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English
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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.
4) Out of reach
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Rose Hemmersbach aspires to break out of small town Sparta, Wisconsin and achieve her artistic dreams, just like her aunt Colleen, but must face her mother's heroin addiction and its ramifications first.
"Rose Hemmersbach aspires to break out of small town Sparta, Wisconsin and achieve her artistic dreams at Belwyn School for the Arts after she graduates. Painting is her escape from her annoying siblings and her family's one rule:...
9) Strange lies
Author
Series
Strange truth volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Benny and Virginia investigate when the student body president is maimed during Winship Academy's science expo in what may have been an accident, while a mystery man was handing out drugs.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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.
11) Wild sky
Author
Series
Night sky volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Skyler Reid is slowly adjusting to the powers that make her a Greater-Than, but unless she can master her abilities, the danger she attracts may destroy her friends, especially after a secret laboratory to produce the controversial Destiny drug opens in their town.
12) Crank
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English
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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.
13) Far from you
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"After Sophie Winters survives a brutal attack in which her best friend, Mina, is murdered, she sets out to find the killer. At the same time she must prove she is free of her past Oxy addiction and in no way to blame for Mina's death"--
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Publisher
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
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...
15) White rabbit
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian-the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to "talk." Things couldn't get worse, right? Then Rufus gets a call from his sister April, begging for help. He and Sebastian find her, drenched in blood and holding a knife beside the...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mia is officially a Troubled Teen™--she gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys. But she doesn't realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere. While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"--
Ever since her mom's cancer scare, Hadley hasn't been one for taking risks. And after seeing her sister go through one too many heartbreaks, she definitely has no interest in dating. Hadley just wants...
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Language
English
Description
"Neely’s monsters don’t always follow her rules, so when the little girl under her bed, the man in her closet, and the disembodied voice that shadows her every move become louder, she knows she’s in trouble. With a history of mental illness in her family, and the suicide of her older brother heavy on her mind, Neely takes a job as a tour guide in the one place her monsters can’t follow—the caverns. There she can...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Como miembro no oficial de su tribu nativa americana, Daunis Fontaine nunca acab�o de encajar. Sue�na con dejar su pasado atr�as y estudiar medicina, pero las circunstancias la llevan a tomarse un a�no para cuidar de su fr�agil madre en la reserva ojibwe. All�i conoce a Jamie, pero es un chico que oculta algo. Y entonces Daunis presencia un asesinato, y descubre que una droga letal amenaza a su comunidad. Ella conf�ia en que sus conocimientos...
20) Go ask Alice
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth and ultimately her life.
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