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Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
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
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes you've got a story you need to find the courage to tell." Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Loving, loyal, and fierce, Suki is Dell's own wolf--her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing...
3) The bridge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 20 cm
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...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.
Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen shes already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But shes learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You dont have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. There's only one problem: she's not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel's...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
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
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school student Daelyn Rice, who's been bullied throughout her school career and has more than once attempted suicide, again makes plans to kill herself, in spite of the persistent attempts of an unusual boy to draw her out.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
A chunk of old memory, adrift in a pool of blood. Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend--Aneesa--to distract him from his darkest thoughts....
Author
Publisher
Flux
Language
English
Formats
Description
As part of herself observes, eighteen-year-old Oona Antunes attempts suicide, tries to pull her family and her life back together, and begins to understand her own problems and those of her parents before finally becoming one with herself again.
11) Paperweight
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at mealtime, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she's worked so hard to avoid. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows...
Author
Language
English
Description
Following her father's death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler reluctantly seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia's broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resists connecting with its inhabitants-especially Dusty Stoddard, the driven director of the Golden T's summer camp for at-risk youth. Karen is not the only one who has been wounded, Sophia, Dusty,...
13) The gatekeepers
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Books Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Anyone passing through North Shore, Illinois, would think it was the most picture-perfect place ever, with all the lakefront mansions and manicured hedges and iron gates. No one talks about the fact that the brilliant, talented kids in town have a terrible history of throwing themselves in front of commuter trains.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life" --
15) Absent
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Paige Wheeler died in a fall off the high school roof and now her spirit seems bound to the school grounds, along with Brooke and Evan, two other teen ghosts who died there--but maybe if she can solve the mystery of her apparent suicide they will all be able to move on.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Last month Elin tried to kill herself. Her parents found her in time, and now it's like it never happened. Jenna, Rosie, and Ket will do anything to keep Elin's secret-- and make sure it never happens again. That's why they're determined to make prom the perfect night. The night that convinces Elin that life is worth living. Except, at prom, Elin goes missing. And Jenna, Rosie and Ket must face their own demons during this life-changing night. --...
17) The rapids
Author
Series
Publisher
EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
190 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old foster kid Tamika finds herself on the edge of the Missouri river in the grips of depression. A stray rock and some quick thinking puts her in the company of a young couple on a source-to-sea kayaking trip down the river. When the group faces the dangers of the river, Tamika must decide if she has the strength to fight for her own life" --
18) Standing strong
Author
Series
Publisher
7th Generation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
iv, 115 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a failed suicide attempt, seventeen-year-old Rhonda Runningcrane is inspired to help a crew protesting against an oil company running a pipeline through sacred Native land in North Dakota.
19) Bloodline
Author
Series
Dark roads volume 2
Publisher
Epic Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
208 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this map-your-destiny book you make the decisions as John Carlos Garcia, a boy who suffers depression to the point of self-harm, because he must keep his sexuality a secret. No one knows your secret except Issac, your boyfriend. You must reconcile who you are with your religious beliefs, all while trying to survive in a community and a family who see homosexuality as a sin." --
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Davis and Emily Delgado seem to have little in common except Ms. Diaz's English class and the solace they find in the words of Emily Dickinson, but both are struggling to cope with monumental secrets and tumultuous emotions that will lead one to attempt suicide.