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1) The bell jar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
5) Teardrop
Author
Series
Teardrop trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Since Eureka's mother drowned, she wishes she were dead too, but after discovering that an ancient book is more than a story Eureka begins to believe that Ander is right about her being involved in strange things--and in grave danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
Author
Series
Darius the Great volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Madison, known as Mads to her friends, wants to lose herself for one final summer before real life begins, but when she swims into a dead body in the lake one morning, everything changes. Mads meets Billy, the son of the woman in the water, who just wants to make his way through the grief. They bond over maps, both literal and figurative, and discover love and the consequences of lies.
Author
Description
"What would you do if everyone you love disappeared? What if it was your fault? For July Fielding, nothing has been the same since that summer before senior year. Once, she had Alex, her loyal best friend, the one who always had her back. She had Sydney, who pushed her during every cross-country run, and who sometimes seemed to know July better than she knew herself. And she had Sam. Sam, who told her she was everything and left her breathless with...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ever since her mother left, Maia's struggled with depression, which has only gotten worse since her father remarried. So she decides run away to Canada to find her mother, together with Billy, a boy who now lives in a group home and has his own family tragedy. But when they finally arrive in Tadoussac, Quebec, Maia discovers that her mother has been keeping secrets.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Determined to find answers as to why her older sister committed suicide, Sloan searches a list of places and people her sister left behind.
Ever since her older sister Talley died, Sloane has been fixated on a list of random places, unfamiliar names, and a phone number for a boy named Adam. Is the list the key to understanding why Talley took her own life? But it seems to be pointing to California, and Talley had never even been there... right? Adam...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman's struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists' list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran...
19) Good and gone
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
While on a road trip with her depressed older brother and gay friend, to find a missing musician, fifteen-year-old Lexi grapples with painful memories of sexual assualt by her ex-boyfriend.