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• Rainbow in the Dark

  McGinty, Sean,

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• Smoke

  Woods, Darcy,

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• Me (Moth)

  McBride, Amber,

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• The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)

  Sheinmel, Alyssa B.,

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• Girl on the Line

  Gardner, Faith,

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  Life's tough when you didn't expect to be living it. But now that Journey has a future, she apparently also has to figure out what that future's supposed to look like. Some days the pain feels as fresh as that day: the day she attempted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Know I'm No Good

  Foley, Jessie Ann,

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• On the Edge of Gone

  Duyvis, Corinne

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  In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home Home

  Allen-Agostini, Lisa,

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  After being hospitalized for depression, fourteen-year-old Kayla is sent from her home in Trinidad to live with her aunt in Canada, yearning to feel at home but feeling more adrift than ever.

• The Bridge

  Konigsberg, Bill,

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  Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth.

• The Lightness of Hands

  Garvin, Jeff

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• This Is My Brain in Love

  Gregorio, I. W., 1976-

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• The Last True Poets of the Sea

  Drake, Julia,

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  Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Autism in Heels

  the Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum

  O'Toole, Jennifer Cook,

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• How It Feels to Float

  Fox, Helena,

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• The Weight of Our Sky

  Hanna Alkaf,

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  Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.

• Darius the Great Is Not Okay

  Khorram, Adib

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• The Place Between Breaths

  An, Na, 1972-

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  Grace, sixteen, fears that she will succumb to the schizophrenia that took her mother away, while she and her father work for a genetics lab rushing to find a cure.

• A Danger to Herself and Others

  Sheinmel, Alyssa B.,

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• When My Heart Joins the Thousand

  Steiger, A. J.,

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• The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

  Toten, Teresa, 1955-

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