Natasha Friend
1) Perfect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.
3) Lush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
5) Bounce
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her older brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.
6) How we roll
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Quinn is a teen who loves her family, skateboarding, basketball, and her friends, but after she's diagnosed with a condition called alopecia which causes her to lose all of her hair, her friends abandon her. Jake was once a star football player, but because of a freak accident - caused by his brother - he loses both of his legs. Quinn and Jake meet and find the confidence to believe in themselves again, and maybe even love.
7) For keeps
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Just as sixteen-year-old Josie and her mother finally begin trusting men enough to start dating seriously, the father Josie never knew comes back to town and shakes up what was already becoming a difficult mother-daughter relationship.