Monday, May 23, 2011

Booklist: Books About Self Esteem

-From Listserv, compiled by Bridget R Wilson, Youth Services Librarian


The Fast and the Furriest By Andy Behrens
Shredderman Series By Wendelin VanDraanen
The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy By William Boniface
Schooled By Gordon Korman
A Week in the Woods By Andrew Clements
The Boy Who Owned the School By Gary Paulsen
S.O.R. Losers by Avi – a seventh grade soccer team made up of the
non-athletes
The 18th Emergency – Betsy Byars (a boy going through being bullied and
thinking his way out of every emergency but being bullied)
Almost anything by Daniel Pinkwater (Lizard Music, Snarkout Boys, Alan
Mendelson the Boy From Mars) generally feature boys who are “different”
Slake’s Limbo – Felice Holman (loner boy goes to live in the subway)
Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli (more a boy hero to a loner boy)
Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon, by Patti Lovell
I'm gonna like me by Jamie Lee Curtis
Jim Hensen's muppet's in flip flap flop by Stephanie St. Pierre
'Stick Up For Yourself!: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive
Self-Esteem'
by Gershen Kaufman, Lev Raphael, and Pamela Espeland
Welcome Comfort by Patricia Polacco
Diary of a Wimpy Kid books by Kinney

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