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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by the alcoholic father who idealized the natural world without imparting any survival skills to his children, three siblings in 1970s New York embark on difficult adult lives before their father attempts a reconciliation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Recognizing and understanding the behavior of an alcoholic parent, as well as the impact it has on the child of an alcoholic, are important first steps toward physical well-being and emotional healing. Readers will find the tools they need to identify a drinking problem, the support required to come to terms with an alcoholic person in their family, and the resources that can help them and the entire family heal. --Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Central Recovery Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Quality parenting doesn’t happen easily or by coincidence―it necessitates conscious awareness and intentional effort. Roots and Wings presents a user-friendly approach based on the principles and practices of mindfulness and twelve-step-oriented recovery, along with elements of psychological theory, contemporary counseling, and neuroscience. Designed for parents in recovery, most of this invaluable guidance is applicable to anyone who wants to...
Author
Publisher
KoehlerBooks
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Joan's neighborhood is filled with kids of all ages, but even her closest friends don't know how violent Joan's dad is, or how difficult it is for her to navigate the troubled waters of her home life. Joan becomes adept at reading her dad's mood, and trying to prevent him from inflicting harm upon her mom. But, time and again, her dad succeeds in his mission. As the violence escalates, Joan is plagued with the constant fear that her mother may die....
Publisher
Al-Anon Family Groups
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
This book is an introduction into the workings of Al-Anon, Alcoholics Anonymous. As people come together to find help and support in dealing with the effects of alcoholism, they often find help and solace in the experiences shared by other member. They come together for many different reasons, and return looking for one reason: hope of a better life.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It’s not like they were close. She hadn’t seen him―or her grandmother, the ice queen―in almost 20 years. But when Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother’s apartment house, called and said Jillian’s expenses would be paid if she’d fly in for the burial, a free trip to New Orleans was too intriguing to...
Author
Publisher
PUSH, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
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.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make. Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey. Their apartment in the city. Her best friend, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey, and if they didn't have to worry about money all the time. But...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
14) Stray: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots...
15) Understanding addiction and recovery through a child's eyes: help, hope, and healing for the family
Author
Publisher
Health Communications
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Maverick Falconer is just starting middle school and he wishes he were a hero like his father because maybe then he could deal with his mother's drinking and series of abusive boyfriends, not to mention the kids who bully him in middle school (pretty muchthe same ones who bullied him in elementary school)--but as the year passes he begins to realize that other kids have problems too, and maybe if they can all survive sixth-grade things will get better....
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A daughter's quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory--between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death. ¿Papi, dónde estás? Throughout Jean Guerrero's childhood, her father, Marco Antonio, was an erratic and elusive presence. A self-taught genius at fixing, creating, and conjuring things--and capable of transforming himself into a shaman, dreamcaster,...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""Wake up, you filthy beasts!" Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their dreams, Kirk and his two brothers couldn't help but wonder--would they find enough food in the house for breakfast? Following a rancorous split from New York's upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy's middle son, Kirk, is eight when she moves the family to...
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