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1) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind.
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what...
2) Wasted
Author
Series
Publisher
James Lorimer & Co. Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Jason is brought face-to-face with his own addictions when his alcoholic father ends up in the hospital, and he discovers just how powerful dependency can be.
3) Viral
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After his best friend begins hanging out with the wrong crowd and is caught in a compromising situation, Mike tries to help her before she destroys her life.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In the Florida projects, sixteen-year-old Jayson struggles with the harsh realities of his life which include an abusive mother, a drug-addicted father, and not fitting in at his predominately white school, and bring him to the brink of suicide.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her cousin's suicide, overweight and introverted seventeen-year-old Miles experiences significant changes in her relationships with her mother and father, her best friend Jamal and his family, and her cousin's father, while gaining insights about herself, both positive and negative.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
One wave: that’s all it takes for the rest of Mae and Hannah Winters’ lives to change. When a tsunami strikes the island where their parents are vacationing, it soon becomes clear that their mom and dad are never coming home. Forced to move to Boston from sunny California for the rest of their senior year, each girl struggles with secrets their parents’ death has brought to light, and with their uncertainty about the future. Instead of bringing...
7) What goes up
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Jorie wakes up in the loft bed of a college boy she doesn't recognize, she's instantly filled with regret. What happened the night before? What led her to this place? Was it her father's infidelity? Her mother's seemingly weak acceptance? Her recent breakup with Ian, the boy who loved her art and supported her through the hardest time of her life? As Jorie tries to reconstruct the events that led her to this point, free verse poems lead the...
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, this heart-wrenching story chronicles a girl's fatal experience with testing her moral limits and the dangers of addiction. Bailey welcomes a fresh start at the prestigious boarding school, Prescott Academy, far away from the painful memories of her mother's death and the unendurable happiness of her father and his new wife. She expects rigorous coursework and long hours of studying&;what she...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and has everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using drugs and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila’s Colombian American family doesn’t have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she keep failing, and why does she self-harm every time she does? When Dani and Camila find themselves rooming together...
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