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Author
Series
We were liars volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
2) 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.
5) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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, she meets a boy who introduces her to crank. At first she finds it freeing, but soon Kristina's personality disappears inside the drug. What began as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul, and her life.
7) Go ask Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
8) Virtuosity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Just before the most important violin competition of her career, seventeen-year-old prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother, and a potential romance with her most talented rival.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
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.
10) Saint Iggy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
11) Dope sick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
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 better choices.
12) Clean
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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.
13) 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.
15) Second star
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Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling sets out to find her missing surfer brothers and finds herself on a secluded California beach, where she meets Pete, Belle, Jas, and others, learns to surf, helps some of them steal while avoiding the other's drug trade, and falls in love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Abram and Juliette have lived down the street from each other all their lives but had no connection until Juliette's mother and Abram's father had an affair that ended in a deadly car crash, then a year later, the teens begin a tentative relationship while picking up their prescription medications.
17) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"For Tim, it wouldn't be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if 'smart' is always right. ... Told in Tim's and Alice's ... voices, this return to the setting of My life next door is a love story about failing first, trying again, and having to decide whether to risk it all once more." -- From dust jacket.
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