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Language
English
Description
"The five Lisbon sisters are brought up in a strict household, and when the youngest kills herself, the oppression of the remaining sisters intensifies. As Therese, Mary, Bonnie and Lux are pulled deeper into isolation by their domineering mother, a group of neighborhood boys become obsessed with liberating the sisters. But what the boys don't know is, the Lisbon girls are beyond saving." --
Author
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.
3) Coral
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Purgatorium ; 1
Publisher
Green Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Did her parents send her to the Purgatorium to help her or punish her? A teen who feels guilty for her sister's death is sent by her parents to a remote island off the coast of California for suicide therapy, where she learns that the doctor and her team use experimental methods that cross ethical lines. After undergoing one bizarre experience after another, the teen gets lost on the haunted side of the island and wonders if her parents meant to help...
6) Teen suicide
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Examines some of the causes of suicidal behavior in teenagers, including mental health issues and outside pressures, and discusses prevention efforts and help for survivors.
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Language
English
Description
"Suicide is the third-leading cause of death among adolescents in the United States; in a recent study by the Gallup Youth Survey, 47 percent of teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 said they know someone who has tried to take their own lives. This volume examines the cause of teenage suicide and explores such issues as teens and guns as well as suicide rates among minorities." -- from publisher's website.
Author
Language
English
Description
Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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 the monumental secrets and tumultuous emotions that will lead one to attempt suicide." --
12) Jay's journal
Author
Language
English
Description
Jay's journal reveals his growing involvement with witchcraft before his suicide at age 16.
13) The bridge
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Language
English
Description
"Aaron and Tillie do not know each other, but they both feel suicidal and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Includes resources about suicide prevention and suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ youth." --
"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...
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among young people, and yet most of us are very reluctant to even broach the subject. This book takes an empathetic and honest look at this serious public health crisis. What causes people to consider taking their own lives? How have societal views of suicide evolved over time? And what can we do to help friends and family members get out of that dark place"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and to regain their equilibrium in the aftermath.
Griffith intersperses her own finely wrought prose with dozens of letters and journal entries from family...
17) Breaking Dawn
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Pub
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Perry's secret is out-and it is all Dawn's fault! Once they were inseparable-but jealousy and betrayal can undermine friendship and the consequences are devastating." -- Cover, p. [4].
18) Absent
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
