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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
I wasn't afraid of death.
How could I be? I lived under death's shadow every day. When you swallow eighty Vicodin, twenty sleeping pills, drink a bottle of vodka, and still survive, a certain sense of invulnerability stays with you. When you continually use drugs with the kind of reckless determination that I did, the limit to how much heroin or crack you can ingest is not defined in dollar amounts, but in the amounts your body can withstand without...
11) 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.
12) Wild sky
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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.
13) 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...
16) 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...
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...
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