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Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a fatal car accident that reveals Emory's brother Joey's opioid addiction, Emory struggles to help him on his road to recovery and make herself heard in a town that insists on not listening.
In town, Emory is the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's the good one, her stoner older brother Joey's babysitter. When she and Joey were in the car accident that killed...
2) Intervention
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A mother's last hope becomes the beginning of a new nightmare in this New York Times bestselling suspense novel. Barbara Covington has one more chance to save her daughter from a devastating addiction, by staging an intervention. But when eighteen-year-old Emily disappears on the way to drug treatment-and her interventionist is found dead at the airport-Barbara enters her darkest nightmare of all. Barbara and her son set out to find Emily before...
3) Downfall
Author
Series
Intervention volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A girl with a questionable past. An Alfred Hitchcock movie. And a plan for a double murder conspire for one explosive ride. Emily Covington has turned her life around after a drug addiction, but her family still has trouble trusting her. Though Emily has committed herself to a year-long treatment program and has been sober for almost a year beyond that, even her mother walks on eggshells around her, fearing she'll relapse. After her behavior during...
4) Crank
Author
Series
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Kristina Snow is a good third year high school student. But when she visits her drug-dealing father, she is introduced to crystal meth, or 'crank.' Kristina quickly develops a drug alter ego named Bree, who is fast, sexy, and daring. But Bree's insatiable need for the monster, crank, drives her further into perilous behavior. Written in free verse, Crank is based on Ellen Hopkins' experience with her own daughter.
Author
Publisher
Anchor/Random House
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky. By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
16) Stoner & Spaz
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.
18) Fire
Author
Series
San Juan shadows volume Book 1
Publisher
Serene Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, Kyra Radell's brother died from a drug addiction, so when students in her new school start buying a new street drug called Fire--and dying because of it--she's determined to help in any way she can. Even if that means putting her own life in danger. Case Lexington, an undercover cop, has been sent in to pose as a high school senior. He wants her to stay safe and mind her own business. The only problem is, she's not willing to listen to...
19) Wild sky
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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.
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