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Drugs and Alcohol

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Anonymus. Go ask Alice.        ANO YA

Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world

Aronson, Sarah                                    Head Case                                           YA ARO

Seventeen-year-old Frank Marder struggles to deal with the aftermath of an accident he had while driving drunk that killed two people, including his girlfriend, and left him paralyzed from the neck down.

 

Boyd, George A.                    Drugs and sex                                    613.9 BOY YA

 De La Duca, Melissa    Angels on Sunset Boulevard         YA DE

When the people closest to them start to disappear, Taj and Nick hit the streets of Los Angeles looking for a way to reach the lost souls of their friends that have been "tapped" by The Angels Practice, a World Wide Web-based movement that connects young people and makes them feel good with no apparent consequences.

 

Cowan, Shannon                                      Tin Angel                                                                 COW YA

When Ronnie, an outsider dealing with her mom's alcoholism, lets Lee, a fugitive activist, hide out at her family's former lodge in the mountains, she is accused of murder when the lodge burns down, resulting in the death of a generous man who stepped in to take care of her family.

 

Elkeles, Simone                     Leaving Paradise                                           YA ELK

In alternating chapters, seventeen-year-olds Caleb and Maggie relate the difficulties of readjusting to school, and changing relationships with family, friends, and one another, a year after a drunk driving accident sent her to the hospital with a crippling leg injury and him to prison.

 

Garsee, Jeannine                   Before, after, and somebody in between                                        GAR YA

 

After dealing with an alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, a school bully, and life on the wrong side of the tracks in Cleveland, Ohio, high school sophomore Martha Kowalski expects to be happy when she moves in with a rich family across town, but finds that the "rich life" has problems of its own.

 

 

Hinton, S.E.    That was then this is now.                                                      HIN YA

Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship seems to gradually disintegrate.

 

Miller, Maryann        Drugs and date rape                                      362.883 MIL YA      

 

Murray, Jane                         Bottled Up: A  Novel                         MUR YA

A high school boy comes to terms with his drug addiction, life with an alcoholic father, and a younger brother who looks up to him.

 

Shuker-Haines, Frances Everything You Need To Know About A Drug Abusing Parent                                                                                                            363.291 SHU YA

 

Zalickas, Koren          Smashed: Story of a drunken girlhood         92z ZAI YA

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