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By Sher, Abby2017., Farrar, Straus, Giroux Call No: Young adult FIC SHER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Lenny, sixteen, struggles to cope with her father's cancer, her best friend moving across the country, and more but in a sea of uncertainty, dreams of romance may become her anchor.
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By Thorpe, Rufi2017., Vintage Books Call No: Realistic FIC Thorpe Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition. Genre: Realistic, Realistic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Vintage contemporaries.Summary Note: After seventeen-year-old Vera suffers a psychotic break at a high school party, her estranged father takes her to spend the summer in Lithuania, her grandmother's birthplace. As her dad uncovers family secrets of the past, Vera questions her long-absent father's dedication and her own mental state.
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c2010., Margaret K. McElderry Books Call No: MENTAL HEALTH FIc Hop Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Crank Volume: bk 3Summary Note: Written in free verse, 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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c2010., HARPERTEEN Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Two teenagers, both burdened by grief and loss, find each other and gradually develop a strong connection to one another.
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c1994., Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters Call No: PRO 362.2 AL-ANON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Al-Anon adult children tell their stories.
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2009., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
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c2009., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: REALISTIC F BRO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
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2020., Adolescent, Wednesday Books Call No: Mystery Fic Stolarz Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A girl calling herself Jane Anonymous shares her story--the story of how she was kidnapped and held in a room--with nothing but a bed, refrigerator, and adjoining bathroom--for seven months. She only saw her captor when he dragged her into the room from the trunk of his car, but she did make contact with Mason, one of the other kidnapped teens, and together they made plans to escape. When the day comes, however, Jane has to leave Mason behind or risk getting caught herself. Now, though, the cops do not believe there were any other kidnapped teens. Jane determines to write her story for herself and find Mason at all costs.
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2016., Rosen Publishing's Rosen Central CLICK HERE TO ACCESS; Available via Gale eBooks. Series Title: Family issues and you.Summary Note: This resource addresses the practical changes that result when a family member falls ill and guides readers through the emotional process of dealing with the illness of a loved one.
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2012., Viking Call No: JUV015020 Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Llama Llama doesn't want to share his toys with his new neighbors. But when fighting leads to broken toys and tears, Llama learns that it's better to share"--Provided by publisher.
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c2008., Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
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Juvenile Call No: JUV011030 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
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c2011., Little, Brown and Co. Call No: REALISTIC F PAT Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Series Title: Middle School Volume: 1Summary Note: When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
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-- My summer of pink and greenÃ2013., Pre-adolescent, Amulet Books Call No: Young adult FIC GREENWALD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Rather than a summer of fun transforming her family's pharmacy into an eco-spa, Lucy Desberg must face her sister Claudia's new boyfriend Bean, investor Gary's irritating daughter Bevin, and a spa coordinator who is put in charge of the plans.
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2021., Juvenile, Thames and Hudson Call No: Easy KELLOCK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From the award-winning author of The Star in the Forest comes this heart- felt story about learning to cope with anxiety and grief. Out to Sea follows the journey of a young girl named Lara who is so sad after the death of her grandmother that her tears flood her room, her house, her town, and eventually sweep her out to sea. Adrift, she struggles to overcome her sadness until she discovers a pearl at the bottom of the ocean that triggers happy memories of her grandmother and the times they shared. With that pearl tucked in her pocket and the realization that she's not alone, Lara finds the strength to pick up her oars and row herself back home. Beautifully illustrated and written with sensitivity, this moving tale of social and emotional learning expresses the experience of anxiety and grief and shows readers how they might ride the waves of emotion without losing perspective.
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c2012, Greenhaven Press Call No: JNF053000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Opposing viewpointsSummary Note: A collection of essays with differing viewpoints on the pharmaceutical industry.
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2021., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: Realistic Fic Reichardt Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Juniper Jade contracts measles, with tragic consequences, thanks to her anti-vaccination parents. With help from her best friend Nico, Juniper decides she's going to get vaccinated; but her parents refuse. Juniper gets a lawyer and prepares to sue her parents, hoping to have a shot at a normal life.
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c2011., Delacorte Press Call No: REALISTIC F GOO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen year-old in juvenile lockup, wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-control girls, and shadows from her past make her task seem impossible.
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2019., Juvenile, Frances Lincoln Children's Books Call No: Realistic Fic Desjardins Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When she is ten years old, a girl is diagnosed with leukemia and describes her journey through the next five years, including her medical treatments, her relationships with nurses and other patients, and falling in love.
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2001., Juvenile, HarperTempest Call No: Realistic Fic Trueman Edition: First Harper Tempest edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel, who suffers from severe cerebral palsy and cannot function, relates his perceptions of his life, his family, and his condition, especially as he believes his father is planning to kill him.