This last list deals with teens living or having a parent with different types of mental illnesses.
Dawn, Sasha.
Oblivion. Egmont, 20145.
Sixteen-year-old
Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as
she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental
institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has
been missing for a year.
Easton,
Kelly. To Be Mona. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2008.
High school
senior Sage tries to hide her mentally ill mother and get a popular football
player to go out with her, but eventually she realizes that abandoning her real
friends and letting herself be manipulated by others does not make her feel
better after all.
Harrar,
George. Not as Crazy as I Seem. Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
As
fifteen-year-old Devon begins mid-year at a new prestigious prep school, he is
plagued by compulsions such as the need to sort things into groups of four.
Hopkins,
Ellen. Impulse. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2007.
Three teens
who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has
attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their
parents or anyone else in their lives.
Kuehn,
Stephanie. Delicate Monsters. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015.
Three
psychologically damaged teenagers uncover dark secrets and even darker truths
about themselves.
Leveen, Tom.
Shackled. Simon Pulse, 2015.
Six years
after her friend Tara disappeared from a shopping mall during a game of
hide-and-seek, prickly, anxious Pelly thinks she spots her buying coffee with
her captor. Pelly, who has an unnamed mental illness, goes to online rather
than traditional school and works as a barista. When she serves coffee to the
girl she thinks is Tara, she thinks she sees the girl mouth the words
"Help me." Pelly calls the police, but they are unconvinced by her
story, and Pelly instead begins following leads on her own.
McCormick,
Patricia. Cut. Front Street, 2000.
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.
Nolan, Han. Crazy.
Harcourt, 2010.
Fifteen-year-old
loner Jason struggles to hide father's declining mental condition after his
mother's death, but when his father disappears he must confide in the other
members of a therapy group he has been forced to join at school.
Phillips,
Linda Vigen. Crazy. Eerdman’s Books for Young Readers, 2014.
While
growing up in the 1960s, Laura uses art to cope with her mother's mental
illness.
Polsky,
Sara. This is How I Find Her. Albert Whitman &Company, 2013.
High school
junior Sophie has always had the burden of taking care of her mother, who has
bipolar disorder, but after her mother's hospitalization she must learn to cope
with estranged family and figure out her own life.
Scelsa,
Kate. Fans of the Impossible Life.
Balzar + Bray, 2015.
At Saint
Francis Prep school in Mountain View, New Jersey, Mira, Jeremy, and Sebby come
together as they struggle with romance, bullying, foster home and family
problems, and mental health issues.
Shaw, Susan.
Black-Eyed Suzie. Boyd Mills Press, 2002.
Suzie's stay
in a mental hospital helps her tear down the walls of a devastating
psychological prison she calls "the box".
Smith,
Hilary T. Wild Awake. Katherine Tegen Books, 2013.
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
Vaught,
Susan. Freaks Like Us. Bloomsbury, 2012.
A mentally
ill teenager who rides the "short bus" to school investigates the
sudden disappearance of his best friend.
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