Conejos Library District

Zack Allen loves comic books, but he's nothing like his favorite superheroes. He's always getting picked on by bullies at school. Then one day, Zack builds a high-tech robot suit. He must decide how to use his newfound powers as Zinc Alloy, the world's newest superhero.

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

In ancient Greece, Medusa Jones, a gorgon, and her friends, a minotaur and a centaur, are mocked and sneered at by the other Acropolis Academy children whose parents are kings and gods, but when they go on a school camping trip together, the "freaks" become true heroes.

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.

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.

Sister is worried when Brother joins the Too-Tall gang's basketball team.

Third-grader Kaline Klattermaster's father has gone somewhere and his mother cannot seem to keep everything straight the way he did, but the two brothers and one hundred dogs that live in his imaginary treehouse--and his strange neighbor Mr. Osiris Putnaminski--help him cope with his father's absence, his mother's forgetfulness, and the bullies that torment him in school.

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.

Forced to work with the class bully on a project to design a new breakfast cereal, Richard also tries to stop him from picking on second-graders by using tarantula power.

A much-welcomed snow day turns into an embarrassing nightmare for middle-grader Adam Canfield when, after being mugged by high school bullies for his snow-shoveling money, he becomes the focus of major media attention just as his co-editors at The Slash are launching a contest to out bullies at their school.