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1) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life.
2) Glass
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Eighteen-year-old Kristina is determined to manage her crystal meth addiction in order to take care of her newborn son, but when the pull of the drug becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
3) Go ask Alice
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
4) Go Ask Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Based on the diary of a fifteen-year-old drug user chronicling her struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
5) Flyaway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Seattle fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun does not realize how bad her life is until her mother leaves and Stevie must move in with annoyingly perfect Aunt Mindy for a summer, filling her days with being tutored and volunteering at a bird rehabilitation center.
6) Far from you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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"After Sophie Winters survives a brutal attack in which her best friend, Mina, is murdered, she sets out to find the killer. At the same time she must prove she is free of her past Oxy addiction and in no way to blame for Mina's death"--
7) Blindsight
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Cocaine overdoses and mob killings are at the center of this fast paced novel wherein a female N.Y.C. medical examiner has difficulty convincing the police of the obvious connections.
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A tale of four people trapped by their addictions, the basis for the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film, by the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and...
Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and...
10) Dope sick
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
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 better choices.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Andria's twin sister, Iris, had adoring friends, a cool boyfriend, a wicked car, and a shelf full of soccer trophies. She had everything, in fact-- including a drug problem. Six months after Iris's death, Andria is trying to keep her grades, her friends, and her family from falling apart. But stargazing and books aren't enough to ward off her guilt that she- -the freak with the scary illness and all-black wardrobe-- is still here when Iris isn't....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
15) Absent
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Seventeen-year-old Paige Wheeler died in a fall off the high school roof and now her spirit seems bound to the school grounds, along with Brooke and Evan, two other teen ghosts who died there--but maybe if she can solve the mystery of her apparent suicide they will all be able to move on.
Author
Series
The paranormalists volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Todd, a quarterback and popular senior, asks Jinx and Jackson to investigate a haunting at his family's tavern, where glasses move on their own and voices whisper horrible things each time Todd and his brother are fighting.
17) Fallout
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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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Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Peri Reed's job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing. Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive drug promises to end her dependency on those who'd use her as a tool for their own success, she must...
19) Candy
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Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Joe becomes distracted from his music when he meets Candy and tries to give her hope for something beyond her violent world.
20) Stoner & Spaz
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A troubled youth with cerebral palsy struggles toward self-acceptance with the help of a drug-addicted young woman.