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• The Acid King

  Pollack, Jesse P.,

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  Ricky Kasso wasn’t a bad kid, but he was lost. To feel better, he started smoking pot, moving on from that to PCP and LSD. He ended up living on the streets and thinking he had nothing to lose. Gary Lauwers went from being a victim of bullying to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dead Inside

  a True Story

  Etler, Cyndy,

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  At age fourteen, Cyndy Etler had escaped from her violent home only to be reported as a runaway and sent to a drug rehabilitation facility that changed her world. Behind the closed doors of Straight, Inc., the program used bizarre and intimidating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep Water

  Nichols, Katherine,

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  It’s 1971 in Coronado, a small southern California beach town. For seventeen-year-old Eddie Otero, a skilled waterman and avid surfer, life is simple. Then a friend makes him an offer: swim an illicit package across the border from Mexico. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 57 Bus

  Slater, Dashka,

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  One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 59 Hours

  Kovatch, Johnny,

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  On Sunday, August 6, 2000, fifteen-year-old Nick Markowitz was grabbed off the street on the orders of a local drug dealer named Jesse James Hollywood. Nick was taken as collateral because his brother Ben owed Jesse money. He was an innocent victim…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Girl's Life Online

  Tarbox, Katherine

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  Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-three-year-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student and nationally ranked swimmer attending an elite school in an affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and self-conscious…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hole in My Life

  Gantos, Jack

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  The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer.

• One Cut

  Porinchak, Eve,

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  On May 22, 1995 at 7 p.m. sixteen-year-old Jimmy Farris and seventeen-year-old Mike McLoren were working out outside Mike’s backyard fort. Four boys hopped the fence, and a fight broke out inside the dark fort made of two-by-four planks and tarps.…Read moreRead more of this annotation