Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories that Smash Mental Health Stereotypes
Edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rocky Callen
Stories by various authors
Read by Priya Ayyar, Merissa Czyz, Maxwell Glick, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Sophie Oda, Vico Ortiz, Ana Osorio, and Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Unabridged
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2 Formats: Retail CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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$46.99
ISBN: 9798212644495
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$41.95
ISBN: 9798212644501
| Runtime: | 10.87 Hours |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Audience: | Young Adult (12–17) |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction.
A teen activist wrestles with protest-related anxiety and PTSD. A socially anxious vampire learns he has to save his town by (gulp) working with people. As part of her teshuvah, a girl writes letters to the ex-boyfriend she still loves, revealing that her struggle with angry outbursts is related to PMDD. A boy sheds uncontrollable tears but finds that in doing so he’s helping to enable another’s healing. In this inspiring, unflinching, and hope-filled mixed-genre collection, sixteen diverse and notable authors draw on their own lived experiences with mental health conditions to create stunning works of fiction that will uplift and empower you, break your heart and stitch it back together stronger than before. Through powerful prose, verse, and graphics, the characters in this anthology defy stereotypes as they remind listeners that living with a mental health condition doesn’t mean that you’re defined by it. Each story is followed by a note from its author to the listener, and comprehensive back matter includes bios for the contributors as well as a collection of relevant resources.
With contributions by:
Mercedes Acosta, Karen Jialu Bao, James Bird, Rocky Callen, Nora Shalaway Carpenter, Alechia Dow, Patrick Downes, Anna Drury, Nikki Grimes, Val Howlett, Jonathan Lenore Kastin, Sonia Patel, Marcella Pixley, Isabel Quintero, Ebony Stewart, and Francisco X. Stork
Author
Author Bio: Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes is the recipient of the 2006 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. Her distinguished works include the ALA Notable book What is Goodbye?, as well as the novels Jazmin’s Notebook, Dark Sons, and The Road to Paris, all of them Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books. She won the Coretta Scott King Author Award for Bronx Masquerade. She lives in Corona, California.
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Author Bio: Patrick Downes
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Author Bio: Marcella Pixley
Marcella Pixley is the author of three highly praised books for young adults that have received multiple starred reviews, including Ready to Fall, which was a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year. She earned a master’s from Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, and she teaches writing to middle schoolers in Massachusetts.
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Author Bio: Karen Bao
Karen Bao is a writer, musician, and aspiring scientist. She has a brother three years younger than her and a violin sixty years older than her. Born in California and raised in New Jersey, she currently studies environmental biology at college in New York City. She began writing Dove Arising at the age of seventeen.
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Author Bio: Isabel Quintero
Isabel Quintero lives and writes in the Inland Empire of Southern California, where she was born and raised. Her debut novel, Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, was the recipient of five starred reviews and several awards, including the 2015 Morris YA Debut Award and the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award. For fun she reads and writes, watches comedies, and eats paletas and chicharrónes every chance she gets. Her favorite paleta flavor? Pues coco, of course.
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Author Bio: Sonia Patel
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Author Bio: Alechia Dow
Alechia Dow is a former librarian and pastry chef living abroad with her partner in Germany. When she’s not writing, you can find her having epic dance parties with her daughter, baking, reading, or taking teeny adventures around Europe.
Author Bio: James Bird
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Author Bio: Mercedes Acosta
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Author Bio: Jonathan Kastin
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Author Bio: Francisco X. Stork
Francisco X. Stork is the author of Marcelo in the Real World, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award for Teens and the Once Upon a World Award; The Last Summer of the Death Warriors, which was named to the YALSA Best Fiction for Teens list and won the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award; Irises; and The Memory of Light, which received four starred reviews.
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Author Bio: Anna Drury
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Author Bio: Val Howlett
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Author Bio: Ebony Stewart
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Retail CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction |
| Runtime: | 10.87 |
| Audience: | Young Adult (12–17) |
| Language: | English |
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