Personal & social issues: drugs & addiction (Children's&YA) books

This book chronicles the history of marijuana in various cultures, specifically focusing on its role in Western...  Read More >>

Admitting to powerlessness, coming to believe, turning over one's will - how a teen experiences the first three...  Read More >>

Based on a real-life event and written in verse, this novel relates the disturbing story of one girl's descent into...  Read More >>

"Winner of the 1990 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award (Older Readers). ""Poignant and...  Read More >>

It is the summer holidays and 11 year old loner, Seymour, is bored and unhappy in his confined inner-city world....  Read More >>

Mesmerising, moving novel from exceptional new author about one girl’s struggle to cope after being wrongly admitted...  Read More >>

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Teaching young children about the danger of drugs, this rhyming picture book introduces Ned, who learns from young...  Read More >>

Titles in this series give objective background information about the issues of today. Panels give statistics, definitions...  Read More >>

This series focuses on problems teens might encounter in their daily lives. Each title acknowledges the pressure...  Read More >>

Difficult problems deserve careful consideration. This series focuses on problems young people might encounter in...  Read More >>

This series focuses on problems teens might encounter in their daily lives. Each title acknowledges the pressure...  Read More >>

Sixteen-year-old Anna is an unremarkable schoolgirl. She does her homework, and keeps out of trouble. At home she...  Read More >>

Kat dreads her sister's returning home. Kat starts to shoplift and as her sister's return approaches, the shoplifting...  Read More >>

<i>Racing Fear</i> is an action-packed ride that takes a hard look at the selling of prescription drugs.  Read More >>

Kat dreads her sister's returning home. Kat starts to shoplift and as her sister's return approaches, the shoplifting...  Read More >>

Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking...  Read More >>

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Geared toward young adults and filled with interesting case studies and sidebars, the user-friendly text in this...  Read More >>

Teens frequently want to fit into the group and do what their peers do. They may not know how great a risk smoking...  Read More >>

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Presents two hundred articles on topics related to addiction, covering such issues as genetic aspects of addictive...  Read More >>

D'Arcy is a newshound who thinks she has found the big scoop when her classmate Zania's mother goes missing. But...  Read More >>

D'Arcy is a newshound who thinks she has found the big scoop when her classmate Zania's mother goes missing. But...  Read More >>