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 [X]
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 [X], dysfunctional families [X], bildungsromans
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 [X], 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 [X], pirates, brothers, mystery fiction