Teen Issues - It Gets Better
Annotation:When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. (288 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Four suicidal teenagers go on a "celebrity suicide road trip", visiting the graves of famous people who have killed themselves, with the intention of ending their own lives in Death Valley, California. (257 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative. (204 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Brimming with sarcasm, fifteen-year-old Jeff describes his stay in a psychiatric ward after attempting to commit suicide. (295 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:After the suicide of her troubled teenage sister, eleven-year-old Jenny struggles to understand what actually happened. (361 p. Gr 10-12)
Annotation:When her sister kills herself, sixteen-year-old Leila goes looking for a reason and, instead, discovers great love, her family's true history, and what her own place in it is. (308 p. Gr 10-12)
Annotation:In parallel stories, Hannah, a slave, finds love while fleeing a Maryland plantation in 1842, and in the present, Opal watches her best friend, Marianne, pull away and eventually loses he loss in the same ravine where Hannah died. (165 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation: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. (666 p. Gr 10-12)
Annotation:At age seven, Anna watched her mother walk into the surf and drown, but nine years later, when she moves with her father to the beach where her parents fell in love, she joins the cross-country team, makes new friends, and faces her guilt. (232p. Gr 8-12)
Annotation:Ingrid didn't leave a note. Three months after her best friend's suicide, Caitlin finds what she left instead: a journal, hidden under Caitlin's bed. (229 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out. (200 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:D'Arcy's dad is dead. She desperately wants it to have been an accident, but she is not sure. And then she meets Seth. When will things get back to normal? (212 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Devastated, along with her parents, by the death of her older brother and apprehensive about being a freshman in the same high school he attended, fourteen-year-old Cora finds unexpected solace in art. (273 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:As she searches for clues that would explain the suicide of her successful photographer father, Eddie Reeves meets the strangely compelling Culler Evans who seems to know a great deal about her father and could hold the key to the mystery surrounding his death. (230 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home. (327 p. Gr 8-12)
Annotation:Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason. (484 p. Gr 9-12)
Annotation:Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself. (293 p. Gr 9-12)
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Description
Books about suicide.
English
Topic Guide
