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Suggested Titles for Children's Mental Health Issues:

*ADD/ADHD
Galvin, Matthew – Otto Learns About His Medicine (Magination Press, ’95)
Gehret, Jeanne – Eagle Eyes (Verbal Images Press, ’95)
Moss, Deborah – Shelley, the Hyperactive Turtle (Woodbine House, ’06)
Roberts, B. A. – That’s What Kids Are For:  Phoebe Flower’s Adventures
                  (Advantage Books, ’98)

*Adoption
Kasza, Keiko – A Mother for Choco (Putnam, ’96)
Keller, Molly – Horace (Greenwillow, ’91)
Shemin, Craig – Families are Forever (As Simple As That, ’03)

*Anger
Bang, Molly – When Sophie Gets Angry…Really, Really Angry
                  (Blue Sky Press, Scholastic, ’99)
Hebert, Bryna – Anger Mountain (Trafford Publishing, ’05)

*Anxiety – Divorce
Abercrombie, Barbara – Charlie Anderson (Aladdin, ’95)
Hoffman, Mary – Boundless Grace (Dial, ’95)
Lansky, Vicki – It’s Not Your Fault, Koko Bear (Book Peddlers, ’97)

*Anxiety – New Environments
Henkes, Kevin – Wemberly Worried (Greenwillow, ’00)

*Anxiety – Separation
Honeycutt, Natalie – Whistle Home (Grolier, ’93)

*Bi-Polar
Anglada, Tracy – Brandon and the Bipolar Bear (Trafford Publishing, ’04)
Lewandowski, Lisa – Darcy Daisy and the Firefly Festival (First Page Publications, ’05)

*Bullying
Bottner, Barbara – Bootsie Barker Bites (Putnam, ’92)
Dewey, Ariana – Last Laugh (Dial, ’06)
Henkes, Kevin – Chrysanthemum (Harper, ’96)
Meddaugh, Susan – Martha Walks the Dog (Houghton Mifflin, ’98)
Nickle, John – Ant Bully (Scholastic Press, ’99)

*Death
Carlstrom, Nancy – Blow me a Kiss, Miss Lilly (Harper & Row, ’90)
Viorst, Judith – Tenth Good Thing About Barney (Atheneum, ’81)

*Isolation
Ada, Alma Flor – The Malachite Palace (Atheneum, ’98)
Jeffers, Oliver – Lost and Found (Harper Collins, ’06)
Norac, Carl – Tell me a Story Mummy (MacMillan, ‘07)
Yashima, Taro – Crow Boy (Viking, ‘55)

*Obsessive Compulsive
Moritz, E. Katia – Blink, Blink, Clop, Clop:  Why Do We Do Things We Can Not Stop?
                  (Childswork/Childsplay, ’01)

*Trauma
Holmes, Margaret – A Terrible Thing Happened (Magination Press, ’00)

Compiled 3/21/2008 by the South Carolina Federation of Families

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