| Go Ask Alice
| Alice is fifteen, white, middle-class. She diets. She dates. She gets decent grades. She thinks someday she'd like to get married and raise a family. On July 9, Alice is turned on to acid. She digs it. Acid makes the world a better place. It opens up the world of sex. It made Alice feel free. Sometimes Alice worries about taking drugs. But she figures life is more bearable with drugs than without. Alice's parents don't know what's happening. They notice changes. They think Alice might be 'associ...More
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| Forged By Fire (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
| FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
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| The Higher Power of Lucky
| Lucky, age ten, can't wait another day. The meanness gland in her heart and the crevices full of questions in her brain make running away from Hard Pan, California (population 43), the rock-bottom only choice she has. It's all Brigitte's fault -- for wanting to go back to France. Guardians are supposed to stay put and look after girls in their care! Instead Lucky is sure that she'll be abandoned to some orphanage in Los Angeles where her beloved dog, HMS Beagle, won't be allowed. She'll have t...More
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| Joey Pigza Loses Control (Joey Pigza Books)
| "He was wired. No dought about it...Now I knowwhat Mom meant when she said he was like me, only bigger." Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as he used to be, to show his dad how much he loves him. But Carter Pigza's not an easy guy to love. He's eager to make it up to Joey for past wrongs and to show him how to be a winner, to take control of his life. With his coaching, Joey's even learned how to pitch a baseball, and he's good at...More
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| Shiloh Season
| This is the sequel to the Newbery Medal winner Shiloh. With hunting season approaching, Judd Travers, Shiloh's abusive former owner, has started drinking again, and Judd Travers, beer, and a gun are a dangerous combination. What if Judd tries to hurt Shiloh? What if he tries to hurt Marty or someone in Marty's family? Marty knows something about Judd no one else does, and if anything terrible happens, the secret bargain Marty struck with Judd could make it Marty's fault. Is it time for M...More
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| My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease: A Child's View: Living with Addiction
| The basic premise of this book is that chemical dependency is a disease; the alcoholic/addict is a sick person not a bad person. This disease affects not only the addicted person but those who love that person as well. This is a book that will help others affected by chemical dependency to become well. My Dad Loves Me My Dad Has A Disease was originally written as a result of Claudia Black's work with young people who had a parent in treatment for their alcoholism. These children were learning a...More
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| An Elephant In the Living Room The Children's Book
| An illustrated story to help children understand and cope with the problem of alcoholism or other drug addiction in the family.
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| Begging for Change (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))
| H "Flake's strength . . . lies in developing genuine, believable adults and children."-BCCB (starred review) H "Flake's charged, infectious dialogue will sweep readers through the first-person story."-Booklist (starred review) Fourteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is still struggling to find security in her life. More than anything, she wants a father who will love and protect her, like Zora's dad. When her mother is attacked, Raspberry does the unthinkable: she steals money from Zora, her best frien...More
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| Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry
| Some mornings Annie’s mommy helps her get ready for school and makes "hot, golden circles" of pancakes for breakfast. Those days her smiles are as bright as sunshine. Other mornings Annie’s mommy acts like she has dark clouds inside and doesn’t smile at all. Those days Annie knows she can call her grandmother, eat a treat from her "secret snacks," and think happy thoughts. But Annie always remembers that even when Mommy is angry on the outside, on the inside she never stops loving h...More
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| Soul Catcher
| "WE WERE DELINQUENTS, ADDICTS, MENTAL CASES, ORPHANS AND KIDS FROM BROKEN HOMES."Fifteen-year-old Kate Steiner is not sure why she is suddenly boarding at an East Coast school fortroubled kids, though there is evidence that her lawyer parents arehaving marital problems. It is the mid-1970's, and at the progressiveschool where she has landed, Kate is initiated into a stratified society inhabited by kids who fell through the cracks.Kate must grapple with moral ambiguities when she di...More
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| Emmy's Question
| Ten-year-old Emmy wants desperately to be just a normal kid with a happy family like her friends. But no matter how hard she tries to keep her mother's drinking problem a secret, things keep getting worse. Emmy finds bottles hidden all over the house. Then her mom totally humiliates her by showing up at school and at her dance recital after drinking too much wine. Even though she's teased at school and snubbed by classmates after that, she's too ashamed to talk about it to her teacher or anyone ...More
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| Junebug
| Some of the stuff that goes on in the Auburn Street Projects, I’m never gonna do. These projects are like some kind of never-never land, like they never got put on a regular map. Nobody comes around here on purpose. It’s as if we all got lost, right in the middle of the city.Reeve McClain, Jr.—Junebug—has decided to skip his birthday. Since ten is the age when boys in the projects are forced to join gangs or are ensnared by drug dealers, Junebug would rather remain nine. Still, he...More
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| Tweaked
| Sixteen-year-old Gordie Jessup is a good kid but he's living a nightmare. His eighteen-year-old brother Chase's two-year addiction to crystal meth has left their family emotionally and financially drained. And just when Gordie thinks he can no longer stand the manipulating, the lying and the stealing, things get even worse. Chase is arrested for aggravated assault, released on bail and sent home to his family. But his dealers are after him and Chase appeals to Gordie for help. Gordie, disgusted ...More
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| Rules of the Road
| Meet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone's Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11'' at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd--for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn't stop Madeline Gladstone, the president of Gladstone's Shoes 176 outlets in 37 states, from hiring Jenna to drive her cross country in a last ditch effort to stop Elden Gladstone from taking over his mother's company and turning a quality business into a shop-and-schlock empire. ...More
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| Jack's Run
| When Jack Osborne’s father was arrested for drug trafficking, he agreed to tell the authorities everything he knew about his ex-boss, the ruthless drug czar Alonzo Asnar. But betraying a man as powerful as Alonzo has consequences. The Osbornes have spent the last year in hiding, forced to take on new identities and live under the close surveillance of the Witness Security Program. Now, with his trial date fast approaching, Alonzo’s hunt for Jack’s family intensifies. One slip up, and Alon...More
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| I Am a Taxi (The Cocalero Novels)
| For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle of the government’s war on drugs. Diego’s adjusted to his new life. His parents are locked up, but he can come and go: to school, to the market to sell his mother’s hand-knitted goods, and to work as a taxi," running errands for other prisoners. But then his little sister runs away...More
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| Bad Deal (Surviving Southside)
| It's not going to hurt anyone. Fish hates having to take ADHD medication. It helps him concentrate, but it also makes him feel weird. So when his crush, Ella, needs a boost to study for tests, Fish offers her one of his pills. Soon more kids want pills, and Fish is enjoying the profits. To keep from running out, Fish finds a doctor who sells phony prescriptions. But suddenly, the doctor is arrested. Fish realizes he needs to tell the truth. But will that cost him his friends?
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| A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich
| Benjie can stop using heroin anytime he wants to. He just doesn't want to yet. Why would he want to give up something that makes him feel so good, so relaxed, so tuned-out? As Benjie sees it, there's nothing much to tune in for. School is a waste of time, and home life isn't much better. All Benjie wants is for someone to believe in him, for someone to believe that he's more than a thirteen-year-old junkie. Told from the perspectives of the people in his life-including his mother, stepfather, te...More
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| My Brother's Keeper
| Toby Malone looks up to his brother Jake. Everyone does. He is the cool one, the one who is good at baseball. Even Mr. Furry, the unfortunately named family cat, seems to prefer him to everyone else. Toby and Jake and their little brother have always had an easy, jostling friendship, in which it is them against the rest of the world. But ever since Toby`s father left, things have been off balance. Toby`s mother seems deflated and resigned. And his little brother is exhibiting odd signs of stress...More
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