mentally ill

Til realizes with increasing urgency that her divorced mother's violently abusive behavior is getting more and more out of control.

Sophy fears that she will become like her older sister Nicole who has schizophrenia.

Chronicles the three-year battle of a mentally ill, but perceptive, teenage girl against a world of her own creation, emphasizing her relationship with the doctor who gave her the ammunition of self-understanding with which to destroy that world of fantasy.

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.

Roger Baxter, new and lonely in New York, does not receive much attention from his mother. He has a difficult time making friends because of a speech impediment and sometimes feels the best thing to do is disappear.

Presents Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick" about Captain Ahab's obsession with finding and killing the great white whale that took off his leg.

A collection of poems centering on the themes of human illness, healing, suffering, and death.