Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.

Jamie Grimm tries to win the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest, while also dealing with his stepfamily, friends, and a school bully.

Ming and her family harvest rice at the base of a tall mountain. They could sell the extra rice at market on the other side of the mountain but the dragon on the mountain steals the rice. Ming decides to try on her own to get past the dragon so she packs up her ox and heads to the market. When the bully dragon tries to stop her, Ming outwits the bully and makes it safely to market and back home with the money. Includes glossary, as well as questions...

When Bear goes out in the forest to find friends, he is gruff and offends everyone he meets-- until Bird points out that Bear is being a bully. Bear realizes he was feeling unsure of himself so he apologizes. After that, Bear has plenty of new friends. Includes glossary, as well as questions to self-check comprehension.

"Gerald Creeper Jr. is a self-proclaimed pacifist, but he finds himself in the war zone when he starts his first year at Mob Middle School. At his new school, every monster in the Overworld is jockeying for power, and the skeletons seem to have it out for him. Armed with a 30-day plan, Gerald makes it his mission to use his brains--instead of his blasts--to survive the school year"--

Flip-Flop challenges each of the bullies who do not want to let her cross the bridge.

Ian Hart has always been the kid most likely to be bullied, which is why he appreciates having agressive Devon as a friend--but when one of Devon's pranks goes terribly wrong Ian finds himself the youngest student in the Juvenile Academy for Noncompliant and Underachieving Students, otherwise know as reform school, and somehow he is going to have to learn how to stand up for himself.

Because his family's moved again, Josh Baxter's starting at a new school for the third time in two years, and this time he's really started off on the wrong foot--and when his mother takes away the video games that have become his refuge because of his poor grades, Josh realizes he has to come up with a new strategy for success.

Henry Leach the Eighth is descended from a long line of wandmakers, but he still has not managed to make his very first wand do anything--and while he keeps trying he is also having to deal with a bully at school, and even worse, his eight-year-old little sister Brianna who has a positive genius for getting in his way.

Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.