Eliza and Her Monsters - Francesca Zappia. Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble.
Scott Westerfeld’s Afterworlds meets Nimona in this novel about art, fandom, and finding the courage to be yourself. Features illustrations by the author throughout. Perfect for readers of Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, this is the second novel by the acclaimed author of Made You Up. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, smart, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With pages from Eliza’s webcomic, as well as screenshots from Eliza’s online forums, this uniquely formatted book will appeal to fans of Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona and Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl.
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. A World Without You. What if finding her means losing himself?
Fiction Book Review: The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, Author . Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (289p) ISBN 978-0-374-26426-0. Matthew Quick, Author .
Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (289p) ISBN 978-0-374-26426-0 Pat Peoples, the endearing narrator of this touching and funny debut, is down on his luck. The former high school history teacher has just been released from a mental institution and placed in the care of his mother. Not one to be discouraged, Pat believes he has only been on the inside for a few months––rather than four years––and plans on reconciling with his estranged wife. Refusing to accept that their “apart time” is actually a permanent separation, Pat spends his days and nights feverishly trying to become the man she had always desired.
Reviewed on: 06/02/2008 Release date: 09/01/2008. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath. Before I Let Go » Marieke Nijkamp, YA author. The Bubble Gum Thief by Jeff Miller. When We Collided: Emery Lord: Bloomsbury USA Childrens. “Nothing short of heartbreaking.
These are definitely two teens worth rooting for in a tale that's several clicks above the usual frothy summer romance fare.” – BCCB “Lord sucks readers into the fully realized world of two teenagers and their messy, honest families. As much about the fragility of the human experience as it is about mental illness, this offers a refreshing perspective on a spectrum of mental health disorders. This love story veers away from tragedy, instead firmly entrenching itself in hope and possibility.” – Booklist. DAMAGE by A. M. Jenkins, Author . HarperCollins $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-029099-3. A.
M. Book by Carrie Fisher. Chapter One: The Man That Got the Man That Got Away Suzanne Vale had a problem, and it was the one she least liked thinking about: She'd had a child with someone who forgot to tell her he was gay.
He forgot to tell her, and she forgot to notice. He might've forgotten to mention it because he'd hoped she would save him. Making him into a normal "family man" with a wife and a child and a job running a studio. And hadn't she wanted to be saved from certain things also? So, merging their secret hopes for rescue, they'd had a baby with their unwritten pact of androgyny, an androgyny that informed the life they lived out loud.
Suzanne had never seen herself as what she called a squeezy tilty girl. Suzanne's pregnancy had betrayed their pact, however, transforming her into a girl -- a vulnerable woman even -- leaving Leland to be what he couldn't: a straight and certain man...certain of his sexuality anyway. Their alliance had broken under the strain of their attempt at normalcy gone wrong. Need. For One More Day » Mitch Albom. A beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss.
For One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? As a child, Charley “Chick” Benetto was told by his father, “You can be a mama’s boy or a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both.” So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.
Decades later, Charley is a broken man. He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. Albom has said his relationship with his own mother was largely behind the story of the book, and that several incidents in “For One More Day” are actual events from his childhood. Winner of Spain’s prestigious “La Pluma de Plata” Award. Finding Augie March. Trouble in My Head: A Young Girl's Fight with Depression By Mathilde Monaque. Vermillion. 2007. 176pp. £7.99 (pb). ISBN 9780091917239 - Monochrome Days: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Depression By Cait Irwin with Dwight L. Evans & Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets by Beatrice Sparks, Editor, Phillip Morgenstern, Foreword by Avon Books $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-380-78341-0.
Beatrice Sparks, Editor, Phillip Morgenstern, Foreword by Avon Books $5.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-380-78341-0 Presented as edited transcripts of taped counseling sessions Sparks (It Happened to Nancy) conducted with a 15-year-old patient, Sammy, this book pieces together a sobering story of a boy ""almost lost"" to depression.
At his mother's insistence, the suicidal teenager begins talking to the perspicacious therapist, acknowledging that his inner pain is so deep that ""sometimes even my hair hurts. "" Sammy can be almost astonishingly articulate as he gradually reveals the traumatic incidents from his past that have stripped away his self-esteem and self-respect. Nonfiction Book Review: WHAT IT TAKES TO PULL ME THROUGH: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out by David L. Marcus, Author . Houghton Mifflin $25 (338p) ISBN 978-0-618-14545-4.
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