Jake Drake, Bully Buster
Author - Andrew Clements
In the second book of the Jake Drake series, Jake takes on a super-bully. He's in the fourth grade. Life is pretty good, especially with his best friend Willie. Jake calculates that he and his classmates have spent eight years of their life in school. So if everyone is so smart, how is it that no one has figured out a solution to their problems? "Every year, it's the same thing--Bullies." Jake recalls that he was a bully magnet from the age of three. Bullies took huge bites of his lunch and pushed him off swings. He took it all quietly until one day, when Superbully Link Baxter joined his class, Jake could take it no more. How does Jake handle Link and his mean ways? Read the book to find out.
The 100 dresses
Author- Eleanor Estes
Every day, Peggy and Maddie wait for Wanda Petronski. On seeing her, Peggy would ask in a mock polite manner, "How many dresses did you say you had hanging up in your closet?" Wanda would reply, "A hundred dresses...all lined up in my closet." However on a Monday, Wanda is absent. No one in Room 13 seems to notice her absence until one day Peggy and Maddie are almost late to class. Who's Wanda Pentronski? She is a Polish girl who "always wore a faded blue dress that didn't hang right." Days pass. Maddie is worried. She had never wanted to mock Wanda and nearly asked Peggy to be polite. However, her courage had failed her. Then one rainy day, as Peggy and Maddie enter the classroom, they are in for a surprise. "There must have been a hundred of them all lined up!" Read the 1945-Newbery Honor Award winning book to find out what happens.
Blubber
Author - Judy Blume
"Blubber is a good name for her!" read a note on Jill Brenner's hand. It's a note from Wendy, the class president of Grade Five in Hillside School. Linda Fischer was in the middle of her oral report about whales when Robby Winters begins to laugh uncontrollably. Led by Wendy a brigade of bullies, including Jill, target Linda all the time. She is stripped of her clothes one day, made to chant "I am Blubber, the smelly whale of class 2006" on another. The pudgy awkward girl bears the insults silently. The bullying continues until one day Jill says no to Wendy's command. Told from Jill's point of view, the story revolves around her interaction with her best friend Tracy Wu, her family, Wendy and Linda. Judy Blume wrote this story "because bullying is often kept a secret by the kids who see it happening, and even by the person who is being bullied."
