Anxiety: Print Books

Wemberly Worried 

by Kevin Henkes

A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.

Interest Level: Pre-K-3

Available in the VRES Library

Math Curse

by Jon Scieszka 

When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.

Interest Level: Pre-K-3

Available in the VRES Library

Frazzled

by Booki Vivat

Nervous about middle school because her family does not get her and her friends know exactly what they want to do, Abbie Wu searches for her own passion before discovering a knack for leadership when injustices in the cafeteria come to light.

Interest Level: 3-6

Available in the VRES Library

Umbrella Summer

by Lisa Graff

After her brother Jared dies, ten-year-old Annie worries about the hidden dangers of everything, from bug bites to bicycle riding, until she is befriended by a new neighbor who is grieving her own loss.

Suggested Age: 8+

Available in the RJSHS Library

The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl

by Stacy McAnulty

A lightning strike made Lucy, twelve, a math genius but, after years of homeschooling, her grandmother enrolls her in middle school and she learns that life is more than numbers.

Suggested Age: 8+

Available in the RJSHS Library

The Weight of Our Sky

 by Hanna Alkaf

"Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother"--Provided by publisher.

Suggested Age: 10+

Available in the RJSHS Library

Turtles All the Way Down
by John Green

Aza Holmes is a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.

Suggested Age: 14+

Available in the RJSHS Library

The Rest of Us Just Live Here
by Patrick Ness

What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. 

Suggested Age: 14+

Available in the RJSHS Library

Anger is a Gift
by Mark Oshiro

Six years ago, Moss Jefferies' father was murdered by an Oakland police officer. Along with losing a parent, the media's vilification of his father and lack of accountability has left Moss with near crippling panic attacks.

Suggested Age: 14+

Available in the RJSHS Library