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Teen Issues - Crazy Like Me
Annotation:Manz, a troubled fifteen-year-old, ruminates over his Mexican father's death, his mother's drinking, and his stillborn step-brother until the voices he hears in his head take over and he cannot tell reality from delusion. (174 p. Gr 9-12)
Place a Hold
Annotation:Poised to lead his high school soccer team to its third straight state championship, 17-year-old Jake Martin struggles to keep hidden his nearly debilitating OCD. (304 p. Gr 10-12)
Annotation:Two sisters offer their views of events that occur during the year after their mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia and their family, including a recently adopted Russian orphan, begins to disintegrate. (246 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Resentful and upset when her family moves from Vermont to Miami and her parents' fighting escalates, Fin develops OCD and becomes consumed with numbers, counting, irrational worrying, and avoiding germs. (278 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Starting her junior year at an ultra-elite Boston school, sixteen-year-old Sara, hoping to join the popular crowd, hides that her father not only is the school janitor, but also has OCD. (305 p. Gr 8-12)
Annotation:Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to. (322 p. Gr 8-12)
Annotation:Seattle high school senior Jade's life is defined by her anxiety disorder and dysfunctional family until she spies a mysterious boy with a baby who shares her fascination with the elephants of a nearby zoo. (288 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:When her father leaves for a job out of town, Mazzy is left at home to try to cope with her mother who has been severely depressed since the death of Mazzy's baby sister. (154 p. Gr 6-9)
Annotation:When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenage girl who suffers from panic attacks describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend. (193 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other with no explanation. (232 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide his 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. (348 p. Gr 8-12)
Annotation:When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past. (308 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, but she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression. (355 p. Gr 8-12)
Annotation:A mentally ill sixteen-year-old girl reunites with her estranged mother in an East Texas town that is haunted with doors to dimensions of the dead and protected by demon hunters called Mortmaine. (454 p. Gr 10-12)
Annotation:As Missouri fifteen-year-old Aura struggles alone to cope with the increasingly severe symptoms of her mother's schizophrenia, she wishes only for a normal life, but fears that her artistic ability and genes will one day result in her own insanity. (227 p. Gr 8-12)
Annotation:When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders. (168 p. Gr 7-12)
Annotation:A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. (444 p. Gr 10-12)
Annotation:At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother. (311 p. Gr 9-12)
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Books about depression, anxiety, OCD and other mental disorders.
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