MHT Recovery Hub hosts resources for inpatient behavioral healthcare.
Donate a book to an adolescent psych unit
Help stock our unit library with books to build interpretive frameworks, teach skills, and inspire imaginations. Books must be paperback; can be used. Check local booksellers (indiebound.com) or try betterworldbooks.com, an ethical online bookseller.
Poetry and prose
- rupi kaur's poetry books
- Gipe: Trampoline
- ffitch: Stay and Fight
- Moreno-Garcia: Mexican Gothic
- cindy crabb: Things That Help
- McCurdy: I'm Glad My Mom Died
- McBride: We Are All So Good at Smiling
Sci fi and fantasy
- Tolkien: Lord of the Rings trilogy
- Herbert: Dune
- Andrew: The Whispering Dark
- Weir: The Martian
- Butler: Parable of the Sower
- LeGuin: The Dispossessed
- Robinson: The Ministry for The Future
- Doctorow: For the Win
Practical skills
- Trotman & Nock: Poorcraft
- Tychonievich: The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food
- Damerow: Barnyard in your Backyard
- Clark & Jackson: Chainbreaker Bike Book
- Taulbert: Who Owns the Ice House?
- Wigginton: Foxfire books
Workout and sports
- Yoga, exercise, bodyweight cards from Stack 52, NewMe Fitness, etc.
- Yoga Anatomy, Bodyweight Anatomy, etc books from Human Kinetics
- Alexander: The Crossover
- Myers: The Greatest: Muhammed Ali
- Bissinger: Friday Night Lights
STEM
- The Manga Guide to the Universe
- The Manga Guide to Statistics
- The Manga Guide to Microprocessors
- The Manga Guide to Databases
- The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
- Wicks: Human Body Theater
- Gonick: The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry
- Gonick: The Cartoon Guide to Biology
- Gonick: Cartoon Guide to Algebra
Art and writing
- McCloud: Making Comics
- Ames: Draw 50 Animals
- Dodson: Keys to Drawing
- Kaur: Healing Through Words
- Goldberg: Writing Down the Bones
- Robinson: Origami Anywhere
History and humanities
- Rand McNally: Goode's World Atlas
- Gonick: Cartoon History of the Modern World #1 and #2
- Gonick: Cartoon History of the Universe II and III
- Tobocman: War in the Neighborhood