Joey Pigza Loses Control by Summary: 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.
Rainbow Boys by Summary: Three high school seniors, a jock with a girlfriend and an alcoholic father, a closeted gay, and a flamboyant gay rights advocate, struggle with family issues, gay bashers, first sex, and conflicting feelings about each other.
Summary: A self-help guide to enable children to cope with alcoholism in the family setting.
Summary: As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.
Junk by Summary: The story of a group of young people addicted to drugs told in many different voices, from the addicts themselves to the people around them.
Rooftop by Summary: Still reeling from seeing police shoot his unarmed cousin to death on the roof of a New York City housing project, seventeen-year-old Clay is dragged into the whirlwind of political manipulation that follows.
Under the Wolf, Under the Dog by Summary: Sixteen-year-old Steve struggles to make sense of his mother's terminal breast cancer and his brother's suicide.
Summary: Cumulative verses describe the creation, distribution, and destructive effects of crack cocaine.
