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What do readers say about The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
it really reminded me of my youth wonderfully written relationships are imperfect and messy life is full of possibilitiesThe critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky ... More details on The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn’t try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have. Please don’t try to figure out who she is because then...
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What do readers say about Girl, Interrupted?
smooth as butter living with depression hilarious and thought-provoking simplistic but powerfulIn 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as reno... More details on Girl, Interrupted
The worst was that she was always caught and dragged back, dirty, with wild eyes that had seen freedom. She would curse her captors, and even the tough old-timers had to laugh at the names she made up...
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What do readers say about All the Bright Places?
teen depression and suicide gripping and intense two mismatched young people heart wrenching novelsThis New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge is now a Netflix film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith!
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might ... More details on All the Bright Places
This is something I ask myself in the morning when I wake up. In third period when I’m trying to keep my eyes open while Mr. Schroeder drones on and on. At the supper table as I’m passing the green be...
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What do readers say about Turtles All the Way Down?
teenage mental illness young adult fiction teen mental illness romance/missing person mysteryThe critically acclaimed, instant #1 bestseller by John Green, author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars
"A tender story about learning to cope when the world feels out of control." -People
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AT THE TIME I FIRST REALIZED I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat...
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What do readers say about Challenger Deep?
short and tweet well written and informative a gut wrenching story how real it feelsNational Book Award
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book
Golden Kite Award
National Book Award * Golden Kite Award Winner * Six Starred Reviews ... More details on Challenger Deep
My family and I go to Las Vegas for two days while they tent our house for termites. I draw in my sketch pad for the whole drive, and get carsick. One step short of vomiting. Which, I suppose, makes m...
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What do readers say about The Bell Jar?
resonant, vivid and haunting mental health issues attempted suicide and rebirth semi-autobiographical roman a clefSylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiographical novel offers an intimate, honest and often wrenching glimpse into mental illness. The Bell Jar broke the boundaries between fiction and reality and helped cement Sylvia Plath's place as an enduring ... More details on The Bell Jar
It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, a...
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What do readers say about Looking for Alaska?
insightful the characters were similar brilliant, witty old school coming of age storyThe award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and The Fault in Our Stars... More details on Looking for Alaska
FLORIDA WAS PLENTY HOT, certainly, and humid, too. Hot enough that your clothes stuck to you like Scotch tape, and sweat dripped like tears from your forehead into your eyes. But it was only hot outsi...
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What do readers say about Reasons to Stay Alive?
moving and insightful part memoir, part self-help his struggle with depression anxiety and depressionFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
"Destined to become a modern classic." -Entertainment Weekly
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?
At the age of 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living.... More details on Reasons to Stay Alive
I HAD GONE days without proper food. I hadn’t noticed the hunger because of all the other crazy stuff that was happening to my body and brain. Andrea told me I needed to eat. She went to the fridge an...
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What do readers say about Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock?
very tight, realistic story tough subjects, well executed in the first person depression and suicideIn addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I'm sorry I couldn't be more than... More details on Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
The P-38 WWII Nazi handgun looks comical lying on the breakfast table next to a bowl of oatmeal. It’s like some weird steampunk utensil anachronism. But if you look very closely just above the handle ...
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What do readers say about Speak?
short and witty highly acclaimed and controversial coming of age story realistic and shockingly bluntThe first ten lies they tell you in high school.
"Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. ... More details on Speak
WELCOME TO MERRYWEATHER HIGH It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache. The school bus wheezes to my corner. The door opens and I step up. I ...
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