Books like My book of life by angel by Martine Leavitt

At 17, Charlotte Davis has already faced the trauma of abandonment, abuse, and loss. Since her father and best friend are gone and her mother is unreachable, she learns to survive alone in a world that offers little compassion.

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.

In his final homecoming dance month before graduation, high‑school senior Quentin "Q" Jacobsen’s routine life is jolted by Margo Roth Spiegelman’s midnight mystery. When Margo disappears, Q embarks on a search that changes everything.

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.

In 1936 Flint, Michigan, ten‑year‑old Bud Maclean, an orphan on the run, sets out to find his missing father by following clues from a jazz band flyer.

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.

xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm

William Styron’s memoir recounts his 1985 struggle with severe depression, hospitalization, and recovery, offering an honest portrait of living with mental illness.

A captivating historical romance set in Regency England, where a young vicar's daughter's musical talent is pursued by a dashing duke who cannot resist her.

A gritty, realistic look at two London teens who fall into the grip of heroin, exposing the harsh realities of drug abuse and the social pressures that push young people into addiction.

Second in the Modern Tale of Faerie series.

Andrew Solomon’s acclaimed nonfiction journey into depression blends personal narrative, case studies, and scientific inquiry to illuminate the illness’s complexities, treatments, and cultural impact worldwide.

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.

Sixteen‑year‑old Rachel, with her brother’s friend Tyler, searches the Pacific Coast and San Diego streets for her runaway brother Micah, an 18‑year‑old meth addict.

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.

Elliot, a run-away child who drives away on a toy car on a dangerous adventure.

Elyn R. Saks, a distinguished professor and lawyer, chronicles her lifelong battle with schizophrenia, detailing how she overcame challenges to build a respected career in law, psychology, and psychiatry.

Two run‑away teens from troubled homes settle with squatters in Bristol and struggle to cope with their growing heroin addiction.

A young African‑American girl flees her drug‑addicted mother to New York City, only to become entangled in a child prostitution ring while seeking safety and family.

A mystery thriller about a group of runaway teenagers investigating a murdered prostitute in a corrupt Montana town.

A young woman clings to crystal meth to numb the grief of losing her mother and grandmother in Hurricane Katrina, only to confront the hard journey toward recovery and healing.

From Surviving to Thriving offers clear, evidence‑based interventions for clinicians working with adult survivors of child sexual abuse, blending practicality with therapeutic flexibility.

286 pages ; 23 cm