PE and Health
Fit Lit: Books for PE and Health
Check out these books in our library collection. Many are available as ebooks or audiobook on Sora, our digital collection.
Content advisory: These books may explore mature themes including mental health, body image, sexuality, and gender identity. Some may also address sensitive topics like eating disorders, self-harm, and substance abuse. Individual book descriptions may contain further details. We encourage readers to consult with a trusted adult if needed.
Healthy Minds
Explores brain mechanics for positive emotions, the biological role of happiness, and conditions fostering it.
A chance encounter on a school bell tower leads to an unlikely relationship and a healing journey through Indiana's natural wonders.
Find your balance. Center yourself. More than 50 do-right-now projects that will help you beat stress, smile big, and discover a calmer more blissful you.
Notes to the future offer hope in tough times, evolving with new thoughts and stories, creating a comforting collection for challenging days.
Managing Feelings
Learn how to handle emotions, deal with peer pressure, bullying, gossip, and improve relationships with friends, parents, and significant others.
In a shifting emotional landscape, philosopher Mariana Alessandri explores taboo feelings like anger and sadness, aiming to remove stigma and promote understanding.
Master emotions, finances, and conflicts. Ace school, chores, and personal time. Conquer stress and uncertainties with effective strategies.
Sixteen-year-old, not-so-openly-gay Simon Spier is blackmailed into playing wingman for his classmate or else his sexual identity--and that of his pen pal--will be revealed.
Anxiety and Depression
An award-winning journalist delves into the real causes of depression and anxiety, discovering societal factors and effective solutions worldwide.
Clinically-depressed Darius travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life.
Neurodiversity
A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut.
Naoki Higashida, a thirteen-year-old autistic boy, demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds by answering more than fifty questions.
Body Image
Essays, comics, and illustrations from various artists, exploring topics like body image, health, sexuality, and identity, offering diverse perspectives on living in their bodies.
Body image expert dismantles beauty myths, empowers girls of color, and guides you towards self-love and body acceptance.
Willowdean, a Texan teen, aims to defy stereotypes by joining a beauty pageant, navigating love and self-acceptance amidst societal pressures.
Understanding Bereavement and Loss
Jay Gardiner seeks closure by finding his father's remains in the Pacific after his suicide. His dive turns perilous with a giant squid and a hungry whale.
Journals, fiction, letters, and sketches of Esther Grace Earl, who passed at 16 in 2010. Illustrated with art and photos, with contributions from family and friends.
Hazel, a teen with stage IV thyroid cancer, confronts her terminal diagnosis. A chance encounter at a cancer support group challenges her views on love and life.
Learning About Life
Childhood friends Sam and Sadie, from LA's Koreatown and Beverly Hills respectively, reunite as adults to create video games, seeking intimacy in digital worlds.
3 teens - Ana (LGBTQ+), Greg (parents divorced), Beto (COVID era) - find connection in one house over 20 years.
Ari, a fifteen-year-old loner with a brother in prison, finds friendship with Dante, sparking introspection into his identity, family, and past.
Boost Your Confidence
Explores introversion and shyness in students, advocating for celebrating introversion's strengths like empathy and focus.
Graphic novel. Anya, embarrassed by her family and lacking confidence, befriends a ghost, discovering the downsides of spectral friendship.
Offers life-changing advice to empower you against adversity, providing encouragement and guidance to unleash your unique superpower: yourself!
A graphic memoir for teens about the author's efforts to overcome her social anxiety by learning improv comedy.
Surviving Online
Learn to verify internet information efficiently with: spot red flags, assess credibility, and use Google and Wikipedia wisely for reliable research.
Explores digital minimalism, revealing how it reshapes social media engagement, reconnects with offline joys, and fosters solitude for self-discovery. Offers actionable strategies for adopting this lifestyle.
A humorous graphic guide that addresses information organization, navigating online resources, fact-checking websites, and combating misinformation, with updated content on algorithmic bias.
Sexuality and Gender Identity
A comprehensive graphic novel guide addressing questions about identity, relationships, sexuality, anatomy, and more, ideal for teens.
Discover what it means to be a young transgender and/or nonbinary person in the twenty-first century in this frank and funny guide for teens.