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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Ann Brashares · 310 pages

Carmen got the jeans at a thrift shop. They didn't look all that great; they were worn, dirty, and speckled with bleach. On the night before she and her friends part for the summer, Carmen decides to toss them. But Tibby says they're great. She'd love to have them. Lena and Bridget also think they're fabulous. Lena decides they should all try them on. Whoever they fit best will get them. Nobody kn

Grief and MourningSuicide ContentYoung AdultComing of Age
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Love Letters to the Dead

Ava Dellaira · 327 pages

When Laurel starts writing letters to dead people for a school assignment, she begins to spill about her sister's mysterious death, her mother's departure from the family, her new friends, and her first love.

Suicide ContentComing of AgeYoung AdultGrief and Mourning
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The S-Word

Chelsea Pitcher · 320 pages

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky · 216 pages

Charlie writes letters to an unknown mail recipient, detailing his struggles with high school, family, and finding his place in the world. Full of beautiful quotes and written with such sincerity, this is a book that makes the reader reflect on their purpose in life, while simultaneously reminding us about the power music, friendships, and "feeling infinite" can have on our life. Read this book.

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Girl in Pieces

Kathleen Glasgow · 416 pages

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At 17 she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a lit

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningYoung AdultComing of Age
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Go Ask Alice

Anonymous · 185 pages

You Can't Ask Alice Anything Anymore But you can do something. Read her diary. Strong, painfully honest, nakedly candid. The actual story of a desperate girl on drugs and on the run who almost made it. --back cover

Suicide ContentComing of AgeYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Shizuko's Daughter

Kyoko Mori · 227 pages

After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.

Suicide ContentComing of AgeGrief and MourningTeen Protagonist
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Dead Poets Society

N.H. Kleinbaum · 166 pages

Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary!" Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Kea

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningComing of AgeTeen Protagonist
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It's Not Summer Without You

Jenny Han · 288 pages

Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.

Grief and MourningComing of AgeYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Walking Naked

Alyssa Brugman · 208 pages

Suicide ContentComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The Sister Pact

Stacie Ramey · 310 pages

"Allie is devastated when her sister Leah commits suicide--and not just because she misses her. The two teens made a suicide pact so that they'd always be together, and Allie can't understand why she was left behind"--

Suicide ContentTeen ProtagonistGrief and MourningYoung Adult
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Stay With Me

Garret Weyr, also Freymann-Weyr · 320 pages

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningYoung AdultAge Gap Romance
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Before I Fall

Lauren Oliver

Suicide ContentComing of AgeYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Wildlife

Fiona Wood · 385 pages

Two sixteen-year-old girls in Australia come together at an outdoor semester of school, before university--one thinking about boys and growing up, the other about death and grief, but somehow they must help each other to find themselves.

Grief and MourningComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Dumplin'

Julie Murphy · 400 pages

Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.

Grief and MourningComing of AgeYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven · 408 pages

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at s

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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I Was Here

Gayle Forman

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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God Is in the Pancakes

Robin Epstein

Fifteen-year-old Grace, having turned her back on religion when her father left, now finds herself praying for help with her home and love life, and especially with whether she should help a beloved elderly friend die with dignity.

Suicide ContentComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Sand Chronicles, Volume 2

Hinako Ashihara · 200 pages

Suicide ContentComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistContemporary Fiction
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Thirteen Reasons Why

Jay Asher · 288 pages

Clay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier.On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.Through

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Looking for Alaska

John Green · 262 pages

Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Ala

Suicide ContentGrief and MourningYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Ordinary People

Judith Guest; Foreword by Amy Bloom

Suicide ContentComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistGrief and Mourning
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This Song Will Save Your Life

Leila Sales · 288 pages

Suicide ContentComing of AgeYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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Purity

Jackson Pearce

Sixteen-year-old Shelby finds it difficult to balance her mother's dying request to live a life without restraint with her father's plans for his "little princess," which include attending a traditional father-daughter dance that culminates with a ceremonial vow to live "whole, pure lives."

Grief and MourningComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult

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