We are celebrating anti-bullying week’s One Kind Word initiative in the Library this week and we have brought out lots of great fiction on display to inspire you.
Here are some of the Librarian’s favourite’s:
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Starr finds herself at the centre of a
race riot in her home town brought on by mounting police racism and brutality
across America but do the bigger problems start with the seemingly innocent
microaggressions and racial slurs she receives from within her own friendship
group? Year 9+
Ms Johns
Lexi is facing her demons in a
rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol addiction. She is only 16 but
feels like she has lived her life through already. As she gets ‘clean’ it dawns
on her that it is the hateful words and actions of others that have put her
there and she must learn to love herself before others can. Year 10+
Ms Johns
What’s a Girl Gotta Do by Holly Bourne
Lottie wants to start a ‘Feminist
Revolution’ but first she has real life misogyny to contend with and a world of
digital hate and trolling to rise above. Can she do it or has she bitten off a
little more than she can chew? ‘Change begins at home’ they say. Year 10+
Ms Johns
Morgan
has a few secrets and is not ready to share them even with her best friend. The
world tells her every day that it is not ready to accept her for who she really
is and so she tries to fit in with disastrous consequences. Only time, love and
self-acceptance will allow the true Morgan to be revealed and their passions to
be recognised. Year 9+
Ms Johns
George by Alex Gino
George doesn’t like the person people
treat her as. She doesn’t like her name and she desperately wants to play the
spider in the school play of Charlotte’s web but is meeting resistance from
every angle. Why do people find it so difficult to accept who she knows she is?
Year 7+
Ms Johns
Sarah is the first black girl to go to
an all-white high school in 1950s America, nobody could be prepared for the mass
ignorance, hatred and violence that she and her friends are met with. When
Sarah is forced to study with Linda, the daughter of one of the most vocally
racist townspeople, an unexpected reckoning occurs between them. But can such
public rifts be reconciled? Year 7+
Ms Johns
The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson Matthew has OCD and has given up going to school. He spends his day recording life out of his window and feeling a failure especially to his parents. Then one day a toddler goes missing next door. Maybe Matthew can help but that means some of his secrets coming out as well. Can he finally make friends, teach them how not to judge people from their appearance and how to change fear into hope? Year 7+
Mrs Godden
Two black
students, Chiamaka and Devon, at a predominantly white private Academy have
been made prefects. At first it seems that nothing can stop them from getting
into the most prestigious colleges and receiving scholarships. Soon they will
have to deal with cyber harassment and bullying that can harm their chances of
staying prefects and reaching their goals. Some deceitful relationships don’t
make it any easier… is this racism? And who is the Ace of Spades? Year 9+
Mrs Sadek