“What are the best Children’s books about Bullying?” We looked at 234 of the top Kids Bullying books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 21 titles, all appearing on 3 or more “Best Children’s Bullying” book lists, are ranked below by how many lists they appear on. The remaining 200+ titles, as well as the lists we used are in alphabetical order at the bottom of the page.
Happy Scrolling!
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Ten-year-old Mandy must endure torment from three nasty bullies in school, but she finds solace in a new friendship with an older girl.
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Hoping that the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid of his enemy, a little boy finds that instead it helps make a new friend.
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In a dangerous alley in a township in South Africa, the strength and unity which a group of young friends feel while playing soccer keep them safe when a gang of bullies arrives to cause trouble.
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Following their teacher’s lead, Llama Llama speaks to Gilroy Goat and tells him he should not act like a bully on the playground.
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When Monica’s friend Katie begins to call her names and humiliate her in front of other kids at school, she feels betrayed and isolated. But with help from her mother, Monica reclaims her confidence from a bully disguised as her friend. Includes a note to parents and teachers, as well as related resources.…
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After Emily asks her big sister what the word empathy means, Emily decides to pay closer attention to others during her day.
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When Lottie is bothered by a bully at school, she helps start a club where everyone is welcome.
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In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson. Includes a note from the author’s daughter, Helena Estes.
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Brian has always felt invisible at school, but when a new student, Justin, arrives, everything changes.
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Mean Jean is the biggest bully on the school playground until a new girl arrives and challenges Jean’s status as the Recess Queen.
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When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah’s voice recounting the events leading up to her death.…
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hoever heard of a vegetarian T Rex? Everyone knows that tyrannosauruses are big and scary, so when a placid duckbill dinosaur’s egg ends up in the wrong nest, confusion is sure to ensue! When the baby dinosaur hatches out, he’s so out of place that his grisly big sisters call him Tyrannosaurus Drip. Poor little Drip: all he wants is a quiet life munching on water weed… Another winner from the author of The Gruffalo!…
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Willow wants to go to Kristabelle’s fantastic birthday party, so she does things to get Kristabelle to like her, but soon the popular girl’s behavior is too much for Willow.
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When Yoko brings sushi to school for lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats–until one of them tries it for himself.
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Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
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Ikarus Jackson, the new boy in school, is outcast because he has wings. But his resilient spirit inspires one girl to speak up for him in this thought provoking story about celebrating individuality.
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it’s like when she, too, becomes a target.
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Sixth-grade friends Lyla and Jamie, both new to their school, stand up for each other when a clique of popular girls bullies them online.
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A number/color book reminding us that it just takes one to make everyone count.
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.…
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When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya’s shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
| # | Books | Authors | Lists |
| 22 | A Man Called Raven | Colours Of Us | |
| – | – | – | Pragmatic Mom |
| 23 | Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers | Dave Pilkey | RD |
| – | – | – | Teacher |
| 24 | Cat’s Eye | Margaret Atwood | Book Riot |
| – | – | – | Telegraph |
| 25 | Freak the Mighty | Rodman Philbrick | Read Brightly |
| – | – | – | Suffolk Libraries |
| 26 | I Walk With Vanessa | Kerascoët | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Suffolk Libraries |
| 27 | Inside Out and Back Again | Colours Of Us | |
| – | – | – | Welcoming Schools |
| 28 | King for a Day | Colours Of Us | |
| – | – | – | Pragmatic Mom |
| 29 | Leave Me Alone | Little Parachutes | |
| – | – | – | Redtri |
| 30 | Marlene, Marlene, Queen of Mean | Jane Lynch | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Family Education |
| 31 | Matilda | Roald Dahl | Suffolk Libraries |
| – | – | – | The Book People |
| 32 | My Name Is Bilal | Colours Of Us | |
| – | – | – | Welcoming Schools |
| 33 | Pepita and the Bully/Pepita y La Peleonera | Human Education | |
| – | – | – | Pragmatic Mom |
| 34 | Say Something | Peggy Moss | Human Education |
| – | – | – | Teacher |
| 35 | Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun | Maria Dismondy | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Family Education |
| 36 | Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon | Patty Lovell | RD |
| – | – | – | Teacher |
| 37 | Stop Picking On Me | Redtri | |
| – | – | – | Storytime Standout |
| 38 | The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | Suffolk Libraries |
| – | – | – | Telegraph |
| 39 | The Juice Box Bully | Bob Sornson, Ph.D. | Family Education |
| – | – | – | We Are Teachers |
| 40 | The Skin I’m In | Colours Of Us | |
| – | – | – | Welcoming Schools |
| 41 | The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade | Justin Roberts | A Mighty Girl |
| – | – | – | Teacher |
| 42 | Totally Joe | Welcoming Schools | |
| – | – | – | Welcoming Schools |
| 43 | Willy the Wimp | Anthony Brown | Suffolk Libraries |
| – | – | – | Telegraph |
| 44 | 7 Days | Eve Ainsworth | Suffolk Libraries |
| 45 | A First Look At | Storytime Standout | |
| 46 | A Glass Full of Rumors | A.M. Marcus | Teacher |
| 47 | A Handful of Stars | Welcoming Schools | |
| 48 | A Monster Calls | Patrick Ness | Telegraph |
| 49 | A Safe Place for Rufus | Little Parachutes | |
| 50 | Addie on the Inside, | Welcoming Schools | |
| 51 | After Notes | Storytime Standout | |
| 52 | Angel Child, Dragon Child | Colours Of Us | |
| 53 | Anger Tree by John Cary | We Are Teachers | |
| 54 | Anita and Me | Meera Syal | Book Riot |
| 55 | Avocado Baby | John Burningham | Suffolk Libraries |
| 56 | Back Home | Michelle Magorian | Telegraph |
| 57 | Bad Astrid | Storytime Standout | |
| 58 | Batty Betty | Redtri | |
| 59 | Ben Rides On | Human Education | |
| 60 | Billy and the Big New School | Little Parachutes | |
| 61 | Billy Bully | Storytime Standout | |
| 62 | Bluebird | Bob Staake | Suffolk Libraries |
| 63 | Booked | Colours Of Us | |
| 64 | Bully 101 | Storytime Standout | |
| 65 | Bullying No More: Understanding and Preventing Bullying | Redtri | |
| 66 | Bullying Solutions: Learn to Overcome from Real Case Studies | Redtri | |
| 67 | Carrie | Stephen King | Telegraph |
| 68 | Cheeky Charlie! | Little Parachutes | |
| 69 | Chick-O-Saurus Rex | Storytime Standout | |
| 70 | Chocolate Me! | Welcoming Schools | |
| 71 | Clara and the Bossy | Storytime Standout | |
| 72 | Cloud Busting | Malorie Blackman | Book Riot |
| 73 | Confessions of a Former Bully | Trudy Ludwig | Family Education |
| 74 | Crow Boy | Colours Of Us | |
| 75 | Dad David, Baba Chris and Me | Little Parachutes | |
| 76 | Dare!: A Story about Standing Up to Bullying in Schools (The Weird! Series) | Colours Of Us | |
| 77 | Dear Bully | We Are Teachers | |
| 78 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney | Suffolk Libraries |
| 79 | Dinosaur Chase! | Benedict Blathwayt | Suffolk Libraries |
| 80 | Don’t be a Bully, Billy! | Little Parachutes | |
| 81 | e Liberation of Gabriel King | Welcoming Schools | |
| 82 | Eddie Longpants | Storytime Standout | |
| 83 | Edwardo: The Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World | Human Education | |
| 84 | Elmer and the Big Bird | David McKee | Suffolk Libraries |
| 85 | Enough of Frankie Already! | Colours Of Us | |
| 86 | Eric!…the Hero? | Little Parachutes | |
| 87 | Everybody Matters: A First Look at Respect for Others | Little Parachutes | |
| 88 | Face | Benjamin Zephaniah | Book Riot |
| 89 | Fancy Nancy and the Mean Girl | Storytime Standout | |
| 90 | Felix Stands Tall | Redtri | |
| 91 | First Day in Grapes | Colours Of Us | |
| 92 | First Test: Protector of the Small | Tamora Pierce | Book Riot |
| 93 | Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully | A Mighty Girl | |
| 94 | Gabe & Izzy: Standing Up for America’s Bullied | Gabrielle Ford | Family Education |
| 95 | Galloping Foxley | Roald Dahl | Telegraph |
| 96 | Garvey’s Choice | Welcoming Schools | |
| 97 | Ghost | Welcoming Schools | |
| 98 | Giraffes Can’t Dance | Little Parachutes | |
| 99 | Good Little Wolf | Little Parachutes | |
| 100 | Gracefully Grayson | Welcoming Schools | |
| 101 | Have You Filled A Bucket Today?: A Daily Guide to Happiness for Kids | A Mighty Girl | |
| 102 | Hey, Little Ant | Phillip and Hannah Hoose | Teacher |
| 103 | How Should I Behave? | Little Parachutes | |
| 104 | How to Be Cool in the Third Grade | Read Brightly | |
| 105 | How to Fly with Broken Wings | Jane Elson | Suffolk Libraries |
| 106 | Hugo and the Bully Frogs | Little Parachutes | |
| 107 | Hurricane Child | Welcoming Schools | |
| 108 | I Can’t Hear Like You (Talking it Through) | Little Parachutes | |
| 109 | I Don’t Care!: Learning About Respect | Little Parachutes | |
| 110 | I Feel Bullied (Your Feelings) | Little Parachutes | |
| 111 | I Like Myself! | RD | |
| 112 | I’m the King of the Castle | Susan Hill | Telegraph |
| 113 | Invisible Isabelle | Little Parachutes | |
| 114 | Invisible Vinnie | Jenny Nimmo | Suffolk Libraries |
| 115 | Is It Because…? | Little Parachutes | |
| 116 | It’s Okay To Be Different | A Mighty Girl | |
| 117 | Jacob’s New Dress | Welcoming Schools | |
| 118 | JoJo the Giant | Storytime Standout | |
| 119 | Jungle Bullies | Storytime Standout | |
| 120 | Junkyard Wonders | Pragmatic Mom | |
| 121 | Just Kidding | Trudy Ludwig | Family Education |
| 122 | Kung Fu High School | Ryan Gattiss | Telegraph |
| 123 | Let Me In | Telegraph | |
| 124 | Let the Right One In | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Telegraph |
| 125 | Let’s Talk: Have you got a Secret? | Little Parachutes | |
| 126 | Lion’s Lunch | Storytime Standout | |
| 127 | Lively Elizabeth | Little Parachutes | |
| 128 | Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Suffolk Libraries |
| 129 | lso Known as Elvis | Welcoming Schools | |
| 130 | Lucy and the Bully | Little Parachutes | |
| 131 | Malala’s Magic Pencil | Little Parachutes | |
| 132 | Manfred the Baddie | Little Parachutes | |
| 133 | Manners in School | Little Parachutes | |
| 134 | Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match / Marisol McDonald no combina | Welcoming Schools | |
| 135 | Minnie & Max are OK! | Little Parachutes | |
| 136 | Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress | Welcoming Schools | |
| 137 | Muskrat Will Be Swimming | Welcoming Schools | |
| 138 | My Friend Maggie | Redtri | |
| 139 | My Princess Boy | Cheryl Kilodavis | Teacher |
| 140 | Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl | Little Parachutes | |
| 141 | Nineteen Minutes | Jodi Picoult | Telegraph |
| 142 | Noni Says No | Storytime Standout | |
| 143 | Nothing Rhymes with Orange | Adam Rex | Teacher |
| 144 | Odd Velvet | A Mighty Girl | |
| 145 | One Green Apple | Pragmatic Mom | |
| 146 | Only Ever Yours | Louise O’Neill | Book Riot |
| 147 | Orchards | Colours Of Us | |
| 148 | Out of My Mind | Read Brightly | |
| 149 | Paper Pink Shirt Day #2 | Storytime Standout | |
| 150 | Playground: A Mostly True Story of a Former Bully | Welcoming Schools | |
| 151 | Pottymouth and Stoopid | James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein & Stephen Gilpin | Suffolk Libraries |
| 152 | Real Friends by Shannon Hale | We Are Teachers | |
| 153 | Red: A Crayon’s Story | Welcoming Schools | |
| 154 | Ringo the Flamingo | Little Parachutes | |
| 155 | Roxie and the Hooligans | A Mighty Girl | |
| 156 | Rude Rabbit | Little Parachutes | |
| 157 | Save Me a Seat | Colours Of Us | |
| 158 | Say Hello | Jack & Michael Foreman | Suffolk Libraries |
| 159 | Secret Friends | Elizabeth Laird | Suffolk Libraries |
| 160 | Shaun The Shy Shark | Little Parachutes | |
| 161 | Side Effects May Vary | We Are Teachers | |
| 162 | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Becky Albertalli | Suffolk Libraries |
| 163 | Simon with Two Left Feet | Storytime Standout | |
| 164 | Small Florence | Little Parachutes | |
| 165 | Some Secrets Should Never Be Kept | Little Parachutes | |
| 166 | Something Else | Kathryn Cave & Chris Riddell | Suffolk Libraries |
| 167 | Spark Learns To Fly | Little Parachutes | |
| 168 | Stand Up for Yourself & Your Friends | Patti Kelley Criswell | Family Education |
| 169 | Stick and Stone | Beth Ferry | Teacher |
| 170 | Strictly No Elephants | Lisa Mantchev | Teacher |
| 171 | Tales from the Bully Box | Cat Woods, Sarah Tregay, Lauren Neil, Steven Carman, Linda Brewer, Eden Grey, K.R. Smith, Precy Larkins | Teacher |
| 172 | Tease | We Are Teachers | |
| 173 | Teasing Isn’t Funny | The Book People | |
| 174 | Th | Welcoming Schools | |
| 175 | Thank You, Mr. Falker | Patricia Polacco | Teacher |
| 176 | The 18th Emergency | Betsy Byars | Book Riot |
| 177 | The Adventures of Doc Holliday Hennings | Redtri | |
| 178 | The Art of Being Normal | Lisa Williamson | Book Riot |
| 179 | The Bad Tempered Ladybird | Little Parachutes | |
| 180 | The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Teasing | Stan and Jan Berenstain | Teacher |
| 181 | The Bully Blockers: Standing Up for Classmates with Autism | Colours Of Us | |
| 182 | The Bully Book | We Are Teachers | |
| 183 | The Bully from the Black Lagoon | RD | |
| 184 | The Butterfly Club | Jacqueline Wilson | Suffolk Libraries |
| 185 | The Crossover | Colours Of Us | |
| 186 | The Diddakoi | Rumer Godden | Telegraph |
| 187 | The Exact Location of Home | Welcoming Schools | |
| 188 | The Great Big Book of Feelings | Little Parachutes | |
| 189 | The Great Wall of Lucy Wu | Welcoming Schools | |
| 190 | The Happy Book | Little Parachutes | |
| 191 | The Harder They Fall | Bali Rai | Book Riot |
| 192 | The Icarus Show | Sally Christie | Suffolk Libraries |
| 193 | The Infamous Ratsos | Redtri | |
| 194 | The Knife That Killed Me | Anthony McGowan | Suffolk Libraries |
| 195 | The Misfits | Welcoming Schools | |
| 196 | The Name Jar | Yangsook Choi | Book Riot |
| 197 | The Only Game | Read Brightly | |
| 198 | The Popularity Papers: Book Two: The Long-Distance Dispatch Between Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang | Welcoming Schools | |
| 199 | The Revealers | Welcoming Schools | |
| 200 | The Shopping Basket | Little Parachutes | |
| 201 | The Sneetches and Other Stories | Welcoming Schools | |
| 202 | The Song from Somewhere Else | A. F. Harrold & Levi Pinfold | Suffolk Libraries |
| 203 | The Stars Beneath Our Feet | Welcoming Schools | |
| 204 | The Story of Ferdinand | Munro Leaf | Teacher |
| 205 | The Truth About Alice | Jennifer Mathieu | Suffolk Libraries |
| 206 | The Ugly Duckling | Hans Christian Andersen | Telegraph |
| 207 | The War Next Door | Phil Earle | Suffolk Libraries |
| 208 | The Weight of Water | Sarah Crossan | Suffolk Libraries |
| 209 | There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom | Louis Sachar | Suffolk Libraries |
| 210 | This Book Belongs to Aye-Aye | Little Parachutes | |
| 211 | This is Our House | Little Parachutes | |
| 212 | Thornhill | Pam Smy | Suffolk Libraries |
| 213 | Tom Brown’s Schooldays | Thomas Hughes | Telegraph |
| 214 | Troll Stinks | Jeanne Willis & Tony Ross | Suffolk Libraries |
| 215 | Trouble Talk | A Mighty Girl | |
| 216 | Two Dumb Ducks | Storytime Standout | |
| 217 | Two of a Kind | Storytime Standout | |
| 218 | Ugly | Redtri | |
| 219 | Walrus’s Gift | Storytime Standout | |
| 220 | Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High | Colours Of Us | |
| 221 | We Are All Made of Molecules | Susin Nielsen | Suffolk Libraries |
| 222 | We’re All Wonders | Little Parachutes | |
| 223 | Weird! | A Mighty Girl | |
| 224 | What’s worrying you? | Little Parachutes | |
| 225 | Who’s a Big Bully Then? | Michael Morpurgo | Suffolk Libraries |
| 226 | Why Pick On Me? | Louis Sachar | Suffolk Libraries |
| 227 | Will You Be My Friend? | Little Parachutes | |
| 228 | Wishtree | Welcoming Schools | |
| 229 | Witches and Fairies | Little Parachutes | |
| 230 | Wolf Hollow | Lauren Wolk | Suffolk Libraries |
| 231 | Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass | Colours Of Us | |
| 232 | You, Me and Empathy by Jayneen Sanders | We Are Teachers | |
| 233 | You’re Mean Lily Jean | Storytime Standout | |
| 234 | Zero | Welcoming Schools |
| Source | Article |
| A Mighty Girl | 18 Bullying Prevention Books for Young Children |
| Book Riot | 12 Books About Bullying For Young Readers and Teens |
| Colours Of Us | 20 Multicultural Children’s Books about Bullying |
| Doing Good Together | A Growing List of Picture Books about Bullies, Bystanders, and Being |
| Family Education | 11 Children’s Books About Bullying, Teasing & Empathy |
| Human Education | 13 Children’s Picture Books about Bullying – Institute for Humane |
| Little Parachutes | Little Parachutes • children’s picture books about Bullying, Violence |
| Pragmatic Mom | Top 10 Multicultural Picture Books on Bullying |
| RD | Books About Bullying for Kids |
| Read Brightly | 7 of the Best Books About Bullying, According to Kids |
| Redtri | Best Books on Bullying for Kids |
| Storytime Standout | Anti-bullying picture books, chapter books and novels for children |
| Suffolk Libraries | Bullying: recommended titles for children and young adults for Anti |
| Teacher | 20 of the Best Anti-Bullying Picture Books for Teachers |
| Telegraph | 20 inspirational books about bullying |
| The Book People | Top 6 Best Children’s Books About Bullying |
| We Are Teachers | 14 Must-Read Anti-Bullying Books for Kids |
| Welcoming Schools | Books to Engage Students on Bullying and Diversity |
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