AP Psychology

  • America by E.R. Frank
  • Armageddon Summer - Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville (cult psychology)
  • Ash. - Lisa Rowe Fraustino.
  • Born Blue by Han Nolan,
  • Calling the Swan - Jean Thesman
  • Crosses by Shelley Stoehr (self-mutilation)
  • Cut by Patricia McCormick
  • Damage by A.M. Jenkins (depression)
  • Damage by AM Jenkins, tells the story of a very depressed and suicidal high school boy who also happens to be popular and a champion football player---not the sort you would usually expect to have those feelings.
  • Dancing on the Edge - Han Nolan
  • Dicey's Song - Cynthia Voigt
  • Dreamland - Sarah Dessen
  • Dreamland by Sarah Dessen (date abuse, ptsd, nervous breakdown)
  • Drinking--a Love Story - Carolyn Knapp, (for adults, but good for YAs, psychology of alcoholism)
  • Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Orson Scott Card
  • Eva - Peter Dickinson
  • Fade, Robert Cormier
  • Fire-US: The Kindling, by Jennifer Armstrong, in which one of the lead characters is agoraphobic, and all of them are suffering from traumatic shock disorder.
  • Fractal Mode, Piers Anthony  - the heroine Collen is a self mutilator and frequently contemplates suicides and make several futile attempts.
  • Homecoming - Cynthia Voigt
  • House of Stairs. William Sleator
  • I am the Cheese, Robert Cormier
  • I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This - Jacqueline Woodson
  • Iceman and The Slot Machine - Chris Lynch
  • Inside Out - Terry Trueman
  • Ironman by Chris Crutcher (anger-management issues)
  • Ironman. Chris Crutcher
  • Joey Pigza, by Jack Gantos, about ADHD
  • Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser, about OCD
  • Life in the Fat Lane - Cherie Bennett, (psychology and sociology of body image)
  • Memories of Summer by Ruth White (White's Weeping Willow would also work.)
  • Memory -- Margret Mahy
  • On the Fringe by Don Gallo
  • Prozac Diary by Lauren Slater isn't a YA title, but it is a great memoir and gives a look at mental illness with and without medication.
  • Shayla's Double Brown Baby Blues - Lori Aurelia Williams
  • Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
  • Smack - Melvin Burgess
  • Somewhere in the Darkness - Walter Dean Myers
  • Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher
  • Stoner and Spaz - Ron Koertge
  • Stop Pretending: What Happended when My Big Sister Went Crazy - Sonja Sones
  • Stop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones.  Although the main character is not herself a case-study, it shows what the family goes through when a member suffers a nervous breakdown.
  • Stuck in Neutral - Terry Trueman
  • Tears of a Tiger - Sharon Draper
  • The Chocolate war. Robert Cormier
  • The Facts Speak for Themselves - Brock Cole - Cole's character gives us a glimpse at what years of abuse and abandonment might lead to.
  • The Killer's Cousin. Nancy Werlin
  • The Language of Goldfish - O'Neal
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
  • The Tulip Touch. - Anne Fine.
  • The Wave - Todd Strasser, (psychology of conformity)
  • Whale Talk. It really explores some of the complexities of psychology beautifully.
  • What Jamie Saw - Carolyn Coman (Many Stones also raises some tough questions about coping with death and father-daughter communication)
  • When Jeff Comes Home, - Catherine Atkins - a psychological novel made much more relevant by the Elizabeth Smart tragedy
  • When Kambia Elaine Flew in From Neptune - Lori Aurelia Williams
  • When She Was Good by Norma Fox Mazer (ptsd)
  • Woman in the Wall - Patrice Kindl. (a beautifully told story about pathological shyness)
  • You Don't Know Me-- David Klass
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