Turtles All the Way Down
by John Green
Young adult · ages 14–18 · grades 9–12 · 820L · 320 pages · 2019
Why we'd hand it over
An honest, unflinching portrait of intrusive-thought spirals and OCD-adjacent anxiety in a sharp 16-year-old voice; the mystery is secondary to the interior struggle, which may disappoint plot-first readers but will resonate hard with anxious teens.