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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A small boy creates a shelter for his sadness so that he can visit it whenever he needs to, and the two of them can cry, talk, or just sit. The boy knows that one day his sadness may come out of the shelter, and together they will look out at the world and see how beautiful it is.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication Date
2000
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When he is wrongly accused of gravely injuring his baby half-sister, thirteen-year-old Branwell loses his power of speech and only his friend Connor is able to reach him and uncover the truth about what really happened.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Leigh changes high schools his senior year to help his stepsister, he finds himself falling in love with her emotional disturbed friend, although he is still attached to a girl back home.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
To boost her college applications, seventeen-year-old Eloise, a loner girl struggling with her mental health, volunteers at a senior support center where she meets a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy who challenge her to step out of her comfort zone.
Eloise Deane is grumpy, prefers to be alone, and is just slogging through senior year hoping to get accepted to USC and move to California. To score a scholarship she desperately needs...
7) I am stuck
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It stinks to be stuck. Turtle is stuck on their back, unable to flip over. "Try wiggling your feet," advises Duck--nope. Still stuck. "Try wagging your tail," Kangaroo suggests--nope again. Armadillo says that rolling in a ball might work--Turtle tries...but rolls ALL the way over and is stuck again. Possum wonders if Turtle is playing possum, but Turtle says no. "It doesn't hurt. But I feel scared, frustrated, and alone." Possum flops over with...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a friendly competition sanctioned by the Crafters Guild to combat monster mental health, nine-year-old trainers Gabe and Hayden bring two exiled monsters to compete in a no-holds-barred fight.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Publication Date
c2007
Physical Desc
380 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the small town of Jumbo, Texas, thirteen-year-old Merilee, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tries to live a "Very Ordered Existence," but disruptions begin when a boy and his father arrive in town and the youngster makes himself a part of the family.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Publication Date
2026.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A novel-in-verse about Brooks, who struggles as his family reels from his older brother Oliver's extreme depression"-- Provided by publisher.
My brother’s not here. My brother’s not here. My brother’s not here. And it’s all because of me. Brooks loves and adores his older brother, Oliver. That’s why it was so hard—practically impossible, really—for him to have done what he did and told his parents...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Black teen dancer with dreams of landing a spot in a prestigious ballet company must learn to dance on her own terms in this explosive debut about the healing power of art and friendship, perfect for fans of Heartbreaker and Tiny Pretty Things. Ballet is Aisha's life. So when she's denied yet another lead at her elite academy because she doesn't "look" the part, she knows something has to change-the constant discrimination is harming her mental...
12) Not about a boy
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Placed with a new foster family among Manhattan's elite--her last chance at adoption before she ages out of the system--17-year-old Mel must navigate through grief and depression as the anniversary of the worst day of her life approaches, before she loses herself and those she loves.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A perfect book to help discuss mental health, depression, empathy, loss, and hope with young children. Arthur's gloomy father rushes him through the park every morning, through gray and rainy weather. Arthur just wants a bright balloon from the park's vendor, but Papa always says no. One morning, the balloons magically appear at their doorstep, and Arthur figures out the perfect way to bring the sunshine out--and Papa's smile back--even if only for...
14) The glass girl
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Bella's latest blackout lands her in the hospital, she enters rehab to confront her addiction to alcohol.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tamar is admitted to Lime Grove, a psychiatric ward for teenagers, where the psychologists ask her endless questions. How did the self-harming start? Will you tell us what happened? How do you feel, on a scale of one to ten? But there's one question Tamar can't - won't - answer: What happened to her friend Iris? A uniquely powerful, devastating novel of friendship, fragility and forgiveness. Contains scenes of suicide and self-harm that some readers...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
343 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ricky Desmond has been through all this before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn't belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program--a program that the warden claims will...
17) Front country
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighth grader Ginny Shepard attempts to ground herself after realizing that the world is apathetic to the very real, very urgent realities of climate change, and reckoning with her own feelings of guilt and impotence.
Author
Publisher
Snowfall Publications
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a donut goes to therapy, he feels some big emotions. He learns to breathe in like a wave and out back to the oceans. Follow the nervous Donut through the waiting room, back to meet a therapist, and...wait, are those toys? Donut is surprised to discover that therapy isn't all about talking, but somehow after playing, talking, and drawing through feelings, Donut begins to feel better."-- Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of a teenage girl's recovery, in a psychiatric hospital, from anorexia, told in poetry"-- Provided by publisher.
When fourteen-year-old Evie is diagnosed with anorexia, she begins the slow process of recovery with the help of caregivers and peers who are battling their own disordered-eating habits.
20) Baby and Solo
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Joel's new job at the video store is just what the therapist ordered. But what happens if the first true friend he's made in years finds out about What Was Wrong With Him? Seventeen-year-old Joel Teague has a new prescription from his therapist--a part-time job--the first step toward the elusive Normal life he's been so desperate to live ever since The Bad Thing happened. Lucky for Joel, ROYO Video is hiring. It's the perfect fresh start--Joel even...

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