Frank Carlson Library

Every school day seems to bring more trouble to eleven-year-old Derek, whose former best friend bullies him, while at home he deals with the long absence of his father, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot, and his mother's sudden moodiness.

"Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Will bond for the first time over Dungeons & Dragons, where they come together as a team to learn important lessons about friendship and find the courage to stand up to bullies"--

"Before, Taylor Harper is finally popular, sitting with the cool kids at lunch, and maybe, just maybe, getting invited to the biggest, most exclusive party of the year. After, no one talks to her. Before, she's friends with Brielle Branson, the coolest girl in school. After, Brielle has become a bully, and Taylor's her favorite target. Before, home isn't perfect, but at least her family is together. After, Mom won't get out of bed, Dad won't stop...

New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.

"Shoya is a bully. When Shoko, a girl who can't hear, enters his elementary school class, she becomes their favorite target, and Shoya and his friends goad each other into devising new tortures for her. But the children's cruelty goes too far. Shoko is forced to leave the school, and Shoya ends up shouldering all the blame. Six years later, the two meet again. Can Shoya make up for his past mistakes, or is it too late?"--Provided from Amazon.com.

Summary for One: A number/color book reminding us that it just takes one to make everyone count. Summary for Zero: One character's search to find value in herself and in others.

In the dead-end Canadian town of Bleak Landing, twelve-year-old Irish immigrant Bridget O'Sullivan lives in a ramshackle house and dreams of another life, even as the Great Depression rages. Routinely beaten by her father and bullied by schoolmate Victor Harrison, the waifish yet fiery redhead vows to run away and never return. Just a few short years later, run she does, fleeing the unspeakable repercussions of her father's gambling. In Winnipeg,...

Troy and James head into the woods to find out what El and the gang are up to, but when they stumble upon some terrifying creatures, they have to run for their lives.

Coop Cooperson is the only human kid at the Dungeoneer Academy, a school for the future explorers of the Land of Eem, a place full of monsters, mazes, danger; together he and his teammates (Oggie the bugbear, Daz, a boggart, and Mindy, an imp), are having their survival skills and understanding of the Dungeoneer's Code tested in a treacherous obstacle course--but many more challenges lie ahead, and so far Coop is failing miserably (as everyone points...

Troy, the bully, is haunted by nightmares of Eleven, but finds little sympathy from his father, who is a bully himself.