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Darius the Great volume 1
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English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Young Adults
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
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Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Middle East Book Award - Youth Chapter & Nonfiction
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Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
4) The bell jar
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English
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A realistic and emotional look at a woman battling mental illness and societal pressures written by iconic American writer Sylvia Plath.
"It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal." — USA Today
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented,
...5) Remote man
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ned and his depressed mother leave Australia for a rest in America, but he is soon on the trail of international smugglers of exotic animals, with help from his Internet friends.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Asian Pacific American Heritage - Tweens
Back to School, More Titles - Tween
DeSTEMber - Tweens
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Back to School, More Titles - Tween
DeSTEMber - Tweens
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Middle schooler Natalie's year-long assignment to answer a question using the scientific process leads to truths about her mother's depression and her own cultural identity.
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English
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Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried. So she decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy. But when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that her mother has been keeping secrets.
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English
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After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Black Authors of Young Adult Books
Lighthearted Reads for Teens
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Women's History Month - Young Adults
Lighthearted Reads for Teens
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Women's History Month - Young Adults
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"17-year-old Morgan is a black teen triumphantly figuring out her identity when her conservative town deems depression as a lack of faith, and blackness as something to be politely ignored"--
11) Home home
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[2020]
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English
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After being hospitalized for depression, fourteen-year-old Kayla is sent from her home in Trinidad to live with her aunt in Canada, yearning to feel at home but feeling more adrift than ever.
12) Black box
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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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.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Finley Hart is sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, but her anxiety and overwhelmingly sad days continue until she escapes into her writings which soon turn mysteriously real and she realizes she must save this magical world in order to save herself.
14) The bridge
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English
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Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults
Pride Month - Young Adults
Suicide Prevention Month - Young Adults
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Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.
15) Brilliant
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English
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The Black Dog of depression has descended over Dublin, but siblings Rayzer and Gloria are determined to stop it, and soon they are joined by thousands of other children and some magical animals on a chase through the streets, parks, and beaches of Dublin.
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English
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Disability Pride Month - Tweens
Mental Health Awareness - Tweens
Pride Month - Tweens
Suicide Prevention Month - Tweens
Mental Health Awareness - Tweens
Pride Month - Tweens
Suicide Prevention Month - Tweens
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"After an entire summer trying to figure out how to go back to being the person she was before her depression and anxiety diagnosis, twelve-year-old Pluto finds out--with the help of the Hayden Planetarium hotline, a new tutor, and a new friend--that there is no old or new Pluto, there's just Pluto, growing up"--
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2005.
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English
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Ten-year-old Dolphin is determined to stay with her family, no matter what, but when her sister goes to live with her newly-discovered father, sending their mother further into manic-depression, Dolphin's life takes a turn for the better.
18) In the blue
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A little girl whose father's world goes from bright and yellow to dark and blue gets frustrated when she is unable to help him, but knows that together, they can do anything"--
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Back to School, More Titles - Young Adult
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
Mental Health Awareness - Young Adults
Staff Picks 2021-2022
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Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she's worked for begins to crumble.
20) What happens now
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English
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Ari Logan is battling to win her war against depression and the dark night she hurt herself on purpose. It's not easy: her best friend is drifting away, her mom's emotionally checked out, and she spends her days playing caregiver to her handful of a half-sister, Danielle. But it's summer, and anything is possible... That's when Camden Armstrong steps onto the beach of Ari's local swimming lake. At first, Ari quietly longs for Camden from afar, seeing...
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