Juvenile & Young Adult / Social Situations / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse

Deviant

by Helen FitzGerald

When sixteen-year-old Abigail's mother dies in Scotland—leaving a faded photo, a weirdly cryptic letter, and a one-way ticket to America—she feels nothing. Why should she? Her mother abandoned her as a...

Out of Reach

by Carrie Arcos

How do you find someone who doesn’t want to be found? A girl searches for her missing addict brother while confronting her own secrets in this darkly lyrical novel.

Rachel has always idolized her older brother...

Coming Clean

by Ross Jeff

Rob wants to be a DJ, but when a girl overdoses during his first gig and his brother is implicated, Rob realizes he could lose everything.

Seriously Bad - Too Hot To Handle

by Nana Robyn & Dr Dana Anders

This book could save YOU and YOUR LOVED ONES endless frustration and even grief. With a dynamite combination of rhyme and unusual characters, each hot topic explodes off the pages in such a way that leaves serious...

Disconnect

by Lois Peterson

Fourteen-year-old Daria's addiction to technology creates serious problems in her life.

Batting Ninth

by Kris Rutherford

Chad Griffin can't hit a baseball to save his life. When he steps up to home plate, he usually leaves after the umpire shouts, "Strike Three!" He always bats in the same spot for the Rangers-ninth-the worst...

Smashed

by Lisa Luedeke

A field hockey star grapples with addiction in this riveting debut that will appeal to fans of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak.

Stay out of trouble for one more year, and Katie Martin can leave her small town...

Rats Saw God

by Rob Thomas

Steve details his descent from bright star to burnout in this newly repackaged edition of the definitive, highly acclaimed novel from the creator of Veronica Mars and Party Down.

Houston, sophomore year: Steve...

Crazy

by Amy Reed

Hes falling in loveand shes falling over the edge of sanity. From the author of Beautiful and Clean, a real and relatable (VOYA) exploration of a romance marred by mental illness.

What if I cant ever be who you...

Lucy in the Sky

by Anonymous

A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal.

The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood...

The Right and the Real

by Joelle Anthony

Jamie should have known something was off about the church of the Right & the Real from the start, especially when the Teacher claimed he wasn't just an ordinary spiritual leader but Jesus Christ himself. But...

Dreamsleeves

by Coleen Murtagh Paratore

A powerful, radiant story about a girl who wears her dreams on her sleeve . . . Aislinn is a girl with a lot of dreams, but due to family issues (caused mostly by her hard-drinking father), there's a lot standing...

Rehab

by Randi Reisfeld

Kenzie Cross never thought she'd vault to insta-fame on the hit TV action drama Spywitness Girls. A virtual unknown, she's the show's breakout star -- and the lead in a major new movie. It's like it's Christmas...

Beneath a Meth Moon

by Jacqueline Woodson

Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she's still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel's new life is...

Flyaway

by Helen Landalf

Stevie Calhoun knows how to take care of herself. It’s not like her mom hasn’t disappeared before. So why is Aunt Mindy making such a big deal of it now? It’s not like Mom’s really doing meth. Stevie...

Rush

by Jeremy Iversen

Bret is the kind of guy that girls want and guys want to be. He wears the right clothes, hangs out with the right people, and parties just the right amount.

It is the night of his twenty-first birthday, and...

Moon Pie

by Simon Mason

Someone has to keep their head, as Mum used to say, and 11-year-old Martha is used to being that someone in her family. Her little brother, Tug, is too small. Her dad has been acting too strange. And Mum's not...

A Plague Year

by Edward Bloor

It's 2001 and zombies have taken over Tom's town. Meth zombies. The drug rips through Blackwater, PA, with a ferocity and a velocity that overwhelms everyone.

It starts small, with petty thefts of cleaning supplies...

I Am a Taxi

by Deborah Ellis

For twelve-year-old Diego and his family, home is the San Sebastian Women’s Prison in Cochabamba, Bolivia. His parents farmed coca, a traditional Bolivian medicinal plant, until they got caught in the middle...

Ingenue

by Jillian Larkin

If you love The Great Gatsby, you'll want to read the Flappers series.

Power . . . love . . . scandal . . . there’s never enough to go around.

In the city that never sleeps, Lorraine Dyer is wide awake....