What is Bibliotherapy? It’s using books as a way of coping. In reading about others who are facing various issues, you can gain insight and understanding into your own challenges as well as into the challenges that your peers may be facing. Bibliotherapy can be helpful in understanding depression, substance abuse, anxiety, eating disorders, the death of a loved one, and many other issues.
Listed below are some books in our teen collection that might be of interest.
Abuse
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Speak.
Chaltas, Thalia
Because I am Furniture.
Flinn, Alex
Breathing Underwater
Anxiety/Mental Illness
Halpern, Julie
Have a Nice Day
Hautman, Pete
Invisible
Viccini, Ned
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Body Image
Clayton, Colleen
What Happens Next
Crutcher, Chris
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Friend, Natasha
Perfect
Bullying
Graham, Gardener
Inventing Elliot
Maciel, Amanda
Tease
Mathieu, Jennifer
The Truth About Alice
Death
Christopher, Lucy
The Killing Woods
Hubbard, Jenny
And We Stay
Nelson, Jandy
I'll Give You the Sun
Depression
Marchetta, Melina
Saving Francesca
Schumacher, Julie
Black Box
Wittlinger, Ellen
Blind Faith
Disabilities
Burcaw, Shane
Laughing at My Nightmare
Steinbeck, John
Of Mice and Men
Sundquist, Josh
We Should Hang Out Sometime
Divorce
Cohen, Rachel
Gingerbread
Reinhardt, Dana
How to Build a House
Scott, Elizabeth
Bloom
Drugs
Burgess, Melvin
The Hit
Hopkins, Ellen
Crank
Koertge, Ronald
Stoner & Spaz
GLBTQ
Green, John
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Johnson, Maureen
Bermudez Triangle
Levithan, David
Boy Meets Boy
Peer Pressure
Cormier, Robert
Chocolate War
Giles, Gail
Playing in Traffic
Flinn, Alex
Breaking Point
Self Esteem
Barson, K.A.
45 Pounds (more or less)
PewDiePie
This Book Loves You
Rawl, Paige
Positive: A Memoir
