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Under the wolf, under the dog
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Adam Rapp |
Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide. |
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Kyra's story
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Dandi Daley Mackall |
When seventeen-year-old Kyra of Macon, Iowa, becomes overwhelmed by the stress of senior year in high school, the school play, and early admission to drama school she begins taking prescription drugs… |
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Playing with fire
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Melody Carlson |
If your vision led you straight into the fire,would you follow it anyway?Samantha's brother, Zach, is finally home after a ninety-day rehab for his meth addiction, and life seems to be getting back t… |
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Smack
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Melvin Burgess |
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin. So… |
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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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Babylon Boyz
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Jess Mowry |
Dante, Pook, and Wyatt, 8th-graders in a rundown West Oakland, California school plagued by guns, gangs, drugs and violence as well as inept or indifferent teachers, don't have many choices in life. … |
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What is real
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Karen Rivers |
When Dex Pratt returns to his small-town life to care for his wheelchair-bound father, he finds his world turned upside down and goes to extreme measures in order to cope. |
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Ferocity summer
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Alissa Grosso |
When an FBI agent asks seventeen-year-old Scilla Davis to help stop the spread of a new drug, Ferocity, she is torn because it would mean the end of her serious legal troubles and help for her best f… |
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Out of reach
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Carrie Arcos |
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away fro… |
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Kicks
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Fitch, Janet |
A fifteen-year-old girl draws back from the false glamour of Los Angeles street life when an oft envied childhood friend becomes sexually promiscuous and overdoses on drugs. |
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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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Brave enough
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Kati Gardner |
Teenager Cason Martin is the youngest ballerina in the Atlanta Ballet Conservatory. She never really had a choice of whether she learned to dance or not. Her mother, the conservatory's artistic direc… |
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Go Ask Alice
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Beatrice Sparks |
A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale.
January 24th
After you’ve had it, there isn't even life without drugs…
It started when she was served a soft… |
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Wrestling with honor
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David Klass |
Champion high school wrestler Ron Woods faces a soul-searching season when he refuses to retake a mandatory drug test he has failed. This decision affects every area of his life, including his feelin… |
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A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich
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Alice Childress |
Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's… |
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Falling Awake
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Vivian French |
Danny Perelli's world is turned upside down when someone gives him cocaine. This powerful anti-drugs story makes for a shocking but rivetting read. It is aimed at young adults in the 13 to 16 years a… |
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Falling
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Doug Wilhelm |
Fifteen-year-old Matt's life has been turned upside-down, first when the brother he idolizes turns to drugs, then when a visit to a chat room leads him to a classmate, Katie, who he likes very much b… |
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Black Rabbit summer
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Kevin Brooks |
Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long, stiflingly hot, lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called.'Listen, Pete ...you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground ...I though… |
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Leslie
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Zoa Sherburne |
Involved in a hit-and-run accident after smoking marijuana for the first time, a high school girl becomes increasingly desperate for someone to turn to. |
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Crackback
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John Coy |
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs. |
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