Social Issues: Alcohol / Drug Abuse
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TITLE & AUTHOR
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SYNOPSIS
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Anything To Win
MIKLOWITZ, G |
Cam Potter is a high school senior and captain of the
football team, When his coach tells him that an athletic scholarship is
available at State if he can put on thirty pounds, Cam succumbs to a
program of anabolic steroids.
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Boy Who Drank Too Much
GREENE, S |
A realistic and dramatic portrayal of a young man torn
by alcoholism and the conflicting demands of his father, hockey and his
own values.
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Can't Hear You Listening
IRWIN, H |
Chronicles the changing relationship between Tracy and
her overprotective, famous-author mother, and Tracy's struggle to help a
close friend who's experimenting with drugs. |
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Door Near Here*
QUARLES, H |
Head of the household at 15 when her out-of-work,
alcoholic mother refuses to get out of bed, Katherine wonders how long she
can hold things together and keep her three siblings' teachers from
becoming suspicious.
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Ellen Foster
GIBBONS, K |
Ellen Foster, cast adrift after the deaths of her
drunken father and misused mother, moves from one bad situation to another
until she finds a real home.
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Go Ask Alice*
ANONYMOUS |
True and painful diary of a 15-year-old girl's
experience with drugs that eventually leads to her death.
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Imitate The Tiger*
CHERIPKO, J |
Chris Serbo looks for salvation in football and
drinking, but neither will fill the emptiness inside. Not until he finds
himself in danger on a lonely road does he come face-to-face with the
person he has become.
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No Kidding
BROOKS, B |
In a 21st century society where both
alcoholism and its treatment have become institutionalized, 14-year-old
Sam is allowed to decide the fate of his family after his mother is
released from an alcohol rehabilitation center.
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Rats Saw God
THOMAS, R |
Having gone from top student to a bummed out and drugged
out high school senior, Steve York is one step away from flunking out. As
he writes a 100-page graduate paper, he begins to understand where he is
and where he wants to go.
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Sarah T: Portrait Of A Teen-Age
Alcoholic*
WAGNER, R |
Shocking and moving portrait of a teenage alcoholic.
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Tears Of A Tiger
DRAPER, S |
Andy is an African-American teenager whose life derails
when, after a long evening of drinking, the car he drives crashes, killing
his best friend. His guilt and despair lead him to turn away from family,
friends and his plans for the future.
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The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
CHBOSKY, S |
Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run
from it, Charlie is navigating through the strange worlds of love, drugs,
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and dealing with the loss of a
good friend and his favorite aunt. |
