Book Topics: Health
Book Recommendations by Theme are listed here in order to help teachers, book club organizers, and other readers find books organized around a common principle, or big idea. Please see the Main Page List of Themes for more categories, as well as Book Lists by Topic
Physical Challenges
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After Ever After (recovering from leukemia)
Bionic (car accident) The Cardturner (blindness) Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip (sports injury) Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie (leukemia) El Deafo (deafness) Feathers (deafness) Girl, Stolen (blindness) The Handbook for Dragon Slayers (club foot) Her Own Two Feet (use of arms and feet) The Honest Truth (terminal illness) Left Out (deafness) Long May She Reign (recovering from violent injuries) |
Mascot (wheelchair after car accident)
Out of My Mind (mobility and speech) Roll With It (cerebral palsy) Rules (mobility and speech) The Running Dream (prosthetic limb) Smile (teeth knocked out) Song for a Whale (deafness) Things Not Seen (blindness) A Time to Dance (prosthetic limb) The War That Saved My Life (club foot) Wonder (cranio-facial difference) |
Social Interaction Challenges
ADHD
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Addiction
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Hey, Kiddo - alcoholism, drug addiction
Incommunicado - alcoholism The Porcupine of Truth - alcoholism Rules for Stealing Stars - alcholism The Seventh Wish - drug addiction |
Anxiety
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Anger is a Gift
Best Friends Courage for Beginners - agoraphobia A Crooked Kind of Perfect - agoraphobia The Incredible Magic of Being - anxiety Lights, Camera, Disaster - anxiety with executive functioning disorder Not If I Can Help It - sensory processing disorder Sparrow |
Autism Spectrum
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Bipolar
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Depression
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Eating Disorders; Body Image
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Barely Floating
I'll Be the One Smaller Sister Still a Work in Progress |
Kleptomania
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Anger is a Gift
Long May She Reign Maybe a Fox (supporting character) Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind (supporting character) Simon Sort of Says |
Selective Mutism
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Tourette Syndrome
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Other |
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