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Kids > Raising Resilience Teen Book Recommendations


All kids are born with the capac­i­ty to become resilient — the abil­i­ty to han­dle life’s ups and downs- but they need help along the way. Check out our list of rec­om­mend­ed chap­ter books to help build resilience in high schoolers. 

With the Fire on High by Eliz­a­beth Acevedo

How It All Blew Up by Arvin Ahmadi

Shout by Lau­rie Halse Anderson

Apple: Skin to the Core by Eric Gainsworth

The Stress Sur­vival Guide for Teens: CBT Skills to Wor­ry Less, Devel­op Grit, & Live Your Best Life by Jef­frey Bernstein

The Beau­ti­ful Strug­gle by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Last Voy­age of Poe Blythe by Allyson Braith­waite Condie

Poi­soned Water: How the Cit­i­zens of Flint, Michi­gan, Fought for Their Lives and Warned the Nation by Can­dy J. Coop­er with Mark Aronson

Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott

Danc­ing at the Pity Par­ty: A Dead Mom Graph­ic Mem­oir by Tyler Feder

Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

Activist: A Sto­ry of the Mar­jo­ry Stone­man Dou­glas Shoot­ing by Lau­ren Hogg

Call Me Amer­i­can: The Extra­or­di­nary True Sto­ry of a Young Soma­li Immi­grant by Abdi Nor Iftin

Dread Nation: Rise Up by Justi­na Ireland

We Are Not Bro­ken by George M. Johnson

The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson

Liv­ing Beyond Bor­ders: Grow­ing Up Mex­i­can in Amer­i­ca edit­ed by Mar­gari­ta Longoria

Col­lat­er­al Dam­age: The Men­tal Health Effects of the Pan­dem­ic by Car­la Mooney

Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds

Rad Amer­i­can His­to­ry A‑Z: Move­ments and Moments That Demon­strate the Pow­er of the Peo­ple by Kate Schatz

Scars Like Wings by Erin Stewart

Some­body Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur

We Are Not From Here by Jen­ny Tor­res Sanchez