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Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 4
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Since Tinch Turner lost his wife, he has spent his nights brooding, boozing, and brawling. When one of his escapades lands him in the ER, he finds himself staring up at the beautiful new doctor in town, Addison Spencer--and for the first time in years, he feels a spark.
2) Lush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
3) Joseph
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joseph tries to avoid trouble and keep in touch with his father, who is serving in Iraq, as he and his alcoholic, drug-addicted mother move from one homeless shelter to another.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Chronciles the emotional war between Irene America, a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children, and her husband Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene.
6) When
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Maddie Flynn cannot help but see the death date of everyone she meets or sees in a photograph or on-screen, and her alcoholic mother exploits this by having her do readings for money, but when Maddie predicts the death of a young boy, she becomes the center of an FBI
7) Moon pie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism.
10) Burned
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
13) Forbidden
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
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"For fans of the Netflix hit series Dead to Me and bestselling domestic suspense fiction by Shari Lapena and Liane Moriarty, a novel set in suburban New Jersey about a dead husband with a serious alcohol problem, an angry, betrayed wife, and the family friends whose talent for keeping secrets might lead to everyone's undoing"--
15) Burnout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Months after coming out of alcohol and drug rehab, high school student Nan wakes up on the subway the day after Halloween wearing a torn Halloween costume, her long hair cut, and "HELP ME" scrawled across her chest, feeling sick and having no idea how she got there.
16) The serious kiss
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Relates the angst-ridden life of fourteen-year-old Libby Madrigal as she tries to deal with her unhappily married alcoholic father and overeating mother, moving to a new town, and finding the perfect boy to "seriously" kiss.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How old is Lani? And most disturbing of all, is Lani a boy or a girl?
Popular Claire McKenzie isn't up to tormenting Lani with the rest of the high school elite. Instead, she decides to befriend the intriguing outcast. But within days of Lani's arrival, tragedy strikes, and Claire is left...
18) Where it began
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After she is in a horrific car crash when drunk, Los Angeles high school student Gabriella Gardiner assumes she stole her rich boyfriend's car and smashed it into a tree, but she cannot remember anything about the events of the evening.
19) Rainbow boys
Author
Series
Rainbow trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
20) Tall tales
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Sixth-grader Meg Summers and her family move to a new state every few years as her alcoholic father tries to get a fresh start, but when they land in Indiana and Meg finally makes a real friend and begins to talk about her family's problems, they all find the strength to try to change their destiny.
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