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, identity (philosophical concept) [X], family life, dysfunctional families [X], families, teenage girls, individuality
Bang!
Two years after the shooting death of thirteen-year-old Mann's little brother, Mann's father, who believes his son died because he made him too "soft," takes Mann and his friend camping and abandons them in an attempt to make them tough.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 90
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: identity (philosophical concept) [X], coming of age, problem families, african americans, identity, family problems, violence, individuality, dysfunctional families [X], bildungsromans
Parrotfish
Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: transsexuals, identity, family problems, identity (psychology), transgender people, identity (philosophical concept) [X], dysfunctional families [X]
Dead To You
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 42
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: dysfunctional families [X], identity (psychology), memory, kidnapping, family problems, minnesota, individuality, identity (philosophical concept) [X], identity, family life, family, families
Burned
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 66
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: problem families, mormons, alcoholism, identity (philosophical concept) [X], sex, nevada, dysfunctional families [X], domestic relations, individuality, pirates, brothers, mystery fiction
Right Behind You
After spending over four years in a mental institution for murdering a friend in Alaska, fourteen-year-old Kip begins a completely new life in Indiana with his father and stepmother under a different name, but not only has trouble fitting in, he finds there are still problems to deal with from his childhood.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: psychotherapy, problem families, interpersonal relations, murder, identity (philosophical concept) [X], alaska, indiana, dysfunctional families [X], identity (psychology)
El Puente Roto
Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: interracial marriage, identity (philosophical concept) [X], dysfunctional families [X], blacks, artists, family problems, identity, wales
Boy At The Window
"It all began with trying to fly. After jumping off the roof of his house in the middle of the night, Daniel Kim wakes up far from Neverland, his reprieve from the real world.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: high school students, gays, friendship, mental illness, suicidal behavior, identity (philosophical concept) [X], dysfunctional families [X], gay people, suicide, identity, family problems, korean, lgbtqia+, mental health, anxiety