He’s into Josie and the feeling is very mutual, but he’s a Blumstein-the sworn enemy of the Hazeldines and their number one competition in the annual Honey Show at the end of July. The neighbor’s artsy, adorable grandson who’s in town for the summer makes Josie’s web of lies even more tangled. But she’s going to come clean-just not yet. So that college acceptance her mom is thrilled about? Yeah, Josie turned it down. But Josie wants to stay in her California hometown and take over the family business, Hazeldine Honey. Josie’s mom couldn’t be more proud of her daughter going to college, something she never got to do. Josie Hazeldine has just graduated from high school, and she’s ready for a summer full of sunshine, beekeeping, and…lying to her mom. She’s well on her way to having her own real-life love story, but is it the one she wants, after all? She risks losing everything she cares about-including the surprising bond she develops with sweet Sam, who lives across the street. Nico, the brooding artist who looks like he walked out of one of Tessa’s stories, is cast as the perfect Prince Charming.īut as Tessa checks each item off Caroline’s list, she gets further and further away from herself. And she’s ready with a list of romance novel-inspired steps to a happily ever after. Fortunately, Caroline has a solution: Tessa just needs to find some inspiration in a real-life love story of her own. But when she goes to her first workshop, the words are just…gone. When Tessa is accepted into the creative writing program of a prestigious art school, she’s excited to finally let her stories shine. The only place she’s a true leading lady is in her own writing-in the swoony love stories she shares only with Caroline, her best friend and #1 devoted reader. She’s rarely seen herself reflected in the pages of the romance novels she loves. Sixteen-year-old Tessa Johnson has never felt like the protagonist in her own life. until her anxiety threatens to ruin everything.However, before Paige gets her happy ending in either destiny, she’ll have to face the truth about her struggle with anxiety - and learn that you don’t have to be “perfect” to deserve true love. The other leads to the mountains where Paige might finally get her chance with Fitz. and the charms of her unexpected tour guide. One path leads to New York where Paige falls for the city. Just when it seems like Paige will crack from the pressure of choosing, fate steps in - in the form of a slippery grocery store floor - and Paige’s life splits into two very different parallel paths. Should she go with her best friend (and longtime crush) Fitz to his family’s romantic mountain cabin? Or should she accompany her mom to New York, a city Paige has spent her whole life dreaming about? What if she’s destined to be a famous ceramicist but wastes her talent in drama club? What if there’s a carbon monoxide leak in the ceramics studio and everyone drops dead? (Grim, but possible!)That’s why when Paige is presented with two last-minute options for Christmas vacation, she’s paralyzed by indecision. The simple act of picking an art elective is enough to send her into a spiral of what-ifs. That’s about 34,999 too many for Paige Collins, who lives in debilitating fear of making the wrong choice. Sliding Doors meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in a sweet, smart holiday romance about a girl who decides to stop letting her anxiety stand in the way of true love.The average person makes 35,000 decisions every single day. Please keep in mind that a few of these books feature suicidal characters which may be triggering for some people. It’s not a catalog of all the YA mental health books I could find, because they are tons of them! Conditions covered include PTSD, depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, alcoholism, and eating disorders.Īs with all my lists, this list includes best books I’ve read and others that have been rated highly by reviewers I trust. The list below features picks with young people or their parents/relatives dealing with a mental illness. So I’m happy that these YA books about mental illness exist. It’s also often during this time that some people begin to have symptoms of mental illness - others begin in the early twenties.īeing a teenager is hard enough without the burden of a mental illness. I think it’s important because the teen years can be quite turbulent. YA books about mental illness seem to be in the majority, compared to their middle-grade and picture book counterparts.
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