Why do we Tell Stories? What stories are you telling?
The Voices of Those with Mental Health for ages 8-13
-“The Goldfish Boy” by Lisa Thompson (the experience of OCD)
-“All The Greyson Greene Street” by Laura Trucker (a girl coping with her mom’s depression)
-“The Madman of Piney Woods” by Christopher Paul Curtis (1901 adventure about race, class and mental illness)
-“The Nest” by Kenneth Oppel (experiencing OCD)
-“Forget Me Not” by Ellie Terry (living with Tourette syndrome)
-“Calvin” by Martine Leavitt (teen with schizophrenia)
-“Without Tess” by Marcella Pixley (dealing with grief and loss
-“What I Lost” by Alexandra Ballard (healing from anorexia)
-“The Memory of Light” by Francisco X. Stork (realistic look at teen suicide and mental illness)
-MANY MORE!!