[LM_NET] HIT: Girl Bullies

[McKinley Library <mckinleylibrary@GMAIL.COM>]

Thanks to all who responded to my request for ideas for books with girl
bullies.  I failed to mention that we are an elementary school, so this list
has books on all levels.  What a fantastic community this is!

*The Thing About Georgie* by Lisa Graff.  it has a character that bullies
Georgie throughout the book, but ends up being his friend at the end.


 I believe *Emma Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree* has a sort of bullyish
kind of girl who manipulates other girls.



Picture book - *The Recess Queen* by Alexis O'Neill

Recess Queen / Alexis O'Neill  ISBN 0439206375  2002 (Scholastic)

Try *The Recess Queen*, by Alexis O'Neill.  The kids love it and it gets the
point across without being preachy.  Also *Hooway for Wodney Wat,* by Helen
Lester.



*Al Capone Does My Shirts* features a bully in the form of the warden's
cherubic blonde haired daughter (shades of Bad Seed!)



*The Girls* by Amy Koss [tho probably more middle school]



*The Hundred Dresses*. A group of girls bully another less fortunate girl. A
real tearjerker.



*Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great*



Good, ol' BLUBBER, by Judy Blume ?



Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, Donna Diamond ( Illustrator)



Berenstain Bears And The Bully by Jan Berenstain, Stan Berenstain (I know
this one is al ittle young, but it's a good book)



The Friends by Rosa Guy



Grace's Twist (Camp Confidential Series #3) by Melissa J. Morgan



The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #1) by Rick
Riordan (I know it sounds weird, tu this book does have a girl bully)



There's also a Simspon's episode called Bye Bye Nerdie featring a girl bulyl
and a television show called "As Told by Ginger features one as well. Good
luck



Take a look at *Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty
Told Me* by Nan Marino.



Look at *Bootsie Barker Ballerina*  and  *Bootsie Barker Bites*  both by
Barbara Bottner.  Also some of the Arthur the Aardvark series shows Francine
in a less than lovely light!



Sharon G. Flake's The Bronke Bike Boy & the Queen of 33rd Street might work.
It's even from the (girl) bully's point of view



Chrissa and Chrissa Stands Strong by Mary Casanova



A great book is Odd Girl Out: The Hidden culture of Aggression in Girls, by
Rachel Simmons. (high school)



My Secret Bully, by Trudy Ludwig



You should add Drowning Anna by Sue Mayfield to the list.





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Cheryl Wolf, Librarian
William McKinley Library
P.S. 63 & The Neighborhood School
121 East 3rd Street
New York, NY  10009
cwolf5@schools.nyc.gov

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