Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Depression & Mental Illness

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All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven

The beloved New York Times bestseller that Entertainment Weekly described as "sparkling" and says "get[s] under your skin." You won't soon forget this heart-wrenching, unflinching story of love shared, life lived, ...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2016

The Beautiful Lost (Point Paperbacks)...

Luanne Rice

Here are three things to know about Maia:1. Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression -- which once got so bad, she had to go to an institution for a while. She doesn't want to go back.2. Maia's sure that if she fin...

Paperback
Published: Dec 2018

Saving Francesca

Melina Marchetta

MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll...

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Published: May 2006

The Wicker King

K. Ancrum

The Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness."An eerie and mesmerizing thriller that questions the space where reality and perception overlap, The Wicker ...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Impossible Knife of Memory

Laurie Halse Anderson

For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now they are back in the town...

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Published: Jun 2015

Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson

Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the skinniest. But what comes after size zero and size double-zero? When Cassie succumbs to the demons within,...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2009

The Impossible Knife of Memory

Laurie Halse Anderson

Despite my best intentions, I was beginning to understand how my dad saw the world. The shadows haunting every living thing. The secrets inside the lies wrapped in bullshit. Even Gracie's box of pills was beginning to make sense. For ...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jan 2014

Challenger Deep

Neal Shusterman

National Book Award WinnerA captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.Caden Bosch is on a ship ...

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Published: May 2016

Get Well Soon

Julie Halpern

Anna Bloom is depressed—so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on ...

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Published: Sep 2009

Border Crossing

Jessica Lee Anderson

The mixed-race son of apple pickers, Manz lives with his hard-drinking mother and her truck-driver boyfriend in the hardscrabble world of dusty Rockhill, Texas. Forced to take a summer job rebuilding fence of a cattle ranch, Manz work...

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Published: Oct 2009

Yolk

Mary H. K. Choi

“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —Entertainment WeeklyFrom New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’l...

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Published: Mar 2022

Blueloon

Julia Cook

I'm a blueloon. I'm supposed to be a regular balloon, but I'm just not having fun like the others. I'm kinda dull, and I'm kinda flat. My string is tied up in knots. I have a case of the blues...that's why I'm a blueloon. I've felt li...

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Published: Apr 2012

I Have Lost My Way

Gayle Forman

The New York Times bestseller from the author of If I Stay "Heartwrenching…If you are ready to be emotionally wrecked yet again, you are in luck." – Hypable  A fateful accident draws three strangers together over the c...

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Published: Apr 2019

Have a Nice Day

Julie Halpern

Anna Bloom has just come home from a three-week stay in a mental hospital. She feels . . . okay. It's time to get back to some sort of normal life, whatever that means. She has to go back to school, where teachers and friends are dyin...

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Published: Nov 2013

Comfort

Joyce M. Hostetter

Now that Daddy has returned from fighting Hitler and Ann Fay is home from the polio hospital, life should get back to normal. But Ann Fay discovers she no longer fits easily into old friendships and Daddy has been traumatized by the w...

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Published: Oct 2011

Anxious Little Pishy

Brittany Joseph

Anxious Little Pishy is a beautifully illustrated, and genuine story about a small fish who suffers from anxiety early on in her childhood. Written with a delicate vocabulary for easy to understand reading, the story line is laid out ...

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Published: Aug 2018

I Crawl Through It

A. S. King

Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of t...

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Published: Aug 2016

Reasons to Be Happy

Katrina Kittle

"Gripping! I was instantly swept away by Hannah's struggles and greatly inspired by her journey. This is a powerful book, and I recommend it for anyone who has ever worried about how to fit in." -Kristina McBride, author of ...

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Published: Oct 2011

Dear Aurora

Valiance Kristine

Immediately following her parents' unexpected divorce, seventeen-year-old Aurora moves to Connecticut with her heartbroken mother. Unwilling to face her own depression and the problems at home, Aurora tries to socialize at her new sch...

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Published: May 2015

Charm & Strange

Stephanie Kuehn

The 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris Award When you've been kept caged in the dark, it's impossible to see the forest for the trees. It's impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . .   In Stephanie Kuehn's brillia...

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Published: Jun 2014

Calvin

Martine Leavitt

Just because you see something doesn't mean it's really there.Seventeen-year-old Calvin has always known his fate is linked to the comic book character from Calvin & Hobbes. He was born on the day the last strip was published. His gr...

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Published: Mar 2017

Damsel Distressed

Kelsey Macke

Hot girls get the fairy tales. No one cares about the stepsisters' story. Those girls don't get a sweet little ending; they get a lifetime of longing.  Imogen Keegen has never had a happily ever after-in fact, she doesn't think they ...

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Published: Oct 2014

Love and the Sea and Everything in Be...

Brian McBride

WINNER OF WATTPAD'S 2016 WATTY'S AWARD For fans of Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being A Wallflower and John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, Love and the Sea and Everything in Between shines a light on some of the darkest places of ...

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Published: Oct 2018

Lovely, Dark and Deep

Amy McNamara

The "quiet emergence from despair rings true" (Kirkus Reviews) in this resonant debut novel about retreating from the world after losing everything.Wren Wells is hiding out. Though she lived through the accident that killed ...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2013

Sparrow

Sarah Moon

Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather stay home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT executive at a Manhattan bank, reading, or watching the birds, than play with other kids. And th...

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Published: Jan 2019

Fixing Delilah

Sarah Ockler

An ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book Things in Delilah Hannaford's life have a tendency to fall apart. She used to be a good student, but she can't seem to keep it together anymore. Her "boyfriend" isn't much of a...

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Published: Dec 2011

Forgotten

Cat Patrick

Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes ...

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Published: May 2012

Good Enough: A Novel

Jen Petro-Roy

A young girl with an eating disorder must find the strength to recover in this moving middle-grade novel from Jen Petro-Roy Before she had an eating disorder, twelve-year-old Riley was many things: an aspiring artist, a runner, a...

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Published: Feb 2020

Crazy

Linda Phillips

Laura is a typical fifteen-year-old growing up in the 1960s, navigating her way through classes, friendships, and even a new romance. But she's carrying around a secret: her mother is suffering from a mental illness. No one in Laura's...

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Published: Oct 2014

Your Voice Is All I Hear

Leah Scheier

"I was the one he trusted. I was the one he loved, the only one who believed him, even when his own mother had locked him up and thrown away the key. And now, I was going to pass down the white tiled hallway, knock on his doctor'...

Paperback
Published: Sep 2015
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