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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When schizophrenic Adele, who possesses a paranormal gift, is implicated in an investigation that involves the murder of her ex-best friend Tori, Adele must work with Tori's ghost to find the killer.
Author
Language
English
Description
A "gripping" mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness, by the Edgar Award–winning author (Entertainment Weekly).
David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David's sister, Diana, for her superior intelligence. When the old man died, David thought the madness had finally left with him. But the Sears family...
5) Lowboy
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors, unknown to the police-unknown even to Violet Heller, his devoted mother, Will alone holds the key to the planet's salvation. To cool down the world,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's bizarre outbursts and subsequent descent into madness. As their home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Now he returns with another innovative thriller told in a very different, equally unique voice. A voice that comes to us from the realm of madness.
Michael Shipman is paranoid schizophrenic; he suffers from hallucinations, delusions, and complex fantasies of persecution and horror. That's bad enough. But, what can he do if some of the monsters he sees turn out to be real? Whom can you trust if you can't even trust yourself? The Hollow City is a mesmerizing...
8) Inside out
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.
9) Made you up
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Armed with her camera and a Magic 8-Ball and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college"--
10) Before my eyes
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in three separate voices, dreamy Claire, seventeen, with her complicated home and love life, shy Max, also seventeen, a state senator's son whose parents are too focused on the next election to see his pain, and twenty-one-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Barkley teeter on the brink of destruction.
12) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Publishers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.
13) Schizo
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A teenager recovering from a schizophrenic breakdown is driven to the point of obsession to find his missing younger brother and becomes wrapped up in a romance that may or may not be the real thing.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After hearing what he believes are other peoples' thoughts, high school sophomore Penn learns that he may have schizophrenia and makes some important decisions about how to live his life.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Sabrina meets Alec at the Wellness Center where she is being treated for schizophrenia, he tries to persuade her that it is the world that is crazy, not them, and she should defy her doctors rather than lose what makes her creative and special.
17) I will save you
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, sixteen-year-old Erin has spent half of her life in therapy and on drugs, but now must face the possibility of weird things in the real world, including shapeshifting friends and her "alter," a centuries-old vampire.
19) Irony of god
Author
Publisher
[Self-published]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"God is deceiving the world and has wreaked havoc and we need to stop him. Anthony is a schizophrenic and the system is ready and able with the help of man. Aliens arrive on Earth and attempt to solve the problem created by love. America faces a problem with Russia and China. People are controlled to maintain proper order on Earth. Hindu gods claim their glory amid deception as the integrity of life is maintained. Intergalactic travel is necessary...
Author
Series
Desert plains volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two couples cut to bits near a canyon close to the Nevada border. The police pull over blood-soaked Arlo Ward not far from the site of the grisly murders; he fully cooperates with the officers, grinning through a remorseless confession dripping with gory detail. Investigators find no murder weapon, but young, awkward Arlo's confession is signed, taped, and delivered.
Defense attorney Dylan Aster and his partner, Lily Ricci, are two rising legal stars....