Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Social Themes - Depression & Mental Illness

At first Billy's father just seemed distant, as if he had something on his mind. Then he stopped listening to music, saying it hurt his ears. After a while he stopped eating and sleeping. And after that he just stopped. Stopped being Billy's father and his friend and became someone else. Someone who was depressed and withdrawn and wouldn't respond to treatments.

Determined to help their father, Billy and his family devise a series of unconventional therapies for him. But the strain of looking after Dad begins to wear on them all. Billy...

Wren Wells is hiding out. Though she lived through the accident that killed her boyfriend Patrick, the girl she used to be didn't survive. Instead of heading off to college as planned, Wren retreats to her father's studio in the northern woods of Maine. All she wants is a little quiet, a place where she can be in control.

Then she meets Cal Owen. Dealing with his own troubles, Cal is hiding out too. When the chemistry...

The poignant, heart warming and beautifully written new standalone novel from the best-loved and original Queen of Tween, whose books are described by Jacqueline Wilson as "funny, funky, feisty - and fantastic reads ."

Ruby, Tizz and Sam are sisters. At 12, Ruby is the oldest but with all the stuff she has to worry about right now, sometimes she feels more like the mum of the family.

And speaking of mums, the sisters do have one, and she loves her three girls to the moon and back, but she suffers from something called bipolar disorder which can sometimes make life very...

All fifteen-year-old Alicia wants is to be accepted by the kids in the popular crowd. So when her family moves from Missouri to Illinois at the start of her sophomore year of high school, it seems like the perfect opportunity for the formerly shy, awkward Alicia to transform herself.

Initially, it seems like Alicia really has morphed from a caterpillar into a butterfly. She makes friends with kids in the popular crowd and even catches the eye of the most sought-after boy in school. Alicia falls hard for this guy, throwing herself headlong into their blossoming relationship. And, for a...