Don't Bully - Be A Friend

Book:  The Pout-Pout Fish and the Bully-Bully Shark (Book Link) Author: Deborah Diesen (Author Link) Illustrator: Dan Hanna (Illustrator Link) Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Publishing Date of Publication : 2017 Genre: Picture Book, Written in Last 4 Years, Diverse Protagonists Lexile Score: AD550L Citation: Diesen, D. (2017). The Pout-Pout Fish and the Bully-Bully Shark . New York, NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. Summary:  In this story Mr. Fish is happily playing on the playground with his friends when Shark swims over and acts meanly.  He would swim up onto the playground and steal their things, and disturb their fun.  Every time he would swim over the rest of the fish would hide and swim away in fear.  Each day Mr. Fish wondered if the could ever stand up to Shark, because he was only one fish, and he wondered if he could do it alone.  Until one day he said, "Words can make a difference, when things go wrong. Yes, I'm just one fish, but my ...

Book:  DARE! (Book Link) Author: Erin Frankel (Author Link) Illustrator: Paula Heaphy (Illustrator Link) Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing Date of Publication : 2012 Genre: Picture Book, Diverse Protagonists, Informational Text Lexile Score: 500L Citation: Ludwig, T. (2013). The Invisible Boy . NY: Random House Children's Books. Summary:  In this story their is a girl named Jayla who is being bullied by Sam.  Everyday when she goes to school she feels scared of Sam, and never knows how she will bully her next.  No one ever stood up to her, and she felt very alone.  Until one day Sam began to pick on Luisa for a variety of different things.  She would pick on them and suddenly Jayla was the one standing as a bystander being too scared to speak up.  She didn't know what to do or who to go to, because she didin't want the attention to from Sam to be back on her.  She kept going through all the scenarios in her head on how she would d...