agoraphobia

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agoraphobia

Underwater

Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.

The 10 p.m. question

Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons has a quirky family, a wonderful best friend, and a head full of worrying questions that he shares with his mother each night, but when free-spirited Sydney arrives at school with questions of her own, Frankie is forced to face the ultimate ten p.m. question.

Love and other alien experiences

Agoraphobic high school junior Mallory's life centers on an online forum about aliens and going to school by computer until a prank lands her on the Homecoming court.

Under rose-tainted skies

Will teenaged Norah, who is struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, accept that she could be the right one for sweet, funny Luke?.

Highly illogical behavior

2016
Agoraphobic sixteen-year-old Solomon has not left his house in three years, but Lisa is determined to change that--and to write a scholarship-winning essay based on the results.

Underwater

2016
Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parents are divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been missing.

Courage for beginners

2015
"Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy of Texas wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fiction, she'd know how to solve her problems at school; take care of her family when her dad has to spend time in the hospital; and deal with her family's secret: that her mother is agoraphobic and never leaves the house"--Provided by publisher.

If I fall, if I die

a novel
Having spent his childhood confined indoors with his creative yet highly agoraphobic mother, Will experiences the outer world for the first time when he sets foot outside at the age of eleven. Soon, he is attending school, making friends, and learning to skateboard, but his family's past and the source of his mother's condition soon come back to haunt him.

Town house

a novel
2007
Jack Madigan, son of a legendary rock star who was killed by a snapping turtle, lives quite happily off his dad's royalties, along with his teenage son Harlan, in a crumbling Boston town house, but when the money begins to run out, Jack, an agoraphobe, must somehow find a way--and the will--to enter the world again.

Courage for beginners

2014
"Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy of Texas wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fiction, she'd know how to solve her problems at school; take care of her family when her dad has to spend time in the hospital; and deal with her family's secret: that her mother is agoraphobic and never leaves the house"--Provided by publisher.

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