Charm & strange by Kuehn, Stephanie 

BTSB Prebound(St. Martin's Griffin, 2013)

BTSB #: 534100 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.1 UG RC: 4.3 9-12

Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Psychological abuse - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Sexual abuse - Fiction

Summary: A lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy must either surrender his sanity to the wild wolves inside his mind or learn that surviving means more than not dying.

Chasing the Milky Way by Moulton, Erin E. 

BTSB Prebound(Philomel Books, 2014)

BTSB #: 662456 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.2 MG Lexile: 620

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Manic-depressive illness - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Robots - Fiction Contests - Fiction

Summary: Lucy Peevey, twelve, and her best friend, Cam, are perfecting the robot that could win a competition, a scholarship, and a way out of Sunnyside Trailer Park when Lucy's mother goes off her medication and her manic-depressive disorder goes out of control.

Compound by Bodeen, S. A. 

Paperback(Feiwel and Friends, 2008)

BTSB #: 129593 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.1 MG+RC: 2.9 6-8 Lexile: 570 F&P: Y

Genres:

Subjects: Survival skills - Fiction Deception - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Twins - Fiction Fathers - Fiction

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Eli, locked inside a compound built by his father to keep them safe after a nuclear attack, begins to question his future, as well as his father's sanity as the family's situation worsens.

I know you remember by Donaldson, Jennifer 

Paperback(Razorbill, 2020)

BTSB #: 285861 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 4.7 UG Lexile: 680 HL F&P: Z+

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Missing children - Fiction Secrets - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Best friends - Fiction Friendship - Fiction Anchorage (Alaska) - Fiction

Summary: After moving back to Anchorage and discovering the mysterious disappearance of her best friend, high school senior Ruthie embarks on a search that reveals dark secrets.

Lily and Dunkin by Gephart, Donna 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2016)

BTSB #: 375339 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.3 MG+RC: 4.2 6-8 Lexile: 680 F&P: Z

Genres:

Subjects: Friendship - Fiction Transgender people - Fiction Manic-depressive illness - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Middle schools - Fiction School stories Florida - Fiction

Summary: Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets Dunkin Dorfman, and their lives forever change.

Little & Lion by Colbert, Brandy 

BTSB Prebound(Little, Brown, 2017)

BTSB #: 226327 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.3 UG RC: 6.4 9-12 Lexile: 820 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Siblings - Fiction Family life - California - Fiction Dating (Social customs) - Fiction Bisexuality - Fiction Manic-depressive illness - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction California - Fiction

Summary: Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons.

OCDaniel by King, Wesley 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016)

BTSB #: 518525 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.9 MG+RC: 3.2 6-8 Lexile: 560

Genres:

Subjects: Obsessive-compulsive disorder - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Adventure fiction

Summary: A thirteen-year-old boy's life revolves around hiding his obsessive compulsive disorder until a girl at school, who is unkindly nicknamed Psycho Sara, notices him for the first time and he gets a mysterious note that changes everything.

Orphan of Awkward Falls by Graves, Keith 

BTSB Prebound(Chronicle Books, 2011)

BTSB #: 393732 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 6.6 MG RC: 7.4 6-8 Lexile: 950

Genres: Mystery Fiction

Subjects: Mystery fiction Science - Experiments - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Homicide - Fiction Orphans - Fiction Inventors - Fiction

Summary: Josephine, the new girl in Awkward Falls, and her neighbor Thaddeus, a reclusive, orphaned boy inventor, are targets of a mad cannibal from the local criminal asylum.

Pretend she's here by Rice, Luanne 

Paperback(Scholastic Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 749788 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.7 UG Lexile: 680 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Kidnapping - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Grief - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Sisters - Fiction Family life - Fiction

Summary: Fifteen-year-old Emily has six siblings, but she was also close to her best friend, Lizzie Porter, who died nearly a year ago, and she is still grieving; but Lizzie's family are also grieving, so much so, that they use Lizzie's younger sister, Chloe, as a lure and kidnap Emily, forcing her to dress, talk, and act like Lizzie, and threatening to go after Emily's family if she does not become the replacement for the daughter they lost.

Speechless by Schmitt, Adam P. 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2018)

BTSB #: 786864 Available

Dewey: FAges: 9-12   
AR: 4.7 MG RC: 4.2 6-8 Lexile: 680

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Cousins - Fiction Funeral rites and ceremonies - Fiction Families - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction

Summary: When his despised cousin Patrick dies, thirteen-year-old Jimmy is put in an impossible situation when his parents force him to eulogize Patrick at the funeral, but as Jimmy reflects on pivotal moments with his cousin, he gains a new perspective.

Spirits, spells, and snark by McCullough, Kelly 

BTSB Prebound(Feiwel and Friends, 2019)

BTSB #: 622380 Available

Dewey: FAges: 10-14   


Genres: Fantasy Fiction

Subjects: Magic - Fiction Ability - Fiction Rabbits - Fiction Aunts - Fiction Dead - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Saint Paul (Minn.) - Fiction

Summary: Kalvan, now thirteen, discovers new magical powers and uses them, with the help of the snarky fire hare, Sparx, and his dead Aunt Noelle, to rescue his long-lost father in a magical version of St. Paul, Minnesota.

When we collided by Lord, Emery 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury, 2016)

BTSB #: 587525 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   
AR: 4.8 UG RC: 5.5 9-12 Lexile: 730 HL

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Love - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Depression (Psychology) - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction

Summary: Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?

Where the watermelons grow by Baldwin, Cindy 

Paperback(Harper, 2020)

BTSB #: 086478 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG Lexile: 1020

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Schizophrenia - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Farm life - North Carolina - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Droughts - Fiction North Carolina - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.

Where the watermelons grow by Baldwin, Cindy 

BTSB Prebound(Harper, 2018)

BTSB #: 086528 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.4 MG Lexile: 1020

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Schizophrenia - Fiction Mental illness - Fiction Farm life - North Carolina - Fiction Family problems - Fiction Droughts - Fiction North Carolina - Fiction

Summary: Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.