Chapter books and middle grade titles for older children about overcoming obstacles and struggles, as well as understanding the impact of bullying.
Mirare
RJ Palacio
Auggie wants to be an ordinary 10-year-old. He does ordinary things – eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary – inside. But ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds.
Ordinary kids aren’t stared at wherever they go. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he’s being sent to a real school. All he wants is to be accepted.
But can he convince his new classmates that he’s just like them, underneath it all?
Toate lucrurile care ar putea merge prost
Stewart Foster
Dan este furios. Nimic nu a mai fost la fel de când a plecat fratele său mai mare și se răzbună pe cea mai apropiată și mai slabă țintă: Alex.
Alex se chinuie. TOC-ul său sever îi face greu să iasă din casă, mai ales când Dan și gașca lui îl așteaptă la școală…
Apoi, mamele băieților aranjează să se întâlnească și să termine de construit pluta pe care Dan a început-o împreună cu fratele său. Doi dușmani au rămas împreună toată vacanța școlară – ce ar putea merge prost?
Vorbește mai tare!
Rebecca Burgess
Twelve-year-old Mia is just trying to navigate a world that doesn’t understand her true autistic self.
While she wishes she could stand up to her bullies, she’s always been able to express her feelings through singing and songwriting, even more so with her best friend, Charlie.
Together, they’ve taken the internet by storm; little do Mia’s classmates know that she’s the viral singer Elle-Q! But while the chance to perform live for a local talent show has Charlie excited, Mia isn’t so sure.
She’ll have to decide whether she’ll let her worries about what other people think get in the way of not only her friendship with Charlie, but also showing everyone, including the bullies, who she is and what she has to say.
Ripostează
AM Dassu
When a terrorist attack occurs near her home and racial tension increases, Aaliyah decides to begin wearing a hijab to challenge people’s preconceptions of her faith.
Aaliyah has to channel all her bravery and resourcefulness to halt the tide of hatred rippling through her community.
Cântecul de undeva altundeva
RF Harrold și Levi Pinfold
Frank doesn’t know how to feel when Nick Underbridge rescues her from bullies one afternoon. No one likes Nick. He’s big, he’s weird and he smells – or so everyone in Frank’s class thinks.
And yet, there’s something nice about Nick’s house. There’s strange music playing there, and it feels light and good and makes Frank feel happy for the first time in forever.
But there’s more to Nick, and to his house, than meets the eye, and soon Frank realises she isn’t the only one keeping secrets. Or the only one who needs help.
Păsărică
JP Rose
Birdie Bagshaw has never known her parents. Having grown up in a children’s home for mixed race children in 1950s Leeds, now she has come to live with her great-aunt Mabel in the Yorkshire Dales.
From her arrival, things are strained, and Birdie cannot understand why she is treated like an outsider by the local children. When their bullying drives Birdie to hide in the nearby coal mine, she finds an unexpected rescuer in the form of Mr Duke, the last remaining pit pony in the village.
As the weeks pass, Birdie forms a special bond with the spirited little pony. But his future is in danger, and Birdie comes up with a daring plan to save his life in return.
Băiat cu sclipici
Ian Eagleton
James loves dancing, poetry, and Mariah Carey (not in that order, though, because Mariah would obviously be first!). His teacher, Mr Hamilton, is getting married to his boyfriend and it seems that James will be part of a surprise choir performance at the wedding.
But James’s father seems uncomfortable about the plan, and a lot of other things – like any mention of Mr Hamilton, and James’s dancing, and how James talks about his new friend Joel.
Meanwhile, a different boy has been harassing James at school and calling him gay, and it’s getting worse every day.
Cum să fii mai arici
Anne-Marie Conway și Danielle Dey
Lily has a stammer. The signal between her brain and her mouth is all messed up – and it’s getting worse. When a video of her practicing her class presentation is uploaded onto YouTube – head thrust forward, eyelids fluttering, lips stretched wide – Lily’s nightmare begins.
Cyberbullying, kids at school whispering, even best friend Mia laughing behind her back. Lily’s confidence takes a nose-dive and she can only see one way out: run away to Dad in Scotland and start all over again.
But Lily quickly realises that running away isn’t the answer – that her stammer will follow her wherever she goes.
Distrugerea norilor
Malorie Blackman
Sam doesn’t want to be friends with Davey – in fact, he thinks he’s a moron.
But one day Davey saves Sam’s life and an extraordinary friendship is formed, only to end in tragedy. This story is told in verse.
Prieteni secreți
Elisabeta Laird
Rafaella finds it hard to make friends when she starts at a new school. Her name sounds strange, her ears stick out, she feels different from the others.
And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her Earwig. But then a secret friendship begins.
Lucruri mici
Mel Tregonning
On the cusp of having everything slip from his grasp, a young boy has to find a way to rebuild his sense of self. An ordinary boy in an ordinary world.
With no words, only illustrations, ‘Small Things’ tells the story of a boy who feels alone with his worries, but who learns that help is always close by.
A universal story, told simply and with breathtaking beauty, about dealing with sadness, anxiety, depression, heartache or loss, and finding your way in the world.
Nefericitele aventuri ale lui Max Crumbly: Eroul dulapului
Rachel Renée Russell
Introducing Max Crumbly, the new Dork on the block. Max is about to face the scariest place he’s ever been – South Ridge Middle School! He has been home-schooled by his grandmother until now, and he’s begged his parents to finally let him start attending a real school.
He’s starting to question that choice, though, with the Doug aka Thug Thurston Problem. As in, Thug keeps stuffing Max in his locker. If only Max could be like the hero in all the comics he likes to read – or the ones he draws – and magically escape the locker and defeat Thug.
Unfortunately, Max’s uncanny, almost superhuman ability to smell pizza from a block away won’t exactly save any lives or foil bad guys. But that doesn’t mean Max won’t do his best to be the hero his school needs!
Există un băiat în baia fetelor
Louis Sachar
Bradley Chalkers is a bad lot! He lies, he gets into fights, no one wants to be his friend and he is all alone.
Until, that is, he meets the delightful new school counsellor, Carla, and she persuades Bradley that he can change.
Matilda
Roald Dahl
Matilda’s parents have called her some terrible things. The truth is, she’s a genius and they’re the stupid ones.
Find out how she gets the better of them and her spiteful headmistress, as well as discovering that she has a very special power.
Planeta Omar: Magnet cu probleme accidentale
Zanib Mian și Nasaya Mafaridik
My parents decided it would be a good idea to move house AND move me to a new school at the same time. As if I didn’t have a hard enough time staying out of trouble at home, now I’ve also got to try and make new friends.
What’s worse, the class bully seems to think I’m the perfect target.
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