Books like Alex as well by Alyssa Brugman

At Culver Creek Boarding School, Miles "Pudge" Halter leaves his uneventful home life to find adventure, only to be drawn into the complex world of Alaska Young – a brilliant, enigmatic student whose presence challenges and changes him forever.

In the second volume of the bestselling Divergent series, Tris Prior faces escalating faction wars, deepening grief, and the weight of her Divergence as she must choose loyalties and confront truths about identity, love, and courage.

A high‑school freshman, Melinda, isolates herself after a traumatic encounter with a classmate. Through art and the courage to speak, she confronts her past and begins healing.

When Clay Jenkins discovers 13 tapes left by his classmate Hannah Baker, who recently committed suicide, he must confront the 13 reasons that drove her to end her life—one of which is him.

Turtles All the Way Down follows sixteen‑year‑old Aza Leonard, who battles obsessive‑compulsive disorder while searching for her missing friend and confronting the pressure to fit in at high school.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Eighteen‑year‑old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital in 1967, where she documents life in the psychiatric ward, exploring mental illness, recovery, and the cultural landscape of the late 1960s.

Three interlocking stories follow young Chinese Americans as they navigate the challenges of fitting into popular culture, all told in a vibrant graphic novel format.

xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm

A young man wakes up in different bodies over the years, falling in love with the person they love in each one.

A 13‑year‑old boy, once known only as Asta’s Son, cycles from poverty to outlaw in 14th‑century England; he must flee with only a newly revealed name—Crispin—and his mother’s crumbling cross of lead.

When sixteen‑year‑old Evie is lured back to the International Paranormal Containment Agency, she uncovers a dark faerie prophecy that could shatter her future.

A New York City teen’s struggle with depression is told with irreverent humor, charting his day‑to‑day life and his time in a psychiatric hospital.

Pen struggles to stay true to herself while navigating expectations about gender, friendship, and respect in a multicultural setting.

Rhiannon feels overlooked by her boyfriend Justin, until a stranger reveals the real truth about the one special day she shared with him.

Seventeen‑year‑old Bailey moves to California to live with her father, hoping to finally meet an online friend and film‑buff. The quiet family reunion soon turns into a complicated love triangle as a new coworker captures her attention.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

A collection of contemporary short stories and brief graphics exploring love, sexuality, and gender identity among young people in America.

Ben Carver returns to Massachusetts’ Natick School to focus on his grades and a coveted scholarship, but his lingering love for Rafe Goldberg, a new friendship with Hannah, and a strained relationship with his father complicate every step.

Three girls who have lost their way are brought together by a mysterious young man.

A young teenage boy discovers his connection to an ancient civilization and becomes part of a dangerous quest to save the world from environmental destruction and alien invasion, while facing his own troubled past in a harsh and dangerous camp environment.

Fascinating mystery tale in the vein of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant'.

A sixteen‑year‑old Marrano girl uncovers her hidden Jewish heritage during Spain’s Inquisition, forcing her to navigate faith, secrecy, and betrayal while discovering love and friendship amid a perilous historical backdrop.

At Camp Lakeview, star athlete Alex Kim hides a secret that keeps her friends on edge. As the summer heats up, can they uncover what’s troubling their friend before the camp ends?

Cadel Piggott teams up with other brilliant minds to fight the villainous Prosper English, while grappling with his own identity and the fine line between good and evil.

viii, 329 pages : 30 cm

Ava wrestles with identity and acceptance as she tries to reinvent herself, only to discover that true belonging is far more complex than a wardrobe change.