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Pink Shirt Day for Teens - 2022

SurreyLibraries_Teens - In 2007, two high school students in Nova Scotia gave out pink shirts for classmates to wear in support of another student who had been bullied for wearing pink. Since then, the idea has only grown each year, with worldwide support and participation in the anti-bullying "Pink Shirt Day" on the last Wednesday of February. Create a more kind, inclusive world by checking out these recommended reads for teens that raise awareness of bullying and support anti-bullying initiatives.

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  • In the face of overwhelming grief and bullying, tech-savvy Lydia pours all of herself into creating the perfect AI, the perfect boyfriend-but will Henry turn out to be perfect, or a creation of her cruelest self?Lydia has been creating her AI,…
    Unknown, 2021New York : Chicken House, 2021. — GIBSON
  • Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. After Waylon gets dumped, he throws caution to the wind and creates an audition tape for his favorite TV drag show, Fiercest of Them All. What he…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — MURPHY
  • It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — CURATO
  • Iron Peggy

    a Play With Study Guide

    Clements, Marie, 1962-
    A new play from award-winning, international Mâetis performer and playwright Marie Clements. Peg is struggling for survival at her boarding school. Three èuber-cool "it" girls take aim at Peg and make her life utterly miserable. When her beloved…
    Book, 2020Vancouver, British Columbia : Talonbooks, [2020] — C812.6 CLE 2020
  • Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends. Also available as an eBook and Downloadable Audiobook.
    Book, 2020New York : HarperTeen, [2020] — ACEVES
  • Felix Love, a transgender seventeen-year-old, attempts to get revenge by catfishing his anonymous bully, but lands in a quasi-love triangle with his former enemy and his best friend. Also available as an eBook and Downloadable Audiobook.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — CALLEND
  • How long would you stand by? What do you do when your best friend is bullied? What do you do if he is a bully? Bystanders Katie and Devan see things very differently, but one thing is clear: Grade 9 life is hard. Told through the voices of Katie and…
    Book, 2020Markham, ON : Red Deer Press, 2020. — PIGNAT
  • Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2020. — OSEMAN
  • Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom's obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to…
    Book, 2019Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, [2019] — COULTHU
  • Sophomore year has just begun, and Angie is miserable. Her girlfriend, KC, has moved away; her only friend, Jake, is keeping his distance; and the resident bully has ramped up a vicious and targeted campaign to humiliate her. An over-the-top statue…
    Book, 2019Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2019. — CHARLTO
  • There are ninety-six reasons why thirteen-year-old Genesis dislikes herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list: because her family is always being put out of their house; because her dad has a gambling problem, and maybe a drinking…
    Book, 2019New York, New York : Atheneum Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2019] — WILLIAM
  • Relates a seriously bad day in the life of Pennsylvania teenager Kirby Burns, in which he faces dangerous classmates, discovers that a friend is hiding a terrible secret, and grapples with the one-year anniversary of his sister's death. Also…
    Book, 2019New York : Simon Pulse, 2019. — HORNER
  • the year is 1973. The Watergate hearings are in full swing. The Vietnam War is still raging. And homosexuality is still officially considered a mental illness. In the midst of these trying times is sixteen-year-old Jonathan Collins, a bullied,…
    Unknown, 2019New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2019] — BRANDON
  • When Stevie and her friend Dee began their acts of vengeance, the goal was to put the bullies of Woepine High School back in their places. For awhile it works. But when anonymous students begin joining in, friends turn on each other, and the school…
    Book, 2019New York : Crooked Lane, 2019. — PETROU
  • What does it really mean to be kind . . . and why does it sometimes feel like the hardest thing in the world to do? High school senior Kendall, who just returned from a life-changing semester in Europe, and Max, who is drifting his way through a gap…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] — CASTLE
  • Click

    a Story About Cyberbullying

    Philips, Alexandra
    Lexi's story of cyberbullying is a shocking depiction of a young teenager's torment in the world of online harassment. Lexi is ganged up on by a few girls over a misunderstanding in the schoolyard. The incident escalates on social media, local chat…
    Graphic Novel, 2018Los Angeles, CA : Zuiker Press, 2018. — PHILIPS
  • When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never…
    Book, 2018Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Young Readers, 2018. — FARIZAN
  • Aggie's secret is out. Her mother is a hoarder. It's worse than that: she's also an alcoholic, and a neglectful single parent, but the hoarding is what gets the attention of kids at school and turns Aggie into the subject of ridicule and bullying.…
    Book, 2018Toronto, Ontario : DCB, an imprint of Cormorant Books Inc., [2018] — DOBBIE
  • Fifteen-year-old Shay is trying to cope with being overweight and getting bullied in school, but when she falls in love with mysterious Blake, insecure Shay needs the help of her two best friends to make love prevail.
    Book, 2016Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016] — STVIL
  • Written by a teenager who was bullied throughout middle school and high school, this kid-friendly book offers a fresh and relatable perspective on bullying. Along the way, the author offers guidance as well as different strategies that helped her…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Scholastic Inc., ©2015. — 302.343 MAY 2015