Have A Nice Day by Julie Halpern
When Anna returns from a three-week stay in a mental hospital she struggles to resume a normal life in the face of her parents' arguments and friends who are afraid to ask her what happened.
Boy21 by Matthew Quick
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob. When his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common.