The Sheffs, a father-and-son team, provide all the information teens and tweens need to know about drugs, alcohol, and addiction. With testimonials from peers who have been there and families who have lived through the addiction of a loved one, they provide the cold, hard facts about what drugs and alcohol do to our bodies. From how to navigate peer pressure to the potential consequences for experimenting, the authors lay out the facts so that middle-...

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.

When a serious illness strikes her mother, Lucy must grow up quickly. As money gets tighter, Lucy becomes desperate and starts selling her mom's medical marijuana-and gets caught. Will Lucy ever be able to make it up to her mom?

Jesse pours his heart and soul into his sketchbook to make sense of life in his troubled Harlem neighborhood and the loss of a close friend.

Told from alternating points of view, Chanel and Eleanor's rocky start to senior year gets more complex when the cheerleading team kneels for the national anthem and each girl grapples with the consequences.

When Rob and Gabi skip school with two friends, the group ends up in a deadly accident. The girl of his dreams is even blaming him for what happened. Can Rob deal with the pain?

"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...

Some of the stuff that goes on in the Auburn Street Projects, I'm never gonna do. These projects are like some kind of never-never land, like they never got put on a regular map. Nobody comes around here on purpose. It's as if we all got lost, right in the middle of the city. Reeve McClain, Jr. -- Junebug -- has decided to skip his birthday. Since ten is the age when boys in the projects are forced to join gangs or are ensnared by drug dealers, Junebug...

Zoe Beth Buckman finds that the pressure of taking care of her mother, expenses, work, and school is too much and decides to move out in order to put her life back together again.