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Mental Health & Mental Illness

Novels containing characters that are living with mental illness or mental health issues.
 

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1. Challenger deep

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Author:
Shusterman, Neal
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"A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"--

2. Eliza and her monsters

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Author:
Zappia, Francesca
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When the teen creator of "Monstrous Sea," a popular webcomic, is tempted by a school newcomer to pursue real-world relationships, everything she has worked so hard to build crumbles in the wake of their highly publicized romance.

3. The stepping off place

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Author:
Rosenblum, Cameron Kelly
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From debut author Cameron Kelly Rosenblum comes a stunning teen novel that tackles love, grief, and mental health as one girl must process her friend's death and ultimately learn how to stand in her own light. Perfect for fans of All the Bright Places and We Were Liars. It's the summer before senior year. Reid is in the thick of Scofield High's in-crowd thanks to her best friend, Hattie, who has been her social oxygen since middle school.But summer...

4. When my heart joins the thousand

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Author:
Steiger, A. J.
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"Alvie Fitz doesn't fit in, and she doesn't care. She's spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Free. But if she fails, she'll become a ward of the state and be sent back to the group home"--Jacket.