Meet Paco Jones, a biracial Mexican kid with few friends. Hes recently transferred from his old junior high to a private school, and because hes the poor new kid, he soon finds himself the least popular. It doesnt help that he sports “a big nose, an unflattering birthmark, pigeon-toed feet and hairy arms,” all of them fodder for teasing. Hes jeered at during lunch, called Paco Taco, and ridiculed for being different. So what hope is there for...

She's big. She's smart. She's mean. She's the bully on the bus. She picks on me and I don't like it. But I don't know how to make her stop. The bully on the bus taunts seven-year-old Leroy, then silences him with threats of worse to come. To distract him, his mum introduces him to the adventures in The Big Bad Book of Fairytales.

"Adam is the prank mastermind. Perk is his best friend and the computer genius. Pearl is the prettiest girl in schooland a violin prodigy. Ray looks like a big dumb jock, but he secretly wants to be an engineer. And Dutch is the often-bullied dork who is in tune with everyones feelings. The five of them couldnt be more different. But theres one thing they have in common: they are fed up with Hill Parmar, the school bullyand his dad, their school principal...

When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten, but also facts about themselves and their families that reveal they have much in common.

"Eleven-year-old Kieran wants to be part of the 'in' group at school. He wants to be on the soccer team. He wants to fit in. But then his weird cousin Bon turns up, both at school and at home. Bon knows nothing about fitting in, with his long blond braid, babyish hand-knit hat, and funny, precise voice. Bon doesn't play sports, and he likes to draw imaginary maps with stories about 'Bon the Crusader' and 'Kieran the Brave.' He's an easy target for...

A supremely unlucky kid's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad first day at a new school. Only a bold or foolish narrator would start a book by calling out the upcoming story beats like Babe Ruth predicting a home run. But Justin Chase does just that, warning readers of the mortification to come. Now that his mom has married Vlad, his new stepdad, both of whom work the night shift, he'll be living with his dad during the week and spending weekends...

"It's Rappy the Raptor's first day of school, and he's having a hard time keeping his cool! But when Rappy spots a classmate being bullied, he finds the nerve to speak upin rhyme, of course! Parents and kids will snap, tap, and dance first-day jitters away with this funny school story with dino-sized heart" --