lin:

the bible

Maria P:

Like Water for Chocolate

gorgeous:

Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. The main character deals with anorexia, and has a friend who is dealing with bulimia. I liked it.

You might also check into Cut by Patricia Mccormick. Main character is a teen dealing with some issues. She checks into an institution and eventually makes friends with other struggling teens.

Alucard:

Hello there! The book I would recommend is Julie Of The Wolves by Jean George.

Miyax, a thirteen-year old girl whose mother is dead and whose father disappeared while hunting, has run away. She intends to use the survival skills her father taught her to walk from Point Barrow to Point Hope. There, she plans to get a job on one of the huge ships as a laundress or cook and work her way to San Francisco, where she has a pen pal, Amy, who always ends her letters, “When are you coming to San Francisco?” Unfortunately, the tundra is different from her home country, and Miyax is lost.

Remembering what Miyax’s father Kapugen, the great hunter, told her, she uses the body language she has learned from watching a wolf pack to persuade them to take her in and feed her. Miyax calls the great black lead wolf Amaroq, the Eskimo word for wolf. She names his mate Silver, and she calls his work partner Nails. There is also a cringing wolf that she calls Jello. Finally, the wolf pack has a litter of puppies. The smartest and bravest of these puppies she names after her father, Kapugen, or Kapu for short. In time, the wolves take in Miyax, though Jello’s apparent opposition costs him even his low status in the pack. Miyax celebrates Amaroq as her foster father and sings songs in his praise. Winter is approaching, though, and Miyax, now that she is not starving, has gotten her bearings. She prepares to move on as the wolves enter the final days of training the grown pups for their nomadic winter life. Miyax hears the wolves calling. Finally ready, she is shocked to discover that the wolves have left.

Miyax’s sense of abandonment triggers memories of her past life. Her mother dies when she is four, and her father takes her to a remote seal camp where the old Eskimo ways are practiced. Five years later, her Aunt Martha shows up with a court order and takes her back to be schooled, but Kapugen whispers that if she doesn’t like it, at thirteen she can marry his friend Naka’s son Daniel and escape. A month later, word comes that Kapugen has gone out to hunt and never returned. Miyax is now called Julie. Aunt Martha is strict, and at thirteen Julie, whose greatest pleasure is now the weekly letter from her pen pal Amy, does leave. Daniel turns out to be dull-witted, but although they marry, Julie’s main role is helping her mother-in-law sew. Daniel and Julie live as indifferent brother and sister until the teasing of village men goads him to attempt to have sex with her. Julie is so upset and frightened that she gathers supplies and leaves, intending to take a ship for San Francisco.

Coming back to the present, Miyax is even more upset to find that Jello has destroyed her camp and much of her food. He misses her pack, though, and using what she has learned from the wolves, she backs him into surrender. Nevertheless, he follows her, and several nights later he steals her pack while she is sleeping. For this, Amaroq kills him, just as he would kill a lone wolf that stole food from a puppy. Miyax takes in a nearly frozen young golden plover and names him Tornait, “spirit of the birds.” She discovers that she likes the old Eskimo ways, and her distrust of civilization is justified when hunters shooting from a plane kill Amaroq and wound Kapu. Miyax nurses Kapu back to health, and he becomes pack leader. Miyax’s decision to stay in the wilderness living the old ways changes when she learns that Kapugen is living in a nearby town. He is overjoyed to see her. Miyax is surprised by his white English wife and modern possessions. She learns that he is now a pilot who takes hunters out. Taking Tornait, she slips out, but the bird dies shortly thereafter. Miyax sings, in English, a farewell to the old ways and returns to Kapugen.

I’ve read the entire series and I enjoyed it very much! =)

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Go ask alice, crank, smack, Candy, dreamland. All good books that I have read. Most of them are about kids that struggled with drugs, and the consequences they had to face. Candy and dreamland arent about drugs.

Dreamland is by Sarah Dessen
Candy is by Kevin brooks

lou_300:

I grew up reading books by Judy Blume. Titles of hers such as “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret”, “Deenie”, “Then Again, Maybe I Won’t”, “Just As Long As We’re Together”, Here’s To You, Rachel Robinson” and “Forever” are some of her best ‘teen problems’ books.

Also “Junk” by Melvyn Burgess. Very gritty, shocking, and kind of sad in places. It’s about two teenagers who run away together and fall in with a bad, druggy crowd.

mags:

hahah i can c y u’d be sick of vampires.
CRANK, BURNED,IMPULSE, and GLASS are the best books for what ur looking for, they include pregnancy, drug abuse, intercourse and other teen related problems. They r by Ellen Hopkins and ae great books based on her daughters problems. Hope that helped, the books are reallllly interesting!

Lost:

you could try the true colors series by melody carlson… the only thing is that its a christian author. you can also try Robin Jones Gunn

Sarah:

Before I Die – Jenny Downham – It’s about a girl with cancer who has a list of things to do before she dies.

Everything Beautiful – Simmone Howell – it’s about a girl who is kind of like a “bad girl” and she gets sent to a religious camp thing and she meets a guy and stuff… (ok, my description is crap but yeah…)

The Truth About Forever – Sarah Dessen – It’s about a girl who has a perfect boyfriend and he goes away for the summer and she meets these people who like her for being her… (again, crap description)

Err… cant think of any more…