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8 Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature The scope of this book is limited. Books selected for analysis met the following criteria: published after the year 2000, feature characters who are old enough to be in high school, include at least one character who is living with a mental illness, and are written in English. Every effort has been made to include characters from an assortment of geographic loca- tions in the United States (as well as one that takes place in England) and from a variety of socioeconomic statuses, genders, sexualities, religious/ spiritual beliefs, and family structures. OVERVIEW OF CHAPTERS There are 10 content chapters included in this text, each of which focuses on a specific mental disorder as defined by the DSM-5. The 30 young adult novels analyzed in this book are as follows: • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Club Meds (2006) by Katherine Hall Page and Motorcycles, Sushi, and One Strange Book (2010) by Nancy Rue • Schizophrenia: Your Voice Is All I Hear (2015) by Leah Scheier, Freaks Like Us (2012) by Susan Vaught, Challenger Deep (2016) by Neal Shus- terman, and Schizo (2014) by Nic Sheff. • Bipolar Disorder: Crazy (2012) by Amy Reed and This Is How I Find Her (2013) by Sara Polsky. • Depressive Disorders: When Reason Breaks (2015) by Cindy L. Rodri- guez, Get Well Soon (2009) by Julie Halpern, Forgive Me, Leonard Pea- cock (2013) by Matthew Quick, and It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2007) by Ned Vizzini. • Anxiety Disorder: The Nature of Jade (2007) by Deb Caletti, Finding Audrey (2015) by Sophia Kinsella, and Highly Illogical Behavior (2016) by John Corey Whaley. • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Not as Crazy as I Seem (2003) by George Harrar, Every Last Word (2015) by Tamara Ireland Stone, and Turtles All the Way Down (2017) by John Green. • Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders: Something Like Normal (2012) by Trish Doller, The Impossible Knife of Memory (2014) by Lau- rie Halse Anderson, and The Way I Used to Be (2016) by Amber Smith. • Feeding and Eating Disorders: Wintergirls (2009) by Laurie Halse Anderson, Pointe (2014) by Brandy Colbert, Starved (2012) by Michael Somers, and Sugar (2015) by Deirdre Riordan Hall. • Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: Beneath a Meth Moon (2012) by Jacqueline Woodson, Dope Sick (2009) by Walter Dean Myers, and Clean (2011) by Amy Reed.