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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 
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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
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Foster Care

5/3/2021

 
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
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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. We'll fix them ASAP!)

    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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