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2022., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: REALISTIC F ILO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she's moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah's new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home"--Provided by the publisher.
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2022., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC ILO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she's moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah's new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home"--Provided by publisher.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Second Story Press Call No: Realistic FIC Graziani Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Faith Emily Hansen wants to take her life back and break the cycle of drug abuse in her life, but her heroin addiction has a powerful hold on her. Somewhere, behind her addiction, lives a powerful determination that could ultimately save her from herself.
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[2017]., Adolescent, Second Story Press Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC GRA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "All Faith wants is to be loved, to have a stable home and to live without the darkness that led her to heroin addiction and a life on the street. The story starts at the end, as Faith appeals to other kids battling their own issues. She tells them that there is hope and that she herself was pulled back from her ledge by an unlikely champion: the sister who drove her to the streets in the first place."--OCLC.
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By Stone, Nic[2023]., Adolescent, Crown Call No: TEEN FIC STO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A senior at Windward Academy, Shelbi, who has a diagnosed mental illness, keeps to herself until she forms a connection with Andy Criddle, who is battling addiction, but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull them apart.
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By Stone, Nic[2023]., Adolescent, Crown Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC STO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A senior at Windward Academy, Shelbi, who has a diagnosed mental illness, keeps to herself until she forms a connection with Andy Criddle, who is battling addiction, but the closer they get, the more the past threatens to pull them apart.
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2012., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Reed Edition: 1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A group of teens in a Seattle-area rehabilitation center form an unlikely friendship as they begin to focus less on their own problems with drugs and alcohol by reaching out to help a new member, who seems to have even deeper issues to resolve.
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2012., Adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: Realistic FIC Hopkins Edition: First Margaret K. McElderry Books paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Written in free verse, this title explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
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[2023]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: REALISTIC F MOR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Inseparable siblings Con and Sofie have loved their mother throughout her struggle with addiction, but when she disappears without warning, the two must decide who they can trust and whether or not they can survive on their own.
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2009., Adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: Realistic FIC Hopkins Edition: First Margaret K. McElderry Books paperback edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Kristina is determined to defeat her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
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2006., Juvenile, Simon Pulse Call No: TEEN FIC GO Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
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2021., Fitzroy Books Call No: SPORTS FIC SUL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is impossible not to root for Ceti, almost fifteen, who tells her story of growing up in shelters, learning soccer from her Gramps, and sleeping in her Mom's red truck where they listened over and over to Rolling Stones discs someone left behind. Following in the steps of her hero, Lionel Messi, Ceti is a shooting star on the field. A U.S. scout is coming to watch her play in the State Championship; she has Ruby, her best friend since kindergarten rooting for her, and a crush on a boy who lives in her building, Will. But at home, she'll find a spoon in the sink, a ball of tin foil and a needle in the trash. Her Mom, who used to be beautiful with her long honey hair and green eyes is now wasted and track-marked. And she is pregnant. Ceti's life goes up and down with a mother who wants only the next high. Her Mom's menacing and goofy boyfriend Foxface is always hounding Ceti; their junky friends start a fire in Ceti's apartment; and on the day of the semifinals, Ceti finds her Mom bleeding profusely. She steals a new iPhone for her Mom but is caught and disqualified from playing in the Championship game. Then Ruby decides on private school for next year, and Will stops hanging out with Ceti. When her Mom promises they can start over in New Hampshire, Ceti is hopeful. Instead, she finds her Mom has overdosed. Ceti, too, would be one more dream slipping away if she didn't have the courage to hold on to what she loves the most.
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Ã2015., Adolescent, Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC REE Edition: 1st pbk. ed., 2016. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Evie, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer several months ago and was told that she would be dead by now, is grateful for every extra day she gets, but is tired of being known as Cancer Girl. Then she meets Marcus, a boy she knows is trouble, but her time with him makes her feel truly, fully alive.
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2016., Adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: SCI-FI F DUY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: As Denise and her mother make their way to the temporary shelter they've been assigned to in response to the comet that is about to hit Earth, they can't find her sister Iris anywhere, and their mother's drug addiction is slowing them down. Denise fears they'll never reach the shelter in time. And when they come upon a ship scheduled to leave Earth to repopulate other planets, Denise worries they won't be allowed on board because of her mother's drug problem and her own battle with autism.
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2016., Adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Duyvis Genre: Science Fiction, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: As Denise and her mother make their way to the temporary shelter they've been assigned to in response to the comet that is about to hit Earth, they can't find her sister Iris anywhere, and their mother's drug addiction is slowing them down. Denise fears they'll never reach the shelter in time. And when they come upon a ship scheduled to leave Earth to repopulate other planets, Denise worries they won't be allowed on board because of her mother's drug problem and her own battle with autism.
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[2017], Adolescent, Scribner Call No: REALISTIC F MAG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Harrowing and beautiful, Daniel Magariel's masterful debut is a story of survival: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted.
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[2016]., Adolescent, Skyscape Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Pearl Jaeger is seventeen and homeless after drugs, poverty, and addiction unraveled the life she shared with JJ, her formerly glamorous rock star mother... When tragedy brings a chance to start over at an elite boarding school, she doesn't hesitate. Yet the only salvation comes from an art teacher as troubled as Pearl..."--Provided by publisher.
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By Rapp, Adam2009., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A runaway teenager, having overcome his addiction to meth, travels across the country from Portland to Memphis in order to reconnect with his dying brother and meets a colorful cast of characters along the way.
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[2000], c1978., Thunder's Mouth Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West Call No: Realistic Fic Selby Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sara Goldfarb, a widow driven by an obsession to lose weight and appear on a television game show, and her son Harry, a junkie, both see drugs as the means to achieve their dreams, not realizing they are creating a nightmare.
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2014., Scribner Call No: SUSPENSE Edition: 1st Scribner hardco Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relates the story of a young man and a new minister who fifty years earlier encountered a terrible tragedy and while the minister renounces his ministry the young man leaves his hometown only to fight the demons inside of him with addiction, but these two men once again meet up and the young man realizes that revival has more than one meaning.