What Self-Help Books Needed For Teen?

Blue days by Caja Cazemier

Books offer comfort in difficult times. For adolescents who feel insecure, out of control, or depressed (or who know someone who feels that way), Caja Cazemier’s Blue Days can be of support. Janna is not feeling well, and when her boyfriend breaks up with her, she feels all alone. She can’t enjoy anything anymore. In the end she seeks help from a psychologist, but her mother doesn’t really like it. Why not? A moving story about becoming who you are.

I have to do this by Maren Stoffels

The impressive youth novel I must do this is about fears, compulsive disorders, and loneliness in young people. Simon has an obsessive-compulsive disorder. He always has to check everything and avoid certain numbers. During a coercion camp, he gets to know Jasmin, a girl with an extreme appetite. But when Jasmin gets in trouble, Simon has to put his own fears aside.

We stay together by Martine Letterie

We stay together tells the special story of the Jewish Birnbaum family. The Birnbaum family ended up in Camp Westerbork in 1939. Father and mother Birnbaum took care of the Jewish children who entered the camp without their parents. This created an orphanage barracks in the camp, where they tried to make it bearable for the children. Their own six children had to help. It was hard, but: they still had each other! They were forwarded to Bergen-Belsen. Once again the Birnbaums took care of orphans, with the motto: we stay together!

Little blue by Lydia Red

A beautiful youth novel about a girl who goes in search of herself. Liesbeth and her friend Beer help out at a camp for autistic children. Liesbeth does her best, but everything turns out differently than she intended. What is she doing wrong? Is she doing something wrong? She goes in search of answers — and herself.

Dreaming of the boy next door by Kristina Forest

Chloe wants to audition for a ballet academy in New York, but her mother forbids her from going. Chloe secretly goes anyway. But then her impossible neighbor Eli shows up. If Chloe doesn’t give him a ride, he rats her off at her mother’s. Chloe is forced to take Eli (and his smelly dog) with her. This is the start of an unforgettable road trip that will change everything…

Adrian Mole’s Growing Pains by Sue Townsend

He is smart, always in love and he likes to exaggerate. Meet Adrian Mole! The first two diaries of Adrian have been re-translated by Sylvia Witteman to introduce new generations of readers to his recognizable adolescent troubles. From first ejaculations to his dream of becoming a true intellectual, Adrian opens his heart and twists of mind to all readers. Laugh out loud guaranteed!

Shadow brother by Iris Hannema

Hebe travels in the footsteps of her late brother Alec to Japan in search of answers about his death. Alec was a professional freediver. Hebe can’t believe he drowned. In his last words, she reads a message, like tracks that she can follow. They lead her to the bustling heart of Tokyo and finally to Ishigaki, an island in the deep blue ocean…

In search of what Alec could not tell her, Hebe discovers what it is like to travel alone, to disconnect from everything familiar, and survive in a land where she knows no one.

Body book for power girls by Sanderijn van der Doef, Ellen Laan & Marian Latour

‘This is fantastic! A book with concrete advice about your body and your sexual relationship with yourself. I wish I had read this when I was 14! A very fine and important book. For girls, but certainly also for boys and everyone in between.

The promise by John Grisham

The Promise is the first installment in John Grisham’s Kid Lawyer series, which he wrote for the younger crime buffs.

The town of Strattenburg has many lawyers and Theo Boon sees himself as one of them, although he is only thirteen years old. Theo dreams of a glittering career as a lawyer and success in court, only he never thought he would find himself in the middle of the most sensational trial of recent years.