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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Under the wolf, under the dog	Adam Rapp	Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide.	OL103507W
Sorta like a rockstar	Matthew Quick	Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean …	OL11904006W
Love, Aubrey	Suzanne M. LaFleur	"I had everything I needed to run a household: a house, food, and a new family. From now on it would just be me and Sammy--the two of us, and no one else."A tragic accident has turned eleven-year-old…	OL12048498W
Rocky road	Rose Kent	Fashion-loving twelve-year-old Tess moves with her deaf younger brother and impulsive single mother to Schenectady, New York, where they open an ice-cream shop and lead a campaign for urban renewal.	OL14932884W
Father of Lies	Ann Warren Turner	In 1692 when a plague of accusations descends on Salem Village in Massachusetts and "witch fever" erupts, fourteen-year-old Lidda, who has begun to experience visions and hear voices, tries to expose…	OL15586707W
Silhouetted by the blue	Traci L. Jones	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 an…	OL16188834W
Lovely, dark and deep	Amy McNamara	In the aftermath of a car accident that kills her boyfriend and throws her carefully planned future into complete upheaval, high school senior Wren retreats to the deep woods of Maine to live with th…	OL16591775W
The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse	Brian Farrey	243 pages ; 21 cm	OL17798241W
The Road Home	Ellen Emerson White	Rebecca, a young nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war, must come to grips with her wartime experiences once she returns home to the United States.	OL1916459W
The cloud chamber	Joyce Maynard	In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school s…	OL1918153W
Family reminders	Julie Danneberg	In 1890s Cripple Creek, Colorado, when young Mary McHugh's father loses his leg in a mining accident, she tries to help, both by earning money and by encouraging her father to go back to carving wood…	OL1930573W
Please don't cry, Mom	Helen DenBoer	Because his mother is sad all the time, Stephen and his father learn about depression and how to cope with his mother's illness.	OL1945759W
Romancing the dark in the city of light	Ann Jacobus	"A troubled American teen, living in Paris, is torn between two boys, one of whom encourages her to embrace life, while the other--dark, dangerous, and attractive--urges her to embrace her fatal flaw…	OL20014616W
Everything beautiful is not ruined	Danielle Younge-Ullman	To prove to her mother, a famous opera singer dealing with depression after losing her singing voice, that she can handle the grueling life of an actress, Ingrid must survive a wilderness camp.	OL20049327W
You Can Call Me Worm	Dan Haas	Hoping to help their troubled father, who has been sitting on his roof for several days, Worm and his older brother set out from their mother's house on a trek across suburban Virginia.	OL2636639W
Tiger's fall	Molly Bang	After eleven-year-old Lupe is partially paralyzed in an accident in her Mexican village, other handicapped people help her realize that her life can still have purpose.	OL2732670W
First came the owl	Judith Benét Richardson	Shy eleven-year-old Nita feels lost when her mother returns from a visit to their home country Thailand and plunges into depression, but then Nita miraculously begins to blossom and her shyness disap…	OL2975478W
It's kind of a funny story	Ned Vizzini	A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.	OL5850286W
Honk If You Hate Me	Deborah Halverson	Everyone in Muessa Junction hates Monalisa Kent. After all, she was the thickwit who blowtorched the futon factory--the town's heart, soul, and bread and butter. So what if she was just six at the ti…	OL8053401W
Die Unberührten	Robert Schneider	Im Jahre 1922 im kleinen Vorarlberger Dorf St. Damian. Die 7-jährige Antonia wächst in heiler Welt mit ihren drei Schwestern auf. Der Vater vergöttert seine fünf Frauen, fördert besonders Antonias de…	OL8056823W