RESOURCES FOR TEENSFiction Books:

SpeakBy Laurie Hulse Anderson

FreakBy Marcella Pixley

Burger WussBy M. T. Anderson

Star GirlBy Jerry Spinelli

BlackwaterBy Eve Bunting

Double DutchBy Sharon M. Draper

Poison IvyBy Amy Goldman Coss

The Secret Language of GirlsBy Frances O’Roark Dowell

Non-Fiction Books and Real-Life Stories:

Why is Everybody always Picking on Us?Dr. Terrence Walsh-Doyle

Bullying: How to Deal With Taunting, Teasing and TormentingKathleen Winkler

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in GirlsRachel Simmons

Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman’s Inspirational StoryJodee Blanco

Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity and JealousyRachel Simmons

Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks: A Real Girl’s Guide to Getting ThroughThe Day with Smarts and StyleErika V. Shearin Karres

RESOURCES FOR TEENSFiction Books:

SpeakBy Laurie Hulse Anderson

FreakBy Marcella Pixley

Burger WussBy M. T. Anderson

Star GirlBy Jerry Spinelli

BlackwaterBy Eve Bunting

Double DutchBy Sharon M. Draper

Poison IvyBy Amy Goldman Coss

The Secret Language of GirlsBy Frances O’Roark Dowell

Non-Fiction Books and Real-Life Stories:

Why is Everybody always Picking on Us?Dr. Terrence Walsh-Doyle

Bullying: How to Deal With Taunting, Teasing and TormentingKathleen Winkler

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in GirlsRachel Simmons

Please Stop Laughing at Me: One Woman’s Inspirational StoryJodee Blanco

Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity and JealousyRachel Simmons

Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks: A Real Girl’s Guide to Getting ThroughThe Day with Smarts and StyleErika V. Shearin Karres

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OTHER RESOURCES:

ON THE INTERNET:

clubophelia.com

girlsinc.org

www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/ problems/bullies.html

www.teenlineonline.org/

www.ncpc.org/topics/by-audience/teens/protect-yourself/cyberbullying/

At MEARS MIDDLE SCHOOL:

Your teachers

Your counselor

The Girls’ Circle / Mrs. Keller

Your librarian

Your school nurse

Five Ways to Stop the Madness if You are Bullied:

1. Ignore it and walk away. Hold in your angerand fear, because that is just what the bullywants to see. Keep your feelings in your heartuntil you can safely express them.

2. Talk about it. Find a safe person to talk to, a teacher, your counselor, your parent, or a relative. Or, write down what happened in a journal as a means of safely expressing your reaction and feelings.

3. Find your true friends. Learn who you can count on and who will not join in with mean and hurtful words or gossip.

4. Practice confidence. Know that if you seem afraid or unhappy, the bully will try to hurt your feelings again.

5. Cyberspace. If you get a mean or hurtful email, IM, phone call, or text message, do NOT answer the message. Save the message and tell a safe person about it, your parent or a teacher, for example.

OTHER RESOURCES:

ON THE INTERNET:

clubophelia.com

girlsinc.org

www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/ problems/bullies.html

www.teenlineonline.org/

www.ncpc.org/topics/by-audience/teens/protect-yourself/cyberbullying/

At MEARS MIDDLE SCHOOL:

Your teachers

Your counselor

The Girls’ Circle / Mrs. Keller

Your librarian

Your school nurse

Five Ways to Stop the Madness if You are Bullied:

1. Ignore it and walk away. Hold in your angerand fear, because that is just what the bullywants to see. Keep your feelings in your heartuntil you can safely express them.

2. Talk about it. Find a safe person to talk to, a teacher, your counselor, your parent, or a relative. Or, write down what happened in a journal as a means of safely expressing your reaction and feelings.

3. Find your true friends. Learn who you can count on and who will not join in with mean and hurtful words or gossip.

4. Practice confidence. Know that if you seem afraid or unhappy, the bully will try to hurt your feelings again.

5. Cyberspace. If you get a mean or hurtful email, IM, phone call, or text message, do NOT answer the message. Save the message and tell a safe person about it, your parent or a teacher, for example.

Books:

And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to ProtectAdolescents from Bullying, Harassment andEmotional Violence By James Garbarino & Ellen deLara

Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping YourDaughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of AdolescenceBy Rosalind Wiseman

Cliques, Eight Steps to Help your ChildSurvive the Social JungleBy Charlene Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese

Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their WisdomIn Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage YearsBy Cheryl Dellasega

Girls Will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous DaughtersBy JoAnn Deak

Websites:

Girls Bullying Girls: Info for Parentshttp://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/ parent/ra2.cfm

In The Know Zone: Relational Aggressionhttp://intheknowzone.com/relational_aggression/

The Ophelia Project http://www.opheliaproject.org/main/ra_faq.htm

Mean Girls: the Reality of Relational Aggression http://www.spsk12.net/Relational%20Aggression.htm

Parenting about Bullyinghttp://kidshealth.org/Search01.jsp

GIRLS BULLYING GIRLS: RESOURCES for PARENTS

Books:

And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to ProtectAdolescents from Bullying, Harassment andEmotional Violence By James Garbarino & Ellen deLara

Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping YourDaughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of AdolescenceBy Rosalind Wiseman

Cliques, Eight Steps to Help your ChildSurvive the Social JungleBy Charlene Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese

Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their WisdomIn Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage YearsBy Cheryl Dellasega

Girls Will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous DaughtersBy JoAnn Deak

Websites:

Girls Bullying Girls: Info for Parentshttp://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/

parent/ra2.cfm

In The Know Zone: Relational Aggressionhttp://intheknowzone.com/relational_aggression/

The Ophelia Project http://www.opheliaproject.org/main/ra_faq.htm

Mean Girls: the Reality of Relational Aggression http://www.spsk12.net/Relational%20Aggression.htm

Parenting about Bullyinghttp://kidshealth.org/Search01.jsp

GIRLS BULLYING GIRLS: RESOURCES for PARENTS

Girls Bullying Girls:Five Ways to Help Your Daughter

Cope

1. Support and help her form social groups and interests outside of school, based upon common interests.

2. Talk to her about bullying before it happens. Ask your daughter if she has seen or heard girls being mean. Let her know that she can always come to you if she has a problem. Discuss what she might do if she were bullied.

3. Listen when your daughter comes to you with a bullying problem.

4. If she can not work out the problem, seek help from her school. The school administrators, teachers and counselors are there to help.

5. Keep a watch on cyberspace. Emails, cell phone calls and text messages can be used to bully others.

Girls Bullying Girls:Five Ways to Help Your Daughter

Cope

1. Support and help her form social groups and interests outside of school, based upon common interests.

2. Talk to her about bullying before it happens. Ask your daughter if she has seen or heard girls being mean. Let her know that she can always come to you if she has a problem. Discuss what she might do if she were bullied.

3. Listen when your daughter comes to you with a bullying problem.

4. If she can not work out the problem, seek help from her school. The school administrators, teachers and counselors are there to help.

5. Keep a watch on cyberspace. Emails, cell phone calls and text messages can be used to bully others.

Resources at Mears

Your Child’s Teachers

Your Child’s Counselor742-6404

The School Librarian742-6430

Your School Nurse742-6401

Resources at Mears

Your Child’s Teachers

Your Child’s Counselor742-6404

The School Librarian742-6430

Your School Nurse742-6401

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