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1) Fallout
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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.
4) The archived
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Series
Archived novels volume 1
Description
"When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"--
6) Tricks
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Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
7) Crazy
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide his father's declining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his father disappears he must confide in the other members of a therapy group he has been forced to join at school.
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[2016]
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It's been five years since Elsie's twin brother Eddie drowned in the North Sea. Now she's sixteen, and doing whatever she can to cope with the heaviness and void left behind. And when she meets Tay, a freediver, Elsie finds herself back in the waters that took her brother's life, confronting truths about herself and her family.
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Series
Tillerman family volume 7
Pub. Date
c.1989
Description
Dicey struggles to make a go of a boatbuilding business while facing family concerns, romantic problems, and the uncertainties of a drifter who offers to help her in her work.
10) Cut
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Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
11) Tangled
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.
12) Burned
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Series
Burned volume Bk. 1
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
13) Land of promise
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Series
Ellis Island trilogy volume 2
Description
In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.
14) Truth and salsa
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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Having moved temporarily from Michigan to live with her grandmother in Mexico, twelve-year-old Hayley tries to sort out her feelings about her parents' separation while also helping some townsmen who have run into trouble while working in the United States.
15) Far from Xanadu
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
In a small Kansas town, sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo tries to come to terms with her father's suicide and her own homosexuality.
16) Seeing red
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Tom Hathaway has got it all, including loads of style. But intrigued by the mysterious, scarred Sylvia, he becomes increasingly drawn to the cut of the flesh rather than the cut of the cloth.
17) Cracked
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten, but also facts about themselves and their families that reveal they have much in common.
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Pub. Date
c2000
Description
When she and her mother move to an apartment in New York City after her parents decide on a trial separation, sixteen-year-old Sammie learns to deal with her mother's fragile mental state, her best friend's self-centeredness, several new friendships, and her own budding sexuality.