Here are some recently released titles that deal with school bullying, both for kids and parents.

• “Burn,” by Suzanne Phillips (Little Brown and Co., $17, ages 12 and up). Cameron Grady is “too small, too thin” for high school, and his long, blond hair makes him an obvious target for monster jock Rich Patterson, who is fond of calling him Cameron Diaz. Going to school, Cameron says, “is like crossing into enemy camp.”

After unbearable emotional and physical abuse by Rich and comrades, accomplished under teacher and parental radar, Cameron decides to even the score. Instead, his world spirals out of control in shocking ways. This book will take your breath away. Phillips refuses to shy away from the awful effects of kid cruelty. There are no tidy endings here, only a somber lesson for all of us to pay closer attention.

• “Chrissa,” by Mary Casanova (American Girl Publishing, $7, ages 9-12). Casanova tackles bullying in the latest addition to the American Girl collection. Fourth-grader Chrissa Maxwell moves with her parents to a new town and a new school with high hopes of making new friends. Not so fast. A trio of mean girls makes her life unbearable until the dam breaks, the tears flow and she confesses everything to her understanding mom. It’s a sweet book, providing good fodder for discussion with the preteens in your house. An accompanying handbook, “Stand Up for Yourself & Your Friends: Dealing With Bullies and Bossiness and Finding a Better Way,” $9.95, offers real-life scenarios and solutions.

• “100% Me,” by Michelle Hainer (DK Publishing, $10 in paperback, ages 8-13). This playful puberty primer (“perspiration and pimples — gross!”) features DK’s signature eye-popping illustrations for the almost-there set. But it, too, tackles bullying in its many forms, from sexual to cyber. Bottom line: Bullying is unacceptable, period.

On the Web

The nationally renowned Pacer Center, which offers services to parents of children with special needs, has terrific resources on bullying. Go to pacer.org/bullying/mhs/index.asp.

Video game update

Last year’s popular video game, “Bully,” has been updated, earning high marks from Game Informer magazine. The Teen-rated “Bully: Scholarship Edition” (for Xbox 360, $30) is “ripping with the trademark satire and biting wit of a true Rockstar classic,” writes Game Informer’s Matt Miller. He calls it “an irreverent and unapologetic snipe at the silliness and foibles of life in secondary school.”