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Under the wolf, under the dog Under the wolf, under the dog Adam Rapp Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide. OL103507W
The case of the teenage terminator The case of the teenage terminator Angela Elwell Hunt Christine's friends help her investigate the cause of her older brother's increasingly violent behavior after witnessing his frightening outbursts. OL14852384W
Saint Iggy Saint Iggy K. L. Going Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his fri… OL15048434W
Kyra's story Kyra's story 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… OL15058139W
Playing with fire Playing with fire 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… OL15109914W
Smack Smack 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… OL15398265W
Recovery Road Recovery Road 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… OL15414022W
Crosses Crosses 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. OL15823058W
Fat kid rules the world Fat kid rules the world K. L. Going Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his roc… OL15836220W
Flyaway Flyaway Helen Landalf Seattle fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun does not realize how bad her life is until her mother leaves and Stevie must move in with annoyingly perfect Aunt Mindy for a summer, filling her days with bei… OL15941398W
Babylon Boyz Babylon Boyz 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. … OL15964441W
The rivals The rivals Daisy Whitney Alex's role in the Mockingbirds, an underground student justice system at her elite boarding school, is challenged when she tries to stop a group of students using prescription drugs to help other st… OL15980333W
What is real What is real 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. OL16125892W
The children and the wolves The children and the wolves Adam Rapp Abducted by teen genius Bounce and her drifter friends Wiggins and Orange, three-year-old Frog seems content to eat cereal and play a video game about wolves all day--a game that parallels the realit… OL16317837W
Ferocity summer Ferocity summer 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… OL16461739W
Out of reach Out of reach 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… OL16471196W
True confessions of a Hollywood starlet True confessions of a Hollywood starlet Lola Douglas Teen movie star Morgan Carter retreats to a small midwestern town to recuperate anonymously after an overdose and rehabilitation, recording her thoughts in a diary. OL17730155W
Towering Towering Alex Flinn "A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told from the alternating perspectives of three teens whose fates unknowingly bind them together to destroy a greater evil"-- OL17914213W
Kicks Kicks 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. OL18166367W
How to love How to love Katie Cotugno 16-årige Reena bliver endelig kæreste med Sawyer, som hun har været hemmeligt forelsket i altid. Hun er på vej på college, han ud i noget skidt, og da han forlader hende og Florida efter et skænderi,… OL18181860W
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