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2) Moon pie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Martha tries to keep her family together after her mother's death as her father struggles with alcoholism.
3) Shark teeth
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
10) Bottled up
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
A high school boy comes to terms with his drug addiction, life with an alcoholic father, and a younger brother who looks up to him.
12) Love sick
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After an accident seems to end his college and athletic dreams, Ted is offered a second chance at school if he agrees to spy on a classmate and help her father monitor her bulimia.
13) Gone
Author
Series
Wake trilogy (Lisa McMann) volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While eighteen-year-old Janie ponders her future with Cabe, knowing that her being a dream-catcher means eventual blindness and crippling, she encounters her past as the father she never knew is hospitalized with brain trauma and seems to need her help.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As she worries about her mother who is entering a rehab facility for alcoholism, eleven-year-old Veronica struggles with secrets, her favorite sport, softball, and what she really wants to do with her life.
Author
Series
Notes from a spinning planet volume 3
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Maddie joins her journalist aunt on vacation in Mexico, she finds a rival for Ryan's affection, a friend who has a drinking problem, and most important, a new trust in God.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town.
17) Inconvenient
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While fifteen-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant Alyssa tries desperately to cope with her mother's increasingly out-of-control alcoholism by covering for her and pretending things are normal, her best friend Lana attempts to fit in with the popular crowd at their high school.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Florida, Anna Casey lives with what she hopes is the last in a long line of foster mothers, and Mica Delano lives with her father on their small boat, and when the two of them begin corresponding, they discover they have a lot in common.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own. The close-knit residents of Hackett Island have never seen anyone quite like Lani Garver. Everything about this new kid is a mystery: Where does Lani come from? How...
20) Gray baby
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Clifton has grown up in rural Virginia with the memory of his African American father being beaten to death by policemen, causing his white mother to slip into alcoholism and depression, but after befriending an old man who listens to his problems, Clifton finally feels less alone in the world.
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