I spoke to teachers on the topic “Mobbing/bullying in modern children's literature” and saw a great response, which shows that the problem exists, but teachers find themselves alone with it, often without even knowing how to approach it. I suggest one of the possible methods available to teachers and parents: read with your children and recommend books related to teenage mobbing/bullying to your children and students. It is known that children do not attach importance to persecution and bullying at school, since at their age it is considered normal to rot a weak/other/stranger. Books and films on this topic can help children open up and let adults know that the problem exists. Read these books with your children, watch their reactions, discuss them, tell them what mobbing/bullying is. I am sure that these books should be included in extracurricular reading lists, and maybe even in the school reading circle, as many of them have already become classics of world and Russian literature. This list is designed for different age groups. I recommend that adults read them first and consider how to start discussing this topic and how to answer teenagers' questions about bullying. In other words, prepare yourself for this difficult reading and figure out how to get your child's attention to this book. The works belong to different genres and are designed for different levels of readers. But “we can't predict” what will “hook” the young man and help him stop in time or seek help from adults. There are some great adaptations of some books. I hope that with your help we will be able to expand this list, especially since there are more and more books by contemporary authors who cannot remain indifferent and leave the child alone with their misfortune.
The photo shows a page from Annika Thor's book Truth or Consequences (Moscow: Scooter, 2011)
G.H. Andersen. The Ugly Duckling
C. Zheleznikov “Scarecrow”
W. Golding's “Lord of the Flies”
D. Mitchell “Black Swan Meadow”
V. Krapivin “Sailor Wilson's White Balloon” and “I Won't Be Anymore, or Captain Sundukker's Pistol”
I.Lukyanova “The Glass Ball”
M. Iriguayan “Moral Harassment”
K. Jurgensen “The Exception”
D.Picoult “19 minutes”
V. Vartan “Zamorysh”
S.King “Carrie”
G.Rhys “Mice”
A. Seryozhkin “The Apprentice”
L. Oliver “Before I Fall”
A. Bogoslovsky “Verochka”
M. Sanden “Anna D'Arc”
R. Comier “The Chocolate War”
L. Sashar “The Pits”
M. Gale's “Soon Thirty” (book fragment)
H.A. Tassies “Stolen Names”
R.J. Palacio “The Miracle”
Isabelle Arseno and Fanny Britt “Jane, the Fox and Me”
Annika Thor, Truth or Consequences
Gary Schmidt “Wednesday Battles”
Ija Myrock “Why me? The story of the white crow”
David Almond “Fire Swallowers”
About ethnic persecution
Francesco D'Adamo “The Story of Iqbal”
Maria Martirosova “Photographs for memory”
About totalitarianism
Frank Pavloff “Brown Morning”
Tod Strasser “The Wave”
E. Yelchin “Stalin's Nose”
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