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Grief & Loss for teens

5/12/2021

The Way Back to You, Michelle Andreani & Mindi Scott, print
There Will Come a Time, Carrie Arcos, print
The Thing about Jellyfish, Ali Benjamin, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
The Meaning of Birds, Jaye Robin Brown, print
Tyler Johnson Was Here, Jay Coles, print
Summerlost, Ally Condie, print | ebook | eaudio
There Is No Good Card for This, Kelsey Crowe & Emily McDowell, print
Untwine, Edwidge Danticat, print
Love Letters to the Dead, Ava Dellaira, print | ebook
It’s OK that You’re Not OK, Megan Devine, print
Dancing at the Pity Party, Tyler Feder, print | ebook
The Great American Whatever, Tim Federle, print | audio | ebook
Sorry for Your Loss, Jessie Ann Foley, print
Breathe, Annie, Breathe, Miranda Kenneally, print | ebook
We Are Okay, Nina LaCour, print | audio | ebook | eaudio
Imagine Wanting Only This, Kristen Radtke, print
The Truth Is, NoNieqa Ramos, print | ebook
The Boy in the Black Suit, Jason Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio
Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel, Jason Reynolds & Danica Novgorodoff, print | ebook
Opposite of Always, Justin A. Reynolds, print | ebook | eaudio
The Way Home Looks Now, Wendy Wan-Long Shang, print | ebook
History Is All You Left Me, Adam Silvera, print | ebook
Grief Girl, Erin Vincent, print | ebook
After Life: Ways We Think About Death, Merrie-Ellen Wilcox, print
The Beauty that Remains, Ashley Woodfolk, print | ebook

A handful of these books come from the children's or adult shelves. Every teen is different, and we encourage them to explore hard topics at any level they choose.

Mental Health

5/10/2021

Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women, Sarah Bargiela & Sophie Standing, print
52 Small Changes for the Mind, Brett Blumenthal, print | ebook
Permission to Feel, Marc A. Brackett, print | ebook | eaudio
Life Inside My Mind, ed. Jessica Burkhart, print
The Emotional Life of Your Brain, Richard J. Davidson and Sharon Begley, print | ebook
Being Me with OCD, Alison Dotson, print
Notes on a Nervous Planet, Matt Haig, print
Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig, print | ebook
ADHD 2.0, Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey, print
I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying, Bassey Ikpi, print | eaudio
Everything Is an Emergency, Jason Adam Katzenstein, print
The Hilarious World of Depression, John Moe, print | eaudio
Are u ok? A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health, Kati Morton, print
Take Control of Your Depression, Susan J. Noonan, print
Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison, print | ebook | eaudio
Everything Isn’t Terrible, Kathleen Smith, print
The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon, print
Beyond the Baby Blues, Rebecca Fox Starr, print
My Anxious Mind: A Teen’s Guide to Managing Anxiety and Panic, Michael A. Tompkins & Katherine Martinez, print
How Not to Fall Apart, Maggy van Eijk, print
Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, Mark Vonnegut, print
The Collected Schizophrenias, Esme Weijun Wang, print | ebook
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, Sarah Wilson, print | eaudio
Emotional First Aid, Guy Winch, print | ebook

May is Foster Care Month. Monroe Public Library has partnered with Green County Human Services to bring information to our patrons about becoming a foster parent. Here are some additional resources from our shelves.

Books for adults:

Keep the Doors Open, Kristin Berry, print
Confessions of an Adoptive Parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption, Mike Berry, print
Do You Want to Be a Foster Parent?, Sharon Davis, print
The Foster Parenting Manual: a Practical Guide to Creating a Loving, Safe, and Stable Home, John DeGarmo, print
The Little Book of Foster Care Wisdom: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement for Foster Care Families, John DeGarmo, print
Creating Compassionate Foster Care, Janet C. Mann & Molly Kretchmar-Hendricks, print
Like Family: Growing up in Other People’s Houses: a Memoir, Paula McLain, print | ebook
A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time, Rob Scheer with Jon Sternfeld, print | eaudio

Books for little kids:

Just Like a Mama, Alice Faye Duncan & Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, print
My New Mom and Me, Renata Galindo, print | ebook
Ten Beautiful Things, Molly Beth Griffin & Maribel Lechuga, print
Home for a While, Lauren H. Kerstein & Natalia Moore, print
Our Subway Baby, Peter Mercurio & Leo Espinosa, print

Books for big kids and teens:

Lucky Strikes, Louis Bayard, print
Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth, Frank Cottrell Boyce, print | ebook
Where I'd Like to Be, Frances O'Roark Dowell, print
Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Reilly Giff, print | ebook | eaudio
Where I Belong, Mary Downing Hahn, print | ebook
Everything on a Waffle, Polly Horvath, print | eaudio
One Year in Coal Harbor, Polly Horvath, print | ebook | eaudio
All the Impossible Things, Lindsay Lackey, print
Fast Break, Mike Lupica, print | ebook
The Season of Styx Malone, Kekla Magoon, print | ebook | eaudio
The Decoding of Lana Morris, Laura & Tom McNeal, print
Planet Earth Is Blue, Nicole Panteleakos, print
Summer of the Gypsy Moths, Sara Pennypacker, print | ebook | eaudio
A Game of Fox and Squirrels, Jenn Reese, print | ebook
Extraordinary Birds, Sandy Stark-McGinnis, print
Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson, print | ebook

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Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

(LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken.)

For lists before 2021:
Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.

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