Ella And The Big Bad Bullies

It doesn’t matter how big or small you may be, anyone can save the day and be a superhero. Bella, a small, spunky Chihuahua, feels as if she can’t do as much as the rest of her pals because of her size. Her pals always made her feel accepted – that is, until the town bully comes by. Ty, a bulldog who is much larger than the rest and wears a shiny chain around his neck, stirs up trouble with Bella and her pals. It isn’t until Ty and the rest of the gang is in trouble and desperately need Bella’s help that he realizes he shouldn’t bully others because of their size or shape.

This collection of essays explores a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture. Contributions about picture-books include analyses of variants of the folktale “The Little Red Hen” and bullying. Race and gender are explored in essays about picture-books featuring children as consumable objects, about books focused on African American female athletes, and about young adult dystopian fiction. Gender itself is further explored in articles about Monster High, Joyce Carol Oates’s Beasts, and The Hunger Games and Divergent. Essays about fantasy literature include an exploration of environmentalism in Rick Riordan’s The Heroes of Olympus, a discussion of Severus Snape as a Judas figure, an explication of Chapter 5 of The Hobbit, and an analysis of ghosts and nationalism in Eva Ibbotson’s The Haunting of Granite Falls. An essay about Horrible Histories explores television, genre, and the way history is coded. Other contributions explore how teaching literature to reluctant readers can be effective through multimodal texts and how Harry Potter has played a role in the popularity of young adult literature for adult readers.

Read about a girl who has been bullied by a group of boys. When Makailah, an eleven year old girl, was playing with her dog, the bullies grabbed the ball. Read to find out what happens next.

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

A girl who has been bullied about her appearance since second grade decides, as a sixth-grader, to stand up to Bully, once and for all. Includes Includes authors' note, an exercise, and resources for parents and teachers.

Are you curious about what happened to Sierra’s brother Daniel from The Duke’s Blackmailed Bride? Or whether Livia’s father Dan Morgan from The Russian’s Runaway Bride ever had to face the music? This novella answers these questions and does so much more. It features a fully grown Daniel working on the streets of London as a police detective and the saucy shop owner named Ella who mistakenly confronts him while trying to stand up for her fellow shop owners. Enjoy both the steamy romance and the suspense as Elizabeth Lennox completes The Boarding School Series with this fast, fun, and free romp.

The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. One reason for this is that little attention has been paid to the role of the media and popular culture in adolescents' bullying and mean-girl behavior. This book addresses media role models in television, film, picture books, and the Internet in the realm of bullying and relational aggression. It highlights portrayals with unproductive strategies that lead to poor resolutions or no resolution at all. Young viewers may learn ineffective, even dangerous, ways of handling aggressive situations. Victims may feel discouraged when they are unable to handle the situation as easily as in media portrayals. They may also feel their experiences are trivialized by comic portrayals. Entertainment programming, aimed particularly at adolescents, often portray adults as incompetent or uncaring and include mean-spirited teasing. In addition, overuse of the term "bully" and defining all bad behavior as "bullying" may dilute the term and trivialize the problem.