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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief and guilt in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy named Seth drowns, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned....
3) The bridge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Aaron is a gay misfit struggling with depression and loneliness. Tillie isn't sure what her problem is, only that she will never be good enough. They arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time. There are four things that could happen: Aaron jumps and Tillie doesn't. Tillie jumps and Aaron doesn't. They both jump. Neither of them jumps. Or maybe all four things happen.... -- adapted from jacket. Includes resources about suicide prevention...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The McCauleys look perfect on the outside, but this family is hiding a dark secret. Hadley will do anything to keep her sister safe from their father. When Hadley's forbidden relationship with Charlie Simmons deepens, the violence at home escalates. An explosive accident occurs, following which Hadley attempts to take her own life at the hospital. Her friends, doctors, family, and the investigator on the case want to know why. Only Hadley knows what...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Caddy wishes she could be more like her friend Rosie, confident and funny. When Caddy and Rosie meet Suzanne, their twosome becomes a triangle with constantly shifting alliances. Suzanne is trying to escape her past, and as her present begins to unravel, Caddy thinks that a little trouble can be fun. But she's about to learn that downward spirals have a momentum of their own.
7) Backlash
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Christian, a boy she knows only through Facebook, posts a lot of nasty comments on her page, fifteen-year-old Lara tries to kill herself--but that is only the beginning of the backlash for her sister, Sydney; her former friend Bree; and her classmates.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Odyssey Award for Audiobook Recording
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade 2021
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Children's Awards: Odyssey Award for Audiobook Recording
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade 2021
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Description
"Ten-year-old Della can rely on her older sister, Suki, for anything, but when Suki attempts suicide, Della must seek help and speak out about the sexual abuse they've both suffered at the hands of their mother's boyfriend"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Reiko's heart is full of hatred. Her classmates and her brother terrorize her. The first girl she's ever loved jilted her. After a failed suicide attempt at her home in Seattle, Reiko's parents send her to spend the summer with family in Japan. While visiting Kuramagi, a historic village preserved to reflect the nineteenth-century Edo period, Reiko finds herself slipping backward into 1862 and the life of Miyu, a young woman even more vengeful than...
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It all began with trying to fly. After jumping off the roof of his house in the middle of the night, Daniel Kim wakes up far from Neverland, his reprieve from the real world. Thrust into a mental health hospital and then into a brand-new high school, he struggles to hold on to reality while haunted by both his very-present past and his never-present parents. But when he joins Cranbrook Preparatory's cross-country team, he starts to feel like he's...
12) Girl on the line
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
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