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Tag: Depression
Who Do We Become without the Things That Make Us Who We Are? A guest post by Bree Barton
When people ask how my depression started, I say three little words: The Lion King.
Book Review: We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Full of humor and heart and, yes, love, this is a fantastic story about being brave, being imperfect, learning, trying, changing, growing, and taking chances.
Book Review: How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby
This is a lovely, compassionate, and gentle story that's full of love, support, hope, and honesty.
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With Her Nose Stuck in a Book, a guest post by Jessica Burkhart
Jess joins us to talk about how anxiety and depression robbed her of her desire to read and how she found her way back to books.
Book Review: Brave Face: A Memoir by Shaun David Hutchinson
This is a powerful and painfully honest memoir that looks at surviving while finding your place, your people, and self-acceptance.
Book Review: Lost Soul, Be at Peace by Maggie Thrash
Publisher’s description Following her acclaimed Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash revisits a period of teenage depression in a graphic memoir that is at once thoughtful, honest, and marked by hope. A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She’s trapped in a dark depression and […]
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Book Review: Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Publisher’s description Darius doesn’t think he’ll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA.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 […]
Book Review: Light Filters In: Poems by Caroline Kaufman
Publisher’s description In the vein of poetry collections like Milk and Honey and Adultolescence, this compilation of short, powerful poems from teen Instagram sensation @poeticpoison perfectly captures the human experience. In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman—known as @poeticpoison—does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time. […]
Book Review: Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke
Publisher’s description It’s Kind of a Funny Story meets Daria in the darkly hilarious tale of a teen’s attempt to remake her public image and restore inner peace through reality TV. The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she’s going nowhere fast. Jane’s well-meaning parents push […]
Book Review: Night Shift by Debi Gliori
Publisher’s description From beloved author and illustrator Debi Gliori (No Matter What) comes Night Shift, a groundbreaking lushly illustrated picture book based on Gliori’s own personal history with depression.Fighting dragons is one way of fighting depression. This book is another. Through stunning black and white illustration and deceptively simple text, author and illustrator Debi Gliori […]
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