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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey's daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother's gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she's never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old June is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"After an entire summer trying to figure out how to go back to being the person she was before her depression and anxiety diagnosis, twelve-year-old Pluto finds out--with the help of the Hayden Planetarium hotline, a new tutor, and a new friend--that there is no old or new Pluto, there's just Pluto, growing up"--
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Iveliz is trying to manage her mental health and advocate for the help and understanding she deserves, but in the meantime her new friend calls her crazy and her abuela Mimi dismisses the therapy and medicine Iveliz needs to feel like herself.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maddie, who suffers from anxiety, loves music, math, and everything in its place, but when her older brother Strum disappears from his college campus, her family starts slipping away from her.
Author
Series
Kiki Kallira volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Drawn into the mystical world she created, 11-year-old Kiki Kallira must battle against her fear and anxiety to save two worlds--the real and imagined--from the wrath of an ancient deity bent on total destruction.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After fainting during a school assembly, Stanley uses his time in a safe room to begin drawing a comic book superhero and then enters a treasure hunt so that he can win passes to Comic Fest.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1993, twelve-year-old Becca, who struggles with a anxiety disorder, visits her divorced father in Vienna, Austria, where she befriends a Muslim refugee fleeing the Bosnian genocide.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
While twelve-year-old Andi has suffered from anxiety attacks ever since her mother died ten months ago, Zora starting hurting herself whenever she feels out of control; they are both at Camp Harmony, an elite summer music camp, trying to deal with their problems and also the stress of competition--but as the summer passes they find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and maybe not just as friends.
Author
Series
Kiki Kallira volume 2
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Kiki returns to Mysore and quickly learns that drawing a new river doesn't work. In her search for answers, she stumbles upon the origin of the Kaveri: it's actually a princess from long ago who was transformed into water by a terrible curse! It's up to Kiki and her friends to restore the river without sacrificing the princess again---easier said than done! And with her mounting anxiety, enemies seeking to stop her, and a city growing weaker by the...
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