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1 | Trauma: Reaction to/Recovery from rape, grief, loss and other trauma | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 | Drug abuse | Out of Reach | Carrie Arcos | Rachel's drug abusing brother is missing and she joins his friend Tyler in a quest to find him. Realistic depiction of addiction. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Grief/loss | The Thing about Jellyfish | Ali Benjamin | Best friend drowns, and Suzy believes it was the result of a rare jellyfish. Authentic treatment of the grieving process and the struggle to understand death. MG | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Grief/loss | Thin Space | Jody Casella | Contemporary with a supernatural element featuring a grieving main character struggling with the loss of his twin brother and survivor's guilt. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Rape | What Happens Next | Colleen Clayton | Girl raped on a school ski trip struggles with friends, romantic relationships and the confusion and concern of her mother. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Rape | Pretty Girl 13 | Liz Coley | A girl with Dissociative Identity Disorder deals with re-integrating alter personalities who have protected her from their memories of her kidnap and rape.YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Trauma | Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes | Chris Crutcher | Sarah Byrnes and Eric have been friends--and outcasts for years. But while Eric has seemingly come out on top, Sarah experiences new trauma.YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Trauma | The Watsons Go to Birmingham | Christopher Paul Curtis | Nine year old and his family travel from Flint Michigan to the South in the 1960's to visit their grandmother and experience racial injustice and the horrific Birmingham church bombing. MG | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Grief/loss | Love Letters to the Dead | Ava Dellaira | For a school assignment, Laurel begins writing letters to dead people--Kurt Cobain, at first, because he was her deceased older sister's favorite musician. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Grief/loss | The End or Something Like It | Ann Dee Ellis | It's the one year anniversary of Emmy's best friend's death, and Emmy is still trying to contact her. Grades 6-9 Recommended for reluctant readers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Grief/loss | The Carnival at Bray | Jessie Ann Foley | Set in the 1990's American grunge music fan living in Ireland experiences first love and loss. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Grief/loss | Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | During the Great Depression, girl copes with loss of her mother and father's slow deterioration. Written in verse. MG | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Abuse/Neglect | One for the Murphys | Lynda Mullaly Hunt | Twelve year old Carly slowly and realistically adjusts to foster care. MG | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Violence/Racial tension | All American Boys | Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds | Two teens--one black and one white--struggle to understand a violent encounter with a police officer. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Bullying/loss | Everybody Sees the Ants | A.S. King | Seventeen year old Lucky escapes in his dreams to Laos, where his grandfather died during the war. Good depiction of learning to cope with bullying and family dysfunction. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Abuse | Charm & Strange | Stephanie Kuehn | After a family tragedy, teen struggles at a remote boarding school. Fascinating and surprising depiction of the aftermath of abuse. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Abuse | Grave Mercy | Robin LaFevers | Teen trained as an assassin is sent to a castle to spy. Fantasy, adventure and romance--but with a realistic depicition of the aftermath of child abuse. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Grief/loss | Inside Out and Back Again | Thanhha Lai | Inspired by author's childhood experiences after the fall of Saigon. Ten year old Ha fless Vietnam with her mother and brothers, struggles to find her place in America and overcome the loss of her father. MG | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Grief/loss | One Moment | Kristina McBride | After witnessing the death of her boyfriend of two years, Maggie struggles with PTSD-related memory issues as she attempts to heal. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Trauma | Pushing the Limits | Katie McGarry | Echo and Noah meet in the school social worker's office and embark on an unlikely romantic relationship. Some tough subjects handled sensitively, including parental death, child abuse, memory loss and grief.YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Grief/loss | I'll Give You the Sun | Jandy Nelson | Twins struggle after the death of their mother. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Child abuse | Still Waters | Ash Parsons | "Tough guy" Jason struggles to survive his father's physical abuse.YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | War/loss | The Red Pencil | Andrea Davis Pinkney | Twelve year old Sudanese refugee girl faces horrors of war. MG | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Sexual abuse | Scars | Cheryl Rainfield | Girl cuts herself as a way of coping with the pain of sexual abuse. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Cancer | Invincible | Amy Reed | Girl beats a cancer diagnosis and struggles to return to her old life. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Homelessness; Grief/loss | Esperanza Rising | Pam Munoz Ryan | Set against the backdrop of the labor/migrant struggles during the Great Depression, a thirteen year old Mexican girl seeks a better life in California after her father's death.MG | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Abuse | Okay for Now | Gary D. Schmidt | Fourteen year old Doug comes of age in 1968-- as the new boy in town encountering first love, art in the form of an Audobon bird book at the local library, and rising above his dysfunctional family circumstances. MG/young YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Rape | Faking Normal | Courtney C. Stevens | A girl is raped over the summer and tries to bury the memory by hiding in her closet and scratching herself. Not the typical issue book-- this one has a romance and a well meaning religious family. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Rape | All the Rage | Courtney Summers | "The" book for understanding rape culture, bullying, and high school social structure. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Rape | The Mockingbirds | Daisy Whitney | A teenaged girl joins a secret society at her boarding school to deal with the aftermath of her date-rape. (uplifting, empowering) YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Severe illness; Abuse | Everything Everything | Nicola Yoon | Teen girl allergic to everything falls in love with the boy next door. Sub plot involves the boy's abusive family. YA | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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