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Inform readers of the dangers of smoking with this fact-filled nonfiction title. Through helpful diagrams, detailed images, and truthful facts, readers are given the tools and information to educate themselves about smoking, tobacco, addiction, and the health problems that smoking can cause. With informational text, an index, glossary of terms, and list of websites, children are encouraged to say no to smoking, to peer pressure, and learn what
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Readers are given helpful information about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, including narcotics, hallucinogens, and prescription medications in this nonfiction book. Through detailed images, diagrams, informational text, an index, a glossary of terms, and a list of websites that provide additional information, readers are given the tools and information they need to educate themselves about addiction, drug abuse, the health and social issues that...
3) Yonder
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"Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940. Now, with his father away fighting in World War II and his mother about to have a new baby, Danny relies on Jack's friendship and guidance more than ever. So when Jack goes missing without a trace from their small Appalachian town, Danny is determined to find him. He wonders if Jack's abusive father could be behind his...
4) Heroine
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"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place shes ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers shes been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends, fellow injured athletes, others with just time...
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For Georgia, this summer is shaping up to be a big disappointment. Mama is busy studying for her biology degree. Daddy is working nights, and often the man who comes home isn't Daddy. He's a man who looks like Daddy, but walks a little wobbly. Who sounds like Daddy, but sings a little too loud. Georgia calls him the Shadow Man. So now, instead of riding horses with her friends at camp, Georgia is sent off to the country to stay with her mysterious...
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Just Say Know! With drug education for children more important than ever, this nonfiction book draws on the experiences of the NY Times bestselling father/son team of David and Nic Sheff to provide all the information teens and tweens need to know about drugs, alcohol, and addiction.
From David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy (2008), and Nic Sheff, author of Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines (2008), comes the ultimate resource for learning...
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Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends.
9) Lush
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Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
10) Worse than weird
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"A story of a citywide scavenger hunt and a girl who learns that family--and weirdness--is relative."--publisher
11) Finding Hope
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To escape her small town, her parents crumbling marriage, and her drug-addicted brother, Hope jumps at the chance to attend the exclusive Ravenhurst Academy. But her problems follow her to school, her online boyfriend asks her to pose for some photos that go viral, and Hope falls into a dark place she is not sure she can find her way out of.
12) Gym candy
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Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life.
13) Opioids
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For many young people, the opioid epidemic is mired in confusion: they hear about pain pills and other opioids from such a dizzying array of sources that they struggle to untangle fact from fiction. This engaging and accessible guide begins by demystify drugs and explaining the essentials about opioids and addiction. The narrative then builds on this foundation by teaching readers the dangers of opioids and how to get help if a loved one is addicted....
14) Addictions
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Addiction is one of the most all-consuming issues that people confront in their lives. Teenagers often find it difficult to handle the struggles they have with addictive behaviors involving alcohol, drugs, gaming, social media, and online sexual activity. This guide will help teenagers feel less alone and find resources to help them overcome issues they are often too ashamed to talk about. Using simple, accessible text and relatable narrative examples,...
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Coming of age in the drug culture of the 1960s and '70s led many young people to "turn on, tune in, and drop out"-experimenting with every available drug, chasing that ultimate high while looking for someone with whom they could share it. Thinking themselves invincible, they did not realize that they were flirting with danger-although they knew enough to stay below the radar of law enforcement while indulging in the pleasures offered in The Age of...
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Comment en suis-je arrivée là ? Comment ai-je pu perdre le contrle de ma vie à ce point, sans m'en rendre compte ? Tout marchait pourtant très bien pour moi. A l'école, avec ma meilleure amie Elodie, avec ma famille et dans mes cours de danse hip-hop…
J'étais convaincue de ne pas être une « droguée ».
J'ai commencé à consommer seulement pour m'améliorer, dans un contexte bien précis : ma participation à un rap battle. Je le faisais...
17) Jess, the Mess
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As feisty Jessica moves to yet another middle school, she struggles to stay out of trouble, while living in constant fear that others will find out her family's dark secrets: Jess's mom is an alcoholic, her dad left them years ago, and most days Jess struggles just to find food to eat. Convinced that she is the reason her mother drinks, especially since Jess constantly gets into trouble at school, she lives with the daily pain of her mom's explosive...
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Cuando los políticos con responsabilidades de gobierno hablan de narcotráfico, es común que propongan la prohibición total, la panacea de una sociedad libre de drogas ilegales. En este marco, recurren a discursos y promesas punitivas, que consistirían en más "mano dura" o directamente en la militarización de la cruzada antinarcóticos. Atento sobre todo a la situación de América Latina y la Argentina, y analizando evidencia confiable del...
19) Jess, the Mess
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As feisty Jessica moves to yet another middle school, she struggles to stay out of trouble, while living in constant fear that others will find out her family's dark secrets: Jess's mom is an alcoholic, her dad left them years ago, and most days Jess struggles just to find food to eat. Convinced that she is the reason her mother drinks, especially since Jess constantly gets into trouble at school, she lives with the daily pain of her mom's explosive...
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Eighteen-year-old white-boy suburbanite Jay Charles receives a crash course on culture in the New Jersey jail system that high school didnt prepare him for. Jays fast money and notoriety land him in the hands of the police, opening up to him a world that starkly contrasts the difference between the urban and suburban, the good and the bad, and the black and the white. With no way out Jay has to quickly figure out who to associate with and how to survive...
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