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Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower-- shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes: trying to make friends, family tensions, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs-- and dealing with his best friend's recent suicide.
3) Schizo
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Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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A teenager recovering from a schizophrenic breakdown is driven to the point of obsession to find his missing younger brother and becomes wrapped up in a romance that may or may not be the real thing.
4) Impulse
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English
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Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
5) The cellar
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English
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For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.
10) Mosquitoland
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English
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"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
11) OCDaniel
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English
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A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.
12) Choker
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Teenaged Cara, solitary and bullied in high school, is delighted to reconnect with her childhood best friend Zoe whose support and friendship help Cara gain self-confidence, even as her classmates start dying.
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2020.
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English
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"Anna Chiu has her hands full. When she's not looking after her brother and sister or helping out at her father's restaurant, she's taking care of her mother, whose debilitating mental illness keeps her in bed most days. Her father's new delivery boy, Rory, is a welcome distraction and even though she knows that things aren't right at home, she's starting to feel like she could be a normal teen."--Publisher
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Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Peevey, twelve, and her best friend Cam are perfecting the robot that could win a competition, a scholarship, and a way out of Sunnyside Trailer Park when Lucy's mother goes off her medication and her manic-depressive disorder goes out of control.
16) The yearbook
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Publisher
Merit Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Has teenaged misfit Lola Lundy slipped through a crack in time to 1924, just in time for the high school Fall Frolic dance, and where she makes an instant connection with the brainy and provocative Peter Hemmings, or is she having a romantic hallucination related to her family's background of mental illness?
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English
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When sixteen-year-old Lily Larkin's older sister, Alice, begins to struggle with her mental health, Lily attempts to keep everything together and perfect, despite her own growing anxiety.
Three months ago Lily found her older sister Alice hurting herself. She has been desperately trying to keep things together, for herself and for her family. But now Alice is coming home from her treatment program and it is becoming harder for Lily to ignore her...
18) Crazy
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English
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Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide father's declining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his father disappears he must confide in the other members of a therapy group he has been forced to join at school.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees - or thinks she sees - in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Zia remembers the exact night the Shadoom arrived. One moment she was laughing with her best friends, and the next a dark room of shadows had crept into her chest ... Until Zia discovers an old family heirloom: the C. Scuro Dictionary ... Hidden within its magical pages is a mysterious blue eraser ... When Zia starts to erase words that remind her of the Shadoom, they disappear one by one from the world around her ... But things quickly dissolve...
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