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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Description
Until the phone calls came at 3:00 AM on a November morning, the Golds and their neighbors, the Hartes, had been inseparable. It was no surprise to anyone when their teenage children, Chris and Emily, began showing signs that their relationship was moving beyond that of lifelong friends. But now seventeen-year-old Emily has been shot to death by her beloved and devoted Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact--leaving two devastated families stranded...
3) Joe Bell
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
4) Paperweight
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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...
8) Teen suicide
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Describes issues surrounding teen suicide, how these issues affect individuals and society, and how they are being addressed"--
Author
Series
Rory Moore/Lane Phillips volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Inside the walls of Indiana's elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced. But in the woods beyond the manicured campus and playing fields sits an abandoned boarding house that is infamous among Westmont's students as a late-night hangout. Here, only one rule applies: don't let your candle go out--unless you want the Man in the Mirror to find you.... One year ago, two students were killed there in...
12) Better off dead
Series
Publisher
CBS DVD/Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2008
Description
"After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him more agony and embarrassment"--Container.
14) Coral
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The worlds of Coral, Brooke, and Merrick, teens wounded by mental illness and family problems, collide and they must choose what to leave behind in order to survive and start fresh.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The family lawyer: Criminal defense attorney Matthew Hovanes is at the height of his career with a good marriage and popular athlete daughter Hannah, and smart computer whiz son Daniel. But their lives are shattered when a local girl commits suicide after being anonymously bullied--and Hannah is accused of cyper-stalking her. Convinced of Hannah's innocence, Matthew is determind to save his daughter from prison. But as he delves into the case, he...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
When school hunk Trip Fontain convinces the beautiful but sheltered Lisbon sisters to go to the prom, the romantic fantasies of a group of neighborhood boys threaten to come true--until all are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After committing suicide just before high school graduation, Ellie Walker haunts her home and school, reflecting on her life of domestic violence, friendship with August, and dreams of a writing career. Includes list of resources for people in crisis.
The day after Ellie dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She sways between past and present, retracing the events that unfolded prior to her death. There's her...
20) Dear Evan Hansen
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the film is written for the screen by the show's Tony winner Steven Levenson with music and lyrics by the show's Oscar,...
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