I'm cataloging this book now (haven't yet read it):  A World Without You by Beth Revis:

VOYA, August 2016 (Vol. 39, No. 3) - Judith A. Hayn

Sofia Muniz committed suicide at age seventeen while attending the Berkshire Academy for Children with Exceptional Needs. The school serves about fifty students who display emotional and behavioral disturbance disorders. Sofia was part of Bo’s group, and also his blossoming romantic interest. He believes that he has a super power that allows him to travel back in time. In his mind, he has left Sofia behind in 1642 at the Salem Witch Trials. Although she begged him to take her there, he sees her death as a mere misunderstanding, and his mission is to return and retrieve her. Others in the group include Ryan, who displays sociopathic tendencies; Gwen, who is fascinated with fire; and Harold, who remains nearly mute but talks to ghosts. They, with Dr. Franklin, the resident psychiatrist, struggle to find acceptance and love while forming an unusual alliance as the plot unravels. Bo uses his troubled, confused view of reality to narrate several chapters while Phoebe, his younger sister, provides the authenticity of past incidents, current behaviors, and disasters on the home front. Bo’s father buries himself in work while his mom tries to maintain the fiction of the perfect, middle-class home. Phoebe’s normality comes at a heavy price; her guilt and anguish are just as real as Bo’s, but stem from different causes. The voices of both narrators are impossible to ignore as the lines between flawed visions and reality blur in a powerful revelation of the delusional and paranoid mind. Revis’s account of grief, loss, first love, and anguish, presented through a lens of mental illness, is a must-read.

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 8:21 AM, LaPlante, Casey <LaPlanteC@granby.k12.ct.us> wrote:

Loretta—

 

In our Contemporary Authors elective for 12^th grade students, the books that we use for the lens of psychology include:

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

We Are Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future by A.S. King

Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson

Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

This Song Will Save Your Life by Laila Sales

 

Casey LaPlante

Granby Memorial High School

 

 

From: CASL-L [mailto:casl-l-bounces@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Loretta Sullivan
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 8:07 AM
To: CASL_L <casl-l@mylist.net>
Subject: [CASL-L] American Lit (Modern suggestions) through the lens of Psychology

 

Hello,

 

I was wondering if you could help...???  I have a teacher that is requesting books and/or poetry suggestions (any and all - modern as well) that will help support a grade 11 American Lit class "through the lens of Psychology".  Some examples she gave that she might use is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and poems from Edgar Allen Poe.  She was hoping to find out what other teachers might use if they have a similar class or what other Librarians might suggest. 

 

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!  Thanks in advance!

 

Respectfully,

 

Loretta Sullivan

Library Media Specialist

Manchester High School

 

 

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