space.discussion.Psychology+Reading+List

|| || || FIC BAR || || runaway living in the tunnels beneath New York's Grand Central Station for four years. (Addiction) || 362.74 BOL || 423p  ||  || 158 CAR 276p || 191p || || ||  || Presents the true story of three African-American kids from the inner city of Newark, New Jersey, who made a pact to support each other as they rose from an environment of poverty, crime, and drugs, and went on to become successful doctors. || 610 SAM 273p || || 112p ||  || FIC FLI || || 92 FRA || || || 179p || || 616.85 GOT || 250p || || ||   || FIC HAD || 149p || || 362.1 HAY || || || || ||  ||  A. M. || ** Damage ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems very special. (Depression) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC JEN || || || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC LOC <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">229p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">390p || 154p || || FIC MIL || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">292p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">341p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">285p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">214p || 276p || || 616.85 RIO || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">158 ROG <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">195p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">214p || 218p || 168p || || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">191p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">278p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">296p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">305.23 SIM <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">198p || || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC SON || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.76 THE || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">288p || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">207p || || 616.85 WIL || || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
 * PSYCHOLOGY READING LIST **
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Author || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Title  || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Summary  || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Call Number  ||
 * || ** Jay's Journal ** || The story of Jay, a sixteen-year-old boy, describing his descent into drugs, Satanism, and suicide. (Addiction, suicide) || 616.86 JAY ||
 * Albom, Mitch || ** <span style="font-size: 70%; color: #5f00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #f1f99a;"> Tuesdays With Morrie ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The author, an alumnus of Brandeis University, tells of his meetings with a former professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease and of the lessons he learned about life and death from his college mentor. (Coping with mortality and death) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">378.1 ALB  ||
 * Anderson, Laurie Halse || ** Speak. ** || A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. (Depression, Acquaintance rape) || Fic And
 * Antle, Nancy || ** Lost In The War ** || Twelve-year-old Lisa Grey struggles to cope with a mother whose traumatic experiences as a nurse in Vietnam during the war are still haunting her. (Post traumatic stress)  || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC ANT ||
 * Asher, Jay || ** Thirteen Reasons Why ** || When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing 13 cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death. || FIC ASH
 * Axlines, Virginia || ** Dibs: In Search of Self ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An account of the psychotherapy of an emotionally disturbed young boy who overcomes his problems to become a normal child.  || 618.92 AXL ||
 * Balter, Marie || ** Nobody’s Child ** || An account of Marie Balter's long mental illness and recovery revealing a courageous story of hope and healing. || 92 BAL ||
 * Barkley, Brad || ** Jars Of Glass ** || Two sisters, aged 14 and 15, offer their views of events that occur during the year after their mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia and their family, including a recently adopted Russian orphan, begins to disintegrate.
 * Bennett, Cherie || ** Life in the Fat Lane ** || Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes overweight. (Body image) || FIC BEN
 * Bodeen, S. A. || ** Compound ** || Fifteen-year-old Eli, locked inside a radiation-proof compound built by his father to keep them safe following a nuclear attack, begins to question his future, as well as his father's grip on sanity as the family's situation steadily disintegrates over the course of 6 years. (Psychopath) || FIC BOD ||
 * Bolnick, Tina S. || ** Living At The Edge of The World : A Teenager's Survival in the Tunnel's of Grand Central Station ** || Tina S. tells about her life as an alcohol and drug-addicted teenage
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Bradley, Michael || ** Heart & Soul of the Next Generation: Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Teens ** || Tells the stories of twenty teenagers who faced challenges--including suicidal depression, marijuana addiction, sexual abuse, parents' divorce, a parent's death, and coming out to one's father--with strength and courage. (Psychotherapy) <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">305.235 BRA ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brooks <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, Kevin <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || ** Lucas: Story of Love and Hate ** || On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC BRO
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Burch, Jennings Michael || ** They Cage The Animals At Night ** ||  A personal account of the author's experiences living in New York City orphanages and foster homes from 1949 until his reunion with his friend and guardian three years later <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.7 BUR ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Carnegie, Dale || ** How To Win Friends And Influence People ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">You can go after the job you want...and get it! You can take the job you have...and improve it! You can take any situation you're in...and make it work for "you!"
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chase, Truddi || ** When Rabbit Howls ** || An account of the life of Truddi Chase, a woman who developed multiple personalities as a result of childhood abuse and incest. <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">92 CHA ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cormier, Robert || ** I Am The Cheese ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Follows the life of a young boy who’s happy, if somewhat unusual life with his friends and family gradually starts to unravel, until the truth of the boy's situation is finally revealed. He seeks to uncover the secret he knows is locked in his subconscious mind that will allow him to locate his parents who mysteriously disappeared during his childhood. (Adolescence) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC COR ||
 * Cormier, Robert || ** The Chocolate War ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies. <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || FIC COR
 * Cormier, Robert || ** Tenderness ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A psychological thriller about a teenage serial killer and the runaway who falls in love with him. (Psychopath) || FIC COR ||
 * Covey, Sean || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Describes six important decisions teenagers will face and offers advice on the choices that should be made, discussing school, friends, parents, dating and sex, addictions, and self-worth. || 158 COV ||
 * Covey, Steven || **//<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide //** || Sean Covey applies the proven wisdom of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. Provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more. || 158 COV ||
 * Crutcher, Chris || ** Whale Talk ** || Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho an athlete at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school’s less popular students. (self acceptance/ Peer pressure) || FIC CRU
 * Crutcher, Chris || ** Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes ** || The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help. || FIC CRU
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Crutcher, Chris || ** Chinese Handcuffs ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Still troubled by his older brother's violent suicide, 18-year-old Dillon becomes deeply involved in the terrible secret of his friend Jennifer, who feels she can tell no one what her stepfather is doing to her. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC CRU ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Crutcher, Chris || ** Ironman ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father. (anger management) <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC CRU ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">David, Sampson || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise And Fulfill A Dream **
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dessen, Sarah || ** Lock and Key ** || When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others. (abandonment, child abuse, emotional problems) <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC DES ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dessen, Sarah || ** Dreamland ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After her older sister runs away, 16-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life & begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant and dangerous. (date abuse, post traumatic Stress disorder, nervous breakdown) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC DES ||
 * Draper, Sharon M. || ** Tears of a Tiger : Hazelwood High ** || The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car and many others in the school. || FIC DRA
 * Esherick, Joan || ** Criminal Psychology and Personality Profiling ** || Presents an introduction to forensic science, explaining how investigators use case studies from history, FBI profiles, and behavioral science to recover information and solve crimes and other mysteries. <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || 614 ESH
 * Flinn, Alex || ** Breathing Underwater ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father. Depiction of abuse from abuser’s point of view.
 * Frank, E. R || ** America ** || America, a runaway boy who is being treated at Ridgeway, a New York hospital, finds himself opening up to one of the doctors on staff and revealing things about himself that he had always vowed to keep secret. || FIC FRA
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Frankl, Victor || ** Man’s Search For Meaning ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dr. Frankl recounts details of his experiences in a Nazi death camp and tells how they led to his development of the theory of logotherapy which contends that man has the freedom to transcend suffering and find meaning in his life regardless of his circumstances. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">150.19 FRA
 * Frey, James || ** A Million Little Pieces ** || The author tells the true story of his recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, beginning with his enrollment in a Minnesota rehabilitation center after a two-week blackout and ending with his rejection of all Twelve Step programs. || 362.29 FEY
 * Giles, Gail || ** Right Behind You  ** || After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, 14-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but has trouble fitting in and finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.   || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC GIL ||
 * Giles, Gail || ** What Happened To Cass McBride ** || After his younger brother commits suicide, Kyle Kirby decides to exact revenge on the person he holds responsible. || FIC GIL
 * Gordon, || ** When Living Hurts: What-to do Book For Yourself Or Someone You Care About Who Feels Discouraged, Sad, Lonely, Hopeless, Angry …. ** || Presents a comprehensive guide for teens that addresses the warning signs of depression and suicide and suggests ways to cope with anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness, and loneliness || 362.28 GOR
 * Gottlieb, Lori || ** Stick Figure : Diary of My Former Self  ** || The author shares her childhood diaries, chronicling her experiences as an 11-year-old anorexic.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Graham, Stedman || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Teens Can Make It Happen: Nine Steps to Success ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Presents advice and exercises for teenagers to help them lead fulfilling lives, covering such factors as self-esteem, goal setting, motivation, and risk taking. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">158 GRA
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Green, Hannah || ** I Never Promised You A Rose Garden ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">An adolescent girl's successful struggles with depressive and psychotic symptoms in a psychiatric hospital. (Abnormal) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC GRE ||
 * Greenberg, Joanne || ** I Never Promised You A Rose Garden ** || Chronicles the 3-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy. || FIC GRE
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Gregory, Julie || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Sickened : Memoir of a Munchausen By Proxy Childhood ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The author describes her life as the daughter of a woman afflicted with Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse in which a parent, most often a mother, invents or induces illness in a child in order to gain attention from medical professionals, tells how she was able to save herself, and discusses her efforts to have another young girl removed from her mother's care. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">616.85 GRE ||
 * Griffith, Gail || ** Will's Choice : A Suicidal Teen, A Desperate Mother and A Chronicle of Recovery ** || Gail Griffith chronicles her efforts to save her teenage son from the throes of teen depression, sharing how her son's suicide attempt impacted their family and her own feelings of self-worth. || 362.28 GRI
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Guest, Judith || ** Ordinary People ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Family deals with the tragic loss of their son and brother. (Adjustment Mechanisms, Stress/ Frustration, Teen Suicide, patient's Clinical Therapy) <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC GUE ||
 * Haddon, || ** Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
 * Halpern, Julie. || ** Get Well Soon  ** || Anna Bloom, confined to a mental hospital by her parents who do not know how to deal with her depression and panic attacks, writes letters to her best friend Tracy sharing the funny details of her life and the people she is getting to know at Lakeland.  || FIC HAL  ||
 * Hautman, Pete || ** Invisible ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever. || FIC HAU
 * Hayden, Torey L || ** Ghost Girl : True Story of a Child in Peril and the Teacher Who Saved Her ** || A teacher of emotionally disturbed children tells of her work with a silent and withdrawn eight-year-old girl who is the possible victim of ritual abuse.
 * Hayden, Torey L. || ** The Tiger's Child: Sequel to One Child. ** || Traces the author's relationship with Sheila, a young woman struggling to deal with her memories of an abusive childhood and a former student in Hayden's special education class. || 618.92 HAY
 * Hayden, Torey L. || ** Just Another Kid ** || A teacher of six emotionally troubled kids describes the disasters and growth she faced with each one. || 371.94 HAY
 * Hayden, Torey L. || ** Twilight Children ** || Psychiatrist Torey Hayden shares three of her most challenging cases, two dealing with highly troubled children and another concerning an 82-year-old stroke victim. || 618.92 HAY
 * Hayden, Torey L. || ** Somebody Else's Kids ** || A small seven-year-old boy who couldn't speak except to repeat weather forecasts and other people's words...A beautiful little girl of seven who had been brain damaged by terrible parental beatings and was so ashamed because she couldn't learn to read...A violently angry 10-year-old who had seen his stepmother murder his father and had been sent from one foster home to another ...A shy 12-year-old from a Catholic school which put her out when she became pregnant..."What do we matter?" Why do you care?" They were four problem children-put in Torey Hayden's class because no one else knew what to do with them. || 371.9 HAY
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hesser, Terry || ** Kissing Doorknobs ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fourteen-year-old Tara describes how her increasingly strange compulsions begin to take over her life and affect her relationships with her family and friends. (OCD) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC HES ||
 * Holman, Virginia <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || ** Rescuing Patty Hearst : Memories from a Decade Gone Mad ** || The author recalls her experiences growing up with a schizophrenic mother in the 1970s, discussing the nearly four years she and her sister spent in a cottage with their mother who believed she had been ordered to outfit the house as a field hospital in a secret war, and sharing her experiences as an adult trying to reconstruct the course of her mother's illness. (schizophrenia)  || 616.89 HOL
 * Hopkins, Ellen || ** Impulse  ** || Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.   || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC HOP ||
 * Hyde, Catherine Ryan || ** The Year of Miraculous Reappearance.  ** || Thirteen-year-old Cynnie has had to deal with her mother's alcoholism and stream of boyfriends all her life, but when her grandparents take custody of her brother, who has Down Syndrome, Cynnie becomes self-destructive and winds up in court-mandated Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.   || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC HYD ||
 * Hyde, Catherine Ryan || ** The Day I Killed James ** || Seventeen-year-old Theresa tries to get past the guilt she feels over the death of a neighbor who loved her, first through a journal her therapist tells her to keep, then by transforming herself and starting a new life. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC HYD ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jablonski, Carla || ** Thicker Than Water ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Coping with her mother's cancer makes 17-year-old Kia feel out of place everywhere until she is drawn into the goth-vampire club scene, where she finds acceptance and one gorgeous, popular guy who might offer escape. (self-mutilation) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC JAB ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jenkins,
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Kesey, Ken || ** One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fictional account of a mental hospital and the healing effects of a newcomer who fought for the rights (and psychological health) of all its patients, to his own detriment ( Psychiatric Hospital Therapy) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC KES ||
 * Kettlewell, Caroline || ** Skin Game : A Cutter's Memoir ** || A memoir in which the author, a former "cutter," discusses the reasons why she began cutting herself as an adolescent, and shares the story of how she was finally able to overcome the affliction. || 616.85 KET ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Keyes, Daniel || ** Flowers For Algernon ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Charlie Gordon is a young man with an IQ of 68 who has a job at a box factory and attends night classes in an effort to improve himself. A experimental brain operation becomes available that promises to triple intelligence (it has already done so for a mouse named Algernon), and Charlie excitedly decides that he wants to give it a try. (Learning, Intelligence) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC KEY ||
 * Kidl, Patrice || ** The Woman in the Wall ** || Because she suffers from extreme shyness, Anna retreats in her secret rooms. (Social anxiety) || FIC KID
 * Klass, David || ** You Don't Know Me ** || Fourteen-year-old John creates alternative realities in his mind as he tries to deal with his mother's abusive boyfriend, his crush on a beautiful, but shallow classmate and other problems at school. (Verbal and physical abuse) || FIC KLA ||
 * Koertge, Ron. || ** Stoner and Spaz ** || A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman. || FIC KOE
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lamb, Wally || ** I Know This Much Is True ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">For most of his life Dominick Birdsey has been living in the shadow of his schizophrenic identical twin, Thomas, but when Thomas commits a violent act that affects both their lives, Dominick decides to leave his home and search for his true identity. (schizophrenia) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC LAM ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lockhart, E. || ** Boyfriend List: (15 guys, 11 Shrink Appointments… ** || Ruby Oliver, a moderately popular fifteen-year-old who has suddenly become a social pariah, begins seeing a psychiatrist and makes a list of all her past boyfriends in an attempt to understand where her life went wrong.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lundgree, Mary Beth || ** Love, Sara ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In a series of emails and journal entries Sara, a high school junior with a history of sexual abuse and foster home care, reveals her feelings about herself and two friends who are headed for destruction. (sexual abuse and post traumatic stress disorder) <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC LUN ||
 * MacCready, Robin Merrow || ** Buried ** ||  When her alcoholic mother goes missing, seventeen-year-old Claudine begins to spin out of control, despite her attempts to impose order on every aspect of her life.   || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC MAC ||
 * Marchetta, Melina || ** Saving Francesca.  ** || Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.   || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC MAR ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Maynard, Joyce || ** Usual Rules ** || Thirteen-year-old Wendy, grieving the death of her mother in the collapse of the World Trade Center, is taken to live with her father in California where she learns important life lessons from a variety of people before returning home to her stepfather and brother, where she feels she truly belongs . <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC MAY
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">McCormick, Patirica || ** Cut ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">While confined to a mental hospital, 13-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation. (Self-Mutilation) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC MCC ||
 * Mikaelson, Ben || ** Ghost of Spirit Bear ** || Cole Matthews returns to civilization after his year of exile in the Alaskan wilderness and is ready to face high school, but when the school bullies begin to target his friend, Peter, Cole feels his rage once again coming to the surface and worries high school may prove harder to survive than the wilderness. || FIC MIK
 * Miller, Mary Beth || ** Aimee ** || After she is accused of playing a role in her best friend's death, a young woman battles depression, anger, guilt, loneliness, and the problems of her own family as well as those of the families of her old friends.
 * Morgenroth, Kate || ** Echo ** || After Justin witnesses his brother's accidental shooting death, he must live with the repercussions, as the same horrific day seems to happen over and over. (Post traumatic stress disorder)  || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC MOR ||
 * Nasar, Sylvia. || ** A Beautiful Mind : The Life Of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash  ** || Chronicles the life of mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr., and discusses his contributions to the study of economics, his illegitimate child, his bouts with schizophrenia, and his Nobel Prize-winning theories. (schizophrenia) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">92 NAS ||
 * Naylor, Phyllis || ** The Keeper ** || Junior high school student Nick must face the fact that his father is plunging fast into serious mental illness  || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC NAY ||
 * Neimark, Anne || ** Sigmund Freud : The World Within ** || A biography of the world-famous Austrian doctor who spent his life analyzing the mind and its illnesses. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">92 FRE ||
 * Nelson, R. A. || ** Breathe My Name ** || Since her adoption, seventeen-year-old Frances has lived a quiet suburban life, but soon after she begins falling for the new boy at school, she receives a summons from her mentally ill birth mother, who has just been released after serving eleven years for smothering Frances's younger sisters and still wants to kill Frances  || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC NEL ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Neufield, John || ** Lisa, Bright and Dark ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">As her parents and teachers refuse to recognize Lisa's increasingly severe depression, three of her friends devise a plan to help her with amateur psychiatry. (Depression). || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC NEU ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nolan, Han || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Dancing on the Edge ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC NOL ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oates, Joyce Hall || ** After The Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings and Flew Away ** || Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC OAT
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oates, Joyce Hall || ** Freaky Green Eyes ** || Fourteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC OAT
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oxnam, Robert B. || ** A Fractured Mind: My Life With Multiple Personality Disorder ** || Robert Oxnam recounts his battle with multiple personality disorder, describing his eleven different personalities and his struggles to merge them into one personality in order to reclaim his life. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">616.85 OXN
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Patterson, James || ** Against Medical Advice ** || Tells the true story of Cory Friedman and his thirteen-year battle with Tourette syndrome, numerous medications and treatments, and his family's determination to find help for their son. (Tourettes/ OCD) <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">616.28 PAT ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pelzer, Dave || ** A Child Called It ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A boy trying to survive his mother who has abused him his entire life, and his attempt to escape from his mother. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.7 PEL ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pelzer, Dave || ** The Lost Boy ** || The author tells of his experiences in five foster homes and juvenile detention, after he was taken away from his abusive mother and alcoholic father, and discusses how he made it into the Air Force, and found love and contentment in his life <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. (Social, Abnormal, Developmental) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.7 PEL ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pelzer, Dave || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Help Yourself: Celebrating the Rewards of Resilience and Gratitude ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The author shares the lessons he learned about the resilience of the human spirit after surviving a childhood of severe abuse; and presents self-help advice to people who are trying to overcome painful pasts, negative thoughts, and numerous setbacks <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">158 PEL
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Plath, Sylvia || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Bell Jar, ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The author presents a first-person narrative that chronicles the mental break- down of Esther Greenwood from the doctor's office to the asylum. (Depression) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC PLA ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Picoult, Jodi || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">My Sister’s Keeper ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Thirteen-year-old Anna, conceived specifically to provide blood and bone marrow for her sister Kate who was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at the age of two, decides to sue her parents for control of her body when her mother wants her to donate a kidney to Kate. (Ethics, death and mortality, parenting styles) <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC PIC ||
 * Pincus, Jonathan || ** Base Instincts: **** What Makes Killers Kill? ** || Explores the physical, psychological, and social factors that can lead to violent behavior, and attempts to determine what triggers violence in serial killers || 364.15 PIN ||
 * Prejean, Helen || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Dead Man Walking: Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States ** || In 1982, a Roman Catholic nun became the spiritual advisor to a condemned murderer who was soon executed. Powerfully and persuasively, with a compassion that embraces not only the terrified killer but the families of his victims and the men who executed him, Prejean narrates Patrick Sonnier's walk to the electric chair. || 364.6 PRE
 * Redsand, Anna || ** Viktor Frankl: A Life Worth Living ** || Tells the life story of Austrian psychotherapist Viktor Frankl, describing his development of logotherapy and discussing how he helped fellow prisoners cope in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. || 92 FRA ||
 * Rio, Linda || ** Anorexia Diaries : Mother and Daughter's Triumph Over Teenage Eating Disorders  ** || Presents selections from the diaries of mother and daughter Linda and Tara Rio that provide insights into their thoughts and feelings in the years before Tara developed an eating disorder and continuing through her treatment and therapy.
 * **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Robison, John Elder **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Look Me In The Eye: My Life With Asperger's ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">John Robison recounts his struggles to fit in and communicate with others as he grew up, describing why he had so many problems relating to others and why he often turned to machines for comfort, rather than people, and explains how his life was changed when he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age forty. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.196 ROB ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rogers, Fred || **//<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember //** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Presents inspirational stories, anecdotes, and insights from child advocate and television host Fred Rogers, covering courage, love, inner discipline, and neighbors.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Runyon, Brent || ** The Burn Journals ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Presents the true story of Brent Runyon, who at fourteen set himself on fire and sustained burns over eighty percent of his body and describes the months of physical and mental rehabilitation that followed as he attempted to pull his life together. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.28 RUN ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Salinger, J. D. || ** Catcher In The Rye ** || The story details the two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally ill, in a psychiatrist's office. After he recovers from his breakdown, Holden relates his experiences to the reader. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC SAL
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Schreiber, Rheta || ** Sybil ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The true story of a woman possessed by sixteen personalities. ( Child Abuse; Dissociative Disorder **//aka//** Multiple Personalities) || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">616.8 SCH ||
 * Schwartz, John Burnham || ** Reservation Road ** || Two ordinary families face an extraordinary crisis when ten-year-old Josh Learner is killed by hit-and-run driver Dwight Arno, a small-town lawyer who is also the father of a ten-year-old boy. || FIC SCH
 * Schumacker, Julie || ** Black Box ** || When her 16-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, 14-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders. || FIC SCH
 * __ Sebestyen, Ouida __ || ** Girl In The Box ** || Kidnapped and left in an underground room, Jackie explores her psychological strengths and limitations as she tries to make contact with the outside world by writing messages and sending them through a slit in the door. || FIC SEB ||
 * Sebold, Alice || ** Lucky ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The author tells the story of her violent rape at the age of 18, her accidental sighting of her attacker 6 months later, the resulting trial and conviction of the man, and the trauma she suffered for years afterwards. || 92 SEB ||
 * Shaw, Susan || ** Safe ** || When 13-year-old Tracy, whose mother died when she was three years old, is raped and beaten on the last day of school, all her feelings of security disappear and she does not know how to cope with the fear and dread that engulf her. (Rape, emotional problems) || FIC SHA ||
 * Sheff, Nic || ** Tweak. ** || The author describes his childhood in California, his addiction to crystal meth and heroin at a young age, his relapse after eighteen months of sobriety, and his path to recovery. || 362.29 SHU
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Shriver, Maria || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Just Who Will You Be? ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Offers advice to anyone of any age who wants to do something different with their life, and describes how her life changed drastically when her husband was elected governor of California. <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">158 SHR
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Silverman, Sue William || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You ** || The author recounts the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her father from the age of four to eighteen. <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.7 SIL
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Simmons, Rachel || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Explores the issues surrounding aggression in girls, discussing why the signs of aggression are harder to recognize in girls than boys, how parents can help their daughter's deal with aggression, and the negative impact aggression can have on teenage girls' lives. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">302.5 SIM
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Simmons, Rachel || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity and Jealousy. **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A collection of writings in which girls discuss their own experiences of being bullied or bullying other girls.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Sones, Sonya || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Stop Pretending, What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister has a mental breakdown.
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Styron, William <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Sophie’s Choice ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The tragic Polish Catholic beauty who, having survived Auschwitz, has settled in America after World War II. The time is 1947. Stingo, a 22 year-old aspiring writer from rural Virginia, is drawn to Sophie and Nathan--a madly romantic couple whose instability and flamboyance utterly capture this young man's imagination. ( Post Traumatic Stress; Schizophrenia) <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC STY ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tammet, Daniel || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Born On A Blue Day: Inside The Extraordinary Mind Of An Autistic Savant ** || Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant, offers an inside look at his life, describing how his rare condition, which gives him incredible mental powers and a compulsive need for order and routine, has influenced every aspect of his life and what challenges he has faced while trying to be independent. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.196 TAM ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Terris, Susan || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Nell’s Quilt ** || Eighteen-year-old Nell Edmonds has no intentions of marrying the man her parents have chosen for her, widower Anson Tanner, although he's earnest and a good provider. Nell desires more from life than the traditional 1899 female lot of tedious household tasks; despite her family's financial problems, she entertains pipe dreams of college and living in Boston. Furthermore, life with Anson and his 4-year-old daughter looms drab and confining compared to the amusement she enjoys with her comrade Rob. Nell can't forget, however, that her family perceives her as Nell the Good and Strong who will pursue the dreams which will make everyone happy, so she agrees to marry Anson. During her engagement, she begins an exercise in self-discipline through working a quilt from fabric scraps which she assumes are remnants of her suffragette grandmother's dresses. Nell extends the strict rules she imposes on her quilt-making to her eating habits until she is consuming virtually nothing . <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC TER ||
 * <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Theodore, Wayne || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Wayne ****<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">: An Abused Child's Story Of Courage, Survival, And Hope ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The author describes his childhood, during which he was violently abused by his father and neglected by his mother, and his fight as an adult to recover, culminating with his exposure of his parents' crimes on national television.
 * Toews, Miriam || ** Swing Low: a Life.  ** || Miriam Toews chronicles her father's lifelong battle with depression and discusses how his illness affected life in the small Mennonite community where they lived. (Depression)  || 616.89 TOE
 * Traig, Jennifer || ** Devil in The Details : Scenes From An Obsessive Girlhood  ** || The author discusses her troubled and somewhat bizarre childhood, her undiagnosed struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and her introduction to a set of religious rules she hadn't known existed before.   || 362.19 TRA
 * Trueman, Terry. || ** Stuck in Neutral. ** || Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him. || FIC TRU
 * Walker, Hershel || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Breaking Free: My Life With Dissociative Identity Disorder ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hershel Walker reflects on his life, discussing his childhood, experiences as an athlete, dissociative identity disorder, and more. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.196 WAL ||
 * Walls, Jeannette || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Glass ****<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';"> Castle **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';"> || The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and will to leave home. <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">362.82 WAL
 * Ward, Francine || **<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';">Esteemable Acts: 10 Actions for Building Real Self-Esteem ** || <span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Describes ten actions designed to help people build real and lasting self-esteem and create better lives. || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">158.1 WAR
 * Weeks, Sarah. || ** So B. It  ** || After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.   || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC WEE ||
 * Weis, Laura || ** Such A Pretty Girl ** || Haunted by flashbacks, fifteen-year-old Meredith learns that three years in prison has not changed the abusive father who molested her. || FIC WEI ||
 * Wilensky, Amy S || ** Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion ** || Amy Wilensky offers a personal account of her lifelong struggle with Tourette's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
 * Wittlinger, Ellen || ** Blind Faith  ** || While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead, fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose mother is dying of cancer.   || <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">FIC WIT ||
 * Woodson, Jacqueline. || ** I Hadn't Meant To Tell You This: Sequel is Lena. ** || Marie, the only African American girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private. || FIC WOO