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1) Towering
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told from the alternating perspectives of three teens whose fates unknowingly bind them together to destroy a greater evil"--
2) Out of reach
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
3) Smack
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A ninth-grader who works with his father in the local supermarket describes the plague of meth addiction that consumes many people in his Pennsylvania coal mining town from 9/11 and the nearby crash of United Flight 93 in Shanksville to the Quecreek Mine disaster in Somerset the following summer.
6) Go ask Alice
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
8) Crank
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
9) Spiral
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After breaking her back, fifteen-year-old Abby tries everything to take away her pain before finding the answer in a patient horse called Charlie and learning to have faith in herself.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Tells, in two voices, of events leading up to a 1980 incident in which fourteen-year-old Jason, a gay youth surviving on the streets as a prostitute, and seventeen-year-old Doug, a hate-filled punk rocker, have a fateful meeting in a Los Angeles alley.
11) Dope sick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
12) Family of liars
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Lying runs in the family. A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Twenty-seven years before the events of We Were Liars comes another summers, another generation, and the secrets that will haunt them for decades--a story that is scandalous, tragic, and layered...
13) Crank
Author
Series
Publisher
Océano
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Kristina Snow es una hija y estudiante ejemplar hasta que, durante una visita a su padre, se sumerge en un mundo delirante que despierta a Bree, su álter ego. Bree es todo lo que Kristina nunca soñó ser: poderosa, atrevida, seductora y... adicta a la mentanfetamina cristal. Pero el monstruo de las drogas es más poderoso de lo que jamás imaginó y la arrastrará en un viaje con insospechadas consecuencias."--Back cover.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Como miembro no oficial de su tribu nativa americana, Daunis Fontaine nunca acabó de encajar. Sueña con dejar su pasado atrás y estudiar medicina, pero las circunstancias la llevan a tomarse un año para cuidar de su frágil madre en la reserva ojibwe. Allí conoce a Jamie, pero es un chico que oculta algo. Y entonces Daunis presencia un asesinato, y descubre que una droga letal amenaza a su comunidad. Ella confía en que sus conocimientos de química...
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