A very shy girl who longs for a friend falls in love with a lost puppy at the shelter where her father works.

Although the other hominidees tease him, Gak prefers to walk on two legs instead of four, and one day his difference turns out to be helpful, just as his mother said it would.

A young boy is never sure if his older cousin is teasing or telling the truth.

Sassy tries out for a summer dance festival in Washington, D.C., despite the other girls' taunts that she is much too tall.

Sophie's smile has disappeared because of her schoolmate Willard's snickering, but her smile may return if it's true that Willard teases her because he likes her

Three-year-old Casey wants what his older sister, Jessie, has--a shimmery skirt, glittery painted nails, and a sparkly bracelet--but Jessie does not approve. After two boys tease Casey about his appearance, Jessie evolves to a place of acceptance and celebration of her gender creative younger brother.

Kanzi's family has moved from Egypt to America, and on her first day in a new school, what she wants more than anything is to fit in. Maybe that's why she forgets to take the kofta sandwich her mother has made for her lunch, but that backfires when Mama shows up at school with the sandwich. Mama wears a hijab and calls her daughter Habibti (dear one). When she leaves, the teasing starts. That night, Kanzi wraps herself in the beautiful Arabic quilt...

"Augie enjoys the company of his dog, Daisy, and using his imagination, but painfully endures the taunts of his peers because of his facial deformity"--OCLC.

A shy boy with a knack for building electronic gadgets, uses them to keep the school bully away from him, and winds up trying to save the local pond from the bully's father, who wants to turn it into a waste disposal dump.

Baby tigers Titus and Tiana tease their sister Albany who runs away.