Winner of the CLA Young Adult Book Award, selected for the CCBC Choices List, selected for the Bankstreet College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year 2013, and honoured with the Horn Book Fanfare. It starts when Call sees...
Drug abuse
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Author:Leavitt, MartineSummary: - Author:Lennox, MattSummary:
Ashley Rosco works as a bouncer at the only nightclub in a small town, spending his off-hours training as a bodybuilder. He occasionally acts as muscle for his best friend, Darren, a small-time drug dealer. Darrens girlfriend, Chass,...
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Author:Summary:Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
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Author:Hopkins, EllenSummary:Kristina Snow returns home to give birth, a rape-induced pregnancy that occurs in the prequel novel, Crank. Kristina spirals into a dark depression when she cannot recover her pre-baby shape and returns to using to regain control of her...
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Author:Grosso, AlissaSummary:"An engaging, realistic journey into drug addiction and bad decision making. Grosso's Ferocity Summer is a riveting read." —A.S. King, author of the Printz honor book Please Ignore Vera Dietz Would you rather be dead and know it, or...
- Author:Hewson, DavidSummary:
In 1975, a small group of students gathers in an abandoned barn near San Francisco to indulge in drugs. When one of them commits a heinous act, he is sent to prison. Twenty years later he is released, and the questions about what really...
- Author:Goines, DonaldSummary:
Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend--both attractive, talented, and full of promise--are inexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie.
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Author:Myers, Walter DeanSummary:Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made...
- Author:KLEIN, RobinSummary:
It's summer and Seymour is bored and miserable until he meets Angie, who he thinks is the most beautiful person in the world. Unfortunately, Seymour soon begins to see the other side of Angie, who is lonely and trapped in her...
- Author:Michelle BerrySummary:
