Useful Links

A growing number of very useful web sites are helping schools and communities address bullying, harassment, and violence among young people. Some of the best are linked below - as are several good sites that relate to The Revealers.

www.fsgkidsbooks.com/teachersguides/revealers.htm
A free, downloadable Teacher's Guide to using The Revealers in the language arts, social studies, science, and/or technology-foundation classroom. Written by C.J. Bott, author of The Bully in the Book and the Classroom, the Teacher's Guide was produced by Farrar, Straus & Giroux's Books for Young Readers.

www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/
"Words that Heal: Using Children's Literature to Address Bullying." Developed by the Anti-Defamation League, this magnificent "Curriculum Connections" resource spotlights five books, one for each grade level from preK up, with much useful material for working with each. (The Revealers is the choice for grades 6-8.) The site also has a first-class summary of current research on bullying and its impacts.

www.publicbroadcasting.net/vpr/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=761051
Link to an "All Things Considered" interview, on bullying and The Revealers, with author Doug Wilhelm.

www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/specialprojects/tttnominations.htm
Nominations for the 2004 Teens Top Ten list, organized and posted by YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association of the American Library Association

www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/indexAdult.asp?Area=BookResources&view=all
List of book resources, including The Revealers, on the site for the "Take a Stand, Lend a Hand. Stop Bullying Now" initiative, led by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services.

www.reading.org/publications/jaal/jaalbook0404.html
Eloquent review from the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.

www.nancykeane.com/booktalks/wilhelm_revealers.htm
from Nancy Keane's "Booktalks - Quick and Simple"

www.schwartzbooks.com/reviews/reviews.html
Staff "What We're Reading" review from Milwaukee's Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops, a city institution since 1927

www.nesonline.com
The National Education Service's site accesses its book The Bullying Prevention Handbook: A guide for Principals, Teachers, and Counselors.

www.wcwonline.org/bullying/index.html
Site of the Wellesley [College] Center for Women's Project on Teasing and Bullying, with a section of resources and links.

lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/against/bullying.html
Site of the Maine Project Against Bullying.

www.clemson.edu/olweus/
U.S. Web site for the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, a comprehensive, school-wide program developed in Norway for use in elementary, middle or junior high schools.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bullying/
The BBC's site for resources and links on stopping bullying in schools.

www.nobully.org.nz/
A school-based "No Bully" program from New Zealand.

www.vermontinstitutes.org/equity/
The page for the Equity initiatives of Vermont Institutes, a statewide educational nonprofit. This useful site has success stories, resources, data, links, contacts and more for building equity in schools at all levels.

www.stopbullyingnow.com
This excellent "Stop Bullying Now!" site is maintained by Stan Davis, a nationally known bullying prevention expert.

www.reportbullying.com
Motivational speaker Jim Jordan has created presentations "that reach to the root of the bullying in schools."