Personal & social issues: drugs & addiction (Children's&YA) books

"The author of the powerful ""Give a Boy a Gun"" again focuses on an important social issue as he tells a thought-provoking,...  Read More >>

Seattle fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun does not realize how bad her life is until her mother leaves and Stevie...  Read More >>

New York Times -bestselling author Myers takes readers into the world of Progress juvenile detention facility. Is...  Read More >>

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WARNING: While intended for young adults, this book does contains drug use, strong language and graphic imagery....  Read More >>

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A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking...  Read More >>

Bret is the kind of guy that girls want and guys want to be. He wears the right clothes, hangs out with the right...  Read More >>

Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism....  Read More >>

After a fight with his father, Cam takes to the hills that surround his small, mountain community where an error...  Read More >>

Breaking Fellini is a novel of No Wave and New York during 1977.Sixteen-year-old Joni Corso loves to play rock guitar,...  Read More >>

Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism....  Read More >>

In this darkly humorous follow-up to the award-winning Stoner & Spaz, Ben tries to come to terms with his confused...  Read More >>

Kelly's younger sister, Hannah, had always been strong-willed, but things take a sudden turn for the worse after...  Read More >>

The unpopular and viciously bullied Shir finds respite in her part-time job and in a special place by a river, but...  Read More >>

A ninth-grader who works with his father in the local supermarket describes the plague of meth addiction that consumes...  Read More >>

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A finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award, this novel sensitively captures the angst of a teenage alcoholic in rehab....  Read More >>

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Understanding Drugs provides a fact-based look at many of drugs that teens encounter, explains how they work, and...  Read More >>

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How far should a young boy go to save his brother from the clutches of drug dealing peers? Determined to keep his...  Read More >>