YA -Mental Illness

Allosso, Dan                           Outside the Box                                             YA ALL

Teenager Reid Anderson knows there's something wrong with society, otherwise he wouldn't feel so alienated. He has a problem with authority but can't decide: "am I antisocial or does society suck?" So he goes through life pretending he doesn't care.

Cruthcher, Chris                    The sledding hill                                             CRU YA

Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.

Griffen, Adele.                       Where I want to be                                        GRI YA

Two teenaged sisters, separated by death but still connected, work through their feelings of loss over the closeness they shared as children that was later destroyed by one's mental illness, and finally make peace with each other

Halpern, Julie                         Get Well Soon                                    YA HAL

When her parents confine her to a mental hospital, an overweight teenage girl, who suffers from panic attacks, describes her experiences in a series of letters to a friend.

Hautman, Pete                       Invisible                                                          HAU YA

Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.

Hinton, S.E.    Rumble Fish                                                                           Hin YA

A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.

McCormick, Patricia             Cut                                                                  MCC YA

 While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.

Sones, Sonya    Stop pretending: what happened when my big sister went crazy  SON YA ppb 

Truman, Terry                                                Inside out                                TRU YA

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.

Mental illness: opposing viewpoints.                                                616.89 MEN YA    

Jovinelly, Joann. Coping with bipolar disorder and manic-depressive illness       

616.89 JOV YA    

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