![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first YA book that I’ve read about schizophrenia and I’m surprised by how much I liked it. Words on Bathroom Walls was a great book, especially for young adults, about mental illness. As long as he keeps taking his medication, he shouldn’t have to tell anyone. Right? ![]() He knows that he should tell Maya about his diagnosis, but he just can’t do it. Adam begins making friends at his fancy, religious high school and relies on his medication to keep new classmates from knowing about his mental illness. After that, Adam is diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to a new school, where he doesn’t know anyone. He is able to keep these characters to himself, until he has an incident in school involving flying bats. That the creepy little bastards had eaten me in the chemistry lab and I’d never had to see the way my mom looked at me in that moment: like I was crazy.”Īdam has visions of people who are not real. “When she started crying, I wished the bats had been real. Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ![]()
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