Bibliotherapy:AdvocacyonthePageandintheClassroom
PresentedatNCTE2016byeducatorPaulHankinsandchildren’sbookauthors
KariAnneHolt,ErinE.Moulton,LyndaMullalyHunt,AnneNesbet,andEllySwartz.
Sometimesabookcanbethebestvalidationofexperienceateenreadercanfind.Inthe
list,below,wehavehighlightedafew“At-Risk”categoriesandbooksthatcouldmakea
difference.
Addiction
Messner,Kate.TheSeventhWish(Bloomsbury,2016)
Anxiety
Caletti,Deb.TheNatureofJade(S.&S.,2007)
Baskin,NoraRaleigh.AnythingbutTypical(S.&S.,2009)
Colasanti,Susane.WaitingForYou(Viking,2009)
Herbach,Geoff.StupidFast(SourcebooksFire,2011)
Haydu,CoreyAnn.OCDLoveStory(SimonPulse,2013)(Subject:OCD)
King,Wesley.OCDaniel(Simon&Schuster/PaulaWisemanBooks,2016)(Subject:OCD)
Nesbet,Anne.TheCabinetofEarths(HarperCollins,2012)
Roskos,Evan.Dr.Bird’sAdviceforSadPoets(HoughtonHarcourt,2013)
Schutz,Samantha.IDon'tWanttoBeCrazy(Scholastic,2006)
Sloane,HollyGoldberg.CountingbySevens(Dial,2013)(Subject:OCD)
Swartz,Elly.FindingPerfect(FSG,2016)(Subject:OCD)
AutismSpectrumDisorders
Bildner,Phil.AWholeNewBallgame(FSG,2015)
Choldenko,Gennifer.AlCaponeDoesMyShirts(Putnam,2004)
Erskine,Kathryn.Mockingbird(Philomel,2010)
Franklin,EmilyandHalpin,Brendan.TheHalfLifeofPlanets(Hyperion,2010)
Haddon,Mark.CuriousIncidentoftheDogintheNight-Time(Doubleday,2003)
Jacobs,Evan.ScreamingQuietly(Saddleback,2013)
Kelly,Tara.HarmonicFeedback(Holt,2010)
Lord,Cynthia.Rules(ScholasticPress,2006)
Miller-Lachmann.Rogue(NancyPaulsen,2013)
Miller,AshleyEdward.ColinFischer(Razorbill,2012)
Roy,Jennifer.Mindblind(MarshallCavendish,2010)
Stork,FranciscoX.MarcelointheRealWorld(Scholastic,2009)
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BlackLivesMatter
Reynolds,JasonandKiely,Brendon.AllAmericanBoys(Atheneum,2015)
Reynolds,Jason.WhenIWastheGreatest(Atheneum,2014)
Shabazz,IlyasaandMagoon,Kekla.X:ANovel(Candlewick,2015)
Magoon,Kekla.HowitWentDown(HenryHolt,2014)
Myers,WalterDean.Monster(HarperCollins,2009)
Watson,Renee.PiecingMeTogether(Bloomsbury,2017)
Woodson,Jacqueline.BrownGirlDreaming(NancyPaulsenBooks/Penguin,2015)
Bullying
Holt,K.A.RhymeSchemer(Chronicle,2014)
Hunt,LyndaMullaly.FishinaTree(NancyPaulsenBooks/Penguin,2015)
Moulton,Erin.TracingStars(Penguin,2012)
Palacio,R.J.Wonder(Knopf,2012)
Wolk,Lauren.WolfHollow(Dutton,2016)
Depression
Asher,Jay.ThirteenReasonsWhy(Razorbill,2007)
Cardi,Annie.TheChanceYouWon’tReturn(Candlewick,2014)
Draper,Sharon.HazelwoodHighTrilogy(S.&S./Aladdin,1994)
Ford,MichaelThomas.SuicideNotes(Harpercollins/HarperTeen,2008)
Green,John&DavidLevithan.WillGrayson,WillGrayson(Dutton,2010)
Halpern,Julie.GetWellSoon(Feiwel&Friends,2007)
Hubbard,JenniferR.TryNottoBreathe(Viking,2012)
Jenkins,A.M.Damage(HarperCollins,2001)
Jones,TraciL.SilhouettedbytheBlue(FSG,2011)
McNamara,Amy.Lovely,DarkandDeep(S.&S.,2012)
Quick,Matthew.SortaLikeARockstar(Little,Brown,2010)
Sales,Leila.ThisSongWillSaveYourLife(FSG,2013)
Schumacher,Julie.BlackBox(Delacorte,2008)
Stork,Francisco.TheMemoryofLight(ArthurA.LevineBooks,2016)
Vizzini,Ned.It’sKindofaFunnyStory(Hyperion,2007)
Wolitzer,Meg.Belzhar(Dutton,2014)
Displacement
Booth,Coe.Tyrell(Push,2007)
Bradley,KimberlyBrubaker.TheWarthatSavedMyLife(Dial,2015)
delapena,Matt.BallDon’tLie(Ember,2007)
Going,K.L.SaintIggy(HarcourtBooks,2008)
Nesbet,Anne.TheCabinetofEarths(HarperCollins,2012)
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Nesbet,Anne.ABoxofGargoyles(HarperCollins,2013)
Nesbet,Anne.CloudandWallfish(Candlewick,2016)
EatingDisorders
Anderson,LaurieHalse.Wintergirls(Viking,2009)
Anonymous.LettingAnaGo(SimonPulse,2013)
Bell,Julia.Massive(YoungPicador,2003)
Colbert,Brandy.Pointe(Putnams,2014)
Friedman,Robin.Nothing(Flux,2008)
Hopkins,Ellen.Perfect(S.&S./MargaretK.McElderryBooks,2011)
Jaden,Denise.NeverEnough(SimonPulse,2012)
Kaslik,Ibi.Skinny(Walker,2006)
Littman,SarahDarer.Purge(Scholastic,2009)
Metzger,Lois.ATrickoftheLight(HarperCollins/Balzer&Bray,2013)
Reed,Amy.Clean(SimonPulse,2011)
Shahan,Sherry.Skin&Bones(AlbertWhitman,2014)
Vrettos,AdrienneMaria.Skin(S.&S.MargaretK.McElderryBooks,2006)
Grief/Loss
Coutts,Alexandra.YoungWidowsClub(Farrar,StrausandGiroux,2015)
Federle,Tim.TheGreatAmericanWhatever(SimonandSchuster,2016)
McCarthy,Cori.YouWereHere(SourcebooksFire,2016)
McGhee,Alison.AllRiversFlowtotheSea(Candlewick,2005)
Nesbet,Anne.TheCabinetofEarths(HarperCollins,2012)
Revis,Beth.AWorldWithoutYou(PenguinRandomHouse,2016)
Wesselhoft,Conrad.DirtBikes,DronesandOtherWaystoFly(HMH,2014)
White,E.B.Charlotte’sWeb(Harper,1952)
LearningDifferences&Disorders
Hunt,LyndaMullaly.FishInATree(NancyPaulsen,2015)(Dyslexia)
Oliver,Lin,Winkler,Henry.HankZipsterSeries(Grosset&Dunlap,2004-present)
Starr,CarolineRose.MayB(Schwartz&Wade,2012)
Holt,KA.HouseArrest(Chronicle,2015)(Subject:ADHD,Impulsecontroldisorder)
LGBTQ
Albertalli,Becky.SimonVs.TheHomoSapiens(BalzerandBray,2015)
e.E.Charlton-Trujillo.FatAngie(CandlewickPress,2013).
Danforth,EmilyM.TheMiseducationofCameronPost(BalzerandBray,2012)
Gephart,Donnay,LilyandDunkin(DelacorteBooksforYoungReaders,2016)
Gino,Alex.George(ScholasticPress,2015)
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Hutchinson,ShawnDavid.TheFiveStagesofAndrewBrawley(SimonPulse,2015)
Nelson,Jandy.I’llGiveYouTheSun(DialBooks,2014)
Polonsky,Ami.GracefullyGrayson(Disney-Hyperion,2014)
Saenz,BenjaminAlire.AristotleandDanteDiscovertheSecretsoftheUniverse(Simonand
Schuster,2012)
Silvera,Adam.MoreHappyThanNot(SohoTeen,2015)
Whaley,JohnCorey.HighlyIllogicalBehavior(DialBooks,2016)
PhysicalAbuse/Neglect
Bradley,KimberlyBrubaker.TheWarthatSavedMyLife(Dial,2015)
Devine,Eric.TapOut(RunningPressKids,2012)
Perry,Jolene.StrangerThanYouKnow(AlbertWhitmanandCo,2014)
Werlin,Nancy.RulesofSurvival(DialBooks,2006)
SexualViolence
Anderson,LaurieHalse.Speak(Penguin,2001)
Blount,Patty.SomeBoys(SourcebooksFire,2014)
Frank,E.R.Dime(Atheneum,2015)
Johnston,E.K.ExitPursuedbyaBear(DuttonBooksforYoungReaders,2016)
Knowles,Jo.LessonsFromADeadGirl(Candlewick,2007)
Kuehn,Stephanie.CharmandStrange(St.Martin’sGriffin,2013)
Leavitt,Martine.MyBookofLifeByAngel(Farrar,StrausandGiroux,2012)
Mesrobian,Carrie.SexandViolence(CarolrhodaLab.,2013)
McGinnis,Mindy.TheFemaleoftheSpecies(KatherineTegenBooks,2016)
Moulton,ErinE.ThingsWeHaven’tSaid(ZestBooks,2017)
Quick,Matthew.ForgiveMe,LeonardPeacock(Little,Brown,2013)
Parker,Shannon,TheGirlWhoFell(SimonandSchuster,SimonPulse,2016)
Perry,Jolene.StrongerThanYouKnow(AlbertWhitman,2014)
Rainfield,Cheryl.Scars(WestSide,2010)
Rainfield,Cheryl.Stained(HoughtonHarcourt,2013)
TeenPregnancy
Draper,SharonM.NovemberBlues(Atheneum,2007)
Efaw,Amy.After(VikingBooks,2009)
Kephart,Beth.SmallDamages(Penguin,2012)
Knowles,Jo.JumpingOffSwings(Candlewick,2009)
Nolan,Han.PregnantPause(HoughtonMifflinHarcourt,2011)
Schmidt,Gary.OrbitingJupiter(ClarionBooks,2015)
Williams-Garcia.LikeSistersontheHomefront(Puffin,1998)
Zarr,Sara.HowtoSaveALife(Little,Brown,2011)
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PanelistFeaturedBooks
Holt,K.A.HouseArrest(Chronicle,2015)
Holt,K.A.RhymeSchemer(Chronicle,2014)
Hunt,LyndaMullaly.FishInATree(NancyPaulsenBooks/Penguin,2015)
Hunt,LyndaMullaly.OneForTheMurphys(NancyPaulsenBooks/Penguin,2013)
Moulton,ErinE.ChasingtheMilkyWay(Penguin,2014)
Moulton,ErinE.ThingsWeHaven’tSaid(ZestBooks,2017)
Moulton,ErinE.TracingStars(Penguin,2014)
Nesbet,Anne.TheCabinetofEarths(HarperCollins,2012)
Nesbet,Anne.ABoxofGargoyles(HarperCollins,2013)
Nesbet,Anne.CloudandWallfish(Candlewick,2016)
Swartz,Elly.FindingPerfect(FSG,2016).
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