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Minds in Conflict - Teen Lit about Mental Illness
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Challenger deep
by 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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Under rose-tainted skies
by Louise Gornall
Struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, Norah bonds with Luke, her neighbor, who encourages her to let him into her world before she becomes convinced that a normal girlfriend would be healthier for him.
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The memory of light
by Francisco X Stork
Waking up in the mental disorders ward after a suicide attempt, Vicky makes friends with other at-risk kids, who under the guidance of a compassionate doctor help her through the first steps towards self-acceptance and confronting the challenges that prompted her depression.
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The unlikely hero of room 13B
by Teresa Toten
Struggling with his parents' divorce, his stepsibling and the challenges of OCD, teen Adam Spencer Ross despairs of ever falling in love before being unexpectedly drawn to a girl who makes him question his capacity for a normal relationship.
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Words on bathroom walls
by 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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The lonely
by Ainslie Hogarth
After she discovers The Terrible Thing, Easter Deetz goes looking for her older sister, Julia, but ends up pinned under a boulder in the woods and reliving memories of her family as The Something Coming draws closer.
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Schizo
by Nic Sheff
The best-selling author of Tweak presents the story of teen schizophrenic patient Miles, who becomes increasingly obsessed with finding a younger brother and pursuing a romance that may or may not be real.
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Turtles all the way down
by John Green
Aza Holmes, a high school student with obsessive-compulsive disorder, becomes focused on searching for a fugitive billionaire
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All the bright places
by 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.
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Beware that girl
by Teresa Toten
Using lies and manipulation to gain acceptance into the popular circle at her elite New York City school, street-smart scholarship student Kate O'Brien finds her plans to secure an Ivy League acceptance threatened by the appearance of a charming newcomer who ingratiates himself into a position that threatens to expose dark secrets.
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Every last word
by Tamara Ireland Stone
Hiding the severity of her OCD while second guessing her every move, Samantha pretends to agree with the choices of her clique of popular girls while befriending a less stylish classmate who introduces her to a group of misfits in the poetry club with whom she feels more "normal" than she ever has ... until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.
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Placebo junkies
by J. C Carleson
Volunteering for pharmaceutical drug trials for quick fixes and easy cash, Audie increases her trials to save up enough money to give her terminally ill boyfriend an unforgettable 18th birthday, with unexpected consequences.
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Fans of the impossible life
by Kate Scelsa
At Saint Francis Prep school in Mountain View, New Jersey, Mira, Jeremy and Sebby come together as they struggle with romance, bullying, foster home and family problems, and mental health issues.
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Delicate monsters
by Stephanie Kuehn
Expelled from her latest boarding school for nearly killing a classmate, bored troublemaker Sadie Su interferes in the life of an underprivileged youth with dark secrets and his younger brother whose visions predict a violent event at school.
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Don't touch
by Rachel Wilson
Struggling with a phobia that compels her to wear full-length gloves to avoid touching others, aspiring actress Caddie finds inspiration to overcome her problems while auditioning for a school play opposite an attractive boy.
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Crazy
by Han Nolan
When his mother dies and his father succumbs to mental illness, 15-year-old Jason struggles to retain his own sanity while envisioning a host of imaginary friends to help him maintain an outward semblance of normalcy. By the National Book Award-winning author of Dancing on the Edge.
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Made you up
by Francesca Zappia
Struggling with a form of schizophrenia that challenges her ability to discern reality from delusion, Alex unexpectedly falls for a boy and begins to experience typical teen rites of passage that change her perspectives.
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Cameron and the girls
by Edward Averett
Taking medication to quiet the voices in his head, 14-year-old Cameron, a boy with schizophreniform disorder, falls into an unconventional love triangle involving a clinically depressed girl in his class and an imaginary girl whose encouraging voice he hears in his head.
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Oblivion
by Sasha Dawn
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
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