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2) Dropping out
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Discusses some of the reasons for and consequences of not finishing high school, including poor study skills, learning disabilities, family problems, and violence.
4) Busted
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Interweaves stories of students at a high school with a "zero-tolerance" policy as they get caught doing things they are pretty sure are wrong, from drinking and having sex during a senior ski trip, to organizing a gambling ring, to bullying freshmen, to honor students behaving dishonorably.
Author
Series
True colors volume 7
Publisher
TH1NK
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Ruth Wallace struggles to hide the scars on her arms and the fact that she cuts herself from her friends and family, but when her boyfriend and best friend begin to get suspicious, Ruth realizes she must find a new way to cope with her disastrous life.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Neema's struggle to complete an essay on the topic "Who Am I" for her freshman English class is complicated by the arrival of Kampala, her Indian great-grandmother who has come to Australia chasing her dream of flying, and although they do not speak the same language, the two find common ground in skateboarder Gull Oliver.
8) Nailed
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
An outcast in a school full of jocks, sixteen-year-old Bret struggles to keep his individuality through his interest in drama and music, while trying to reconnect with his father.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In this prequel to Candace Bushnell's "Sex and the City," Carrie Bradshaw is enjoying her senior year of high school and her intense relationship with the dashing Sebastian Kydd, until a friend's shocking betrayal threatens to ruin everything.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of conforming to the image of what her parents and high school friends want her to be, Sarah must come to terms with her own identity when her destructive best friend tries to commit suicide. Told in the form of free-verse poems.
11) Freaked out
Author
Publisher
B*tween Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The Beacon Street Girls must decide what to do when one of them is not invited to Julie Farber's Hawaiian-themed birthday party.
12) Rats saw God
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen.
15) The God box
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When openly gay Manuel transfers to Paul's high school, Paul, a born again Christian, begins to question his own sexuality.
Author
Series
True colors volume 3
Publisher
Th1nk Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Zoe feels like the last virgin in her high school and is tempted to give into peer pressure and get it over with when one of the school's most popular jocks asks her out, but the experiences of a mysterious new student help Zoe make the best choice for herself.
17) Shooting star
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Jomo Rogers, a naturally talented athlete, starts taking performance enhancing drugs in order to be an even better high school football player, but finds his life spinning out of control as his game improves.
19) Crunch time
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Four students, who have formed a study group to prepare for the SAT exam, sustain each other through the emotional highs and lows of their junior year in high school.
20) Lost and found
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007], c2002
Language
English
Description
Darcey Willis does not know where to turn for help when a series of frightening incidents culminate with the disappearance of her sister Jamee.
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