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Author
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After the drug-overdose death of a fellow student, Beverly breaks away from the fast crowd but finds herself friendless and full of guilt until she meets Derek who helps her come to terms with the past and look with some hope to the future.
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and other strange creatures.
86) No problem
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Curt has it all: friends, summer job, a promising career in baseball; then he begins experimenting with drugs.
87) Bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bird, an artistic young African American boy, expresses himself through drawing as he struggles to understand his older brother's drug addiction and death, while a family friend, Uncle Son, provides guidance and understanding.
Author
Series
Will Carter books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Will Carter's summer gets off to a bad start when his girlfriend leaves him, but then he is cast opposite a major star, Hilary Idaho, in a small movie being filmed in his town and things start looking up.
89) Blood brothers
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
With his best friend on life-support after taking drugs at a party, seventeen-year-old Clay, a medical technician, recalls their long friendship, future plans, and recent disagreement, and tries to figure out who is responsible for the accidental overdose.
90) The beast
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A teenager from Harlem struggles to save his girlfriend from herself when she develops a drug problem while he is away at a Connecticut prep school.
92) Rx
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
High school honors student Thyme Gilcrest uses her intelligence, popularity, and activities to hide the fact that she is also a drug dealer, supplying friends with illegally obtained prescription medications.
93) Crank
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Kristina Snow es una hija y estudiante ejemplar hasta que, durante una visita a su padre, se sumerge en un mundo delirante que despierta a Bree, su álter ego. Bree es todo lo que Kristina nunca soñó ser: poderosa, atrevida, seductora y... adicta a la mentanfetamina cristal. Pero el monstruo de las drogas es más poderoso de lo que jamás imaginó y la arrastrará en un viaje con insospechadas consecuencias."--Back cover.
94) Rooftop
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.
95) DopeSick
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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 strange man who reveals different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
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 find peace. There she can...
97) Little pinprick
Author
Series
Rainey Paxton volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Rainey Paxton was born addicted to heroin. In the fragile first hours of Rainey’s life, hospital doctors and nurses fight to keep her alive. Several months later she is released into her parents’ custody, where the baby is forced to live on neglect and tainted breast milk. Constrained in her home, infested with drug addicts and drifters, Rainey’s drug-addicted parents leave little hope for her protection. While Rainey is still an infant, her...
Author
Series
A-list volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Her sister Susan's arrival in Beverly Hills further complicates Anna's life, with Ben still mooning over her, Adam wanting more than friendship, an internship in her father's girlfriend's new company, and a class project that brings her in close contact with Sam, Cassie, and Dee.
99) Sophie & Carter
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
While other high school seniors are dreaming about their futures, Sophie and Carter are just trying to make it through each day. Carter is overwhelmed by troubles at home as he struggles to support his mother. Meanwhile, next door neighbor Sophie is left to care four her three younger siblings in place of their absent and troubled mother. All that holds these two best friends together is each other, and knowing that each night they'll sit together...
100) Houston
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Darren Taylor is an all-state defensive end on one of the top teams in Houston. Only football promises to take him away from his gang-filled neighborhood in Houston's Third Ward. But during a preseason scrimmage, Darren tears up his right shoulder, taking him out for the season. The sudden uncertainty sends Darren into a spiral, leading to an addiction to pain pills that threatens to end his football career--and, maybe, his life.
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