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1) Crank
Author
Series
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, 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.
3) Beautiful
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Haunted by serious problems in her recent past, thirteen-year-old Cassie makes a fresh start at a Seattle school but is drawn by dangerous new friends into a world of sex, drugs, and violence, while her parents remain oblivious.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Saul Dubinsky, a sensitive, shy psychiatrist, was living a dual life. Following the attempted suicide of one of his patients, the dedicated young doctor turned to drugs. When he's arrested on criminal charges, his wife and his father are left to figure out how things went so wrong and why they were blind to the pain of the man they both love.
Saul's emotionally remote wife, Rena, confronts the failures of their marriage and, for the first time,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2021, 2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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.
Recovering from a scandal at her elite New York City private school, Magda has been shipped off to live with her grandparents in Oregon. This is her last chance. She stumbles on Bo, who...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A tumultuous love affair between Reena and Sawyer ends when Sawyer abruptly abandons their Florida town, causing Reena to bear their child alone and struggle with mistrust when Sawyer returns three years later.
8) Go ask Alice
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1998
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.
9) Suckerpunch
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home.
Author
Series
Diary of a teenage girl.Chloe volume no. 3
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The success of Chloe's band leads to a concert tour, but the stresses of life on the road bring possibly life threatening behavior.
11) Fallout
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
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.
13) Clean
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
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.
14) Glow: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"From one of England's most accomplished young writers: a taut, riveting, compulsively readable novel in which a young man (with a bizarre sleep disorder) uncovers the connections between foxes behaving oddly in London, Burmese people going missing, and glow, the newest recreational drug. South London, May 2010: twenty-two-year-old Raf spends his days looking after Rose, a bull terrier who guards the transmitters for a pirate radio station, and his...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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"--
Since her mom's cancer scare, Hadley hasn't been one for taking risks, and she definitely has no interest in dating. She is focusing on her photography and getting into the art school of her dreams....
16) What about Will
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
"Trace's relationship with his older brother Will becomes increasingly complicated after Will suffers a traumatic brain injury and becomes addicted to pain pills"--
Trace Reynolds has always looked up to his brother, mostly because Will, who is five years older, has never looked down on him. When Will was knocked out cold during a football game, resulting in a brain injury, everything changed. Sixteen months later their family is still living under...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A captivating, searing, and ultimately redemptive debut novel about coming of age on Florida's drug-riddled Gulf Coast and the enigmatic connection between memory and self"--
"David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In 1943, LSD is synthesized in Basel. Two decades later, a coterie of grad students at Harvard are gradually drawn into the inner circle of renowned psychologist and psychedelic drug enthusiast Timothy Leary. Fitzhugh Loney, a psychology Ph.D. student and his wife, Joanie, become entranced by the drug's possibilities such that their "research" becomes less a matter of clinical trials and academic papers and instead turns into a free-wheeling exploration...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace. On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister, Debbie, to Salvation--a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of...
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