LIBRARY HOURS
7:00 - 4:00 Monday through Thursday
7:00 - 3:00 Friday
Anchor Texts Civics Project
Civics Project Anchor Texts: (Fiction unless otherwise noted)
Abortion:
Expecting Adam: a true story of birth, rebirth and everyday magic by Martha Beck.
Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles
I Know It’s Over by C.K. Kelly Martin
Alcoholism:
Rosie and Skate by Beth Ann Bauman
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Burned by Ellen Hopkins
Body Image:
Looks by Madeleine George
North of Beauty by Justina Chen Headley
The Fold by Na An
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Bullying
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Thirteen Reasons by Jay Asher
Baby Help Marilyn Renolds
Raiders Night Robert Lipsyte
Burn by Suzanne Phillips
Ghost Medicine by Andrew Smith
Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Kissing the Rain by Kevin Brooks
This is What I Did by Ann Dee Ellis
By the Time Your Read This I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
Child Abuse
Harley Like a Person by Cat Bauer
A Child Called It by David Pelzer (362.7 PEL)
Katie.com (sexual abuse/Internet stalker) by Katherine Tarbox (92 TAR)
A Rock and A Hard Place by Anthony Godby Johnson- 92 Joh
A Brother’s Journey: surviving a childhood of abuse by Richard Pelzer (92PEL)
Three Little Words: a memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter (92 RHO)
Shut Up by Marilyn Reynolds
The Boy from the Basement by Shaw
Not Without My Sister by Kristina Jones (362.76 JON)
Split by Swati Avasthi
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
Scars by Cheryle Rainfield (sexual abuse)
Bait by Alex Sanchez
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
Childhood Obesity:
Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going
Dreamrider by Barry Jonsberg
Food, Girls and Other Things I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff
Something’s Wrong with Your Scale by Van Whitfield
Looks by Madeleine George
Fat Boy Chronicles by Diane Lang (inspired by a true story)
Dating Violence:
Rage by Julie Anne Peters (Homosexuality)
Domestic Violence:
Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult
Pocketful of Pearls: a Novel by Shelley Bates
Baby Help by Marilyn Reynolds
A Virtuous Woman: a novel by Kaye Gibbons
Because I am Furniture by Thalia Chaltas
Drug Abuse:
Beauty Queen by Linda Glovach
Rosie and Skate by Beth Ann Bauman (Alcoholism)
Last Night I Sang to the Monster by Benjamin Alire Saenz (Alcoholism)
Tiger in a Trance by Ma Ludington
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Glass by Ellen Hopkins
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg (92 CLE)
Cults:
Not Without My Sister by Kristina Jones
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
The Patron Saint of Butterflies by Cecelia Galant
Eating Disorders:
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson ( Book and CD)
Looks by Madeleine George
Purge by Sarah Littman
Distorted: how a mother and daugher unravel the truth........... (92 Ben) by Lorri Antosz Benson.
Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos
Perfect by Natasha Friend
Feeding Christine by Barbara Cepaitis
Does this book make me look fat? by Marissa Walsh (SC DOE)
Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia by Marya Hornbacher (92 HOR)
Skinny by Ibi Kaslik
Female Mutilation:
The Fattening Hut by Lowrey Collins
Foster Care:
Three Little Words: a Memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter (92 RHO)
Gambling:
Reality Check by Peter Abraqhams
The Whole Sky Full of Stars by Rene Saldana, Jr.
No Limit by Pete Hautman
All-in by Pete Hautman
Bringing Down the House 364.1 MEZ) by Ben Mezrich
Gangs:
Ace Hits the Big Time by Barbara Beasley Murphy
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Scorpions by S.E. Hinton
Rite of Passage by Richard Wright
The Orange Houses by Paul Griffin
The Knife That Killed Me by Anthony McGowan
Genetics:
Next by Michael Crichton
Global Warming:
Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
Hate Crimes:
Response by Paul Volponi
Homelessness:
The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
Monkey Island by Paula Fox
Immigration:
Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
Juvenile Justice (Teens in Prison)
Rikers High by Paul Volponi
Mental Illness:
Identical by Ellen Hopkins (Suicide)
Organ Transplant:
Change of Heart by Shari Maurer
Polygamy:
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Sister Wife by Shelley Hrdlitschka
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:
Soft Spots: a marine’s memoir of combat and post-traumatic stress disorder by Clint Van Winkel.
Burn by Suzanne Phillips
Poverty:
Push by Sapphire
When the Stars Begin to Fall by James Lincoln Collier
The Heart is Not a Size by Beth Kephart
School Violence
19 Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Endgame by Nancy Garden
Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Columbine by Dave Cullen
A Thousand Cuts by Simon Lelic
Self-Mutilation:
Crosses by Shelley Stochr
Scars by Cheryl Rainfield
Bloodletting: a memoir of secrets, self harm and survival by Victoria Leathan (92 LEA)
Cut by Patricia McCormic
Tribes by Arthur Slade
Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell (92 KET)
Willow by Julia Hoban
Slavery
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins (Prostitution)
Steroids in Athletics
Gym Candy by Carl Dueker
Crackback by John Coy
Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte
Anything to Win by Gloria D. Miklowitz
A Rock and A Hard Place - 92 Joh
A Brother’s Journey: surviving a childhood of abuse by Richard Peltzer (92 PEL)
Suicide (Depression):
Go Ask Ogre: letters from a deathrock cutter by Jolene Siana
Trouble in My Head: a young girl’s fight with depression by Mathilde Monaque(92 MON)
Black Box: a novel by Julie Schumacher
The Opposite of Music by Janet Ruth Young
Hold Still by Nina LaCour
The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard
Everything is Fine by Ann Dee Ellis
It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Amazing Gracie by A.E. Cannon
Blind Faith by Ellen Wittlinger
Lisa, Bright and Dark: a novel by John Nufeld
By the Time You Read This I’ll Be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
Crash Into Me by Albert Borris
Hold Sill by Nina LaCour
Teen Drinking:
On the Head of a Pin by Mary Beth Miller
Teen Pregnancy:
Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky
Jumping Off Swings by Jo Knowles
Planet Pregnancy by Linda Oatman High
Harley’s Ninth by Cat Bauer
November Blues by Sharon M. Draper
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen
Don’t Think Twice by Ruth Pennebaker
After by Amy Efaw
Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky
I Know It’s Over by C.K. Kelly Martin
Detour for Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds
Every Little Thing in the World by Nina DeGramont
Tell Me a Secret by Holly Cupala
Terrorism:
After the first death by Robert Cormier
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Terrorist by John Updike
Streams of Babel by Carol Plum-Ucci
Video Games:
Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks by Ethan Gilsdorf (92 GIL)
