The Silence That Binds Us

Joanna Ho
(Young Adult Fiction - Y Ho)


In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide. May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family, as well as herself.

YA Anxiety and Mental Health

  • When Anxiety Makes You Angry


  • An Emotion of Great Delight


  • Your Brain Needs a Hug: Life, Love, Mental Health, and Sandwiches


  • The Silence That Binds Us


  • Felix Ever After


  • Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health


  • Just Roll with It


  • The Self-Care Kit for Stressed Out Teens


  • Just Roll with It


  • When Anxiety Makes You Angry


  • Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health


  • White Smoke


  • The Teen Anxiety Guidebook


  • Chaos Theory


  • If I Can Give You That


  • Darius the Great is Not Okay


  • The Chandler Legacies


  • A Perfectionist Guide to Not Being Perfect


  • Hungry Ghost


  • We Are All So Good at Smiling


  • The Cartographers


  • Reach Out: Tips for Helping Someone in Crisis


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens


  • Where to Start: A Survival Guide to Anxiety, Depression, and Other Mental Health Challenges


  • A Quiet Kind of Thunder


  • The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens


  • The Teen Anxiety Guidebook


  • Where to Start: A Survival Guide to Anxiety, Depression, and Other Mental Health Challenges


  • I Am Not Alone


  • Hungry Ghost


  • Reach Out: Tips for Helping Someone in Crisis


  • A Perfectionist Guide to Not Being Perfect


  • The Weight of Our Sky


  • In Limbo


  • Anger Is a Gift


  • Your Brain Needs a Hug: Life, Love, Mental Health, and Sandwiches


  • In Limbo


  • Not Just About Food: Understanding Eating Disorders


  • Challenger Deep


  • Not Just About Food: Understanding Eating Disorders


  • An Appetite for Miracles


  • Tilly in Technicolor


  • The Self-Care Kit for Stressed Out Teens