Tag Archives: Drug Use & Abuse

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Rating: (82 reviews)
Author: Nic Sheff
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books

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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able [...]

Kit an American Girl (6 Book Set)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Valerie Tripp
Publisher: American Girl

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Leonard Sax
Publisher: Basic Books

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Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to Launch is not far from the truth. [...]

The Clique Summer Collection #3: Alicia (Clique Series)

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Publisher: Poppy

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Alicia takes on Mission Spalfa: Spanish Alpha! Back in Spain to visit her relatives, Alicia discovers that Spain’s newest pop sensation ¡Ignacio! is searching for a true Spanish beauty to star in his new hit-single video. She can’t believe her luck! If Alicia is cast as a true Spanish [...]

Lock and Key

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Viking Juvenile

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“Ruby, where is your mother?”
Ruby knows that the game is up. For the past few months, she’s been on her own in the yellow house, managing somehow, knowing that her mother will probably never return.
That’s how she comes to live with Cora, [...]

Ink Exchange

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Melissa Marr
Publisher: HarperTeen

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Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey [...]

Clique, The: Invasion of the Boy Snatchers - Book #4 (Clique Series)

Rating: (91 reviews)
Author: Lisi Harrison
Publisher: Poppy

Clique Summer Collection #4:Kristen (Clique Series)

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Publisher: Poppy

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Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat… With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her scholarship commitments. No sleepover horse camp, no Hawaiian spa, no Spanish vacation, not even a trip to Orlando. But when [...]

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood (Sisterhood of Traveling Pants)

Rating: (123 reviews)
Author: Ann Brashares
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Ann Brashares has created a wonderful, heartfelt series for teens (and adults) around a pair of pants. In her breakout bestseller, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Brashares introduced readers to four girls, Lena, Bridget, Carmen, and Tibby, and to the magical [...]

Burned

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
Raised in a religious — yet abusive — family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions — about God, a woman’s role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of [...]

The Big Book Of Help (American Girl Library)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Nancy Holyoke
Publisher: American Girl

Clique Summer Collection #1: Massie (Clique Series)

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Publisher: Poppy

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Massie gets BE-yoo-tiful: After getting thrown out of horse camp, Massie’s parents force her to take on a summer job. Not one to walk strangers’ dogs or babysit, Massie stumbles upon the perfect position while flipping through Teen Vogue poolside-she’ll be a sales rep for be pretty, the high-end cosmetics [...]

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Rating: (606 reviews)
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Laurel Leaf

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The year is 1963, and self-important Byron Watson is the bane of his younger brother Kenny’s existence. Constantly in trouble for one thing or another, from straightening his hair into a “conk” to lighting fires to freezing his lips to the [...]

Adolescence

Author: Laurence Steinberg
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Book Description
Adolescence, 8th edition by Laurence Steinberg has been thoroughly updated to reflect current findings in the field of adolescent development. In this edition, the author continues to utilize the effective combination of a friendly writing style, thorough research and a contextual approach that emphasizes adolescence in contemporary [...]

Gossip Girl Boxed Set

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Cecily von Ziegesar
Publisher: Poppy

The Higher Power of Lucky

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Susan Patron
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books

Glass

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it’s all the same: a monster. And once it’s got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she’s determined [...]

Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie

Rating: (54 reviews)
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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When seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system.But there’s something eerily beguiling [...]

Go Ask Alice

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Simon Pulse

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January 24thAfter you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs….It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and [...]