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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
2) Diablerie
Author
Language
English
Description
Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood. There are many happy memories and sad times too; jealousy of her sister, death of a schoolmate, and disappointment of first love.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hazelden
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Identifies "almost alcoholics"--those whose excessive drinking contributes to problems in their lives--and helps readers develop strategies and goals for limiting alcohol use and making informed decisions about possible treatment.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jenna gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire, and along the way Jenna hones her talents as a saleswoman and finds the strength to face her alcoholic father.
13) Alcohol abuse
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Discusses different types of drinks, the social and physiological effects of alcohol, and the problems of alcoholism.
Author
Publisher
Crown House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
There is no such thing as an alcoholic and there is no such disease as alcoholism! (as society understands it). Whether you agree with this statement or not, one thing is for sure, you will never see alcohol in the same light ever again after reading this book. Jason Vale takes an honest and hard hitting look at people's conceptions of our most widely consumed drug. Jason's major argument is there is no such thing as an 'alcoholic' and that we are...