Burlington High School

Health and Social Issues Book List (2008)

 

Abuse

 

33 Snowfish by Rapp (also deals with Drugs)

Are You In the House Alone by Peck

Black & Blue by Quindlen

Black-eyed Suzie by Shaw

Bruises by Vries

Claiming Georgia Tate by Amateau

Courage in Patience by Fehlbaum

Don’t You Dare Read This by Haddix

Ellen Foster by Gibbons

Everything You Need to Know About…..by Rue

Everytime a Rainbow Dies by Williams-Garcia

Facts Speak for Themselves by Cole

Forged by Fire by Draper

Friction : a novel by Frank

Girls on Flim by Dean (also deals with Drugs)

The Glass Castle by Walls ( Non-fiction)

Hero by Rottman

Last Exit to Normal by Harmon

I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This by Woodson

Little Miss Strange by Rose (also deals with Drugs)

Love, Sara by Lundgren

Lucky by Sebold

Margaux with an X by Koertge

Nothing to Lose by Flinn

No Problem by Gaetz

Raiders Night by Lipsyte

Rules of Survival by Werlin

Rundown by Cadnum

Sandpiper by Wittlinger

Such a Pretty Girl by Wiess

Thick by Neenan

Touching Snow by Felin

When Jeff Comes Home by Atkins

Things Change by Jones

The Truth About Abuse

You don’t know Me by Klass

When Jeff Comes Home by Atkins

Wonder When You’ll Miss Me by Davis

 

 Addictive Behaviors

Black Rabbit Summer by Brooks / Drugs

Candy by Brooks / Drugs

Crank by Hopkins / Drugs

Girls on Film by Dean  / Drugs / Alcohol

Gym Candy – Deuker / Steroids

Go ask Alice by Anonymous / Drugs

Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich by Childress / Drugs

Hole in My LifeGantos / Drugs

The Juice: Real Story of Baseball’s Drug Problem by Carroll

Kicks by Fitch

Motown and Didi  by Myers / Drugs

My Brother’s Keeper by McCormick / Drugs

Property of  by Hoffman Drugs / Violence

RX by Lynn / Drug dealer

Smack by Burgess / Drugs

The Beast by Myers / Drugs

Stoner & Spaz by Koertge / Drugs

The Blue Mirror by Koja / Alchohol

Bottled Up : a Novel by Murray / Alcohol

Comfort by Dean / Alcohol

A Door Near Here by Quarles / Alcohol

 God of Beer by Keizer / Alcohol

Head Case by Aronson / Alcohol

Imitate the Tiger by Cheripko / Alcohol

The Late Great Me by Scoppettone / Alcohol

Lovesick by Coburn / Alcohol

Lush by Friend / Alcohol

Not Like You by Davis / Alcohol

Pay It Forward: a Novel by Hyde / Alcohol

Parrot in the Oven:mi Vida by Martinez / Alsohol

Prep by Coburn / Alcohol

Pretty Things by Manny/ Alcohol

Rainbow Boys by Sanchez / Alcohol

Runner by Deuker / Alcohol

Safe Road Home by Goodman / Alcohol

Saint Iggy by Going / Drugs

 21 by Iversen / Alcohol

What Happened to Lani Garver by Plum-Ucci / Alcohol

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood by Zailickas / Alcohol   

Terry: my Daughter’s Life and Death Struggle by McGovern

Whirligig by Fleischman / Alcohol

The Year of my Miraculous Reappearance by Hyde / Alcohol

 

Body Image / Self Esteem

 

The Earth, My Butt and other Big Round Things by Mackler

Extreme Alvin by Lynch

The Fat Kid Rules the World by Going

The Girl’s Guide to Loving Yourself by Mastromarino

Huge by Paley

Insatiable: Story of Four Teens  by Eliot –(Non-fiction)

Life in the Fat Lane by Bennett

Love Sick by Coburn

Make Me Over / collection of short stories

Massive by Bell

Myrtle of Willendorf by O’Connell

The Parallel Universe of Liars by Johnson

Perfect by Friend

Ravenous: Stirring Tale of Teen Love, Loss&Courage by Eliot

Rich Girl in the Mirror by Bennett

Second Star To The Right by Hautzig

Skin by Vrettos

Skinny by Kaslik

Stick Figure : a Diary of My Former Self by Gottlieb

Sweethearts by Zarr

Thinner Than Thou by Reed

Wasted by Hornbacher /Memoir Eating Disorder (Non-fiction)

Weighting For the Moon by Dessen

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Holt

Vanishing by Brooks / Eating Disorder

 

 Dating Violence

 

Beathing Underwater by Flinn

Bee and Jacky by Coman

Darkness Before Dawn – Draper

Dreamland by Dessen

Dating Violence : true stories of Hurt and Hope

Date Rape Prevention Book

Fault Line by Tashjian

Inexcusable by Lynch

Leslie’s Journal by Stratton

Speak by Anderson

Target by Williams-Garcia

 

Disease

 

Accidents of Nature by Johnson – Cerebral Palsy

My Sister’s Keeper by Picoult - Leukemia

One True Thing by Quindlen -Cancer

My Story by Ryan White – AIDS

At Risk by Hoffman – AIDS

Rubber House by Yeomans - Cancer

Stuck in Neutral by Trueman – Cerebral Palsy

Before I Die by Downham

 

Mental Illness

The Bell Jar by Plath / Depression

Ball Don’t Lie by de la Pena

But Inside I’m Screaming by Flock

Crosses by Stoehr / Self Abuse

Cut by McCormick / Self Abuse

Damage by Jenkins / Depression

The Dream Where the Losers Go by Goobie

Coping with Self-mutilation by Clarke

A Girl Interrupted by Kaysen

I Know this Much is True by Lamb

It’s kind of a Funny Story by Vizzen / Depression / Suicide

Lisa, Bright and Dark by Neufeld Depression

My Kind of Sad by Scowen ( Non-Fiction) / Depression

The Reappearance of Sam Webber by Fuqua

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Greenberg

She’s Come Undone by Lamb

Saving Francesca by Marchetta / Depression

Stop Pretending:  by Sones

Under The Wolf, Under the Dog by Rapp

Invisible by Hautman

Where I want to Be by Griffin

 

Peer Harassment / Bullying

Battle of Jericho by Draper / Peer Pressure

The Beckoners by Mac

Behaving Bradley by Nodelman

Beyond the Chocolate War by Cormier

Body of Christopher Creed by Plum-Ucci

Breaking Point by Flinn

The Buffalo Tree by Rapp

The Blue Girl by De Lint

The Chocolate War by Cormier

Dough Boy by Marino

Drowning Anna by Mayfield

Edge by Tullson

Endgame by Garden

Hit Squad by Heneghan

Home of the Braves by Klass

Inventing Elliot by Gardner

Poison Ivy by Koss

Odd Girl Out and Odd Girl Speaks Out by Simmons

Shattering Glass by Giles

Kissing the Rain by Brooks

The Skin I’m In by Flake

Snow in August by Hamill

Stargirl by Spinelli

Tangerine by Bloor

Walking Naked by Brugman

 

Pregnancy / Teen Parents

Annie’s Baby by Anonymous

Baby Girl by Adams

Borrowed Light by Fienberg

Butterflies in May by Hart

Contents Under Pressure by Zeises

A Dance For Three by Plummer

Dancing Naked: a Novel by Hrdlitschka

Don’t Think Twice by Pennebaker

Doormat: a Novel by McWilliams

The First Part Last by Johnson

The Girl With a Baby by Olsen

Like Sisters on the Homefront by Williams-Garcia

Mahalia by Horniman

Make Lemonade by Wolff – Single Parent Family

November Blues by Draper

Plainsong by Haruf

Spellbound by McDonald

This is all by Chambers

True Confessions of a Heartless Girl by Brooks

What Kind of Love : Diary of a Pregnant Teen by Cole

Where the Heart Is by Letts

 

Suicide

 

24 Hours by Mahy

After by Chalifour

Burn Journals by Runyon (Non-fiction)

Chinese Handcuffs by Crutcher

I Can Hear The Morning Dove by Bennett

Impulse by Hopkins

Inside Out by Trueman

It’s kind of a Funny Story by Vizzen / Depression / Suicide

Like The Red Panda by Seigel

Looking for Alaska by Green

No right Turn by Trueman

The Pact by Picoult

Ravenous: a Tale of Teen Love, Loss and Courage by Eliot

St. Michael’s Scales by Connelly

Stay With Me by Freymann-Weyr

Surrogate Child by Neiderman

Tears of a Tiger by Draper

Tribes by Slade

Trigger by Vaught

Walking on Glass by Fullerton

What Happened to Cass McBride by Giles

Who Owns Kelly Paddik by Goobie

Will’s Choice by Griffith (Nonfiction)

The Wind Blows Backward by Hahn

 

Violence / Hate Crimes

All Fall Down by Cormier

Black and White by Volponi

Blood Relations by Lynch

The Body of Christopher Creed by Plum-Ucci

Boy Kills Man by Whyman

The Dream Bearer by Myers / Anger

Edge by Cadnum

Fade To Black by Flinn

Handbook For Boys by Myers

High Heat by Deuker

Jude by Morgenroth

The Last Domino by Meyer

Letters From the Inside by Marsden

Martyn Pig : a novel by Brooks

Mick by Lynch

Monster by Myers

Nineteen Minutes by Picoult

On the Head of a Pin by Miller

The Perfect Shot by Alphin

Shooter by Myers

Thick by Neenan

Tweleve Shots by Mazer

 

Sexuality

Am I Blue? : Coming out from the Silence

Annie On My Mind by Garden

Blue Coyete by Ketchum

Boy Girl Boy by by Koertge

Boy Meets Boy by Levithan

The Center of the World by Steinhofel

Drowning of Stephan Jones by Greene

Geography Club by HartingerHard Love by Wittlinger

Hello, I Lied by Kerr

If It Doesn’t Kill You by Bechard

Jake Reinvented by Korman

Kissing Kate by Myracle

Leave Myself Behind by Yates

My Heartbeat by Weyer

My Most Excellent Year by Kluger

No Big Deal by McClain

Rainbow Boys by Sanchez

A Really nice Prom Mess by Sloan

Sleeping Freshman Never Lie by Lubar

Talk by Koja

The Traitor Game by Collins

The Year They Burned the Book by Garden

Wide Awake by Levithan

 

Multiple Issues

Bronx Masquerade by Grimes

Dancing Pink Flamingos and other Stories by Testa

Every Man for Himself : 10 Short Stories about being a Guy

Coffee Will Make You Black by Sinclair

Four Letter Words by Mackler

Keesh’s House by Frost

Looking for Alaska by Green

Staying Fat For Sarah Byrnes by Crutcher

Wild Roses by Caletti

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Chbosky

Athletic Shorts by Crutcher

Target by Johnson

Under The Wolf, Under the Dog by Rapp

What Happened to Lani Garver by Plum-Ucci

 

Gambling

 

Bringing Down The House by Mezrich (Nonfiction)

Double or Nothing by Foon

Last Shot : a Final Four Mystery by Feinstein

No Limit by Hautman

Stone Cold by Hautman

All-In by Hautman

Full House by Hautman

Double or Nothing by Foon