While protecting his friend from a school bully, sixteen-year-old Wei Bu pushes the bully down a staircase. He later learns that the bully is hospitalized, gravely injured. Wei's neighbor, 60-year-old Wang Jin, decides to join him as does Huang Ling, Wei's classmate. Together, they decide their only hope is to flee town. They board a bus to Manchuria, where it is a rumored that a circus elephant is said to be sitting still, seeming oblivious to pain...

Bullying is painful, bad and unacceptable. It?s devastating for the child and also for the parents. This book tries to help readers understand the different aspects of the situation. It allows children to develop strategies to deal with bullies in the best possible way.

"The mayor of the noisy city of La Paz institutes new laws forbidding all singing, but a brave little rooster decides he must sing, despite the progressively severe punishments he receives for continuing to crow. The silenced populace, invigorated by the rooster's bravery, ousts the tyrannical mayor and returns their city to its free and clamorous state"--

Jorge and Berto are traveling back in time to kindergarten before they invented Capitan Calzoncillos, and must face sixth-grade bully Luis?n.

Publisher Annotation: The trouble started when Pepe the parrot fell in love with... a CAT! Hoping to win her paw, he invited her to his house for dinner. But within moments of arriving — with a gobble and a gulp — Carina swallowed that love-sick parrot whole! And he was just the appetizer! In this Cuban retelling of a classic folktale, Carmen Agra Deedy and Henry Cole merge their talents to create a wickedly funny and inspiring picture book that...

After breaking his arm during the first day of try-outs last season, Robby is determined to make the football team this year, but to do so he must face his own fears and the bully who tackled him the year before. Después de fracturarse el brazo durante el día de pruebas de la temporado pasada, Robby está convencido de formar parte del equipo este año. Aún si forma parte del equipo, no está seguro de tener la habilidad necesaria para conducir...