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1) Restart
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Be Kind: Books for School-Age Kids
Darien Public Schools Summer Reading Assignments 2023
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Darien Public Schools Summer Reading Assignments 2023
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
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Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
2) Dinosaur boy
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Sprouting a tail and spikes over the summer before fifth grade, Sawyer, a boy with the dinosaur gene, is bullied in school, but when his tormentors begin to disappear, it is up to Sawyer, his best friend Elliot, and a mysterious new girl to rescue them from a galactically horrible fate.
5) Genie meanie
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"In this partially-illustrated chapter book, an 8-year-old girl confronts a bully with the help of a genie she discovers has been living in a spice bottle her grandmother left her."-- Provided by publisher.
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2012
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After her first-grade daughter, Katie, was roundly bullied for having what was considered a gender-inappropriate Star Wars thermos, the author, purveyor of a popular blog on Chicago.now, wrote a post that went into overdrive. Here, she offers concrete advice on dealing with bullying, something one in five teens say they have experienced in the last year.
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Aija Mayrock, a nineteen-year-old girl, offers a fresh perspective on bullying. In The Survival Guide to Bullying: Written by a Teen, Aija offers support, guidance, and direction to her readers. Aija was bullied in middle school and part of high school. She shares the different approaches and strategies that helped her survive and thrive. Aija writes about how to handle bullying, cyber bullying, dealing with fear, personal safety, and ultimately creating...
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c2018
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Español
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Going to school used to be fun for Ana and her classmates, but ever since the new girl, Emma, started bossing people around, the fun has left. When Emma starts being outright mean to the other kids, Ana and her friends will have an even bigger problem to solve. Through teamwork and bravery, the class tries to make a change for the better for themselves and for Emma.
9) Blubber
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
11) Sugar and spite
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Sneaking into her grandfather's potions lab to brew a love spell that she hopes will stop a classmate's bullying, herbalist trainee Jolina is surprised by the bully's increasingly friendly overtures, before a magically consequential storm begins to gather.
12) Rhyme schemer
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A novel in verse about Kevin's journey from bully to being bullied, as he learns about friendship, family, and his talent for poetry.
14) The code
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"Chris always does the right thing. But when he knows who messed with Sam in the school yard, he can't speak up. His friends can't either. There's the silent Code that every kid follows. Chris decides he can't live with himself if he doesn't say something, so he makes a stand and is shocked at the outcome. Mean bully Phil is actually ... cool. But then Phil asks him to do something so wrong." --Amazon.com.
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Gus, who has big plans to get out of his hometown of Nowhere, is rescued from a bully by Rossi Scott, who gives up her dirt bike as a result, and Gus and his friends go into Dead Frenchman Mine to search for gold to buy a new bike for Rossi before her big race.
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"An urgently needed and insightful guidebook for parents and teachers struggling to help girls navigate the often-difficult transition into adolescence by the founder of Girl Talk.It has never been easy to be a middle school girl. In the few short years between grade school and high school, girls go through an incredible number of physical and mental changes, making this the most formative--and precarious--time in their lives. Groups form and turn...
18) Always Anthony
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"The eighth book in the New York Times bestselling 'Emmie & Friends' series, told from the alternating POVs of popular Anthony and timid Leah as they grapple with a bullying incident at school"--Amazon.com.
20) The real deal
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Best friends Gabe and Oliver tackle family problems, bullying, and the challenge of dealing with the new kid in their sixth grade class, Reuben, who refuses to talk--and no one knows why.
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