Books like Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel

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.

A coming‑of‑age epistolary novel that follows introverted teen Charlie through his freshman year in a 1990s Pittsburgh suburb as he navigates high school, friendship and the challenges of adolescence.

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.

In the senior year of high school, Sal confronts a sudden identity crisis, questioning his place within his loving Mexican‑American adoptive family, his gay father and his best friend Samantha.

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.

Twins swap identities in the minor leagues of baseball and Hollywood fame, forcing them to adapt to new lives and friendships in Los Angeles.

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.

Eleven‑year‑old Ellie Dingman takes the helm of her family in 1963 New York after her flamboyant mother leaves to chase an acting dream, while confronting school prejudice and neighborhood misfits.

In fifth grade, Alice navigates the ups and downs of family, school, and friendship while learning about sex and menstruation when her classmate Rosalind shares an informative book.

Sixteen-year-old Travis Coates wakes to a new body after his head is restored in a cryogenics experiment. Though his age remains, he and everyone around him are living in a vastly altered reality.

A tangle of knots follows a 11-year-old girl's journey as she discovers her Talent to bake cakes.

A young woman's journey through memory loss and the uncertain future she faces after being 'slated' in a dystopian England.

342 pages ; 21 cm830L Lexile

Seventeen‑year‑old Julia, a single mother, and a neighbourhood of diverse residents in a small Manitoba town grapple with personal tragedies while building a supportive community and confronting teenage pregnancy, grief, and hope.

When sophomore Cassie Howard falls for a new friend in her California high school, she navigates friendship, identity, and the thrill of competition, learning to balance heart and head in the bustling environment of adolescence.

After a tragic electrical burn that leaves Maise faceless, a young girl confronts identity, family, and friendship while learning to rebuild her life and self‑confidence.