Books like Crazy by Han Nolan

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.

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.

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.

Junior, a budding cartoonist from the Spokane Indian Reservation, transfers to an all‑white farm‑town high school, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Kōshun Takami’s graphic novel spins a harrowing allegory in which a group of junior‑high students are stranded on a deserted island, armed and compelled to fight until only one remains.

Shade, a newborn bat, is separated from his colony during migration and learns to survive the wild, growing into a brave adventurer who will face greater journeys ahead.

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Rafe Khatchadorian arrives at Camp Wannamorra, where he and his bunkmates must contend with the popular kids who try to sabotage their summer, turning boredom into adventure and friendship.

High school sophomore Darcy Wills faces a stalker, a threatening note, and the sudden disappearance of her sister, forcing her to uncover hidden dangers while protecting her fragile family.

A zombie horror story featuring five high school students being held captive by zombies.

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.

When Brian attains his goal of being a starter on the Troy, Ohio, Central High Trojan football team, as was his father, he enjoys new privileges but is exposed to terrible behavior that adults tolerate because "boys will be boys."

Sophie, a high‑school junior, balances school life while caring for her mother with bipolar disorder; after a hospitalization she confronts estranged family and redefines her own future.

A fourteen‑year‑old quarterback from Texas discovers his own confidence while navigating family rivalry and high school football pressure.

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.

Basketball star Stanford Wong must secretly ace summer school after flunking sixth‑grade English, juggling schoolwork, family expectations, and friendships.

The Doublecross invites middle‑grade readers into a lively action‑adventure where school friends become spies, blending humor, friendship, and thrilling mysteries in a lively, school‑based setting.

During a pivotal summer in 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young confronts her own identity as 18-year‑old King‑Roy Johnson, charged with murder, takes residence in her family home.

After a heartbreaking loss, Paige Hancock begins her junior year determined to reclaim her life, hoping her long‑time crush Ryan Chase overcomes his own struggles and helps her move forward.