Mental Health Awareness Month: YA Books

"Since Shelbi enrolled at Windward Academy as a senior and won't be there very long, she hasn't bothered making friends. What her classmates don't know about her can't be used to hurt her--you know, like it did at her last school. Andy Criddle is not okay. At all. He's had far too much to drink. Again. Which is bad. And things are about to get worse. When Shelbi sees Andy at his lowest, she can relate. So she doesn't resist reaching out. And there's...

A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.

When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.

"From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two high school nemeses who end up sharing a house together their first year of college Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for their share. She's the helper, the doer, the maker-of...

Suffering from anxiety and depression, 16-year-old Mehreen Miah joins MementoMori, a website that allocates matches a method and date of death, and meets Cara and Olivia, but as the girls grow closer they realize the value of living, starting a sinister game as the website will not let them go.

Seventeen-year-old Gem Echols hides their mental health challenges and mysterious dreams in the small town of Gracie, Georgia, but when a newcomer reveals a shocking claim of being reincarnated gods together, Gem's life takes a perilous turn as they embark on a deadly adventure, where their past and present collide.

"Atlanta has a fight club. And I'm standing in the middle of it. When Rose's therapist recommends she join a boxing gym to cope with her anxiety, she finds herself sucked into an underground fight club and the charms of its ringleader. Will the fight world unravel her already fragile mental state or will it unearth a strength she never knew she had? A gritty, raw, and binge-worthy, young adult romance about a queer teen with anxiety who literally...

To boost her college applications, seventeen-year-old Eloise, a loner girl struggling with her mental health, volunteers at a senior suppor center where she meets a dynamic elderly woman and a perpetually cheerful boy who challenge her to step out of her comfortzone.