Tortured Souls - Books About Teens in Tough Times

I am the Cheese
Cormier, Robert

The disturbing account of a young man's trip into uncertainty and isolation. Are his demons real, or the product of a diseases imagination?

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Red Shift
Garner, Alan

The bloody history of an ancient stone axe seems to cling to the object, influencing the life of its current owner.

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Victor
Gerstein, Mordecai

Based on a true story. Victor is a feral child, discovered in the French woods two hundred years ago, and taken in to be "civilized". He has no language and no knowledge of people. Despite the good intentions of his teachers, Victor will always be an outsider.

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Out of the Dust
Hesse, Karen

This poetic and heartrending Depression-era story follows a young girl's struggle to keep the family farm and deal with personal tragedy.

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Kissing Doorknobs
Hesser, Terry Spencer

Tara has always been plagued with anxiety, but as a teen she develops increasingly complicated rituals that she must perform, over and over, just to make life bearable. Obsessive compulsive disorder is ruling her life.

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Monster
Myers, Walter Dean

Steve is a monster. At least, that's what the prosecutor says. He is on trial as an accomplice to murder. In the form of a film script, he tells of his life in prison and in court, trying to make sense of himself.

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Jacob Have I Loved
Paterson, Katherine

A tale of two sisters. Caroline is beautiful, talented and selfish, the delicate twin who is treasured because she nearly died at birth. Louise is strong, bright and bitter, eaten up with jealousy as she watches her own dreams trampled beneath her sister's ambitions.

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Crosses
Stoehr, Shelley

Nancy and Katie are best friends, best friends with the same problems. They drink, do drugs, and cut themselves. Physical pain is a comfort, a release, a cry for help.

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When She Hollers
Voigt, Cynthia

Tish has endured the abuse of her adoptive father for years, but the time for endurance is past. Now is the time for vengeance.

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