mental illness

Presents the personal stories of three people with mental illness, discussing how each handles the daily demands of family, education, social life, and medical treatment and finds the strength and courage to continue the battle against this common debilitating condition.

New York City teenager Craig Gilner succumbs to academic and social pressures at an elite high school and enters a psychiatric hospital after attempting suicide.

While helping a stranger solve the murder of a neighbor, thirteen-year-old Charlie and her younger brother are endangered by what they learn about gangs and drugs in the neighborhood.

Describes the warning signs and symptoms of schizophrenia as well as its treatment, its history, its scientific aspects, and how family members of schizophrenics can cope with the illness; also includes a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of organizations.

When Trina's father falls into a severe depression after losing his job and her mother becomes pregnant at forty-eight, Trina faces a difficult summer even with the help of her good friend Miranda.

After spending her life with her mentally disabled mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.

Josephine, the new girl in Awkward Falls, and her neighbor Thaddeus, a reclusive, orphaned boy inventor, are targets of a mad cannibal from the local criminal asylum.

Provides information on the characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome, a pattern of behaviors that includes a lack of empathy, inability to form frienships, one-sided conversations, clumsy movements, and intense absorption in aspecial interest, and describes strategies designed to help people learn appropriate social skills.

Offers young readers and researchers a means of understanding teen depression and the ramifications. Clear, careful explanations offer insight into what this condition is, what causes the condition, how people live with the condition, and the latest information about treatment and prevention.

When fifteen-year-old Hannah becomes pregnant and her rich, popular boyfriend claims he is not responsible, she is forced to face some hard facts about her life.