Try Not to breathe by Jennifer R. Hubbard

This book could just save someone’s life. An engaging, beautiful book. Learning to live is more than just choosing not to die, as sixteen-year-old Ryan discovers in the year following his suicide attempt. Despite his mother’s anxious hovering and the rumors at school, he’s trying to forget the darkness from which he has escaped. But

Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

The main character in this novel is Francesca Spinelli, an Italian girl who is in year eleven at St. Sebastians and the number of girls who attend this school are very few. Francesca lives with her parents, Mia and Robert and her younger brother, Luca.  This family changes dramatically when Mia struggles with clinical depression.