Books for Teens: NRC Staff Favorites

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The staff of the National Resource Center on ADHD has compiled a list of favorite books written specifically for teens who want to learn more about ADHD. More detailed information on each title, as well as additional books and periodicals written for teens with ADHD are available from the NRC Library's online database.

• Understand Your Brain, Get More Done
  Author: Ari Tuckman
  Publisher: Specialty Press/A.D.D. Warehouse (Plantation, FL, 2012), 162 pages
  Summary: Dr. Tuckman describes the executive functions that are involved in ADHD and how they affect day to day life, and offers practical strategies on how to be more consistent and effective. Workbook exercises are provided to help individuals apply ideas and overcome barriers in the past.
• Where's My Stuff: The Ultimate Teen Organizing Guide
  Authors: Samantha Moss and Lesley Schwartz
  Publisher: Zest Books (San Francisco, CA, 2010) 104 pages
  Summary: Written in collaboration with professional teen organizer Lesley Schwartz, this book gives advice on how to organize school-work, lockers, bedrooms, and even one's schedule. Includes fun and useful illustrations and easy-to-follow charts.
• Help4ADD@High School
  Author: Kathleen Nadeau
  Publisher: Advantage Books (Silver Spring, MD, 1998), 117 pages
  Summary: Help4ADD@High School is an ADHD-friendly, on-target book that provides straight talk on high school, drugs, sex, friends, driving, parents, college and more, from an ADHD perspective.
• ADHD & Me: What I Learned from Lighting Fires at the Dinner Table
  Author: Blake E. S. Taylor
  Publisher: New Harbinger Publications (Oakland, CA, 2008), 192 pages
  Summary: Author, Blake Taylor's memoir describes what it's like to live and grow up with this common condition--foiling bullies, confronting unfair teachers, struggling with distraction, etc.
• Middle School - The Stuff Nobody Tells You About
  Author: Haley Moss
  Publisher: Autism Asperger Publishing Co. (Overland Park, KS, 2010), 160 pages
  Summary: Based on her own experiences, Haley Moss, a teenager with Asperger Syndrome now in high school, shares what worked and what didn't work for her when she transitioned to middle school.
• ADD and the College Student: A Guide for High School and College Students with Attention Deficit Disorder
  Author: Patricia O. Quinn
  Publisher: Magination Press (Washington, DC, 2001), 160 pages
  Summary: This book offers practical suggestions and information for young adults facing the challenge of attending college or taking college-level courses. It addresses the interrelationship of ADHD and the stresses that college students face, as well as the effect on the student's and the family's life, the student's social life, and approaches to treatment.
• A Bird's-Eye View of Life with ADD and ADHD: Advice from Young Survivors
  Authors: Chris A. Zeigler Dendy and Alex Zeigler
  Publisher: Cherish the Children (Cedar Bluff, AL, 2007), 180 pages
  Summary: Written by teens and young adults, for teens and young adults, this book on ADD and ADHD covers the challenges this age group faces. It is written in an easy-to-read, hopeful, and informative style.
• What's Up With Astra? Medikidz Explain ADHD
  Authors: Kim Chilman-Blair and John Taddeo
  Publisher: Medikidz (London, UK, 2009), 34 pages
  Summary: Many children affected by ADHD don't understand their medical condition. To the rescue are the "MediKidz," a gang of five larger-than-life superheroes on the planet "Mediland," each of whom specializes in a different part of the human body. Perfect for teenagers and adolescents affected by ADHD.
  

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