Janet Ruth Young is a writer and mental health advocate. Her three award-winning novels about teens and mental illness are published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, a division of Simon & Schuster.
The Opposite of Music (2007), about a teen boy who attempts to save his father from a life-threatening depression, won the PEN New England Discovery Award and was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices selection, and an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults nominee.
Things I Shouldn't Think (2012) is about a girl with a form of OCD that gives her thoughts of killing the child she babysits. Originally published as The Babysitter Murders, it received a CYBIL nomination and a starred review in Publishers Weekly.
My Beautiful Failure (2012) tells the story of a teenage boy who volunteers at a suicide hotline and falls in love with a troubled caller. YALSA honored this book as a Best Fiction for Young Adults nominee and a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service pick.
Janet has given talks and presentations to, or written materials for, the International OCD Foundation, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the American Association of Caregiving Youth, the Wisconsin Initiative for Stigma Elimination, the Living with OCD podcast, and many other groups and organizations. Her next project, a book of essays about living in New York City, will be published in 2021.
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The Opposite of Music (2007), about a teen boy who attempts to save his father from a life-threatening depression, won the PEN New England Discovery Award and was a Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices selection, and an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults nominee.
Things I Shouldn't Think (2012) is about a girl with a form of OCD that gives her thoughts of killing the child she babysits. Originally published as The Babysitter Murders, it received a CYBIL nomination and a starred review in Publishers Weekly.
My Beautiful Failure (2012) tells the story of a teenage boy who volunteers at a suicide hotline and falls in love with a troubled caller. YALSA honored this book as a Best Fiction for Young Adults nominee and a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service pick.
Janet has given talks and presentations to, or written materials for, the International OCD Foundation, the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the American Association of Caregiving Youth, the Wisconsin Initiative for Stigma Elimination, the Living with OCD podcast, and many other groups and organizations. Her next project, a book of essays about living in New York City, will be published in 2021.
Want to know more? Read a writer's autobiography and some fun facts.
