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Background: An adolescent who have high degree of self-esteem will achieve problem solving skills, awareness about self, positive attitude towards self and environment. The term 'Bibliotherapy' is a combination of the Greek words for 'therapy' and 'books. Indeed, the Greeks were well-aware of the therapeutic power of books, inscribing over the door of the ancient library at Thebes the phrase "Healing place for soul. The specific objective is: ? To assess the pretest level of self-esteem among adolescents in experimental group and control group. ? To assess the effectiveness of Bibliotherapy by comparing pre and posttest level of self-esteem among adolescents in experimental and control group. Methodology: This chapter deals with the description of methodology and various steps which are undertaken for gathering and organizing data for the investigation to evaluate the effectiveness of Bibliotherapy on self-esteem among adolescents in high schools at Bangalore. Quantitative approach was used to evaluate the effectiveness of Bibliotherapy. In this study, Quasi experimental non randomized control group design (pretest posttest Control group design) used in this study. Results: The investigator concluded that experimental adolescents had the self-esteem level as 14(46.67%) had low self-esteem, 16(53.3%) had moderate self-esteem and 0 (0%) had high self-esteem. In control group 6(20.0%) had low self-esteem, 24(80.0%) had moderate self-esteem and (0%) had high self-esteem. The comparison of pre and posttest level of self-esteem in experimental group. The pretest mean value of self-esteem was 28.06 with S.D 5.05 and the posttest mean value of self-esteem was 67.06 with S.D 6.88. The calculated Paired 't' value of t = 27.802 was found to be statistically significant at p<0.001 level. Conclusion: The following conclusions are drawn from the findings of the study. Bibliotherapy is more effective intervention to improve the level of self-esteem. The bibliotherapy helps to promote well-being of the persons. The experimental group adolescents were experienced more benefit.