The novel The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf tells an interesting love and friendship story between two clashing people. Taking place in the 1960s in Asia, Melati, a teenage girl who is battling OCD is caught in the middle of the 13th May racial riots between Malays and Chinese. Melati must find her…
Little and Lion tells the story of two dynamic siblings that have their lives altered when one of them, the step-brother Lionel, stops taking his medication for his bipolar disorder. The step-sister, Suzette, has troubles of her own as well. Conflicted between liking a girl that her very own brother is dating and trying to…
In the book Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton, Adam is a high school teen with a syndrome where he sees and hears people that aren’t there. He sees a beautiful girl named Rebecca who understands him, Jason, a naked guy who is really nice and a mob boss who is rude and harasses him. He keeps on…
In this book, the main character Adam Ross meets a new girl that was transferred to his school. At first sight he loves her. Her name is Robyn. What they both have in common is they have some sort of disorder. Adam has OCD. In this story he meets ups with many conflicts and tries…
The novel Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman is about a boy named Caden Bosch. He pretends to join the track team just to walk around for miles, absorbed by his thoughts. Also, he is a “brilliant student”, but his friends notice weird things about him. He has a mental illness (schizophrenia) and goes to the…
