Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse

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Glass

Ellen Hopkins

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 to be...

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Published: Apr 2009

Perfect

Ellen Hopkins

What would you give up to be perfect? Four teens find out in the New York Times bestselling companion to Impulse.Everyone has something, someone, somewhere else that they'd rather be. For four high school seniors, their goals of perfe...

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Published: Dec 2013

Last Night I Sang to the Monster

Benjamin Alire Saenz

Last Night I Sang to the Monster was chosen as one of the Top Ten YA Books of Fiction in 2010.Zach is eighteen, bright, and articulate. He's also an alcoholic, in rehab instead of high school, but he doesn't remember how he got there....

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Published: Jan 2012

Out of Reach

Carrie Arcos

How do you find someone who doesn't want to be found? A girl searches for her missing addict brother while confronting her own secrets in this darkly lyrical novel, a National Book Award Finalist.Rachel has always idolized her older b...

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Published: Oct 2013

Once Was Lost

Sara Zarr

Samara Taylor used to believe in miracles. She used to believe in a lot of things. When your father's a pastor, it's hard not to buy in to the idea of the perfect family, a loving God, and amazing grace. But lately, Sam has a lot of r...

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Published: Jan 2011

Heart of a Champion

Carl Deuker

Jimmy Winter is a born star on the baseball field, and Seth Barnam can only dream of being as talented. Still, the two baseball fanatics have the kind of friendship that should last forever. But when Seth experiences an unthinkable ...

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Published: Apr 2007

Cages

Peg Kehret

Kit never means to steal the bracelet; it is just a dumb mistake. But when she is caught Kit is sentenced to twenty hours of volunteer work at the humane society. Kit knows how it feels to be stuck in a cage like those animals and soo...

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Published: Jun 2001

Autobiography of My Dead Brother

Walter Dean Myers

The thing was that me and Rise were blood brothers, but sometimes I really didn't know him. . . . As Jesse fills his sketchbook with drawings and portraits of Rise, he tries to make sense of the complexities of friendship, loyalty,...

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Published: Nov 2006

Jude

Kate Morgenroth

When fifteen-year-old Jude's father is brutally murdered, Jude is a witness. But to save his own life, he can't tell the police what he knows. Still, Jude is determined to clear his name and win the approval of his mother -- the distr...

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Published: Mar 2006

Go Ask Alice

Anonymous

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 fr...

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Published: Dec 2005

Jay's Journal

Anonymous

Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything. He was wrong. When Jay falls in with a crowd that's dabbling in drugs and...

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Published: Aug 2010

We All Fall Down

Robert Cormier

They entered the house at 9:02 P.M. and trashed their way through the Cape Cod cottage. At 9:46 P.M. Karen Jerome made the mistake of arriving home early. Thrown down the basement stairs, Karen slips into a coma. The trashers slip awa...

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Published: Aug 1993

Raven

Allison Van Diepen

She wants himâ?¦. Zin dances with fire in every step; speaks with a honey sweet voice; and sees with eyes that can peer into your soul. Nicole's friendship with him is the only thing that saves her from the boredom of school an...

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Published: Feb 2010

The Princesses of Iowa

M. Molly Backes

What does it mean to do wrong, when no one punishes you? A smart and unflinching look at friendship, the nature of entitlement, and growing up in the heartland.Paige Sheridan has the perfect life. She's pretty, rich, and popular, and ...

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Published: Aug 2014

Other Broken Things

C. Desir

From the author of Bleed Like Me, which Booklist called "edgy, dark, and turbulent with passion" comes a "gritty, honest portrayal of the road to recovery" (VOYA) and forbidden romance—starring a fearless, unforg...

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Published: Apr 2017

The Boy Most Likely to

Huntley Fitzpatrick

The romantic companion to My Life Next Door—great for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han.  Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To find the liquor cabinet blindfolded, need a liver transplant, and drive his car into a house Alice G...

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Published: Sep 2016

Whirligig

Paul Fleischman

Upset by a recent event at school, Brent sets out to kill himself, but when he accidentally kills an innocent bystander with his car, he is forced to make reparations to her parents by taking a cross-country journey setting up whirlig...

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Published: Oct 2010

Daddy's Waves

Chandra Ghosh Ippen

Ellie's dad did not come for their visit, and Ellie is stuck in a cloud of sadness and anger as she tries to understand why. Fortunately, Miss K. and Ellie's Uncle Finny are there to help her. Using the metaphor of a wave, they help E...

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Published: Feb 2021

Mama's Waves

Chandra Ghosh Ippen

Ellie's mom did not come for their visit, and Ellie is stuck in a cloud of sadness and anger as she tries to understand why. Fortunately, Miss K. and Ellie's Uncle Finny are there to help her. Using the metaphor of a wave, they help E...

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Published: Sep 2020

The Year of My Miraculous Reappearanc...

Catherine Ryan Hyde

"Reminiscent of . . . S. E. Hinton. Very close to perfect."—The Philadelphia InquirerCynnie can take care of herself—and more importantly, she can take care of her little brother, Bill. So it doesn't matter that her mom ...

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Published: Oct 2009

Dead End

Jason Myers

Dru and Gina are young, in love, and can't wait to get out of Marshall, Nebraska, a town where bloodline means everything and whoever has the money makes the rules. But all their dreams are shattered when Gina has a monstrous run-in w...

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Published: Jun 2011

Dope Sick

Walter Dean Myers

The itch starts when things get too heavy for Lil J. Skin popping or stealing pain pills from his mom help him relax. But Lil J's focus is wandering because money is short, and his man Rico knows a way to make some quick cash. It's s...

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Published: Feb 2010

Lockdown

Walter Dean Myers

When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to thinking about it, you knew nobody could get in, either. It seems as if the only progress that's going ...

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Published: Feb 2011

Recovery Road

Blake Nelson

"An intriguing look at the aftermath of addiction." -- Los Angeles Times  Madeline has a drinking problem and anger issues, so she's sent away to Spring Meadows, a rehab center in a row of rehab centers known as Recovery Ro...

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Published: Jul 2015

Learning Not to Drown.

Anna Shinoda

"Anna Shinoda's deeply informed story is not to be missed." —Dr. Drew Pinsky, Celebrity Rehab and Teen Mom Family secrets cut to the bone in this mesmerizing debut novel about a teen whose drug-addicted brother is the prod...

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Published: Feb 2019

Can't Get There from Here

Todd Strasser

Her street name is Maybe. She lives with a tribe of homeless teens--runaways and throaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they st...

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Published: Mar 2012

Bad Deal

Susan J. Korman

It's not going to hurt anyone. Fish hates having to take ADHD medication. It helps him concentrate, but it also makes him feel weird. So when his crush, Ella, needs a boost to study for tests, Fish offers her one of his pills. Soon mo...

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Published: Mar 2011

Street Pharm

Allison Van Diepen

A successful teen drug dealer is forced to reexamine it all in this riveting novel, now in trade paperback with a new cover, from the author of Snitch.Ty Johnson knows survival. The supply game's in his blood. And now that he's taken ...

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Published: Sep 2013

The Truth About Twinkie Pie

Kat Yeh

There's something about asking for Impossible Things. For one little second, they feel Possible. Take two sisters making it on their own: brainy twelve-year-old GiGi and junior-high-dropout-turned-hairstylist DiDi. Add a million dolla...

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Published: Mar 2017

Crank (The Crank Series)

Ellen Hopkins

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Published: Mar 2021
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