alcoholism

When her father disappears mysteriously on a trucking job, eleven-year-old Buddy moves in with relatives she hardly knows and finds herself in a dysfunctional family with secrets about the past.

Discusses the effects of alcohol, problem drinking, how to get help and legal implications of underage drinking.

In 1969, the town of Red Clover, South Carolina, led by an enthusiastic new Latin teacher, supports thirteen-year-old Karlene as she wins her school spelling bee and strives to qualify for the National Bee, despite family problems and a growing desire for romance.

Authors present a variety of perspectives on alcohol abuse concerning adolescent abuse, peer pressure and advertising, binge drinking, drunk driving, twelve-step programs, and family influences.

Martyn Pig's life goes from bad to worse when he accidentally kills his father, and he must choose whether to tell the police the truth about what happened and be suspected of murder, or he can get rid of the body and pretend nothing ever happened.

Provides information about drug abuse and addiction, focusing on depressant drugs, including barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and alcohol; discusses the dangers faced by teens who take depressant drugs; and includes advice on getting help.

Offers an easy-to-follow overview of a wide range of topics related to alcohol and alcoholism, describing the different types of alcohol, the signs of alcoholism, the laws surrounding drinking, and more.

Fifteen-year-old Catherine and her father take their first joint vacation in Nova Scotia and finally get to know each other.

Fifteen-year-old Jamie, who has an alcoholic father, spends the summer working for an eccentric women neighbor and searching for the true identity of the local but elusive author of the detective novels featuring his hero Jim McGwynn.

Sixteen-year-old Clifton Carlson, emotionally scarred from having seen his father beaten to death by white police officers ten years earlier, grows up without friends or the support of his mother, who has become an alcoholic, but his life is changed when, desperate for friends, he puts messages in bottles and sends them down New River where they are intercepted by Swamper, an elderly man who lives in a shack on the riverbank.