Mental Health Awareness Month: Recommended YA Fiction and Nonfiction

Updated April 28, 2026
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Mental Health Awareness Month: Recommended YA Fiction and Nonfiction

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Challenger deep
Shusterman, Neal.
Paper Book
National Book Award * Golden Kite Award Winner * Six Starred Reviews A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Caden Bosch is...
Flip Side: a Graphic Novel
Walz, Jason
Paper Book
This breathtaking, page-turning graphic novel is a supernatural survival story in which a grieving teen finds himself in a haunting alternate reality--the frightening embodiment of his depression. For fans of Stranger Things and Nimona. Theo's best friend has died,...
Harbor me
Woodson, Jacqueline
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories. It all starts when six kids...
Hello Sunshine (a Graphic Novel)
Young, Keezy
Paper Book
A GNCRT Outstanding Comics Award Honor Book "Beautiful, spooky, and emotional." --Kirkus "Excruciatingly heart-wrenching and deeply affecting, drawn with nostalgia and care." --Booklist, starred review ...
Little & Lion
Colbert, Brandy
Paper Book
A stunning novel on love, identity, loss, and redemption. When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she's isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. L.A. is where her friends and family are (as well as her crush, Emil). And her stepbrother,...
Shout
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson! Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and...
Wrong Answers Only
Madden, Tobias
Paper Book
Marco should be at university, studying biomedicine. Instead, he's been sent to live on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean with his estranged uncle, all because of a "blip" everyone else is convinced was a panic attack. (Which it most definitely was not.) And even though Marco's trip...
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