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2) Alcohol
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Examines the issue of alcohol from a variety of international perspectives.
5) Runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with his alcoholic father on a broken-down sailboat on Puget Sound has been hard on seventeen-year-old Chance Taylor, but when his love of running leads to a high-paying job, he quickly learns that the money is not worth the risk.
7) Gone
Author
Series
Wake trilogy (Lisa McMann) volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While Janie ponders her future with Cabe, knowing that her abilities as a dream-catcher means eventual blindness and crippling, the father she never knew is hospitalized with brain trauma and seems to need her help.
8) The way back
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jack Cunningham, a high school basketball phenom who walked away from the game, reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rose, nearly sixteen, is used to traveling around with her alcoholic father but connects with the people of a small, coastal Australian town, especially classmate Pearl and reclusive Edie, who teaches her to sew a magical dress for the Harvest Festival while a mystery unfolds around them.
11) Inconvenient
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
While fifteen-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant Alyssa tries desperately to cope with her mother's increasingly out-of-control alcoholism by covering for her and pretending things are normal, her best friend Lana attempts to fit in with the popular crowd at their high school.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As three teenaged sisters struggle to cope with their father's sudden death, they find they must reexamine friendships, lifelong dreams, and their relationships with each other and their father.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to make ends meet after alcoholism costs her her marriage and custody of her young son, photographer Helen slowly rebuilds her life before falling into the circle of a philanthropist couple whose help exacts a terrible price.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Drawing on her own journey to sobriety, the author and founder of a global sobriety support community, shares a list of things she needed to hear when she was deep in her own battle, along with stories and advice that can be universally applied to any challenge you face.
Author
Publisher
Wonderwell
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
A former alcoholic who nearly lost everything, the author, combining his own experiences with his extensive background in psychology, exposes the lies we all too willingly accept about alcohol and interrogates the part culture plays in reinforcing these lies, showing us how to break free from alcohol addiction.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As she worries about her mother who is entering a rehab facility for alcoholism, eleven-year-old Veronica struggles with secrets, her favorite sport softball, and what she really wants to do with her life.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A band contest forces a once-aspiring musician to make peace with the consequences of a friend's heavy drinking and the harsh realities of the disparity between the futures they imagined and how things really panned out.
19) All my rage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his attempts to save his family’s motel spiral out of control, Salahudin and his best friend Noor, two outcasts in their town, must decide what their friendship is worth and how they can defeat the monsters of their past and in their midst.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.
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