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Click on the title to go to the Plymouth Library Catalog and see if a copy is available.
Barrie,
Barbara. Adam
Zigzag.
Adam,
who is dyslexic and has great difficulty with his homework, struggles to
find the right school, resist the lure of drugs, and endure the jealousy
of his older sister Caroline.
Blume,
Judy. Deenie.
A
thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she
has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
Bonham, Frank.
Gimme
an H, Gimme an E, Gimme an L, Gimme a P.
A
high school boy tries to help a beautiful, suicidal cheerleader whose emotional
disturbances become increasingly more evident.
Bowler,
Tim. Midget.
Subject
to strange fits, physically abnormal, and psychologically disturbed from
the constant torment and abuse of his older brother, fifteen-year-old Midget
finds himself in control of his life for the first time when he gets his
own sailboat and discovers untapped mental powers.
Bridgers,
Sue Ellen. Notes
for Another Life: A Novel.
Tom
Jackson's mental illness is difficult for his entire family, but particularly
so for his sixteen-year-old son Kevin who wonders if he has the same affliction.
Ferris,
Jean. Of
Sound Mind.
Tired
of interpreting for his deaf family and resentful of their reliance on him,
high school senior Theo finds support and understanding from Ivy, a new
student who also has a deaf parent.
Froese, Deborah.
Out
of the Fire.
Sixteen-year-old
Dayle survives a tragic fire and learns that her own resources go much deeper
than appearances.
Gantos, Jack.
Joey
Pigza Swallowed the Key.
To
the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble
paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds
wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
Hesser, Terry
Spencer. Kissing
Doorknobs.
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.
Jenkins,
A.M. Damage.
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.
Johnston,
Tim. Never
So Green.
In
Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness
about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather
and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.
Marsden, John.
Checkers.
Speaking
from a mental hospital, a teenage girl recounts the tremendous media pressure
that preceded the breaking scandal of her father's unethical business dealings.
Mayne, William.
Gideon
Ahoy.
Twelve-year-old
Eva's chaotic but cheerful family life in a small English town changes when
Gideon, her brain-damaged deaf older brother, gets a job opening bridges
and locks for the local canal boat.
Mikaelsen,
Ben. Stranded.
Twelve-year-old
Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance
to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her
home in the Florida Keys.
Moore, Peter.
Blind
Sighted.
Kirk,
a creative misfit who is in trouble at high school because he is bored with
his classes, learns to deal with his alcoholic mother, new friends, and
life with the help of a blind young woman who hires him to read to her.
Pressler,
Mirjam. Halinka.
While
living in a home for emotionally disturbed girls in Germany just after World
War II, twelve-year-old Halinka carefully hides her thoughts, feelings,
and even her hopes.
Rosenberg,
Liz. Seventeen:
A Novel in Prose Poems.
Seventeen-year-old
Stephanie journeys from fall to spring and from childhood to womanhood as
she experiences first love and deals with her fear of inheriting her mother's
mental illness.
Seago, Kate.
Matthew
Unstrung.
A
17-year-old boy who has suffered a mental breakdown in the early 1900s is
able to regain his sanity with the help of his brother.
Sones, Sonya.
Stop
Pretending.
A
younger sister has a difficult time adjusting to life after her older sister
has a mental breakdown.
Springer,
Nancy. Colt.
A
young boy with a crippling disease learns, through a horseback riding program,
to overcome his own anxieties and to help others in dealing with their own
problems.
Striegel,
Jana. Homeroom
Exercise.
When
eleven-year-old Regan begins to suffer from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis,
she must face the possibility that her dream of being a professional dancer
may never come true.
Tashjian,
Janet. Multiple
Choice.
Monica,
a fourteen-year-old perfectionist and word game expert, tries to break free
from all of the suffocating rules in her life by creating a game for living
called Multiple Choice.
Thesman, Jean.
The
Last April Dancers.
Sixteen-year-old
Cat St. John tries to come to terms with the growing evidence of her father's
mental illness and his eventual suicide.
Thiele, Colin.
Jodie's
Journey.
Jodie,
disabled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and unable to ride her beloved
horse Monarch, faces a crisis when the two of them are alone at her remote
Australia home and a devastating fire approaches.
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.
Wallace, Bill.
True
Friends.
The
new girl in Courtney's sixth-grade class shows her a way to survive when
things at school and home begin to fall apart.
Waters, Annie.
Glimmer.
A
college freshman slowly loses contact with reality.
Werlin, Nancy.
Are
You Alone on Purpose?
Autism.
Wilson,
Dawn. Saint
Jude.
When
committed to an upscale group home outside Asheville, North Carolina, eighteen-year-old
Taylor Drysdale pretends that her bipolar disorder is under control and
that she will leave soon, but relationships with her fellow residents may
hold the key to real recovery.
updated 1/2006