Bibliographies

Emotional Problems of Teenagers

Tells the story of Sheila, a high school student suffering from severe emotional disturbance, and her attempts to cope by venting her rage, cutting herself, and starving herself before getting the help she needs to begin to recover. || Several high school students relate their feelings about school, themselves, and events as they unfold on the fateful one-year anniversary of the killing of a fellow student. || A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. || Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal.". || Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew. || Four suicidal teenagers go on a "celebrity suicide road trip," visiting the graves of famous people who have killed themselves, with the intention of ending their lives in Death Valley, California. || Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder. || Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain. || Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma. || 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. || Tracy, a high school junior, becomes embroiled in the problems of a strange boy, who asks her assistance in "snatching" his half-sister from her father who has allegedly kidnapped her. || After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself. || 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. || Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take. || Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart. || Collects five stories about three girls and two boys who question how they feel about themselves while learning about love and sexuality. || After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder. || Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties. || Anorexic seventeen-year-old Lisabeth Lewis, appointed Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, revels in the freedom that comes with traveling the world on her steed, and having to visit places where hunger is a real part of everyday life gives her a new perspective on her own eating issues. || Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia. || Sixteen-year-old Nick, still trying to come to terms with his parents' divorce, experiences exhilaration and despair in his relationship with his girlfriend Sasha especially when, after instigating a trial separation, she announces that she is pregnant. || While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better. || Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting. || After his house burns down, twelve-year-old Wyatt Reaves takes off with his uncle, and the two of them drive from town to town for six years, earning money mostly by fighting, until Wyatt finally confronts his parents one last time. || 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. || Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love, but painful past memories surface in menacing ways. || High school student Daelyn Rice, who has been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out. || Rob, who lives at a school for troubled teenagers, and Sara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of an army colonel, meet in a poetry chat-room and develop a close relationship via E-mail. || Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. || Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. || Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own. || Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist who has not felt safe since she began to remember devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, cannot seem to recall her abuser's identity and copes with the stress by cutting herself. || Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future. || Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims. || After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily. || Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother. || Suffering from a crippling case of post-traumatic stress disorder, sixteen-year-old Loa Lindgren tries to use her problem solving skills, sharpened in physics and computer programming, to cure herself. || Blink, hoping to steal some breakfast, is forced to go on the run after stumbling upon the fake kidnapping of a CEO and recovering the man's cell phone, and he meets up with Caution, a girl trying to ditch her drug-dealing boyfriend, who identifies Blink as a mark until he tugs at her heart strings. || ||
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 * Sorted by Call Number / Author and Limited by Book (monograph) ||
 * 618.92 LIB || Libal, Autumn. __Runaway train : youth with emotional disturbance.__ Broomall, Pa. : Mason Crest, c2004.
 * FIC ADO || Adoff, Jaime. __Names will never hurt me.__ 1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c2004.
 * FIC AND || Anderson, Laurie Halse. __Speak.__ 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1999.
 * FIC BAR || Barnes, John, 1957-. __Tales of the Madman Underground.__ New York : Speak, 2011, c2009.
 * FIC BIC || Bick, Ilsa J. __Draw the dark.__ Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Lab, c2010.
 * FIC BOR || Borris, Albert. __Crash into me.__ 1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed. New York : Simon Pulse, 2010, c2009.
 * FIC BRO || Brooks, Kevin. __Kissing the rain.__ 1st American ed. New York : Scholastic, 2004.
 * FIC BRO || Brown, Jennifer, 1972-. __Hate list.__ 1st pbk. ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2010, c2009.
 * FIC CAS || Cassidy, Anne, 1952-. __Looking for JJ.__ 1st U.S. ed. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2007, c2004.
 * FIC DES || Dessen, Sarah. __Lock and key.__ New York : Speak, 2009, c2008.
 * FIC DUN || Duncan, Lois, 1934-. __The twisted window.__ New York : Delacorte Press, c1987.
 * FIC EMO || Emond, Stephen. __Happyface.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
 * FIC FRA || Frank, E. R. __America : a novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2002.
 * FIC GRI || Griffin, Adele. __Amandine.__ 1st ed. New York : Hyperion, c2001.
 * FIC HOP || Hopkins, Ellen. __Identical.__ 1st pbk. ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2010, c2008.
 * FIC HOP || Hopkins, Ellen. __Tricks.__ 1st ed. New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, c2009.
 * FIC KAS || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Kaslik, Ibi, 1973-. __Skinny.__ Pbk. ed. New York : Walker, 2008, c2004.
 * FIC KEP || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Keplinger, Kody. __The duff : a novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, 2010.
 * FIC KES || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Kessler, Jackie Morse. __Hunger.__ Boston : Graphia, 2010.
 * FIC MAR || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Marchetta, Melina, 1965-. __Jellicoe Road.__ 1st U.S. ed. New York : HarperTeen, 2008, 2006.
 * FIC MAR || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Martin, C. K. Kelly. __I know it's over.__ 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Random House, c2008.
 * FIC MCC || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">McCormick, Patricia, 1956-. __Cut.__ New York : Push, [2002], c2000.
 * FIC MYE || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-. __Shooter.__ 1st Harper Tempest ed. New York : HarperTempest, 2005, c2004.
 * FIC OAK || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Oaks, J. Adams (Jeffrey Adams). __Why I fight : a novel.__ 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2009.
 * FIC OAT || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-. __After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away.__ 1st ed. New York : Harper Tempest, c2006.
 * FIC PEN || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Peña, Matt de la. __I will save you.__ 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2010.
 * FIC PET || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Peters, Julie Anne. __By the time you read this, I'll be dead.__ 1st ed. New York : Hyperion DBG, c2010.
 * FIC PET || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Petersen, P. J. __Rob&sara.com.__ New York : Delacorte Press, c2004.
 * FIC PLU || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. __The body of Christopher Creed.__ 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, Inc., c2000.
 * FIC PLU || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. __The body of Christopher Creed.__ 1st Volo ed. New York : Volo/Hyperion, 2001, c2000.
 * FIC PLU || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Plum-Ucci, Carol, 1957-. __What happened to Lani Garver.__ 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, c2002.
 * FIC RAI || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Rainfield, C. A. (Cheryl A.). __Scars.__ 1st ed. Lodi, NJ : WestSide Books, c2010.
 * FIC SAE || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Sáenz, Benjamin Alire. __Last night I sang to the monster : a novel.__ 1st ed. El Paso, TX : Cinco Puntos Press, c2009.
 * FIC SUM || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Summers, Courtney. __Some girls are.__ 1st ed. New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010, c2009.
 * FIC WER || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Werlin, Nancy. __The killer's cousin.__ New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, [2000], c1998.
 * FIC WER || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Werlin, Nancy. __The rules of survival.__ New York : Dial Books, c2006.
 * FIC WOO || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Woolston, Blythe. __The freak observer.__ Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Lab, c2010.
 * FIC WYN || <span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -30px;">Wynne-Jones, Tim. __Blink & Caution.__ 1st ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.