Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Social Themes - Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse

Stepping into her new identity turns out to be easier than Cassie could have ever imagined...one moment, one choice, changes everything.

Cassie's new existence both thrills and terrifies her. Swept into a world of illicit parties and social land mines, she sheds her virginity, embraces the numbness she feels from the drugs, and...

Hunter, Autumn, and Summer--three of Kristina Snow's five children--live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.

Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the...

Darren took the fall for Diamond Tony, the notorious head of the city's drug cartel. Two years later, Darren's finally out of juvie--and determined to get even.

Working as an informant for the police, Darren infiltrates Diamond Tony's operation. But falling for sweet, innocent Jessica was not part of that plan. She's a distraction--and a liability. She's also everything Darren dreamed about while he was locked up, and with her, he has the...

Kids in Bravo Hills trailer park usually have to grow up fast, and fifteen-year-old Jesse Sampson is no exception. With a meth addict for a mom and a drug dealer for a stepdad, Jesse spends most nights taking care of his sister, Pony. But when the cops arrest his mom for a mini-mart robbery gone wrong, Jesse hides his sister under a pile of dirty clothes and escapes through a window. In the morning, he finds his mom and stepdad have been arrested, and Pony is gone. And due to a botched drug deal, she may also be in danger. Scared, homeless, and desperate to find her, Jesse sets off on a...

Here's maybe a not so little-known secret about guys: most of us are insecure. We do a great job of hiding it, but deep down, it's there. No one knows this more than 13- year old Mitchell Connor, Jr., who desperately wants to change that about himself.

However, a disastrous series of events throws Mitch's life into chaos. His so-called friends betray him, the girl he has been crushing on for a year uses him, and negative rumors are floating all around school about him. Things couldn't get any worse. Until he learns that his pregnant mother and unborn brother may have both died from...