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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.
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There are some things Finley Hart doesn't talk about--like her parents, who are having problems, and her "blue days," the days when it feels hard even to just keep her head up. Being sent to her grandparents' house for the summer, Finley's only retreat is Everwood, the magical forest kingdom that exists only in her notebook--or so she thought. Everwood turns out to be real, and it is growing behind her grandparents' home. With her cousins, Finley...
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"Nobody writes about family secrets with the grace, compassion, and intrigue of Courtney Sheinmel." —Leila Sales, author of This Song Will Save Your Life
Fans of I Was Here by Gayle Forman and Far from the Tree by Robin Benway will be floored by this heartbreaking yet uplifting teen novel about a grieving girl who follows a mysterious list across the country after her older
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After being diagnosed with depression, Pluto's situation is made worse when she continually skips her medication and school. When her father intervenes and wants her to move away from her mother and with him to New York City, Pluto realizes she must act fast to get back to her old self. But even with the help of a new friend named Fallon, a new therapist, and a new tutor, Pluto learns that her depression isn't something she can cure.
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A follow-up to the best-selling The Primal Blueprint draws on the author's evolutionary research to explore genetic reasons behind why people feel depressed and unfulfilled in spite of positive outward circumstances, outlining simple lifestyle strategies for promoting personal contentment.
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It is the 2008 presidential election and seventeen-year-old African American Morgan lives in a mostly white, conservative suburb and attends a Christian high school. She suffers from the isolation that brings as a person of color. When she seeks help for her depression after a suicide attempt, she begins to find her own identity and educate others on being black in America.
8) Teardrop
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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.
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This fun, unique, and "outside-the-box" self-help guide provides everything you need to begin your very own superhero training using evidence-based ACT and mindfulness skills. Within these colorful pages, you'll team up with a group of troubled heroes - inspired by both fictional characters and real-life people - enlisted at the Superhero Training Academy. By learning to face up to their inner villains and monsters, these characters will inspire you...
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"Sixteen-year-old Biz sees her father every day, though he died when she was seven, but when Biz's almost-normal life turns upside-down and her father disappears again, she tumbles into a disaster-land of grief and depression from which she must find her way back"--
15) Good and gone
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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 assault by her ex-boyfriend.--Provided by Publisher.
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When Sonia's father loses his job and she must move from her small, supportive private school to a public middle school, the half-Jewish half-Indian sixth-grader experiences culture shock as she tries to navigate the school's unfamiliar social scene, and after her father is diagnosed with clinical depression, she finds herself becoming even more confused about herself and her family.
17) When we collided
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Can seventeen-year-old Jonah save his family restaurant from ruin, his mother from her sadness, and his danger-seeking girlfriend Vivi from herself?
18) The bell jar
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Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.
19) Just breathe
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From the critically acclaimed author of Say What You Will and A Step Toward Falling comes a deeply emotional new novel, perfect for fans of Five Feet Apart and The Fault in Our Stars. David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis. Jamie Turner is a quiet sophomore, struggling with depression. The pair soon realizes that they're able to be more themselves with each other than they can be with anyone else, and...