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Mind Matters: Teenage Tales about Mental Health & Neurodiversity

"Mind Matters" is a curated booklist designed to support teenagers in navigating the challenges of mental health. From understanding emotions to building resilience, this collection offers inspiring fiction and nonfiction stories to help empower teens as they face the challenges associated with mental health and neurodiversity. PLEASE NOTE: Many of these books talk about sensitive topics that may be upsetting for some readers. RESOURCES: National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: 988 or 988lifeline.org Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: samhsa.gov National Alliance on Mental Illness: nami.org CMH of Clinton, Eaton, and Ingham County: 517-346-8460 (Crisis Line) or ceicmh.org

East Lansing Public Library

37 items

  • (Don't) Call Me Crazy

    33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental Health

    Book, 2018Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin, 2018. — YA 616.89 DON 2018
  • Explores obsessive compulsive disorder.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Dutton Books, [2017] — YA GREEN 2017
  • Explores eating disorders and body dysmorphia.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — YA MILLER 2017
  • Explores addiction and body dysmorphia.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020] — YA ACEVES
  • Explores eating disorders and body dysmorphia.
    Book, 2015San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2015 — YA B DUNKLE 2015
  • Life Inside My Mind

    31 Authors Share Their Personal Struggles

    Explores mental health, neurodiversity, and mental illness.
    Book, 2018New York : Simon Pulse, 2018. — YA 616.89 LIF 2018
  • Hyperbole and a Half

    Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

    Brosh, Allie,
    Explores anxiety and clinical depression.
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York : Gallery Books, 2019. — GN BROSH
  • Explores anxiety and mental health.
    eBook, 2019[United States] : Sourcebooks Inc, 2019. — eBook hoopla
  • Explores depression.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — YA ZHANG
  • Explores mental illness and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
    Book, 2024New York : Labyrinth Road, 2024. — YA COLE
  • Explores generalized anxiety disorder and agoraphobia.
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023. — YA LOCKINGTON
  • Explores mental illness, self-harm, and stigma around mental illness.
    Book, 2022New York : Delacorte Press, [2022] — YA STEWART 2022
  • Explores PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — YA JACKSON
  • Exploring mental health and mental illness.
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — YA GREGORIO