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In this book, the prehistoric bully is much like the one we see today, only bigger and with scales.  Maybe, by observing these ancient creatures and how they identify, cope with and prevent bullying, we can learn to deal with bullies we encounter in our modern society.  Dinos are picked on for all sorts of reasons.  His neck is too long, she is too big, look at that funny-shaped horn, we don't want to play with a spotted dinosaur. Watch how our dinosaurs find ways to handle the bully or bullies and how the bullies take a second look at themselves. This book is geared towards children ages 4 to 8.

Bobby's Story is about courage and the power inside all of us.  The story is based on unpleasant events that occurred many years ago in the author's own life.  The character, Bobby, is constantly reminded of his grandfather's powerful words of life, "Wrong is wrong - no matter how many people do it, and that it only takes one person to speak out for what is right - The Power of One!"  After Bobby's parents lose everything, including their jobs, their home, and their dreams, his family is forced to leave all their family and friends behind.  They move to the city with hopes of finding jobs and starting over.  For Bobby, the struggle is about acceptance, not only from his new friends, but his new life.  He needs to reach inside himself to find the inner strength necessary to make new friends, live in poverty, and stand up to the red-haired bully.

Trevor Romain combines humor with serious, practical suggestions for coping with bullies.  Not only are bullies are mean and scary, but they are a pain in the brain.  Every child needs to know what to do when confronted by one.  This book reassures kids that they're not alone and it's not their fault if a bully decides to pick on them.  Trevor explains why some people are bullies and describes realistic ways to become "Bully-Proof," stop bullies from hurting others, and get help in dangerous situations.  If bullies happen to read this book, they'll find ideas they can use to get along with others and feel good about themselves without making other people miserable.

This is a great new game designed to increase a child's knowledge of bullying.  Each incident card has been weighted based on the severity of the bullying so that children can see how harmful this behavior is.  Now, after a bullying situation, teachers can invite those involved to play the game together in an effort to understand what it's like to be bullied and how to prevent future incidences of bullying.  Children are encouraged to model good behavior on how to overcome bullying.  The game contains one game board, 54 playing cards, 6 pawns, and a die.

Maybe Jack wasn't really a rat, but he was definitely a bully.  He made life very uncomfortable for Mickey.  Mickey's parents had some helpful ideas, but Mickey found that it was easier to talk about loving your enemies than actually to do it, and brave words were often just words.  Then, something happened that surprised Mickey as much as Jack.  The unexpected result was that the ex-bully was once more a friend, and Mickey had good reason to be proud of his problem-solving techniques.

Brian Tacang's first novel takes readers on a wild ride through the fantastic town of Masonville, where eccentric scientists and burly librarians, circus performers and bullies abound, and where science and miracles sometimes collide.  As an inventor, Millicent knows this formula by heart.  Unfortunately, a series of failures -- like the Ever-Juicy Gum Enhancer Pellet and the Retractable Ponytail Holder -- have left her a few beakers short on faith.  Millicent's best friends in The Wunderkind Club are ready to give up on her inventions, but Bully-Be-Gone, her latest creation, should be the breakthrough Millicent needs.  After all, her formula for thwarting the enemies of overachievers everywhere is foolproof.  Before long, Millicent has a disaster of monumental proportions on her hands.  With only days to concoct an antidote, her friendships -- and her future as an inventor -- hang in the balance.

Based on The Bully Free Classroom by Allan L. Beane, Ph.D., this card game plays like Crazy Eights, so most kids will have some familiarity with the process.  The cards are divided into four categories: "What Would You Do If", Self-Esteem Boosters, Ways to Stay Bully Free, and "Why Should You Do This?"  Kids get rid of cards (and move closer to being "out" or "bully free") by offering reasonable suggestions and responses to questions.  Meant to be played with adult supervision (a teacher, counselor, or youth worker familiar with anti-bullying themes), the game includes an insert with rules and basic anti-bullying concepts.

Every day, in schools Bullying doesn't stop at the grade school playground.  Middle school students can be targets and perpetrators of verbal, emotional, and physical bullying as well.  This important new video explores unique bullying issues that middle school (grades 6 to 8) students experience-as told in their own words.  Real kids (not actors) discuss real-life issues and situations, including: What is bullying?  Why do kids bully?  What if it happens to you?

Included with this DVD is a teacher's guide that contains information designed to assist you with introducing, following-up and reinforcing the material presented.

Bullying is an issue in all areas of our community.  It can lead to a considerable degree of absenteeism and has the potential to develop into more serious problems such as sexual, physical and emotional abuse.  This innovative, new series presents teachers with a conflict-resolution approach to identifying, coping with and preventing this improper behavior using reproducible activities.  In addition to these activities, the book contains extensive teacher notes, advice for working with parents and web links.

Bullying is an issue in all areas of our community.  It can lead to a considerable degree of absenteeism and has the potential to develop into more serious problems such as sexual, physical and emotional abuse.  This innovative, new series presents teachers with a conflict-resolution approach to identifying, coping with and preventing this improper behavior using reproducible activities.  In addition to these activities, the book contains extensive teacher notes, advice for working with parents and web links.

Bullying is an issue in all areas of our community.  It can lead to a considerable degree of absenteeism and has the potential to develop into more serious problems such as sexual, physical and emotional abuse.  This innovative, new series presents teachers with a conflict-resolution approach to identifying, coping with and preventing this improper behavior using reproducible activities.  In addition to these activities, the book contains extensive teacher notes, advice for working with parents and web links.

"Bully Coach" Joel Haber, Ph.D., is one of the leading experts in the prevention of bullying.  A pioneer in the field, he has worked with thousands of kids, parents, teachers, counselors, and others to understand the root causes of the bullying.  He covers identifying bully types to exposing the reasons why kids become bullies, targets, or bystanders, and helps stamp it out once and for all. By delivering a practical, supportive, and step-by-step "bullyproofing prescription" that yields lasting results for both boys and girls, from grade school through high school, Bullyproof Your Child for Life gives specific action steps to help any child build resilience and confidence, develop compassion and trust, and thrive in school, camp, sports, and beyond.

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms. Topics covered in this book include:  Class rules, working together, good decisions, communicating, respect, honesty, the environment, bullying and more. 

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms.  Topics covered in this book include: friendship, fair play, goals, worrying, values, tolerance, bullying, conflict resolution, time management and more.

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms.  Topics covered in this book include:  Roles, responsibility, goals, stress, stereotypes, tolerance, bullying, conflict resolution, peer pressure and more.

Don't Feed the Bully is a fictional detective story aimed at ages 10-14 Anyone who can read will love this funny and meaningful story.  Hannibal Greatneck III, detective, sixth grade student, or Handy to his friends, walks into William B. Travis elementary and finds a cage in the middle of the classroom.  The school has dealt with its bully problem by handing over all the control to another bully. Handy must find the clues, outwit the villains, and give the control of William B. Travis back to the students and faculty.  The story is a funny one with hilarious yet serious undertones, but with great purpose.

This book offers ten guided lesson plans that will help you encourage victims to stand up for themselves, bystanders get involved, and bullying to end.  These lessons contain inspiring animal stories, motivational activities, reproducible worksheets and letters for parents.  This book is all you need to watch dynamic changes take place in the whole community.  Topic included in the book are: passive, aggressive, and assertive behaviors, steps to thinking before acting, steps to handle teasing, self control of hands, sharing versus greed, ways to care for others, joking versus bullying, options to stop bullying, and ways to stick up for yourself and others.

Naomi is having a difficult time.  She is dealing with the tragic death of her immediate family and living with her loving grandparents for away from old friends.  Unfortunately, she is also being verbally and emotionally bullied by uncaring kids at her new school.  Although she is more than willing to help, Naomi's loving grandmother is having her own problems with nightmares centering on a moon-faced doll that is actually in Naomi's room.  Is "Someone" reaching out from the past to help Grandma and Naomi?  Why is the doll an important part of the story?  Your students will discover the answers to these questions and more, in this story and spine tingling mystery, centered on childhood bullying.  This presentation also includes a study guide.  This DVD is geared towards grades 5 to 9.

On a cold day in January, Sixteen-year-old Jonathan will go to his middle school knowing one thing for sure-he is going to be verbally and physically bullied at least one time during the day.  However, today would not be the same.  Jonathan had something totally unexpected to share with his class, and it will be the day that his tormentors and classmates never forget.  Neither will those who watch this video.  This will be the most powerful and unusual anti-bullying film your students will ever see, and it will definitely spark a meaningful class discussion.

This book is written from one child's perspective, as he goes through the day surrounded by secrets.  There are some he'll want to keep and some that make him feel sick inside, and he knows these are the kind that he'll have to ask for help with - from an adult he can trust. This book is written in verse and easy and fun to read.  Children feel empowered after hearing or reading it.  Designed for ages 3-8 to teach them when it is safe to keep a secret and when they need to tell an adult they trust.
Great for dealing with the school bully.  Approved for day care and elementary school bully-proofing programs!  No more kids keeping other kids' dirty little secrets.

Set in format of a classic radio play, Jeff's Journey is the story of a bully who finds himself bullied when he moves to a new school. Through his interaction with adults, friends and new acquaintances, Jeff comes to understand the consequences of his behavior.

Jeff's Journey is the story of a bully who finds himself bullied when he moves to a new school.

Tracy Ludwig addresses the topic of teasing.  D.J. is getting tired of Vince's mean-spirited comments at school.  Vince knows which buttons to push, by using the "I was just kidding" defense.  Unsure how to handle the situation, D.J. talks with his father and his teacher and learns a few strategies to help deal with the putdowns.  More importantly, he realizes that he isn't the problem and that he hasn't done anything to deserve Vince's taunts.  This frank and believable story will help youngsters to distinguish between good-natured teasing and the destructive variety, empowering them by providing options they can use when faced with bullying.

Why is it so tough to be a girl?  Whether they're teasing a girl because of how she looks, making up rumors to torment others, or launching an online campaign to destroy their target, girls can be just plain ruthless.  This unique book has helped end the cycle of meanness for tens of thousands of girls. Mean Girls is a call to spiritual strength.  It calls girls to face the beasts in their lives head on.  In short, it's the answer girls need for the problem they never thought could go away.  This completely revised edition of Mean Girls will reach Junior High and high schoolers with the help and advice they crave.

Are you still living with Mean?  Take a closer look inside your heart and soul in this spiritually challenging and uplifting sequel to Mean Girls.  In this companion volume, popular author Hayley DiMarco urges girls to take a closer look at what God has to say about the Mean Girls they encounter every day, including the one in the mirror.  It's crammed with biblical insight, guided questions, and prayer tips, Mean Girls Gone leads girls through one of the toughest challenges in their teen lives and shows them that the strength to overcome is not found in some act of revenge but in the God's Word.

When Monica's friend Katie starts to call her names and humiliate her in front of other kids at school, she felt betrayed and lonely.  But with help from her mother, Monica reclaims her confidence from a bully pretending to be her friend.  This wonderful resource for children, parents, teachers, and counselors includes helpful tips, discussion questions, and additional information for any child who has experienced relational aggression.

We know that school bus drivers are very well-trained, but they do not have control over other driver's actions.  Because of this, communication between the students and the driver is very necessary.  In this video, Bobby, a third grader, copes with some events where he is treated with a lack of respect by some other students.  On his third day at school, he is excited about a good report from his teacher and is eager to share it with his mother.  Unfortunately, Bobby makes a big mistake when he does not follow the instructions for crossing safely in front of the bus.  A distracted driver ignores safety procedures, and Bobby is hit by the car.  While Bobby's friends and classmates wait to learn about the outcome, viewers have time to reflect on the importance of following safe procedures.  A joint venture between the Ohio Association of Pupil Transportation and The Broken Toy Project, this color unrated educational drama on DVD features students from the Worthington City Schools.  This intense, disturbing film makes it a good discussion-starting tool for children fifth grade, and under.  While the procedures followed in the film are based on Ohio rules, students and drivers in all states can benefit from viewing this film.

This comic book and activity guidance series for kids was developed with attention grabbing stories that teach young people how to effectively manage anger, deal with bullying and teach other coping skills.  The colorful science fiction comic book format help kids learn lessons that they can share with their friends.  In this issue, Max and his friends are confronted by a gigantic robot called X-35 who has lost control of his anger and is damaging everything in his path.  Max takes control of the situation and teaches the robot anger management to calm him down.  Readers will learn the anger management techniques through activities and discussion.

This comic book and activity guidance series for kids was developed with attention grabbing stories that teach young people how to effectively manage anger, deal with bullying and teach other coping skills.  The colorful science fiction comic book format help kids learn lessons that they can share with their friends. In this issue, Max and the gang have been captured by Secca Ma.  They must find a way to break out of the compound where they are being held.  Tiglos used to be good friends with Secca Ma, until he started bulling Tiglos.  The reader will learn new techniques to cope with bullying through activities and discussion.

From the creator of Broken Toy and Joey, here is another Thomas Brown DVD dealing with the impact of teasing and bullying.  Twelve-year-old Billy had it made.  He was popular and he had no idea how it felt to be down.  Billy and his best friends liked to pick on Christopher, a small built boy who had just lost his mother to cancer 6 months earlier.  However, a freak accident scars Billy, and the roles are now reversed.  Christopher stands up for Billy, who is now a Bully turned victim.  This changes Billy forever, as he learns the value of acceptance, sensitivity, and becoming a caring person.

Since this best-seller was first published in 1990, it has helped countless children build self-esteem and assertiveness skills.  This newly revised and updated book is the perfect resource for any kid who's ever been picked on at school, bossed around, blamed for things he or she didn't do, or treated unfairly. It's for any kid who sometimes feels frustrated, angry, powerless, or scared.  With simple words and real-life examples, this book shows how children can stick up for themselves with other kids (including bullies and teasers), big sisters and brothers, and even grown-ups.

Highly supportive of the continuing anti-bullying work in many schools, Michele is adamant that where bullying is concerned, teachers can make all the difference.

This pocketbook is filled with practical ideas for tackling bullying in schools, and all have been tried and tested.  These aren't just strategies for teachers and parents when dealing with bullies and their victims, there are also defending, deflecting and defusing strategies for those who suffer at the hands of bullies.  Included are awareness-raising ideas for all pupils and inset activities for teachers looking to create a bully-free school.  It's an educational, revitalizing book that leaves you utterly convinced that the bullies can indeed be 'zapped'.

In the United States, over 165,000 bullied children purposely miss school every day because they're afraid to go.  Childhood bullying has been a major factor in both youth suicides and school shootings.  "Storm" is an unnerving and stark reality drama of a boy whose ego and self-worth are reduced to the point where he takes his own life in order to, "make it all go away".  Thomas Brown, anti-bullying advocate and film director reflects on his own bullying experience in the classroom presentation of Taking Ninth Graders by STORM.  Here, Tom poses questions and invites debate on matters affecting the film's characters.  Students watching this segment are able to reflect on other students' attitudes toward bullying, providing them an opportunity to weigh their thoughts against those of their peers.

Thomas Brown has created another powerful, thought-provoking and touching film about how bullying can change and affect the lives of victims, the bystanders and the bully themselves. There are more than half a million school busses on the road every day in the U.S. alone, with fortunately, very few yearly fatalities on or involving them.  This video presents a "what if" scenario.  What if children were being so discourteous to driver and fellow peers, by engaging in misbehavior and bullying, that it would directly contribute to a driver losing control of the bus? This hard-hitting film does not focus on school bus safety. The film is about school bus BULLYING and what 'could' go horribly wrong. Our story DOES go horribly wrong, resulting lives both lost and forever changed. This film contains some scenes that might be upsetting to more sensitive or younger audiences. It has been successfully tested on grades 3-8.

Although one is just a tiny little fellow and the other is a big tough guy, the rat and tiger are best friends.  They always have lots of fun playing together, even though tiger is a bit of a bully. When they play cowboys, rat always has to be the bad guy, and when they share a snack, rat always gets the smaller piece.  But one day, tiger takes the bullying too far, and rat decides that he's not going take it anymore, so he stands up for himself and refuses to be tiger's friend until tiger learns to play fair and square.  Using appealing illustrations and a simple text, Keiko Kasza delivers an important message about friendship in this heartwarming story.

This book contains literacy-based activities to help your students with difficult social issues in their transition to adolescence.  These activities address bullying, peer pressure, drugs, accepting people with differences, entering upper grades and family stability.  Informative text readings are followed with reproducible activities, prompting writing with graphic organizers, discussion questions and follow-up suggestions.  This book is very motivating and relevant for today's classroom teens.

Bullying hurts, and scares many people. It also causes anxiety, and disrupts lives. This comprehensive program will provide solid advice for understanding and dealing with bullies, and viewers will learn the causes and effects of bullying. Why do they do it, and what do they stand to gain? Most importantly, viewers learn the things they can do if they are the victim of a bully. They will learn it's NOT their fault; where they can go for help; and what specific steps they can take to stop the abuse. This video includes interviews, teen bullies, and experts on bullying. Bullying can take many forms, including name calling, teasing, hitting, humiliating, stealing, and spreading rumors. These are just some of the tactics bullies use to harass their targets. A bully tries to make the victim feel inadequate in some way., but in most cases, they are covering up their own inadequacies. This timely resource can be used by the victim, as well as the bully, to help them understand how to deal with bullying.

This short, but powerful book has forever changed the lives of thousands of educators, parents and victims of chronic bullying.  It is issued to school systems by the Departments of Education in Alabama, North Carolina and Indiana as well as the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.  This book has created nothing short of a movement in the battle against bullying in our schools.  Updated with more than 50 pages of new material to help combat bullying, Weakfish has become a tremendously popular book.