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Carpenter, Nora Shalaway editor, author

Ab(solutely) normal : short stories that smash mental health stereotypes / edited by Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rocky Callen.

Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, [2023]

©2023

xi. 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Channeling their own experiences, sixteen exceptional authors subvert mental health stereotypes in a powerful and uplifting collection of fiction"-- Provided by publisher.

Mental illness -- Fiction

Depression, Mental -- Fiction

Self-esteem -- Fiction

Young adult fiction

Short stories.

Callen, Rocky, author

Stewart, Ebony. author

Carpenter, Nora Shalaway author

Patel, Sonia. author

Kastin, Jonathan Lenore, author

Grimes, Nikki, author

Howlett, Valerie, author

Acosta, Cibby, author

Downes, Patrick, 1968- author

Quintero, Isabel, author

Absolutely normal

They call me hurricane / Rocky Callen -- A Body with wholes / Ebony Stewart -- Spidey sense / Nora Shalaway Carpenter -- Nothing feels no pain / Sonia Patel -- Peculiar falls / Jonathan Lenore Kastin -- Avalanche / Nikki Grimes -- Beggars would ride / Val Howlett -- My sister Rafaela is a good person / Mercedes Angel Acosta -- Verbatim / Patrick Downes -- Back of the truck / Isabel Quintero -- Don't go breaking my heart / Anna Drury -- We are stardust / Alechia Dow -- River boy / James Bird -- A bridge over silence / Karen Jialu Bao -- Almost beautiful / Marcella Pixley -- The call: a one act play / Francisco X. Stork.

9781536224146 (hardcover)

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