemary Wells
Hooway for Wodney - Helen Lester
Horrible Harry in Room 2B - Suzy Kline
How to Lose All Your Friends - Nancy L. Carlson
Jabuti, The Tortoise: A Trickster Tale From the Amazon - Gerald McDermott
Jungle Bullies - Steven Kellogg
Just Kidding - Trudy Ludwig
King of the Playground - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Loudmouth George and the Sixth-Grade Bully - Nancy Carlson
Lucy and the Bully - Claire Alexander
Martha Walks the Dog - Susan Meddaugh
Mean, Mean Maureen Green - Judy Cox
The Meanest Thing to Say - Bill Cosby
The Mightiest Heart - Lynn Cullen
Mr. Lincoln's Way - Patricia Polacco
My Secret Bully - Trudy Ludwig
Myrtle - Tracey Campbell Pearson
The New Dog - Barbara Shook Hazen
Nobody Knew What to Do - Becky Ray McCain
The Odious Ogre - Norton Juster
Oliver Button is a Sissy - Tomie dePaola
One - Kathryn Otoshi
The Other Side - Jacquline Woodson
Owen and Mzee: The True Story of a Remarkable Friendship - Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff
The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen - Jane Yolen
Pig Enough - Janie Bynum
Pinky and Rex and the Bully - James Howe
A Play's the Thing - Aliki
The Rat and the Tiger - Keiko Kasza
The Recess Queen - Alexis O'Neil
The Sandwich Swap - Queen Rania of Jordan Al Abdullah, Kelly DiPucchio
Shrinking Violet - Cari Best
Simon's Hook - Karen Burnett
The Sneetches and Other Stories - Dr. Seuss
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon - Patty Lovell
Sweet Briar Goes to Camp - Karma Wilson
The Sweetest Fig - Chris Van Allsburg
Swimmy - Leo Lionni
The Tale of Sir Dragon: Dealing with Bullies fod Kids - Jean Pendziwol
Teammates - Peter Golenbock
Thank You, Mr. Falker - Patricia Polacco
The Three Bully Goats - Leslie Kimmelman
Trouble in the Barkers' Class - Tomie dePaola
Tugg and Teeny: Book 1 - J. Patrick Lewis
A Weekend With Wendell - Kevin Henkes
Widget - Lyn Rossiter McFarland
You're Mean, Lily Jean! - Frieda Wishinsky
Middle Grade Readers and Young Adult Books
Act I, Act II, Act Normal - Martha Weston
Adam Canfield, Watch Your Back! - Michael Winerip
Amelia's Bully Survival Guide - Marissa Moss
Attack of the Killer Fishsticks - Paul Zindel
Bad Girls - Jacqueline Wilson
The Bad Girls - Cynthia Voight
The Best School Year Ever - Barbara Robinson
Blubber - Judy Blume
Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis
The Bully of Barkham Street - Mary Stolz
Bystander - James Preller
Carlos is Gonna Get it - Kevin Emerson
Crash - Jerry Spinelli
Dear God, Help!!! Love, Earl - Barbara Park
Defect - Will Weaver
Dexter the Tough - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Dog Sense - Sneed Collard
Dough Boy - Peter Marino
The Field of the Dogs - Katherine Paterson
Flying Solo - Ralph Fletcher
Freak the Mighty - Rodman Philbrick
Gifted - Beth Evangelista
Jake Drake, Bully Buster - Andrew Clements
Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge - Susan Shreve
Jumped - Rita Williams Garcia
Junebug - Alice Mead
Hey, New Kid! - Betsy Duffey
How to Be Cool in the Third Grade - Betsy Duffey
The Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes
The Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Loser - Jerry Spinelli
Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli
The Meanest Girl - Debora Allie
A Midsummer Night's Dork - Carol Gorman
The Misfits - James Howe
The Night the Bells Rang - Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
Puppy Power - Judy Cox
The Revealers - Doug Wilhelm
Radio Fifth Grade - Gordon Korman
Roxie and the Hooligans - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Savage - David Almond
Secret Identity - Wendelin Van Draanen
Star Girl - Jerry Spinelli
Stepping on the Cracks - Mary Downing Hahn
Super Emma - Sally Warner
Surviving Brick Johnson - Laurie Myers
Toby and the Phantoms of the Fourth Grade - Art Wallace
The Truth About the Truman School - Dori Hillestad Butler
Westlandia - Paul Fleischman
Embracing the Child: Bully Books; http://www.embracingthechild.org/bully.html
Helium: Children's Literature; http://www.helium.com/knowledge/166310-great-childrens-books-about-bullying
Kids' Wings: Using Literature to Stop Bullying; http://suzyred.com/bullying.html
No Name-Calling Week: http://www.nonamecallingweek.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home.html
Rosen Publishing Online: Teen Health and Wellness; http://teenhealthandwellness.com
Santa Clara County Library: Bullies and Bullying, Books for Preschoolers and Early School-Age Children; http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/kids/lists/bullies_younger/index.html
Santa Clara County Library: Books About Bullying Grades 3-8; http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/kids/lists/bullies_older_kids/index.html
Stop Bullying.Gov: http://www.stopbullying.gov
Stop Bullying Now!: http://www.stopbullyingnow.com/
Teaching Tolerance: http://www.tolerance.org
University of Missouri E-themes: Literature Themes-Bullying; http://ethemes.missouri.edu/themes/717
