African Dream

Malaysia

Hollow Chest

Miss Mary Lou asks Why Am I Sad?

The Puffin Book of Magic Verse

My Fade Is Fresh

A Star is Born in Mecca

Black Girls

They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-verse about clinical depression and healing from trauma, from National Book Award Finalist Amber McBride.

Whimsy is back in the hospital for treatment of clinical depression. When she meets a boy named Faerry, she recognizes they both have magic in the marrow of their bones. And when Faerry and his family move to the same street, the two start to realize that their lifelines may have twined and untwined many times before.

They are both terrified of the forest at the end of Marsh Creek Lane.

The Forest whispers to Whimsy. The Forest might hold the answers to the part of Faerry he feels is missing. They discover the Forest holds monsters, fairy tales, and pain that they have both been running from for 11 years.

Discover Your Child's Next Read

African Dream

Tyan Wyss, 2006

Malaysia

Harriet Brundle, 2017

Hollow Chest

Brita Sandstrom, 2020

Miss Mary Lou asks Why Am I Sad?

M.J. Parker, 2021

The Puffin Book of Magic Verse

Charles Causley, 1974

My Fade Is Fresh

Kitt Thomas, Shauntay Grant, 2022

A Star is Born in Mecca

Noura Farooq, 2023

Black Girls

Dominique Furukawa, Erika Lynne Jones, 2023