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A BLUE SO DARK by Holly Schindler

April 26th, 2010 by Holly Schindler · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publisher: Flux
  • Release Date: May 1, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): ISBN-10: 0738719269 ISBN-13: 978-0738719269
As A BLUE SO DARK opens, Aura Ambrose struggles to hide a secret.  Her mother, a talented artist and art teacher, is slowly being consumed by schizophrenia, and Aura has been her sole caretaker ever since Aura’s dad left hem.  Convinced that “creative” equals crazy, Aura shuns her own artistic talent.  But as her mother sinks deeper into the darkness of mental illness, the hunger for a creative outlet draws Aura toward the depths of her imagination.  Just as desperation threatens to swallow her whole, Aura discovers that… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Arts, Theater, Film · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Family · Flux · Local · Mental Illness · Minnesota · Rated PG-13 · Schindler, Holly · Stand-alone · Young Adult

SOMETHING LIKE HOPE by Shawn Goodman

February 15th, 2010 by Shawn Goodman · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: December 2010
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press
  • Release Date: December 28, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-0-385-73939-9
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
Shavonne is a fierce and desperate seventeen year-old who finds herself in a large juvenile lockup hundreds of miles from home.  She wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but her problems seem too big, and time is running out. Amidst corrupt guards, out-of-control girls, and shadows from her past, Shavonne must find the courage to fight for a redemption she’s not sure she deserves. The Author: Shawn Goodman Location: Ithaca, NY Shawn Goodman based SOMETHING LIKE HOPE on his experiences working as a psychologist in a… Continue reading

Categories: 2011 Spring · Contemporary · Debut · Delacorte · Events · Foster Care · Goodman, Shawn · Local · Mental Illness · Multicultural · National · New York · Rated R · Self-esteem/Self-image · Stand-alone · Young Adult

RUNNING FOR MY LIFE by Ann Gonzalez

October 2nd, 2009 by Ann Gonzalez · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: WestSide Books
  • Release Date: March 25, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-934813-00-3
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
RUNNING FOR MY LIFE is the powerful story of Andrea McKane, a fourteen-year-old who struggles to cope with her mother's schizophrenia. The book accurately portrays the difficulties a teen faces when dealing with the illness, the abuse and the absence of a psychotic parent. RUNNING FOR MY LIFE shows the effects of mental illness on a family, and a teenager's attempts to manage the… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Friendship · Gonzalez, Ann · Mental Illness · Rated PG · Stand-alone · WestSide Books · Young Adult

BREAK by Hannah Moskowitz

May 6th, 2009 by Hannah Moskowitz · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Summer, 2009
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse
  • Release Date: August 25, 2009
  • ISBN (hardcover): N/A
  • ISBN (paperback): 978-1416982753
Jonah is on a mission to break every bone in his body. Everyone knows that broken bones grow back stronger than they were before. And Jonah wants to be stronger-needs to be stronger, because his family is falling apart around his bickering parents, his allergic-to-everything brother, and the screaming new baby. Maybe if he breaks and heals enough times, he'll show… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Summer · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Family · Maryland · Mental Illness · Moskowitz, Hannah · Rated R · Siblings · Simon Pulse · Stand-alone · Young Adult

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO TELL YOU by Heather Duffy Stone

February 7th, 2009 by Heather Duffy Stone · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring, 2009
  • Publisher: Flux
  • Release Date: March 1, 2009
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
The stories people tell are always about the things we left behind, and about the things we wish we could do again. The real story isn't about what you know; it's about what you wish you knew then. When my brother and my best friend fell in love-that was the end of everything I knew. Fraternal twins Nadio and Noelle share a close connection-and as Noelle's best friend since they were five, Keeley Shipley fit perfectly into their world. But everything changes after Keeley spends the summer before junior year… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Spring · Contemporary · Debut · Drugs · Events · Flux · Friendship · Love · Mental Illness · New York · Stand-alone · Stone, Heather Duffy · Young Adult

Dirty Little Secrets by C.J. Omololu

January 7th, 2009 by Cynthia Jaynes Omololu · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter 2010
  • Publisher: Walker
  • Release Date: February 2, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): TBD
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
When 16 year-old Lucy comes home to find her mother dead under a stack of National Geographics in their garbage-filled home, she hesitates as she starts to dial 911. She hardly notices the mountains of stuff that fill every available space in the entire house or smells the decay anymore - but she knows the paramedics will, and so will the news cameras that will follow. They'll notice the garbage and the smell and wonder how anyone ever lived like this. Only freaks live like this. As she… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Winter · California · Contemporary · Debut · Events · Family · Jaynes Omololu, Cynthia · Local · Mental Illness · National · Rated PG-13 · Secrecy · Stand-alone · Walker Books · Young Adult

BLEEDING VIOLET by Dia Reeves

January 5th, 2009 by Dia Reeves · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Spring 2010
  • Publisher: Simon Pulse
  • Release Date: January 5, 2010
  • ISBN (hardcover): 1416986189
  • ISBN (paperback): TBD
BLEEDING VIOLET summary: Sixteen-year-old Hanna Järvinen is an unusual girl with a head full of hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet full of frilly, violet dresses. Everything a girl needs--except love.  But that's what mothers are for, and Hanna is sure she can reconcile with hers, even though she was abandoned as a baby. Unfortunately, her mother lives in Portero, an odd East Texas town with doors that lead out of the world, flesh-eating creatures, and parasitical spirits--not an ideal environment for winning a… Continue reading

Categories: 2010 Spring · Debut · Events · Family · Horror · Local · Mental Illness · Monsters · National · Paranormal · Rated · Rated PG-13 · Reeves, Dia · Simon Pulse · Stand-alone · Texas · Young Adult

CRACKED UP TO BE by Courtney Summers

October 8th, 2008 by Courtney Summers · Email post Email post · Print Print

  • Publication Season/Year: Winter 2009
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press (Griffin)
  • Release Date: December 23, 2008
  • ISBN (paperback): 031238369X (isbn13: 9780312383695)
Perfect Parker Fadley isn't so perfect anymore. She's quit the cheerleading squad, she's dumped her perfect boyfriend, and she's failing school. Her parents are on constant suicide watch and her counselors think she's playing games... but what they don't know, the real reason for this whole mess, isn't something she can say out loud. It isn't even something she can say to herself. A horrible thing has happened and it just might be her fault. If she can just remove herself from everybody--be totally alone--then… Continue reading

Categories: 2009 Winter · Debut · Events · Local · Mental Illness · National · St. Martin's Press · Stand-alone · Suicide · Summers, Courtney · Young Adult · _CANADA Ontario