Mental Health Awareness JF/MID/YA | McKinney Public Libraries

1) We weren't looking to be found

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Kuehn, Stephanie

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"Two girls find friendship on their path to mental health in a story of acceptance, recovery, and resilience"--

2) fans of the impossible life

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3) Iveliz explains it all

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Arango, Andrea Beatriz

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Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.

4) Fifty-four things wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers

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Carter, Caela

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"A chronically frustrated eleven-year-old girl named Gwendolyn Rogers comes to realize she has an undiagnosed mental health issue and tries every way possible to get control of her emotions"--

5) Apartment 1986

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Papademetriou, Lisa

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Callie never meant to let it go this far. Sure, she may have accidentally-on-purpose skipped a day at her fancy New York City prep school, but she never thought she'd skip the day after that! And the one after that . . . and . . . uh . . . the one after that. But when everything in your real life is going wrong (fighting parents! bullied little brother! girls at school who just. don't. get. it!) skipping school starts to look like a valid mental-health...

6) Perfectly imperfect stories: meet 28 inspiring people and discover their mental health stories

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Potion, Leo

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Meet 28 icons, from pop stars to sporting heroes, and discover how they overcame a range of mental health issues, from anorexia to depression, to live inspiring lives. At a time when kids' mental health is under more pressure than ever, this book celebrates the message that it's ok not to be ok.

7) Being me with OCD: how I learned to obsess less and live my life

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Dotson, Alison

8) The homework squad's ADHD guide to school success

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Shifrin, Joshua

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"Bite-size tips and interactive journal entries to help kids recognize how they learn best and act on that knowledge"--

9) Better with butter

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Piontek, Victoria

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A girl with anxiety disorder finds an unlikely friend -- and emotional support animal -- in the form of an adorable fainting goat.

10) Everywhere blue

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Fritz, Joanne Rossmassler

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Twelve-year-old Maddie, who suffers from anxiety, loves music, math, and everything in its place, but when her older brother Strum disappears from his college campus, her family starts slipping away from her.

11) The summer of June

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Sumner, Jamie

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Eleven-year-old June is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.

12) Turtles all the way down

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Green, John

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"Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend Daisy is eager to investigate. So together they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective,...

13) Finding Audrey

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Kinsella, Sophie

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A New York TimesFrom the #1 New York Times An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey’s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother’s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she’s never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet...

14) 10 things I can see from here

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Mac, Carrie

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Maeve has heard it all before. She's been struggling with severe anxiety for a long time, and as much as she wishes it was something she could just talk herself out of, it's not. She constantly imagines the worst, composes obituaries in her head, and is always ready for things to fall apart. To add to her troubles, her mom-the only one who really gets what Maeve goes through-is leaving for six months, so Maeve will be sent to live with her dad in...

15) Waiting for you

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Colasanti, Susane

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Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.

16) r i p eliza hart

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17) Just our luck

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Walton, Julia

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"Leo has always been told to stay away from Evey Paros, but after his anxiety disorder causes a fight at school, he has no choice but to ask for her help"--

18) Stuck in the middle of middle school: a novel in doodles

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Young, Karen Romano

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Doreen has vowed to make her new middle school work for her, but it is still a challenge given her ADHD, her younger sister's growing popularity, and tensions between her parents Good thing Doreen has her doodle journal!

19) Each tiny spark

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Cartaya, Pablo

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Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.

20) A perfect mistake

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Conklin, Melanie

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Eleven-year-old Max struggles with his ADHD and making mistakes, so when a mistake leaves one friend in a coma and another shutting him out, Max resolves to find out what really happened that night.