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Bleeding Violet Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves A mentally ill sixteen-year-old girl reunites with her estranged mother in an East Texas town that is haunted with doors to dimensions of the dead and protected by demon hunters called Mortmaine. OL13783803W
Ash Ash Lisa Rowe Fraustino Eighteen-year-old Ash's change of behavior and its disruptive effects on his family are recounted by younger brother Wes. OL14864710W
Inside out Inside out Terry Trueman A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage. OL14950685W
So B. It So B. It Sarah Weeks You couldn't really tell about Mama's brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girl's, and she only knew 23 words. I know this for … OL15845203W
Nobel genes Nobel genes Rune Michaels A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm … OL15895299W
Tighter Tighter Adele Griffin Based on Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw," tells the story of Jamie Atkinson's summer spent as a nanny in a small Rhode Island beach town, where she begins to fear that the estate may be haunted… OL15988126W
My beautiful failure My beautiful failure Janet Ruth Young "While dealing with the recovery of his mentally ill father, sophomore in high school Billy volunteers at a suicide prevention line and falls for one of the incoming callers"-- OL16636856W
Stay Where You are and Then Leave Stay Where You are and Then Leave John Boyne Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn t… OL16814595W
Little & Lion Little & Lion Brandy Colbert When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. LA is where her friends and family are (along with her crush, Emil). And… OL17856783W
Sometimes my mommy gets angry Sometimes my mommy gets angry Bebe Moore Campbell A little girl learns coping skills with the help of her grandmother, neighbors and school friends, when her mother's mental illness disrupts her daily routine. OL1907409W
The Wicker King The Wicker King Kayla Ancrum,V&R Best friends August and Jack struggle to cope as one spirals into madness. OL19721400W
Before I let go Before I let go 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. OL19744033W
Insomnia Insomnia J. R. Johansson Sixteen-year-old Parker Chipp spends his nights experiencing other people's dreams and getting no rest, so when he discovers that new friend Mia's dreams are different he becomes fixated on her until… OL19967080W
The museum of intangible things The museum of intangible things Wendy Wunder Best friends Hannah and Zoe, seventeen, leave their down-and-out New Jersey town and drive west chasing storms, making new friends, and seeking the intangibles--audacity, insouciance, happiness--that… OL19977256W
Twisted fate Twisted fate Norah Olson Told from separate viewpoints, unfolds how sisters Sydney and Ally Tate's relationship changes as they get involved with their new neighbor, Graham, an artist with a videocamera who has a mysterious-… OL19991983W
Under rose-tainted skies Under rose-tainted skies Louise Gornall Will teenaged Norah, who is struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, accept that she could be the right one for sweet, funny Luke? OL20045212W
The Weight of Our Sky The Weight of Our Sky Hanna Alkaf Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threate… OL20150704W
Wild awake Wild awake Hilary T. Smith "The discovery of a startling family secret leads seventeen-year-old Kiri Byrd from a protected and naive life into a summer of mental illness, first love, and profound self-discovery"-- OL22642758W
Bloodline Bloodline Dana Aros In this map-your-destiny book, you make the decisions as John Carlos Garcia, a boy who suffers depression to the point of self-harm, because he must keep his sexuality a secret. No one knows your sec… OL26344721W
The dark canoe The dark canoe Scott O'Dell A sixteen-year-old boy sails from nineteenth-century Nantucket to a remote California bay with his two older brothers and finds himself in mysterious circumstances involving the death of one brother … OL4466852W
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