Books like Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

Christopher, a boy with Asperger’s syndrome, discovers that his neighbor’s dog has been murdered and sets out to solve the mystery with his unique analytical skills.

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.

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.

A heart‑warming coming‑of‑age story about a high‑school girl with obsessive‑compulsive disorder who finds self‑acceptance and a voice in her school's poetry club.

A sixteen-year-old girl, Alyssa Gardner, fears she is mentally ill and discovers a fantastical Wonderland, where fixing mistakes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland can save her family from a curse.

When Mr. Challenger’s ill health floods the family with financial strain, the Challengers lose their home and find refuge in a landlady’s cramped rooms, where a kind butcher’s aid and one child’s steadfast faith restore hope.

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.

Teenager Alyssa’s life throws her into a new nightmare when her mother returns home after an asylum stay and a mysterious figure named Morpheus beckons her on a perilous, supernatural quest through a twisted Wonderland.

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.

Amelie Ainsworth, a troubled high‑school student and abused child, transforms into a Fury, waging justice on the guilty while evading the violent acts she sets in motion.

A little girl learns coping skills with her grandmother’s help, balancing her mother’s mental illness as a child of color in the African American community.

After the Graveyard’s destruction, Connor and Lev flee in search of a woman who may halt the impending ‘unwinding,’ while Cam seeks to prove his love for Risa by challenging the Proactive Citizenry.