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Teen Fiction & Nonfiction on Mental Health
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini A humorous account of a New York City teenager's battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour After picking up and leaving everything behind in California, eighteen-year-old Marin, with the help of her former friend, must confront [...]
Social Justice Books for Teens
Fiction Dear Martin by Nic Stone Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him. Request from Minuteman Library Network https://find.minlib.net/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3651573 Request from Libby/Overdrive https://minuteman.overdrive.com/minuteman-millis/content/media/3249063 How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon When sixteen-year-old Tariq [...]
Let’s Talk About Race: A Picture Book List for Young Children
Something Happened In Our Town : A Child's Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano Ages 4-8 After discussing the police shooting of a local Black man with their families, Emma and Josh know how to treat a new student who looks and speaks differently than his classmates. Includes an extensive Note to Parents and [...]
Teen Science Fiction
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher (Incarceron series #1) To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape. Uglies by Scott Westerfield (Uglies series #1) Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will be [...]
50 Picture Books We Love
Betty Goes Bananas by Steve Antony Toddler Betty the gorilla gets very upset when she is unable to peel her banana, and every effort Mr. Toucan makes to help her only seems to make things worse. Blocks by Irene Dickson Toddler Ruby has red blocks. Benji has blue blocks. But what happens when they won't [...]
Teen LBGTQIA Lit
Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed. -MLN Catalog Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli Leah Burke is an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a [...]
Teen Horror
Anna Dressed In Blood (Anna Korlov #1) by Kendare Blake For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before. -MLN Catalog Miss [...]
Teen Fantasy
Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo "Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction--if they don't kill each other first"-- Provided by publisher. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. [...]
50 Books/Series for Younger Teens (7th & 8th)
Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer Science Fiction As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story. -MLN Catalog [...]