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Christine and Danelle have been best friends forever, but lately Danelle's quirky moods have turned into wild and reckless acts driving the girls apart.

After her mother suddenly leaves her family for good, Sandra is left behind with her alcoholic father -- and a lot of anger. At first, Sandra is more concerned with getting a job and getting on with her life, but then the people around her start pushing Sandra to at least try to find her missing mother. What will Sandra say to her mother if they are reunited? And how do you find a person who may not want to be found?

Fifteeen year old Becky Sanger, battles through the emotional ups and downs of why she cuts and burns herself, while coaching young ice skaters to have the confidence and self-assurance she is missing and frighted to find.

Ryan Taber is relieved when his overbearing father is shipped out to serve in Afghanistan with the Canadian Forces, but an encounter in a gaming cafe, where he goes to play "Desert Death," brings home the truth about the danger his dad is facing overseas.

"If there's one person Jacob is never going to be like, it's his alcoholic father. But Jacob is brought face-to-face with his own addictions when his father ends up in the hospital"--Page 4 of cover.

"The #MeToo movement has revealed the prevalence of sexual assault in society, especially as committed by powerful men. But it is an issue that also affects the lives of teen girls. This book tells the story of seventeenyear-old Ana Santos, who has ambitions to make it big in music and signs a contract with the owner of a music café without knowing there are sexual strings attached. It looks at the darker side of the music industry, including sexual...