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23) Complicit
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Jamie's mother was murdered when he was six, about seven years later his sister Cate was incarcerated for burning down a neighbor's barn, and now Jamie, fifteen, learns that Cate has been released and is coming back for him, blaming him for all the bad things that led to her arrest.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Sabrina meets Alec at the Wellness Center where she is being treated for schizophrenia, he tries to persuade her that it is the world that is crazy, not them, and she should defy her doctors rather than lose what makes her creative and special.
25) Calvin: a novel
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...
27) Star cursed
Author
Series
Cahill witch chronicles volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Cate Cahill goes into an asylum in order to meet her godmother and another oracle as she continues to try to learn about the prophecy and protect her sisters from the oppressive Brotherhood in an alternate New England of 1900.
28) Crazy
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Laura is a typical fifteen-year-old growing up in the 1960s, navigating her way through classes, friendships, and even a new romance. But she’s carrying around a secret: her mother is suffering from a mental illness. No one in Laura’s family will talk about her mother’s past hospitalizations or increasingly erratic behavior, and Laura is confused and frightened. Laura finds some refuge in art, but when her mother suffers a breakdown after taking...
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Alice and five other apprentice Readers face the fight of their lives when they are sent into the magical library of a late rival Reader--a library that's still protected by a vicious guardian"--
30) Learned by heart
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, Learned by Heart is a heartbreakingly gorgeous novel from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne...
31) Made you up
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
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Description
Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be--sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. For fans of Silver Linings Playbook and Liar, this thought-provoking debut tells the story of Alex, a high school senior--and the ultimate unreliable narrator--unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out what is real and what is not. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her...
35) Waiting for Fitz
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Addie loves nothing more than curling up on the couch with her dog, Duck, and watching The Great British Baking Show with her mom. It's one of the few things that can help her relax when her OCD kicks into overdrive. She counts everything. All the time. She can't stop. Rituals and rhythms. It's exhausting. When Fitz was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he named the voices in his head after famous country singers. The adolescent psychiatric ward at...
37) Black-eyed Suzie
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
After losing touch with reality, twelve-year-old Suzie enters a mental hospital where she finds the courage to talk about her abusive mother and break out of psychological prison she calls "the box."
39) The twin
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After sixteen-year-old Ivy's twin sister, Iris, moves in with her and their father, Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her out of her own life--and may be responsible for their mother's death.
"After their parents divorced, 10-year-old twins Ivy and Iris were split up--Ivy lived with Dad, Iris with Mom. Now, after a tragic accident takes their mom's life, the twins are reunited and Iris moves in with Ivy and their dad. Devastated over Mom's death,...
40) The boys
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries outgoing Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. And when Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, to soter, in preparation for the couple becoming parents, he feels he finally has the sense of family he lost as a boy. As the pandemic hits, Ethan becomes obsessed with providing a perfect life for the boys, studying their native Russian, homeschooling them,...