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		<title>Stoned: Druggie fiction for the Teenaged Masses</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 22:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jen Hubert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no doubt about it, drugs are bad. In fact, they kill just as surely as handguns and drunk drivers. You never hear a happy ending when it comes to drugs. Sure, everyone&#8217;s in love when they&#8217;re high, but then it just turns into an ugly monkey on your back that just gets bigger and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smack by Melvin Burgess</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smack, a brilliant druggie novel out of England, chronicles the lives of Tar and Gemma, two teens who run away from home in search of freedom from their parents and authority. What they find is a squatter&#8217;s paradise and an addiction to heroin that ends up being stronger than their love for each other. Burgess [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another oldie but a goodie, TWTTIN is a story about two guys who are loser than brothers, and the drug dealing that finally pushes them apart. Bryon is the thinker&#8211;at 16 he&#8217;s beginning to contemplate the meaning of his hard street existence. Mark is the doer&#8211;seeing his actions as part of the big picture over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go Ask Alice by Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mother-drug-novel of them all, GAA made quite a splash when it was first published back in the early seventies, and has regularly made the banned book list ever since. It was published as a true diary account of a girl who goes from goody-goody to homeless addict due to her introduction to LSD at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hero Ain&#8217;t Nothin&#8217; but a Sandwich by Alice Childress</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benjie likes to do a little heroin, but it&#8217;s no big deal, he can stop anytime. He&#8217;s not a junkie, he&#8217;s not a stoner. But if you listen to the voices of those around him&#8211;his long-suffering mother, the grandmother from who&#8217;s purse he steals, his old best friend, even his drug dealer, you&#8217;ll see that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The White Horse by Cynthia D. Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The white horse is what Raina calls her mother&#8217;s drug habit&#8211;first a small, pretty pony that makes you happy, but later on, a huge ravenging stallion that demands attention at any cost. Because of her mother&#8217;s addiction, Raina usually stays away from home and instead runs the streets with her boyfriend Sonny, who&#8217;s also a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel Dust Blues by Todd Strasser</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 21:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>amutch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strasser&#8217;s first book takes a look at drugs from the other end of the spectrum. Instead of focusing on the drug user, Strasser introduces you to the drug pusher, in this case, spoiled rich kid Alex Lazar. Alex is bored with his comfy life in his big house and his chronically absent parents. So, he [...]]]></description>
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