Book about teenagers dealing with drama, mental health, etc.
I want to read a book about high schoolers dealing with personal issues that can be relatable to teenagers. Please recommend me some more underrated ones and not the extremely popular ones like the perks of being a wallflower
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult was absolutely great and gave me some insight into issues I was pretty unfamiliar with. When We Were Worthy by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen is told partly from the adult perspective but the major focus is still a high school tragedy. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a classic, The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith is similar.
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{{[All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57899793-all-my-rage)}} is about Pakistani teenagers who grow up as outcasts in California. I haven’t seen it recommended very often around here, yet it won (rightfully) the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Lit.
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All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
Phoebe Unfired by Amalie Jahn
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Twelve Steps to Normal by Farrah Penn
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos
Clean by Amy Reed
Silhouetted by the Blue by Traci L. Jones
Anxiety by Danny Winter
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
A World Without You by Beth Revis
Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
History is All You Have Left by Adam Silvera
When We Collided by Emery Lord
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati
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Speak by Laurie H. Anderson. Read it for bookclub in middle school and it’s been a huge favorite ever since. They recently (last year or two??) came out with a graphic novel version and there’s a movie that stick pretty close to it if I remember correctly.
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Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult was absolutely great and gave me some insight into issues I was pretty unfamiliar with. When We Were Worthy by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen is told partly from the adult perspective but the major focus is still a high school tragedy. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson is a classic, The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith is similar.
{{[All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57899793-all-my-rage)}} is about Pakistani teenagers who grow up as outcasts in California. I haven’t seen it recommended very often around here, yet it won (rightfully) the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Lit.
All That I Can Fix by Crystal Chan
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow
Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
Phoebe Unfired by Amalie Jahn
Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
Twelve Steps to Normal by Farrah Penn
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos
Clean by Amy Reed
Silhouetted by the Blue by Traci L. Jones
Anxiety by Danny Winter
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley by Shaun David Hutchinson
A World Without You by Beth Revis
Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten
History is All You Have Left by Adam Silvera
When We Collided by Emery Lord
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati
Speak by Laurie H. Anderson. Read it for bookclub in middle school and it’s been a huge favorite ever since. They recently (last year or two??) came out with a graphic novel version and there’s a movie that stick pretty close to it if I remember correctly.