Conejos Library District

A school librarian encourages her students to make up stories, and teaches a lesson about bullying in the process.

Even before he knows the truth, Gary is determined to protect Emma, the new girl in school, from Gail and Tanya, gang members who will stop at nothing to learn why Emma always wears sunglasses.

Eleven-year-old Garry, embarrassed when his unathletic brother joins his lacrosse team, faces a bigger problem when the team bully turns on both of them.

When Peter Parker encounters an evil scientist and his friend Miles is bitten by a radioactive spider, he must use his powers to show Miles how to be a real hero.

Charlie Dickens--not "Charles" but Charlie, even on his birth certificate--wants to escape the bullies who make fun of him for his name, and longs to meet the aliens who took his mother, whom his mother promised would come back for him some day. Then, Charlie meets the self-assured Seth, who becomes his first real friend, who may make him want to stay on Earth after all. Then, the aliens seem to show up for real.

New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.

High school senior Adonis struggles to do the right thing when his fellow football players escalate their bullying of a new classmate, Alan, who is transgendered.

Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.

When a ghost begins haunting Duncan, turning his life upside down and ruining his cool image, he and his best friend Markie turn to the class "nerd," whose plan for getting rid of the ghost comes at a steep price.

Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims.