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Anyone passing through North Shore, Illinois, would think it was the most picture-perfect place ever, with all the lakefront mansions and manicured hedges and iron gates. No one talks about the fact that the brilliant, talented kids in town have a terrible history of throwing themselves in front of commuter trains.
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Purgatorium volume 1
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English
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Did her parents send her to the Purgatorium to help her or punish her? A teen who feels guilty for her sister's death is sent by her parents to a remote island off the coast of California for suicide therapy, where she learns that the doctor and her team use experimental methods that cross ethical lines. After undergoing one bizarre experience after another, the teen gets lost on the haunted side of the island and wonders if her parents meant to help...
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First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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A 16-year old boy named Seth drowns, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely...
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2015.
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Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief and guilt in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they...
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"This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative voice in contemporary fiction. This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular, hilarious, and devastating." --
Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower-- shy and introspective, and intelligent...
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Twins Ellis and Tommy and their classmate Harlow, of West Finch, Maine, face a change that will shatter the delicate balance between them as secrets are revealed and relationships shift.
West Finch is one hurricane away from falling into the sea, but Harlow Prout is determined to save her small Maine hometown. She needs to find someone willing to help. Her best friend Ellis MacQueen "fixes" problems by running away from them, including his broken...
11) Girl on the line
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Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
13) Teen suicide
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LifeMatters
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Examines some of the causes of suicide among teenagers and discusses ways to recognize potential victims and prevent this tragedy.
15) Suicide
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Rourke Corp
Pub. Date
1990
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English
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Examines the historic and legal views of suicide, the reasons that people turn to suicide, and how suicide may be prevented.
16) The rapids
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EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press
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[2018]
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English
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"Fourteen-year-old foster kid Tamika finds herself on the edge of the Missouri river in the grips of depression. A stray rock and some quick thinking puts her in the company of a young couple on a source-to-sea kayaking trip down the river. When the group faces the dangers of the river, Tamika must decide if she has the strength to fight for her own life."--Publisher.
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Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1996
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English
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Explains why some teenagers consider suicide and presents several ways young people might help prevent this course of action, including peer counseling, staffing telephone hotlines, and using cyberspace to connect with suicidal teenagers.
20) Saving Everest
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Wattpad Books
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2019.
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English
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Everest is the most popular boy in school: handsome, wealthy, and captain of the football team. The world is at his fingertips, but he's desperately unhappy. And when those feelings become too much to bear, he tries to take his own life. Beverly is quiet, shy, hard working, and keeps to herself on campus, focusing on her schoolwork and her part-time job. When they meet in a dusty corner of the old library, they discover together just how rich live...