Dead Girl Walking
When Amber, a smart, middle-class, high school student, is hit by a truck, she meets her deceased grandmother in a dreamlike place, then takes a wrong turn and awakens in the body of a wealthy, beautiful, popular classmate with serious problems.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: identity (psychology), death, future life, family, high schools, identity, family problems, schools, school stories [X], identity (philosophical concept), family life [X], dysfunctional families [X], families, teenage girls, individuality
Planet Janet
Sixteen-year-old Janet Bandry keeps a diary as she deals with an annoying family, school, a quirky best friend, and trying to find herself through vegetarianism, literature, romance, and her "Dark Phase.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 980
subjects: family problems, interpersonal relations, high schools, schools, family life [X], school stories [X], dysfunctional families [X]
Like A Broken Doll
Sereeta Prince, trying to cope with problems with her family, is blamed for a string of thefts at Tubman High School and starts to fall into a depression.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: depression (psychology), family life [X], theft, friendship, school stories [X], depression in adolescence, schools, depression, mental, family problems, stealing, family, families, dysfunctional families [X], electronic books, electronic books, cutting (self-mutilation), african american teenagers, high school students
Chasing Tail Lights
Seventeen-year-old Christy, sad since her father's death, ignored by her mother, and abused by her drug-dealing half-brother, finds friends who help her learn to stand up for herself and move past the old hurts and fears that are keeping her down.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: family life [X], self-esteem, high schools, family, flint (mich.), problem families, drug traffic, incest, sexual abuse victims, dysfunctional families [X], schools, school stories [X], family problems
No Way Out
Afraid of being taken from his grandmother and placed in a foster home, Harold Davis, a Bluford High freshman, begins to work for the neighborhood drug dealer, Londell James, but Harold's choice leads him to world more dangerous than he could have imagined.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 76
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: high school students, problem families, african americans, drug dealers, school, family life [X], school stories [X], family problems, dysfunctional families [X]
This Is Not A Test
Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 610
subjects: families, survival, family problems, schools, horror stories, zombies, high schools, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, family life [X], school stories [X], horror fiction, horror tales, family, dysfunctional families [X], castaways, juvenile fiction / social issues / violence, horror fiction
Playing In Traffic
Shy and unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colbly, until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: family problems, interpersonal relations, parent and child, murder, high schools, schools, family life [X], parent-child relationship, homicide, school stories [X], family, dysfunctional families [X], families
Just Listen
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: audiobooks, schools, high schools, family problems, fashion models, school stories [X], self-realization, interpersonal relations, spanish language, models (persons), families, family life [X], self-actualization (psychology), dysfunctional families [X], spanish language materials
Rumble
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 59
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: atheism, dysfunctional families [X], dating (social customs), high schools, schools, grief, family problems, family life [X], school stories [X], novels in verse
Gabi, A Girl In Pieces
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, her friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: mexican americans, family problems, gays, pregnancy, schools, high schools, school stories [X], gay teenagers, dysfunctional families [X], family crises, families, family life [X], electronic books, electronic books
The Unlikely Hero Of Room 13b
"Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love"--NLC catalog.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: obsessive-compulsive disorder, emotional problems, dating (social customs), family life [X], high schools, emotional problems of teenagers, dysfunctional families [X], school stories [X]
We Are All Made Of Molecules
Thirteen-year-old brilliant but socially-challenged Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must find common ground when, two years after Stewart's mother died, his father moves in with his new girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose gay ex-husband lives in their guest house.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 39
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: moving, household, gay fathers, dating (social customs), bullies, schools, interpersonal relations, family life [X], high schools, school stories [X], dysfunctional families [X], bullying, family problems, moving, families, gay parents, electronic books
Six Impossible Things
Fourteen-year-old Dan Cereill's life is turned upside-down when his father announces he is gay and leaves Dan and his mother with nothing, forcing them to move to an aunt's house, Dan to enroll in public school, and his mother to try to start a business, but the top thing on Dan's list is kissing Estelle, the girl next door.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: moving, interpersonal relations, gay fathers, dysfunctional families [X], moving, household, australia, family problems, high schools, school stories [X], schools, family life [X], electronic books, electronic books
Hidden
Fourteen-year-old Alix is faced with a huge moral dilemma when she helps pull an illegal Iraqi immigrant from the incoming tide on the coastal English island where she lives.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: immigrants, iraqis, racism, refugees, england, family life [X], school stories [X], dysfunctional families [X], schools, family problems, families
El Paso
"Armando Salguera is a tight end at El Dorado High School and is aiming to make his NFL aspiration come true.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: school stories [X], high schools, football, football players, el paso (tex.), football stories, high school athletes, dysfunctional families [X], life change events, family problems, family life [X], stress (psychology), electronic books, electronic books