For all of Emory's life she's been told who she is. In town she's the rich one--the great-great-granddaughter of the mill's founder. At school she's hot Maddie Ward's younger sister. And at home, she's...
Drug abuse
- Auteur:Glasgow, KathleenSommaire:
- Auteur:Brouwer, SigmundSommaire:
Tyler is a good hockey player, but not a great one. That honor belongs to the obnoxious Riley, a sixteen-year-old spoiled superstar who makes Tyler’s life miserable. When Tyler and Riley are sent to volunteer at a local youth program,...
- Auteur:Sheff, NicSommaire:
Drug addict Nic Sheff always believed he could quit whenever he needed to, until a violent relapse one summer convinced him otherwise. Here is his raw, compelling story of the depths of addiction and the road to recovery.
- Auteur:Watkins, D.Sommaire:
The smartest kid on his block in East Baltimore, D. was certain he would escape the life of drugs, decadence, and violence that had surrounded him since birth. But when his brother Devin is shot-only days after D. receives notice that...
- Auteur:Cathcart Robbins, LauraSommaire:
"An irresistibly delicious story."--Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author. A propulsive and vivid memoir--in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody's Daughter--about the journey to sobriety and self-...
- Auteur:Sutherland, ShawnSommaire:
Ethan Reid is a 24-year-old alcoholic who spends his nights drifting between bars, drinking excessively to the point where he can no longer remember. In Toronto he meets a beautiful girl named Natalie, who forces him to question his...
- Auteur:Flather, PattiSommaire:
After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home, but it isn’t the reprieve she expected. She comes back to turmoil between her parents, and a part-time job in her dad’s medical office. Her father, George, full of...
- Auteur:Myhres, BranttSommaire:
#1 BESTSELLER "This book is at times startling, yet very real and down to earth . . . I saw [Brantt] in all phases of his life and his career. I consider him a friend and an ally. Pain Killer sends a strong message....
- Auteur:Gaetz, DayleSommaire:
Caz has a pretty good reason when she punches her boyfriend in the face, but she gets expelled anyway. Moving to a new school, she is told she is dyslexic and is sent to special education classes. Caz tries to fit in and get by while...
- Auteur:Leavitt, MartineSommaire:
Winner of the CLA Young Adult Book Award, selected for the CCBC Choices List, selected for the Bankstreet College of Education's Best Children’s Books of the Year 2013, and honoured with the Horn Book Fanfare. It starts when Call sees...
- Auteur:Robertson, RaySommaire:
From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s - a sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll-suffused modern tragedy. For Bill Hansen, things couldn't be better. He's got a beautiful folk-singer girlfriend...
- Auteur:Lennox, MattSommaire:
Ashley Rosco works as a bouncer at the only nightclub in a small town, spending his off-hours training as a bodybuilder. He occasionally acts as muscle for his best friend, Darren, a small-time drug dealer. Darrens girlfriend, Chass,...
- Auteur:Sheff, Nic, Sheff, DavidSommaire:
Father and son team David and Nic Sheff draw on their own expriences to provide all the information teens and tweens need to know about drugs, alcohol, and addiction.
- Auteur:Sommaire:
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
- Auteur:Hopkins, EllenSommaire:
Kristina Snow returns home to give birth, a rape-induced pregnancy that occurs in the prequel novel, Crank. Kristina spirals into a dark depression when she cannot recover her pre-baby shape and returns to using to regain control of her...
- Auteur:Grosso, AlissaSommaire:
"An engaging, realistic journey into drug addiction and bad decision making. Grosso's Ferocity Summer is a riveting read." —A.S. King, author of the Printz honor book Please Ignore Vera Dietz Would you rather be dead and know it, or...
- Auteur:Lockhart, E.Sommaire:
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. Welcome...
- Auteur:Hewson, DavidSommaire:
In 1975, a small group of students gathers in an abandoned barn near San Francisco to indulge in drugs. When one of them commits a heinous act, he is sent to prison. Twenty years later he is released, and the questions about what really...
- Auteur:Goines, DonaldSommaire:
Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend--both attractive, talented, and full of promise--are inexorably pulled into the living death of the hardcore junkie.
- Auteur:Myers, Walter DeanSommaire:
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...