Collection

Big Feelings, Big Questions

Growing up, difficult choices, and strange stories that take feelings seriously.

Theme study

You are not your worst day

Anxiety, depression, difficult thoughts, and people who help. These stories take teenage feelings seriously without making the characters only their struggles.

From the Big Feelings, Big Questions collectionsequence · 6 books

Author roadmap

Big questions with Neal Shusterman

Start with strange afterlives, then try some of Shusterman’s hardest questions about being alive. Finish the main Scythe trilogy.

From the Big Feelings, Big Questions collectionsequence · 7 books

Author roadmap

Growing up with Patrick Ness

Read the Chaos Walking trilogy, then follow Ness into grief, strange worlds, and the ordinary parts of being a teenager.

From the Big Feelings, Big Questions collectionsequence · 7 books