Help Yourself
For your privacy, the following titles are available for you to take without checking them out. Please return to the book drop slot at the circulation desk when you are finished reading. This is the best way to protect your privacy. Look for the Blue sticker on the spine of the book.
LGBTQ:
-Rubyfruit Jungle, Brown, Rita Mae
-Some Assembly Required: The Not So Secret Life of a Transgender Teen, Andrews, Arin
Anxiety/Stress
-The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It, Carbonell PhD, David A
-My Anxious Mind: A Teen’s Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic, Michael A.Tompkins
-Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms,Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, Brosh, Allie
Cutting/Self Harm
-Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self Injure, Shapiro PhD, Lawrence
– Cut, McCormick, Patricia
Addiction
-We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction, Sheff, Nic
-Basketball Junkie: A Memoir, Herren, Chris
Anorexia/Bulimia
-Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother’s Life with a Daughter’s Anorexia, Dunkle, Clare B.
-Wasted Updated Edition: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (P.S.),Hornbacher, Marya
-Purge, Littman, Sarah Darer
-Elena Vanishing: A Memoir, Dunkle, Elena
Depression
-Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live, Breel, Kevin
-The Disappearing Girl, Wood, Heather Topham
Grief/ Loss
-When a friend dies- a book for teens about grieving and healing Marilyn E. Gootman, Ed.D.
-When bad things happen to good people- the inspirational #1 Best seller – Harold S. Kushner
-The grieving teen- a guide for teenagers and their friends- Helen Fitzgerald