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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In town, Emory is the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. When she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire, it revealed just how bad Joey's drug habit was. Four months later Emmy's junior year is starting and Joey is home from rehab. Emmy is beginning to see that people are more than they...
2) Go ask Alice
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1971]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mia is officially a Troubled Teen™--she gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys. But she doesn't realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere. While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If she...
4) Bluescreen
Author
Series
Mirador volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 2050 Los Angeles, Marisa and her friends experiment with an allegedly safe virtual drug and find themselves caught up in a dangerous conspiracy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Paige struggles with the reintroduction of her mother--and her pain pill habit--into the household after she's been deployed numerous times overseas. At first grateful to have her home, Paige grows resentful and begins to rebel. --
6) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
7) Brave enough
Author
Series
Brave enough volume 1
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The lives of Davis Channing, a cancer surviving recovering addict, and Cason Martin, a ballerina undergoing chemotherapy, intersect in a powerful way at a time when both are struggling to survive life-threatening diseases.
8) Clean
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
9) Finding Hope
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Hope lives in a small town with nothing to do and nowhere to go. With a drug addict for a brother, she focuses on the only thing that keeps her sane, writing poetry. To escape, she jumps at the chance to attend Ravenhurst Academy as a boarding student. She’ll even put up with the clique-ish Ravens if it means making a fresh start. --Publisher
10) Wild sky
Author
Series
Night sky volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Skylar is slowly adjusting to the powers that make her a Greater-Than, but unless she can master her abilities, the danger she attracts may destroy her friends, especially after a secret laboratory to produce the controversial Destiny drug opens in theirtown.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A coming-of-age story about a girl with creative aspirations and the star swimmer who charms his way into her life, centering on themes of addiction, loss, and the tumultuousness of first love--and how to find strength when everything falls apart"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
14) Family of liars
Author
Series
We were liars volume 0.5
Publisher
Delacourt Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
What does not kill me makes me stronger. When a video of him getting knocked down by a bully goes viral at the end of junior year, David Espinoza vows to use the summer to bulk up, become a man, and wow everyone when school starts again the fall. Spending his time and money at Iron Life, a nearby gym that is full of bodybuilders, David becomes frustrated with his slow progress. As his life begins to revolve about his muscle gains, he falls into the...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Neely's monsters don't always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she's in trouble. With a history of mental illness in her family, and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can't follow--the caverns. There she can find peace. There she can pretend to...
17) Crank
Author
Series
Crank volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
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