Teen Issues--Sexual Abuse
Annotation:A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school. (197 p. Gr 8+)
Place a Hold
Annotation:When seventeen-year-old Albert Morales' girlfriend Lily goes missing, he is the main suspect in her disappearance. Albert sets out to discover what happened. (301 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Fifteen-year-old Dawn, who cares for her alcoholic mother, tries to suppress a painful childhood memory as she contemplates killing God, whom she blames for her father's disappearance. (250 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Fourteen-year-old Anke feels both relieved and neglected that her father abuses her brother and sister but ignores her, but when she catches him with one of her friends, she finally becomes angry enough to take action. (368 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her community despite the rules of Chassidim that require her silence. (368 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:After six years of sexual abuse from her stepfather, 14-year-old Ashley reveals the truth to her mother, who refuses to acknowledge the problem. During summer school, Ashley and a class of troubled teens learn to face their fears and discover who they really are. (352 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Sixteen-year-old identical twins, Kaeleigh and Raeanne, desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart. (565 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Matt Rydeck, co-captian of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs. (232 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong. (165 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:High school senior Liz, a gifted photographer, can no longer see things clearly after her best friend accuses Liz's older brother of a terrible crime. (260 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:As five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with various problems, a mysterious man watches them, deciding which one he likes the best. (284 p. Gr 7+)
Annotation:A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won the Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel-Prize winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept. (181 p. Gr 8+)
Annotation:Seventeen-year-old Mario promises he'll take care of his nine-year-old brother Eddie while their mother serves in the National Guard in Iraq and soon realizes that Eddie desperately needs help. (245 p. Gr 8+)
Annotation:Diego keeps getting into trouble because of his explosive temper until he finally finds a probation officer who helps him get to the root of his anger so that he can stop running from his past. (239 p. Gr 7+)
Annotation:When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends--her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. (170 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Chan Shealy, a sixteen-year-old baton-twirler and straight-A student, becomes involved with an internet predator despite strict parental rules and her own belief that she knows how to keep herself safe online. (330 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Two teenagers, Blair and Ardith, lose their innocence in more ways than one as they are transformed from happy ninth-graders to high school sophomores determined to secure justice for their families and friends, whatever the cost. (232 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Living with their mother who earns money as a prostitute, two sisters take care of each other and when the older one attempts suicide, the younger one tries to uncover the reason. (484 p. Gr 9+)
Annotation:Non-Fiction
Annotation:Non-Fiction
Annotation:Non-Fiction
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