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The quiet you carry
by Nikki Barthelmess
When seventeen-year-old Victoria Parker is suddenly placed into foster care, she struggles to find words for the abuse that upended her life.
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A heart in a body in the world
by Deb Caletti
The National Book Award finalist and author of Stay finds a traumatized teen fleeing to Washington, D.C., where she becomes a reluctant activist in her effort to escape the past, in a tale that touches on such themes as gun violence, rape culture and misdirected guilt.
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Starworld
by Audrey Coulthurst
A popular, people-pleasing teen and an artistic loner forge an unexpected bond and navigate difficult family realities by creating a private imaginary world where they share adventures and can be themselves, an escape that is threatened when one falls in love with the other.
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All our broken pieces
by L. D. Crichton
A lonely teen struggling with escalating OCD symptoms in the wake of her mother's passing, a new school and stepfamily dynamics is quietly observed from a treehouse by a neighbor, who fills his notebooks with lyrics about the painful realities of his own life.
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How she died, how I lived
by Mary Crockett Hill
Struggling with survivor's guilt when a kindhearted classmate loses her life in a malevolent attack, a teen finds herself drawn to the victim's boyfriend and wonders if their relationship can survive their combined traumas.
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Moonrise by Sarah Crossan'They think I hurt someone. But I didn't. You hear? Coz people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth.'
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Any second
by Kevin Emerson
Kidnapped, abused, and brainwashed for five years, Elian is stopped in his mission to bomb a mall by Maya, who has crippling anxiety, and neither one will ever be the same again.
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When elephants fly
by Nancy Richardson Fischer
Resolving to live as carefully as possible in the hope of avoiding the schizophrenia that has dangerously impacted her family, a high school senior risks everything to save the life of a three-week-old elephant calf.
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How it feels to float
by Helena Fox
A deeply hopeful novel about love, loss and living with intergenerational mental illness follows the experiences of a teen who manages to just get by while hiding her father's deteriorating condition and exploring first romantic encounters, before an unavoidable event threatens to unravel her world.
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How to make friends with the dark
by Kathleen Glasgow
A powerful tale about love and loss follows the experiences of a girl who struggles with depression and difficulties with moving forward after the loss of her mother.
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The weight of a thousand feathers
by Brian Conaghan
Seventeen-year-old Bobby Seed, the devoted but exhausted primary caregiver for his terminally-ill mother and difficult younger brother, finds respite in a support group and good friends, but must face his mother's impossible choice alone.
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The art of losing
by Lizzy Mason
Abandoning her sister at a party after an act of betrayal, Harley is overwhelmed by guilt when her sister is rendered comatose by a drunk-driving accident and learns challenging but ultimately redemptive lessons in forgiveness and healing from a childhood friend recently out of rehab.
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What I leave behind
by Alison McGhee
Since his father's suicide, Will, sixteen, has mainly walked, worked at Dollar Only, and tried to replicate his father's cornbread recipe, but the rape of his childhood friend shakes things up.
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Fear of missing out
by Kate McGovern
Learning that her cancer has returned, a teen who is determined not to miss out on anything investigates a radical cryopreservation procedure that will keep her in frozen hibernation but alive until a future cure becomes available.
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Come find me
by Megan Miranda
A girl determined to continue her late sibling's search through the cosmos and a boy who wants to learn the fate of his missing brother discover a mysterious radio frequency that suggests their family tragedies are mysteriously connected.
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The place between breaths
by An Na
A story of a girl desperately determined to find a cure for the illness that swept her mother away, and could possibly destroy her own life as well.
Sixteen-year-old Grace is in a race against time—and in a race for her life—even if she doesn’t realize it yet…
She is smart, responsible, and contending with more than what most teens ever should. Her mother struggled with schizophrenia for years until, one day, she simply disappeared—fleeing in fear that she was going to hurt those she cared about most. Ever since, Grace’s father has worked as a recruiter at one of the leading labs dedicated to studying the disease, trying to lure the world’s top scientists to the faculty to find a cure, hoping against hope it can happen in time to help his wife if she is ever found. But this makes him distant. Consumed.
Grace, in turn, does her part, interning at the lab in the gene sequencing department daring to believe that one day they might make a breakthrough…and one day they do. Grace stumbles upon a string of code that could be the key. But something inside of Grace has started to unravel. Could her discovery just be a cruel side effect of the disease that might be taking hold of her? And can she even tell the difference?
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Unleaving
by Melissa Ostrom
After being sexually assaulted by a football star, Maggie drops out of college but cannot escape the fact that everyone blames her for what happened.
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Since we last spoke
by Brenda Rufener
Estranged after a fatal car accident involving their older siblings leads to a restraining order between their bitter families, Aggi and Max reunite at a lakehouse party and reflect on how they had just fallen in love before they were separated.
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A sky for us alone
by Kristin Russell
In Strickland County, a forgotten stretch of land in southern Appalachia, there isn't a lot of anything to go around. But when eighteen-year-old Harlowe Compton's brother is killed by the Praters, the family who controls everything from the mines to the law to the opioid trade, he wonders if the future will ever hold more than loss. With Tennessee, Harlowe feels for the first time that something good might happen, that he might have found the rarest thing of all: hope. Even as she struggles with the worst of the cards she's been dealt, Tennessee makes Harlowe believe that they can dare to forge their own path, if they only give it a shot. But as Harlowe searches for the answers behind his brother's death, his town's decay, and his family's dysfunction, he discovers truths about the people he loves and himself that are darker than he ever expected. Now, Harlowe realizes, there's no turning back.
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On a Scale of 1 to 10
by Ceylan Scott
Admitted to a psychiatric hospital for teens, a girl with borderline personality disorder navigates therapy alongside her fellow patients while struggling to come to terms with what happened to her friend back home.
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Our year of maybe
by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Aspiring choreographer Sophie Orenstein, eighteen, wonders if seventeen-year-old Peter Rosenthal-Porter, gifted pianist, best friend, and secret crush, will love her back after receiving her kidney
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Four three two one
by Courtney C Stevens
Finding support when she talks with a fellow survivor about a bus bombing that killed 19 others a year earlier, a traumatized girl visits the tragedy's memorial in New York City, where she reaches out to other survivors in what becomes a journey of connection and healing.
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Imagine us happy
by Jennifer Yu
A high school junior struggling with near-debilitating depression unexpectedly bonds with a senior boy who understands what she is going through and starts to neglect her responsibilities before a dramatic spiral reveals her new friend's own scars.
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Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee
by Jeff Zentner
Co-hosting a campy weekly cable program during their high school years, two best friends face tough decisions about their futures as graduation approaches and one of them considers leaving the show.
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