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1) Go ask Alice
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Freedom To Read!
Frequently banned or challenged books from 1990-1999
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2000-2009
Frequently banned or challenged books from 1990-1999
Frequently banned or challenged books from 2000-2009
2) Brave enough
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English
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The lives of Davis Channing, a cancer surviving recovering addict, and Cason Martin, a ballerina undergoing chemotherapy, intersect in a powerful way at a time when both are struggling to survive life-threatening diseases.
5) Dope sick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Seeing 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 weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.
7) Fallout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Toby, a prematurely gray-haired Pittsburgh Pirates fan and baseball card collector, tries to cope with his brother's drug use, his father's absence, and his mother dating Stanley the Food King.
9) Punkzilla
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Punkzilla" is on a mission to see his older brother "P", before "P" dies of cancer. Still buzzing from his last hit of meth, he embarks on a days-long trip from Portland, Ore. to Memphis, Tenn., writing letters to his family and friends. Along the way, he sees a sketchier side of America and worries if he will make it to see his brother in time.
10) Raiders night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Matt Rydeck, co-captain of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he witnesses the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use of performance-enhancing drugs.
11) Glass
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In a powerful sequel to Crank, Kristina is determined to manage her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
12) Suckerpunch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home.
13) Recovery Road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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While she is in a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse, seventeen-year-old Maddie meets Stewart, who is also in treatment, and they begin a relationship, which they try to maintain after they both get out.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
15) Out of reach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
16) The seventh wish
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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After Charlie finally gets the hang of communicating with a magical wishing fish, a family crisis with her older sister brings reality into sharp focus, and Charlie quickly learns that life's toughest challenges cannot be fixed by a simple wish.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
18) Crackback
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Obsessed with the idea that he is not muscular enough and tired of being bullied, David, age seventeen, begins using steroids, endangering his relationships with family and friends.
"What does not kill me makes me stronger. When a video of him getting knocked down by a bully goes viral at the end of junior year, David Espinoza vows to use the summer to bulk up, become a man, and wow everyone when school starts again the fall. Spending his time and...
20) Freedom flight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Paige struggles with the reintroduction of her mother--and her pain pill habit--into household after she's been deployed numerous times overseas. At first grateful to have her home, Paige grows resentful and begins to rebel"--
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