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Author
Series
Mirador volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni -- a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen -- and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador,...
63) Out of reach
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs away from home to pursue a girl and, on his journey, tries crack cocaine for the first time. He's hooked instantly. Over the course of the next decade, he fights his way out of jail and rehab, trying to make sense of the...
65) Afterparty
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God through a new brain-altering drug called Numinous, used as a sacrament by a new Church that preys on the underclass. But she is arrested and put into detention, and without the drug, commits suicide. Lyda Rose, another patient...
67) Glass
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
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.
68) White rabbit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Rufus Holt is having the worst night of his life. It begins with the reappearance of his ex-boyfriend, Sebastian-the guy who stomped his heart out like a spent cigarette. Just as Rufus is getting ready to move on, Sebastian turns up out of the blue, saying they need to "talk." Things couldn't get worse, right? Then Rufus gets a call from his sister April, begging for help. He and Sebastian find her, drenched in blood and holding a knife beside the...
69) Falling
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fifteen-year-old Matt's life has been turned upside-down, first when the brother he idolizes turns to drugs, then when a visit to a chat room leads him to a classmate, Katie, who he likes very much but cannot trust with his family secret.
71) Beauty queen
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In attempt to leave behind her unhappy home life, Sam becomes a dancer and a heroin addict.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fresh out of rehab for oxycodone addiction, Casey and some of her friends attend an all-night rave called Survive the Night in the New York City subway, and find themselves fighting for their lives because drugs are not the only danger here--something is using the rave to attract victims, and some of them will not be coming back.
73) Crickle-Crack
Author
Pub. Date
[1987], ©1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Squeakers the squirrel experiences some harmful side effects after eating the forbidden berries from the Crickle-Crack tree.
Author
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After the drug-overdose death of a fellow student, Beverly breaks away from the fast crowd but finds herself friendless and full of guilt until she meets Derek who helps her come to terms with the past and look with some hope to the future.
Author
Series
Modern faerie tales volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Val runs away to New York City, where she falls in with a gang of squatters who live in the city's subway system and consort with faeries, trolls, and other strange creatures.
80) No problem
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Curt has it all: friends, summer job, a promising career in baseball; then he begins experimenting with drugs.
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