https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp Read the descriptions below from Destiny to see what books you may enjoy from the Southport High School Instructional Media Center en-us 2017-11-27 18:05:44 UTC 2024-09-05 19:45:19 UTC hello@padlet.com tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210563995 An autobiographical novel in which fifteen-year-old Jennifer Johnson convinces her parents to commit her to the Eating Disorders Unit of an upstate New York psychiatric hospital in 1988, where the treatment for her bulimia and anorexia is not what she expects.]]> 2017-11-27 18:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210563995 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210564378 Sixteen-year-old Missy copes with being an outcast at school and stress at home by cutting herself with a razor blade, until Death chooses her as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, War, and offers her a new blade.]]> 2017-11-27 18:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210564378 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210564627 Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.]]> 2017-11-27 18:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210564627 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210564826 After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molester's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.]]> 2017-11-27 18:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210564826 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210565013 Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences.]]> 2017-11-27 18:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210565013 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210565256 Vivienne Valentine, known as V to her friends, has a history of hooking up with a new guy every few days, but her latest boyfriend, Sam, seems to be different from her past relationships and when her feelings start to scare her, V makes a stupid mistake that destroys their relationship and sends V on a cross-country journey of self discovery.]]> 2017-11-27 18:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210565256 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210565657 After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.]]> 2017-11-27 18:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210565657 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210566150 A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.]]> 2017-11-27 18:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210566150 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210566287 Charlie, a freshman in high school, explores the dilemmas of growing up through a collection of letters he sends to an unknown receiver.]]> 2017-11-27 18:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210566287 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210566643 When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.]]> 2017-11-27 18:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210566643 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210566801 Twelve-year-old genius and outsider Willow Chance must figure out how to connect with other people and find a surrogate family for herself after her parents are killed in a car accident.]]> 2017-11-27 18:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210566801 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210567134 Told from separate viewpoints, Ally discovers that she may have tried to kill herself, and Elijah, recalling his own suicide attempt, tries to give Ally a reason to live and escape from the spirits that haunt their high school.]]> 2017-11-27 18:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210567134 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210567387 Steven "Crash" Crashinsky relates his sordid ten-year relationship with David "Burn" Burnett, the boy he stopped from taking their high school hostage at gunpoint.]]> 2017-11-27 18:16:08 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210567387 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210567574 The stress of hiding a horrific incident that she can neither remember nor completely forget leads sixteen-year-old Cassidy "Sid" Murphy to become alienated from her friends, obsess about weight loss, and draw close to Corey "The Living Stoner" Livingston.]]> 2017-11-27 18:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210567574 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210568065 Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist who has not felt safe since she began to remember devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, cannot seem to recall her abuser's identity and copes with the stress by cutting herself.]]> 2017-11-27 18:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210568065 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210568318 Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.]]> 2017-11-27 18:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210568318 tfoor https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210569232 When his parents decide to separate, eighth-grader Donnie watches with horror as the physical condition of his sixteen-year old sister, Karen, deteriorates due to an eating disorder.]]> 2017-11-27 18:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tfoor/th3ufh5rymzp/wish/210569232