Books like No means no by Laurie John

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.

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.

Two twin sisters navigate college life while wrestling with loyalty to a beloved fandom, family tensions, and burgeoning self‑worth.

Anne Shirley embarks on a new adventure as she leaves her old life in Prince Edward Island for college in Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm

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.

In the final chapter of the Alice series, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor follows Alice through university life and into the highlights of her adulthood, tracing her development over many decades.

A 24‑year‑old woman who survives a suicide attempt is confined to an asylum in Slovenia, where she confronts the fragility of life and the power of her own choices.

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.

The Sweet Valley University gang continues their Spring Break on a college‑students–only Caribbean cruise.

After the murder of her boyfriend Nick Fox, Jessica navigates grief and campus life with her twin sister Elizabeth, who balances the support she gives Jessica with her own romantic challenges.

A student’s clandestine identity changes lives in a college setting.

232 p. ; 18 cm

Jessica finds herself balancing the allure of a handsome, intelligent boyfriend with her own readiness to commit—a tension set against the backdrop of college life.

A contemporary mystery set in a college environment, following several young adults as they navigate marriage, secret societies, and hidden scandals.

A diary‑based mystery set on a college campus, where a student detective unravels intrigue among Greek letter societies, blending investigation, adventure, and suspense in a fresh juvenile fiction backdrop.