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Mental Health Awareness Month: A Book List

Mental Health Awareness Month: A Book List

Emily Dexter May 8, 2019

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. To celebrate, here is a list of Young Adult books that touch on the themes of mental health and mental illness.

Love, gelato and even more [Café Libro]

Love, gelato and even more [Café Libro]

Emily Dexter March 3, 2018

According to Jenna Evans Welch’s novel Love and Gelato, people come to Italy for just that: love and gelato. For Lina, however, things are a bit more complicated. Before her mother lost her battle with...

Simon Says [Café Libro]

Simon Says [Café Libro]

Carson TerBush February 23, 2018

Simon Spier is many things: drama kid, Oreo-lover, friend, son of a child psychologist. But he is also gay, and he doesn’t know how to integrate the current Simon everyone knows him as with the one he’s...

The Monsters in Your Head [Café Libro]

The Monsters in Your Head [Café Libro]

Carson TerBush February 20, 2018

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia tells the story of Eliza Mirk, a high school senior who struggles to relate with her life offline. Online, however, she is LadyConstellation, creator of the wildly...

Memories and Monsters [Café Libro]

Memories and Monsters [Café Libro]

Emily Dexter January 31, 2018

In a sense, every book begins in the same way, with the reader knowing nothing at first and then gleaning information as the story progresses. In Jennifer Armentrout’s novel Don’t Look Back, the protagonist,...

Everything, Everything [Café Libro]

Everything, Everything [Café Libro]

Carson TerBush January 25, 2018

I have to admit, I definitely judged Everything, Everything by its cover: the colorful explosion of art that composes the title left me optimistic about the book’s contents. And I wasn’t wrong. (P.S....

Coffin varnish… and actual coffins [Café Libro]

Coffin varnish… and actual coffins [Café Libro]

Emily Dexter January 17, 2018

In Libba Bray’s novel The Diviners, protagonist Evie O’Neill travels from Ohio to the bustling atmosphere of New York City in the 1920s. Evie movies in with her uncle Will, the owner of the failing...

Winter Reads [Café Libro]

Winter Reads [Café Libro]

Emily Dexter and Carson TerBush December 24, 2017

Click to view an interactive graphic with Carson and Emily's book recommendations for some good reads over winter break. Hover your cursor on each book to learn about Carson and Emily's ratings as well...

Waterfall-ing into a Good Book [Café Libro]

Waterfall-ing into a Good Book [Café Libro]

Carson TerBush December 14, 2017

Picture this: Your Mom is an archaeologist. You’ve been moving around Europe for years, following her search for valuable Etruscan artifacts. Maybe this was exciting for a while, but it’s getting a...

Blood Red Read [Café Libro]

Blood Red Read [Café Libro]

Emily Dexter December 9, 2017

Saba lives in a dead land by a dried-up lake. Then strangers come fer her brother Lugh. Her pa gits shot, and they take Lugh away, leavin Saba with her sister Emmi. Alone. Afeared. She sets out after him,...

Music to My Ears [Café Libro]

Music to My Ears [Café Libro]

Carson TerBush November 28, 2017

As a violinist, it always interests me to hear about the lives of young musical prodigies. Having had experience playing music and understanding how much effort it takes to master an instrument, those...

One for the Artists [Café Libro]

One for the Artists [Café Libro]

Emily Dexter November 14, 2017

Let me be clear; Jandy Nelson’s award-winning novel I’ll Give You the Sun is a work of art. The book is split between two timelines: the first narrated by 13-year-old Noah, and the second by his twin...

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