Tackling Mental Health Through YA Lit. How to foster a culture of empathy and help youth who are facing mental health challenges, with advice on educating staff and helping teens access information.
Includes recommended YA titles that address topics from addiction to self-harm. For years at the public library where I work, we have tried to cope with the behaviors of a young woman, whom I will call Jane. She used to come in every day and was clearly struggling with mental health issues. Such challenges are not new for those of us who work in public libraries. I have often found that young people take refuge in our sacred walls and that stacks of books can be a fortress of solitude for those who need a place to rest. 22 Young Adult Novels to Help Students Process the Pandemic (or Forget It for a Bit) Teachers often select books for their preteen and teen students that provide windows and mirrors, ways for students to learn about others or see themselves.
In this unprecedented time when students wrestle with the abrupt changes in routine caused by the coronavirus pandemic, literature is an even more important tool for contextualizing current events and allowing students to better understand their experiences. As a former school librarian and past president of the American Association of School Librarians, I have read thousands of books, including more than 600 young adult books in the last three years alone.
Young Adult Lit. ‘Read Woke’ School Reading Challenge Makes an Impact. 14 Books to Read During Mental Health Awareness Month - Penguin Teen. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we find that books can not only help us understand or sympathize, but can often help us talk about difficult topics.
Here are 15 books to read this month to help start a conversation and #endthestigma. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. Turtles All the Way Down is an intimate portrait of what it’s like to live with anxiety. 8 Young Adult Books That Will Change The Way You Think About Mental Health. © iStockphoto | olaser By Ellen Braaten, PhD and Hannah Braaten Posted in: Grade School, Teenagers, Young Adults Topics: Culture + Society, Mental Illness + Psychiatric Disorders The list below represents only a small sliver of the multitude of books that might help you and your teen talk about mental health issues—from the minor (anxiety about going off to college) to the major (depression and suicide).
10 Books That Promote Positive Thinking in Teens. Being a teenager is no cakewalk.
On top of navigating the social minefield of high school and dealing with academic pressures, teens are also, more often than not, closely tuned in to the outside world — a world in which they will soon matriculate as newly minted (and suddenly independent) young adults. And frankly, that prospect can be daunting. Like the characters in these books, they might also be grieving a first big loss, getting a handle on shifting mental health, or feeling isolated from peers who don’t get what they’re going through. When the teen in your life could use a reminder that they’re more resilient than they think, that there’s solace to be found, and that life — even at its most unfair and bewildering — can also be hilarious, point them to one of these heartening reads that promote positive thinking. Interview with Randy Ribay about Patron Saints of Nothing.
Ghosts — GoRaina! RANI PATEL IN FULL EFFECT. 2020 Nonfiction Award Winner: An Interview with Rex Ogle on Free Lunch – The Hub. Rex Ogle won the 2020 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award for his moving debut, Free Lunch, published by Norton Young Readers.
In it, he tells the story of his first semester in sixth grade, living in chronic poverty with his younger brother, mother, and her boyfriend. He vividly describes the emotional and social toll of being in the free lunch program that semester, along with other struggles he faced during that time. Rex graciously agreed to our interview for The Hub, and I was honored to get the chance to interview him about this important book. Being a part of the free lunch program at your school was definitely a difficult experience for you, and you’ve described in other interviews how revisiting your memories to write this book also took a huge emotional toll. I am curious how all the recent news about school lunches has affected you. Q&A with Alison Gervais: THE SILENCE BETWEEN US. 10 THINGS I CAN SEE FROM HERE.
New Kid by Jerry Craft. Reviews “Funny, sharp, and totally real!
Jordan Banks is the kid everyone will be talking about!” —Jeff Kinney, Author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. My Books // Moxie — JENNIFER MATHIEU. The Only Road. Children's Book Review: Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story by Caren Stelson. Carolrhoda, $19.99 (120p) ISBN 978-1-4677-8903-5. Caren Stelson.
Carolrhoda, $19.99 (120p) ISBN 978-1-4677-8903-5 Fifty years after surviving the atomic bombing of Nagasaki as a six-year-old, Sachiko Yasui began to share her story. This moving work of creative nonfiction offers Yasui’s account of life in wartime Japan, the “unspeakable seconds” of the bombing, her family’s struggle to survive, the deaths of her siblings from radiation sickness, her thyroid cancer, and her decades-long struggle to find words as a hibakusha, a survivor of the bombing.
Photographs and short essays on topics that include “Racism and War,” “Little Boy and Fat Man” (code names for the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively), and “Long-Term Effects of Radiation” provide illuminating background. Caren Stelson. IN SIGHT OF STARS. Book Review: Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard - Teen Librarian Toolbox. Publisher’s description All Pen wants is to be the kind of girl she’s always been.
So why does everyone have a problem with it? They think the way she looks and acts means she’s trying to be a boy—that she should quit trying to be something she’s not. If she dresses like a girl, and does what her folks want, it will show respect. If she takes orders and does what her friend Colby wants, it will show her loyalty. Dear Martin – Nic Stone.
Chapter 1 From where he’s standing across the street, Justyce can see her: Melo Taylor, ex-girlfriend, slumped over beside her Benz on the damp concrete of the FarmFresh parking lot.
She’s missing a shoe, and the contents of her purse are scattered around her like the guts of a pulled party popper. He knows she’s stone drunk, but this is too much, even for her. All American Boys — Brendan Kiely. Critically acclaimed authors Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely have joined forces to write an explosive new novel, ALL AMERICAN BOYS, inspired by recent controversial events and the national firestorm over police brutality. Rashad Butler and Quinn Collins are two young men, one black and one white, whose lives are forever changed by an act of extreme police brutality. Rashad wakes up in a hospital. Quinn saw how he got there. And so did the video camera that taped the cop beating Rashad senseless into the pavement. Thus begins ALL AMERICAN BOYS, written in tandem by two of our great literary talents, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.
Elizabeth Acevedo- Clap When You Land interview. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Get a FREE e-book by joining our mailing list today! Plus, receive recommendations for your next Book Club read. A Reading Group Guide to Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz About the Book When Aristotle, a loner, meets Dante at the swimming pool, the two strike up an unparalleled relationship. We Are Okay Book. Book Review: Dig by A. S. King, an important reflection on white privilege in YA literature - Teen Librarian Toolbox.
Publisher’s Book Description: Acclaimed master of the YA novel A. S. King’s eleventh book is a surreal and searing dive into the tangled secrets of an upper-middle-class white family in suburban Pennsylvania and the terrible cost the family’s children pay to maintain the family name. Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah. Long Way Down - National Book Foundation. Darius the Great Is Not Okay — Adib Khorram Writes Books. Darius Kellner speaks better Klingon than Farsi, and he knows more about Hobbit social cues than Persian ones.
He's a Fractional Persian—half, his mom's side—and his first-ever trip to Iran is about to change his life. Darius has never really fit in at home in Portland, and he just knows things are going to be the same in Iran. His clinical depression doesn't exactly help matters, and trying to explain his medication to his grandparents only makes things harder. Then Darius meets Sohrab, the boy next door, and everything changes.