Family problems | Batavia High School Media Center

Saint Iggy

Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his frie

Conduct of life, Drug abuse, Family problems, fiction, Poor

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Endgame

Nancy Garden

Fifteen-year-old Gray Wilton, bullied at school and ridiculed by an unfeeling father for preferring drums to hunting, goes on a shooting rampage at his high school.

Bullies, Family problems, fiction, High schools, Schools

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Dough Boy

Peter Marino

Fifteen-year-old Tristan deals with intensified criticism about his weight when the nutrition-obsessed daughter of his mother's boyfriend, Frank, moves in.

Bullies, Divorce, Family problems, fiction, Friendship

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Far From Xanadu

Julie Anne Peters

In a small Kansas town, sixteen-year-old Mary-Elizabeth "Mike" Szabo tries to come to terms with her father's suicide and her own homosexuality.

Family problems, fiction, Grief, Homosexuality, Interpersonal relations

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A Thief in the House of Memory

Tim Wynne-Jones

The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and une

Canada, Family, Family problems, fiction, Juvenile fiction

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A Room On Lorelei Street

Mary Pearson

To escape a miserable existence taking care of her alcoholic mother, seventeen-year-old Zoe rents a room from an eccentric woman, but her earnings as a waitress after school are minimal and she must g

Alcoholism, Family problems, fiction, Freedom, Interpersonal relations

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Burned

Ellen Hopkins

Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love an

Alcoholism, Aunts, Family problems, fiction, Identity

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The Serious Kiss

Mary Hogan

Relates the angst-ridden life of fourteen-year-old Libby Madrigal as she tries to deal with her unhappily married alcoholic father and overeating mother, moving to a new town, and finding the perfect

Alcoholism, Barstow (Calif.), Family problems, fiction, Interpersonal relations

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Shock Point

April Henry

Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot ca

Camps, Family problems, fiction, Juvenile delinquents, Juvenile fiction

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Wrecked

E. R. Frank

After a car accident seriously injures her best friend and kills her brother's girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Anna tries to cope with her guilt and grief, while learning some truths about her family and

Brothers and sisters, Death, Family problems, fiction, Grief

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