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High School Library
Non-fiction:
Cush, Cathie. (1994) Depression . Austin, Tex. : Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Publishers.
 Deals with a variety of issues related to teenage depression,
including personal relationships and pressures, substance abuse,
suicide, running away, and how to get help and develop coping
skills.
Call # 616.85 Cus
Demetriades, Helen A. (2002). Bipolar disorder, depression, and other
mood disorders . Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow.
 Identifies the causes, symptoms, and treatment of mood
disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression, which can
have environmental, genetic, or physiological aspects.
Call # 616.85 Dem
Denkmire, Heather. (2005). The truth about fear and depression . New
York : Facts On File.
 Presents a comprehensive study of the causes of anxiety
disorders and depression, recognizing the signs of depression,
and receiving treatment for it and provides facts and
information to help understand mental illness and ways to cope
with phobias.
Call # 616.85 Den
Gelman, Amy. (2000)Coping with depression and other mood disorders .
New York : Rosen Pub. Group.
 This book discusses depression and other mood disorders,
physical and emotional causes of depression, and various
effective treatments.
Call # 616.85 Gel
Hales, Dianne R. (1989) Depression . New York : Chelsea House.
 Explores some causes of depression, ways to overcome this
illness, and where and when to seek help.
Call # 616.85 Hal
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Lee, Essie E. (1986). Down is not out : teenagers and depression . New
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York : J. Messner.
 Discusses mental depression, its causes, its effects, and some
of the ways it can be dealt with.
Call # 616.85 Lee
Lee, Jordan. (2000). Coping with anxiety and panic attacks . New York :
Rosen Pub. Group.
 This book discusses major anxiety disorders, the causes of
these disorders, and the various treatments of the disorders.
Call # 616.85 Lee
Lucas, Eileen. (2010). More than the blues?: understanding and dealing
with depression. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers.
 This book examines depression and mood disorders, including
the causes of depression, a history of the illness, the various
types of mood disorders, and treatment methods.
Call # 616.85 LUC
Peak, Lizabeth. (2008). Mood disorders. Detroit: Lucent Books.
 An exploration of mood disorders that defines what they are,
discusses diagnosis and treatment, and examines how people
cope with them.
Call #616.85 PEA
Silverstein, Alvin & Virginia. (1997). Diseases and People: Depression.
Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers.
 Written with high school aged students as an audience, the
book discusses historical figures who may have been depressed
and defines clinical depression, treatment, and prevention
Call # 616.85 SIL
Weeldreyer, Laura. (1998) Body blues : weight and depression. NY:
Rosen Publishing Group, 1998.
 Discusses negative feelings that teens have when they define
themselves by appearance, and provides information on eating
disorders.
Call # 616.85 Wee
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Wolff, Lisa. (1999). Teen depression . San Diego, CA : Lucent Books.
 Discusses the nature, possible causes, special problems, and
both conventional and alternative treatments of depression.
Call #616.85 Wol
Fiction:
Easton, Kelly. (2009). To be Mona. New York: Margaret K. McElderry.
 Summary: Sage tries to hide her mentally ill mother and get a
football player to go out with her, but eventually she realizes that
abandoning her real friends and letting herself be manipulated by
others does not make her feel better. (FIC EAS)
Jenkins, A. M. (2001). Damage. New York: HarperCollins.
 Summary: Seventeen-year-old football hero Austin, trying to
understand the inexplicable depression that has drained his
interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl who seems
very special. (Fic Jen)
Marchetta, Melina. (2003;2006). Saving Francesca . New York : Alfred A.
Knopf.
 Summary: Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken
mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls
at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother
has suddenly become severely depressed. (Fic MAR)
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Maynard, Joyce. (2005). The cloud chamber . New York : Aladdin.
 Summary: In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes
the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community,
fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying
to win the school science fair. (Fic May)
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Michaels, Rune. (2011). Nobel genes. New York: Atheneum.
 Summary: A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told
him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care
of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prizewinning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to
accept. (FIC MIC)
Miklowitz, Gloria D. (1983). Close to the edge . New York : Dell.
 Summary: In spite of having all the advantages money can
provide, high-school senior Jenny sees little point in life until she
volunteers to play the piano for a senior citizens' band and
receives the benefit of elderly wisdom. (Fic Mik)
Ockler, Sarah. (2010). Fixing Delilah. New York: Little, Brown.
 Summary: When Delilah, her mother, and her aunt spend the
summer in Vermont settling Delilah's estranged grandmother's
estate, long-held family secrets are painfully brought to light and
Delilah finally learns some difficult truths about her family's past.
(FIC OCK)
Plath, Sylvia. (1971; 2005) The bell jar. New York: Harper Perennial
Modern Classics.
 Summary: Autobiographical novel about an ambitious and brilliant
young woman's search for values, and her eventual breakdown.
(Fic PLA)
Quick, Matthew.(2011). Sorta like a rockstar: a novel. New York: Little,
Brown.
 Summary: Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is
homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a
relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home,
teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm
and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his
dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she
can bear and slips into a deep depression. (FIC QUI)
Vizzini, Ned. (2006) It's kind of a funny story . New York : Miramax
Books/Hyperion Paperbacks For Children, 2007.
 Summary: A humorous account of a New York City teenager's
battle with depression and his time spent in a psychiatric hospital.
(Fic VIZ)
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White, Ellen Emerson. (1995). The road home . New York : Scholastic.
 Summary: A young nurse stationed in Vietnam during the war,
must come to grips with her wartime experiences once she returns
home to the United States. (Fic Whi)
Wild, Margaret. (2002) Jinx . New York : Simon Pulse.
 Summary: With the help of her understanding mother and a close
friend, Jen eventually outgrows her nickname, Jinx, and deals with
the deaths of two boys with whom she had been involved.
(Fic Wil)
Wittlinger, Ellen.(2006) Blind faith . New York : Simon Pulse.
 Summary: While coping with her grandmother's sudden death and
her mother's resulting depression and fascination with a spiritualist
church, whose ministers claim to communicate with the dead,
fifteen-year-old Liz finds herself falling for a new neighbor whose
mother is dying of cancer. (FIC WIT)
Young, Janet Ruth. (2008)The opposite of music. New York: Pulse
 Summary: With his family, fifteen-year-old Billy struggles to help
his father deal with a debilitating depression. (FIC YOU)