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Love You Hate You Miss You
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Elizabeth Scott |
Get this, I'm supposed to be starting a journal about "my journey." Please. I can see it now: Dear Diary, As I'm set adrift on this crazy sea called "life" ... I don't think so.It's been seventy-five… |
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Skullcrack
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Ben Bo |
Jonah, a troubled boy who escapes from his dreary life with an alcoholic father by surfing on the coast of Ireland, discovers that he has a twin sister with whom he has an unusual mental link. |
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Border crossing
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Jessica Lee Anderson |
Manz, a troubled fifteen-year-old, ruminates over his Mexican father's death, his mother's drinking, and his stillborn stepbrother until the voices he hears in his head take over and he cannot tell r… |
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The spider's web
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Laura E. Williams |
Lexi's unhappy home life with an alcoholic mother drives her to join a neo-Nazi group, but eventually she discovers that her new friends thrive on hatred and destruction. |
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Recovery Road
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Blake Nelson |
While she is in a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse, seventeen-year-old Maddie meets Stewart, who is also in treatment, and they begin a relationship, which they try to maintain afte… |
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Crosses
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Shelley Stoehr |
Unhappy at home, Nancy and her friend Katie adopt punk lifestyles and find relief in cutting themselves, until Nancy is forced to confront her problems. |
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David & Della
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Paul Zindel |
David Mahooley, a teenage playwright suffering from writer's block, finds himself drawn into the passionate world of a flamboyant, alcoholic young actress with a talent for lying. |
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Martyn Pig
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Kevin Brooks |
Faced with the possibility of living with a dreadful aunt, fifteen-year-old Martyn Pig decides not to tell authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally, instead asking a friend for her hel… |
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Comfort
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Carolee Dean |
Fourteen-year-old Kenny Roy Willson fantasizes about escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison. |
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Dreamsleeves
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Coleen Murtagh Paratore |
A powerful, radiant story about a girl who wears her dreams on her sleeve . . .
Aislinn is a girl with a lot of dreams, but due to family issues (caused mostly by her hard-drinking father), there'… |
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Spelldown
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Karon Luddy |
In 1969, the town of Red Clover, South Carolina, led by an enthusiastic new Latin teacher, supports thirteen-year-old Karlene as she wins her school spelling bee and strives to qualify for the Nation… |
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Joseph's Grace
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Shelia P. Moses |
Now a high school sophomore, Joseph Flood contends with grief over his late cousin Jasmine, his mother's addictions and pleas for money, the distance between himself and his father in Iraq, making th… |
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Blood Relations
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Chris Lynch,Chris Lynch |
Uneasy with the drunken violence and prejudice of his brother and others in his Irish neighborhood in Boston, Mick makes friends with a somewhat enigmatic Spanish-speaking loner at school. |
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Chicago blues
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Julie Reece Deaver |
Lissa, a seventeen-year-old art student living on her own in Chicago, must raise her eleven-year-old sister when their alcoholic mother becomes incapable of caring for her. |
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Up and Down the Mountain
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Pamela Leib Higgins |
On the day of Jenny's sixth-grade graduation, she wonders if her alcoholic father will attend the ceremony. |
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Dumb love
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Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson |
Carlotta is doing research to become a romance writer, but with her mother's current flame trying to get sober while her mother crisscrosses the East Coast selling hand-crocheted Easter bunnies, even… |
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Rainbow boys
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Alex Sanchez |
Jason Carrillo is a jock with a steady girlfriend, but he can't stop dreaming about sex...with other guys.
Kyle Meeks doesn't look gay, but he is. And he hopes he never has to tell anyone -- espe… |
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Wie man leben soll
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Thomas Glavinic |
Karl »Charlie« Kolostrum ist jung und stellt sich die entscheidende Frage, wie man eigentlich leben soll. Als Teil einer völlig überspannten Familie und Sohn einer Mutter, deren Neigung zu Alkohol un… |
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The tale of John Barleycorn, or, From barley to beer
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Mary Azarian |
The medieval English ballad of John Barleycorn, who after being ploughed under the ground grows up again in the spring to be harvested and ultimately turned into homebrewed ale. |
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Bottled Up
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Jaye Murray |
Pips desperate to escape his lifehes been skipping classes, drinking, getting high. Anything and everything to avoid his smug teachers, his sweet but needy little brother, his difficult home life. No… |
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