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-- Fifteen days without a headc2013., Flux Call No: REALISTIC F COU Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When his alcoholic mother disappears, fifteen-year-old Laurence is determined to find her, take care of his little brother, and keep their predicament a secret, all while trying to win a luxury vacation for his mom in a radio call-in contest.
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2014., Simon Pulse Call No: ROMANCE Edition: 1st Simon Pulse har Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As if her parents' heavy drinking and her father's abuse--which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy--were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher's son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.
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2007., Adolescent, Bloomsbury Children's Books Call No: Young adult FIC GARSEE Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After dealing with an alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, a school bully, and life on the wrong side of the tracks in Cleveland, Ohio, high school sophomore Martha Kowalski expects to be happy when she moves in with a rich family across town, but finds that the "rich life" has problems of its own.
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2009., Pre-adolescent, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: Historical fiction FIC EDWARDSON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.
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By Moore, Peter2002., Juvenile, Viking Call No: Teen Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Kirk, a creative misfit who is in trouble at high school because he is bored with his classes, learns to deal with his alcoholic mother, new friends, and life with the help of a blind young woman who hires him to read to her.
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By Moore, Peter2002., Viking Call No: Young adult FIC MOORE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Kirk, a creative misfit who is in trouble at high school because he is bored with his classes, learns to deal with his alcoholic mother, new friends, and life with the help of a blind young woman who hires him to read to her.
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c2006., Adolescent, Dutton Books Call No: Suspense Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her alcoholic mother goes missing, seventeen-year-old Claudine begins to spin out of control, despite her attempts to impose order on every aspect of her life.
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2012., Adolescent, Flux Call No: REALISTIC F GIB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: High school senior William "Wee Wee" Tucker may not be able to meet his pastor-father's expectations, stop his mother's drinking, or protect his gay brother, but his heroism as a volunteer firefighter has a big impact on his small Alabama town.
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2007., Adolescent, Simon Pulse Call No: Realistic FIC Hopkins Book 1 Edition: 1st Simon Pulse ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
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Ã2006., Adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: TEEN FIC HOP Edition: This Margaret K. McElderry Bks. pbk. ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Rating: (1 Ratings) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
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2007, c2006., Juvenile, Simon Pulse Call No: REALISTIC F HOP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Sample text Series Title: Burned Volume: 1Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
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c2011., Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Months after coming out of alcohol and drug rehab, high school student Nan wakes up on the subway the day after Halloween wearing a torn Halloween costume, her long hair cut, and "HELP ME" scrawled across her chest, feeling sick and having no idea how she got there.
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c2011., Adolescent, Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nan struggles to recollect her memories from the past twenty-four hours after she wakes up in a subway car wearing skeleton makeup and a too-small Halloween costume, but her efforts cause her to recall memories from her previous life, which was filled with danger and fueled by alcohol.
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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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[2023]., Adolescent, Holiday House Call No: GN GLA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1980s Troy, New York, nonbinary teenager Claire's stint in court-ordered rehab may be exactly what they need to unpack all the bad they have experienced--if they can stay sober in a world seemingly never made for them.
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c1998., Delacorte Press Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Four siblings struggle to maintain a seminormal home life when their single mother's alcoholism becomes debilitating.
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2005, Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Carlotta is doing research to become a romance writer, but with her mother's current flame trying to get sober while her mother crisscrosses the East Coast selling hand-crocheted Easter bunnies, even Carlotta realizes the course of true love does not run smoothly.
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2020., Adolescent, Tor Teen Call No: Romance Fic McGarry Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Told in two voices, Veronica and Sawyer become partners for their senior project and soon they are helping each other battle the ghosts that haunt them--her illness causing blinding migraines and his adrenaline addiction.
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[2015]., Pre-adolescent, Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prairie EversSummary Note: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.