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1) Burned
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
2) Moon pie
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
4) Love sick
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After an accident seems to end his college and athletic dreams, Ted is offered a second chance at school if he agrees to spy on a classmate and help her father monitor her bulimia.
5) Stetson
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Stetson meets the sister he never knew he had, and together they try to make sense of their pasts.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Relates the angst-ridden life of fourteen-year-old Libby Madrigal as she tries to deal with her unhappily married alcoholic father and overeating mother, moving to a new town, and finding the perfect boy to "seriously" kiss.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town.
8) Runner
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Zach does not remember how he came to be in a treatment center for alcoholics, but through therapy and caring friends, his amnesia fades and he learns to face his past while working toward a better future.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As she worries about her mother who is entering a rehab facility for alcoholism, eleven-year-old Veronica struggles with secrets, her favorite sport softball, and what she really wants to do with her life.
13) The blue mirror
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When his alcoholic mother disappears, fifteen-year-old Laurence is determined to find her, take care of his little brother, and keep their predicament a secret, all while trying to win a luxury vacation for his mom in a radio call-in contest.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Edgar and his mother move to Dawson, a town in Yukon, Canada, for a new start, but when Edgar fears his mother's destructive behavior will force them to leave, he turns to a dog named Benjamin to help him stop the worst from happening.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
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 National Bee, despite family problems and a growing desire for romance.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, An imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
For most of his young life Avery has dealt with his alcoholic mother with the help of his grandfather Pal--he immerses himself in poetry and popular music, and now that high school is over for the summer, he makes out with his best friend Luca (who understands about alcoholic mothers), but the death of his grandfather creates a hole in his life that he can not seem to crawl out of.
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