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5) Towering
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
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"--
6) Virtuosity
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Just before the most important violin competition of her career, seventeen-year-old prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother, and a potential romance with her most talented rival.
9) Finding Hope
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
To escape her small town, her parents crumbling marriage, and her drug-addicted brother, Hope jumps at the chance to attend the exclusive Ravenhurst Academy. But her problems follow her to school, her online boyfriend asks her to pose for some photos that go viral, and Hope falls into a dark place she is not sure she can find her way out of.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A coming-of-age story about a girl with creative aspirations and the star swimmer who charms his way into her life, centering on themes of addiction, loss, and the tumultuousness of first love--and how to find strength when everything falls apart"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
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.
12) A plague year
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
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.
13) Dope sick
Author
Language
English
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.
14) Beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Haunted by serious problems in her recent past, thirteen-year-old Cassie makes a fresh start at a Seattle school but is drawn by dangerous new friends into a world of sex, drugs, and violence, while her parents remain oblivious.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
Author
Series
Strange truth novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Benny and Virginia investigate when the student body president is maimed during Winship Academy's science expo in what may have been an accident, while a mystery man was handing out drugs.
Benny and Virginia investigate when the student body president is maimed during Winship Academy's science expo . Was it an accident or an attack? And what about the anonymous boy in the girls' bathroom handing out drugs to anyone with the secret password? As the...
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