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GOOD Books: No More Bullying

Drew Ferraro, a California high school student, committed suicide last week after allegedly being bullied at school. After a spate of similar suicides last year, Ferraro's case has brought the problem of bullying back to the limelight, but it's been a ripe topic for novelists for decades (an upcoming documentary called Bully became controversial after the MPAA awarded it an R rating).  Click through to see some of the best young adult books about kids being picked on and the varying ways they respond.

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The Truth about Truman School
By Dori Hillestad Butler
176 pages. Albert Whitman & Company. $12.47
 
Zebby and Amr are student journalists who decide to create an alternative website call
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Bystander
By James Preller
256 pages. Square Fish. $7.99 

As a new kid in seventh grade, Eric Hayes makes friends with the confident and popular Griffin Connelly. But there's a dark side to Con

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Freak 
By Marcella Pixley
144 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). $15.47.

Miriam Fisher feels different from her seventh-grade friends. She enjoys poetry and reading the Oxford English Dictiona