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• Six of Crows

  Bardugo, Leigh

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  Many of the characters in the book experience severe trauma that consistently and realistically brings challenges and affects their motivations and their thinking, and these experiences are written with care.

• Every Last Word

  Stone, Tamara Ireland,

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  Sam struggles with OCD, which she hides from her friends, along with her psychiatric treatment for it. She begins to feel more "normal" when a new friend, Caroline, introduces her to a group of outcast creatives at school.

• Ab(solutely) Normal

  Short Stories That Smash Mental Health Stereotypes

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  Multiple authors explore various mental health conditions through short stories, subverting expectation and inducing hope throughout.

• My Heart and Other Black Holes

  Warga, Jasmine

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  It covers a teen planning her own death who meets another teen with the same plan, and how meeting and getting closer changes everything.

• How It All Blew Up

  Ahmadi, Arvin,

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  Fleeing to Rome in the wake of coming out to his Muslim-American family, a failed relationship, and blackmail, eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi embarks on a more authentic life with new friends. Late nights and dates in the Sistine Chapel start to feel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How It Feels to Float

  Fox, Helena,

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  "Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, who loves her so hard, and who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Watch Over Me

  LaCour, Nina

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  A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.

• Darius the Great Is Not Okay

  Khorram, Adib,

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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.

• Your Brain Needs a Hug

  Life, Love, Mental Health, and Sandwiches

  Earl, Rae,

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  What this book is about -- How the hell are you? No. Who the hell am I? -- The brain -- Anxiety -- Phobias -- Eating disorders -- OCD -- Psychosis -- Self-harm -- Depressions -- How to wear and cope with your diagnosis -- Self-esteem and how to get…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Light Filters in

  Poems

  Kaufman, Caroline

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  In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman--known as…Read moreRead more of this annotation