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Third grader EllRay is faced with a problem when his plan to bring his dad's crystals to school in order to impress his classmates does not go accordingly.

Fifth-grader Paris learns some lessons about dealing with bullies of all kinds as she wonders how to stop a classmate from beating up her brother at school and as she learns about the Holocaust from her piano teacher, Mrs.

Ninth-grader Darrell Mercer and his mother move to the Bluford area in the middle of the school year where, Darrell quickly becomes a target for Tyray Hobbs, the freshman class bully.

A mischievous eight-year-old boy helps his sister with a bully problem, while facing a bully of his own at school.

Two boys find a pair of lensless motorcycle goggles and, with the help of their dog, elude the bigger boys who try to steal them from them.

Leon, Winnie, and Sam, three African-American siblings who recently changed schools, receive help from an unlikely source--Brandon the school bully.

Max's grandpa gives him tickets to the World Series for his birthday, but when his favorite team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, are beat by the New York Yankees, Max learns baseball is more than just a game.

Taneesha must learn to make peace with herself and others after she is teased because of her choice of friends and her Buddhist religion.

Raven is disappointed when her friends Eddie and Chelsea fail to back her protest against the new school uniforms, and finds herself allied instead with her fellow rebels--the school bullies, but she must decide where her true loyalties lie when the gang tries to frame Eddie and Chelsea for something they did not do.

Fourth-grader Bakari Katari Johnson is having a really bad day--class bullies Tariq and Keisha are mad at him, his best friend Wardell has nominated him for hall monitor, a pack of ice zombies from a frozen world are demanding he return the magic ring that Keisha has, and somehow he has to find a way to save the school.

Two very different girls unite when bullying escalates at their high school.

Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girl school, where she is not gay enough for her former friends, not sick enough for her eating disorders group, and not thin enough for ballet, but it may also mean real friendships.

Preferring science and reading to the sports his father wants him to play, Garvey comforts himself with food and endures bullying before joining the school chorus, where he learns how to accept himself and bond with his father.

"Third grader Calvin is dealing with his next door neighbors moving away--and the school bully moving in.

Bullied relentlessly, Hiram Goldfarb, a Jewish immigrant in nineteenth-century New York City, learns bareknuckle fighting from a former slave wanted for a heinous crime in the South.