Drugs
 Crank – Ellen HopkinsKristina was the perfect daughter until she began using crystal meth. Now her sexy, party girl alter-ego Bree has taken over, and “the monster” rules her life. |
 Go Ask Alice – AnonymousA fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world. |
 Smack – Melvin BurgessAfter running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin. |
 Dope Sick – Walter Dean MyersSeeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy “Lil J” Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a strange man who shows different turning points in Lil J’s life when he could have made better choices. |
 Street Pharm – Allison van DiepenTy knows survival. Since inheriting his pop’s drug-dealing business at sixteen, Ty’s developed smarts, skills, and mad discipline. But with just one slip, life turns ugly fast… |
 Hole in My Life—Jack GantosAs a young adult Jack Gantos became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. |
 Candy —Kevin BrooksJoe’s life is boring. Then he meets Candy. She is 16, beautiful, addicted to heroin, and a prostitute. She’s also the only girl ever to look at him twice, and Joe wants to free her from her terrible life. Will he get through? |
 Beautiful—Amy Lynn ReedHaunted by serious problems in her recent past, thirteen-year-old Cassie makes a fresh start at a Seattle school but is drawn by dangerous new friends into a world of sex, drugs, and violence, while her parents remain oblivious. |
 Tweak – Nic SheffThe author describes his childhood in California, his addiction to crystal meth and heroin at a young age, his relapse after 18 months of sobriety, and his path to recovery. |
 God of Beer – Garret KeizerKyle and his friends, “Quaker” Oats and Diana form a social protest against drinking. During a party, newcomer Condor gets drunk and Diana, sober, is killed while driving him home. |
