Finding Audrey
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Sophie Kinsella
Energized by a friendship with her brother's gaming teammate, 14-year-old Audrey, a girl with an anxiety disorder, finds their subsequent romance challenging her progress. By the best-selling author of the Shopaholic series. Simultaneous eBook.
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Let's call it a doomsday
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Katie Henry
A girl with an anxiety disorder that makes her afraid of world-threatening catastrophes befriends a girl in her therapist's waiting room who claims to know when the world is going to end. By the author of Heretics Anonymous. 35,000 first printing. Simultaneous eBook
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Dr. Bird's advice for sad poets
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Evan Roskos
Singing songs to himself in the style of Walt Whitman to raise his self-esteem and alleviate depression, 16-year-old James rebels against the father who kicked out James' older sister while struggling to understand the circumstances that led to his sister's self-destructive behavior. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.
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Kids like us
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Hilary Reyl
Living in France with his mother and sister for the summer, Martin, an American boy on the autism spectrum, falls for a French girl who he initially regards as a real-life incarnation of a favorite book character, an event that helps him see the girl as a real person at the same time he discovers that he is capable of actual love. Simultaneous eBook.
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Things I should have known : a novel
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Claire Scovell LaZebnik
Searching for her autistic sister's soulmate, a Los Angeles teen finds the ideal candidate only to clash with his older brother, who is just as devoted to his younger sibling as she is to hers. By the author of Epic Fail. Simultaneous eBook. 25,000 first printing.
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Counting by 7s
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Holly Goldberg Sloan
Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.
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Marcelo in the real world
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Francisco X. Stork
Ordered by his father to work in the mailroom of his law firm to get exposure to the real world, Marcelo knows that he must find a way to cope with his form of Asperger's Syndrome in order to prove himself, but when a series of events involving his father's partner and a matter of injustice comes to light, Marcelo finds himself in the midst of a dangerous situation.
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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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Kat and Meg conquer the world
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Anna Priemaza
Thrown together for a year-long science project, a girl with social anxiety disorder and a girl with off-putting ADHD challenges discover their common obsession with a swoon-worthy online gaming star. Simultaneous eBook. 25,000 first printing.
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A list of cages
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Robin Roe
Landing a coveted elective to serve as an aide to the school psychologist, Adam, a student struggling with ADHD, is assigned to track down a troubled freshman he discovers is the foster brother he has not seen in five years. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
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Little & Lion
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Brandy Colbert
Returning home to Los Angeles from her New England boarding school, Suzette considers staying home for good so that she can be near her friends, her crush, and her recently diagnosed bipolar brother, a situation that is complicated by her growing feelings for the girl her brother loves. By the award-winning author of Pointe. Simultaneous eBook. 15,000 first printing.
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Before I let go
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Marieke Nijkamp
Returning to her small Alaska home town after her bipolar best friend's death, Corey uncovers chilling secrets about the townspeople and their treatment of Kyra prior to her drowning
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All the bright places
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Jennifer Niven
Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world. A first young adult novel by the author of American Blonde..
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Impulse
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Ellen Hopkins
After attempting to commit suicide for varying reasons, three teens find themselves at Aspen Springs where they will receive the treatment they need and find the friendships they crave in order to get through the personal challenges they must face in the tumultuous period ahead.
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How it feels to float
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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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Darius the Great is not okay
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Adib Khorram
A Persian-American youth who prefers pop culture to the traditions of his mixed family struggles with clinical depression and the misunderstandings of older relatives while bonding with a boy who helps him embrace his Iranian heritage.
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It's kind of a funny story
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Ned Vizzini
An ambitious new student at Manhattan's prestigious Executive Pre-Professional High School, Craig Gilner suddenly discovers that he has become an average kid among a group of brilliant students, a discovery that leads to increasing anxiety and a battle with clinical depression, during which he encounters a motley crew of fellow patients battling their own problems.
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What I lost
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Alexandra Ballard
Hospitalized after succumbing to severe anorexia, 16-year-old Elizabeth attempts to endure the program in the hope of resuming her anorexic practices after she is released, a plan that is complicated by her mother's unhealthy relationship with food and a secret admirer who may be playing a cruel trick.
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Not otherwise specified
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Hannah Moskowitz
A misfit whose place on the fringe of every group causes her to struggle with her sense of identity in relation to the cliques that dominate her complicated small town ends up befriending a white, Christian girl who is succumbing to illness.
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Love & other carnivorous plants
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Florence Gonsalves
Discouraged by a harder-than-anticipated freshman year at Harvard, Danny becomes attracted to an older, edgy girl she met in rehab while undergoing treatment for an eating disorder, developing a relationship that becomes shaped by a tragedy and Danny's struggles with self-destructive tendencies.
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The art of starving
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Sam J Miller
A gay teen with an eating disorder that he believes gives him supernatural mental clarity decides to infiltrate the life of a bully responsible for driving away his sister, an effort that leads to a greater awareness of body image, self-acceptance and the things he cannot control..
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Wintergirls
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Eighteen-year-old Lia feels she is being haunted by Cassie's restless spirit when her best friend dies from anorexia--the same disorder Lia has been struggling with.
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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History is all you left me
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Adam Silvera
Having lost his first boyfriend in a terrible accident, Griffin, a youth with OCD, forges a friendship with his lost love's ex-boyfriend, Jackson, who exhibits suspicious signs of guilt. By the best-selling author of More Happy Than Not.
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Waiting for Fitz
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Spencer Hyde
Hospitalized for her OCD, Addie Foster and her new schizophrenic friend, seventeen-year-old Fitzgerald Whitman IV, escape the psychiatric ward and undertake a journey to find the elusive--and endangered--bird, the Kirtland's warbler
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Turtles all the way down
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John Green
In his long-awaited return, the author of #1 best-selling The Fault in Our Stars shares the story of Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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A heart in a body in the world
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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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The impossible knife of memory
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Enduring a transient existence before starting school in her Iraq War veteran father's hometown, a troubled Hayley Kincaid longs for a normal life and pursues a relationship with a secretive boy before her father's PTSD leads to a disturbing drug problem. By the National Book Award finalist author of Speak.
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Grendel's guide to love and war
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A. E. Kaplan
A teen misfit resolves to defeat a local bully who upsets the senior community by constantly throwing wild parties, an effort that is complicated by the teen's father's PTSD, his unrequited feelings for the bully's sister and an existential crisis related to his mother's death.
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Price of duty
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Todd Strasser
A decorated young military hero returns home to recover from an injury and finds himself struggling with debilitating PTSD, an anti-recruitment activist's agenda and his grandfather's views about duty. By the award-winning author of Can't Get There From Here.
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American road trip
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Patrick Flores-Scott
When his adored older brother returns from a tour in Iraq with devastating PTSD, a Mexican-American high school senior embarks on a road trip to visit loved ones and explore the illnesses, socioeconomic pressures and milestone anxieties that have challenged their family.
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Reality Boy
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A. S. King
Haunted by his past as a child reality television celebrity, teen Gerald Faust struggles with violent anger that has relegated him to a very lonely world and the special education program at school, where he starts to feel dangerously close to snapping--until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved.
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Calvin
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Martine Leavitt
As a result of coincidences and delusions, a 17-year-old with schizophrenia, who believes that his life is tied to the famed comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, appeals to artist Bill Watterson to draw one final strip of his main character as a healthy teen.
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Words on bathroom walls
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Julia Walton
Diagnosed with severe schizophrenia that causes him to see and hear people who are not there, Adam begins a drug trial to help him with his hallucinations at the same time he falls in love with an intelligent girl that he wants to prevent from discovering his secret.
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Nick and June were here
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Shalanda Stanley
Falling in love after years of best friendship, Nick and June struggle with the impact of her schizophrenia and the crimes he commits to support his aunt, circumstances that prompt them to run away so they can stay together.
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Challenger deep
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Neal Shusterman
A brilliant but troubled high school student pretends to engage in sports activities and uses his artistic talents to document his voyage to the world's most southern point while his friends observe his increasingly unbalanced behavior.
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A taxonomy of love
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Rachael Allen
A best friendship forged in seventh grade between a boy who is bullied for his Tourette syndrome and a girl whose allure he finds almost magical evolves over six years that are marked by sibling feuds, family tragedies, broken hearts, ambition and messy romance.
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