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High: Everything You Want to Know About Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction


School year: Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

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No. of pages 272

Published: 2020

Great for age 10-18 years

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Allparents should have this book on hand, and use it to open important dialogues with their kids. Arm them with knowledge. Ellen Hopkins, best-selling author of theCranktrilogy.Just Say Know!With drug education for children more important than ever, this nonfiction book draws on the experiences of the New York Times best-selling father/son team, and inspiration behind the film Beautiful Boy, David and Nic Sheff to provide all the information teens need to know about drugs, alcohol, and addiction. From David Sheff, author of Beautiful Boy(2008), and Nic Sheff, author of Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines (2008), comes the ultimate resource for learning about the realities of drugs and alcohol for middle grade readers. This book tells it asit is, withtestimonials from peers who have been there andfamilies who have lived through the addiction of a loved one,along with the cold, hard facts about what drugs and alcohol do to our bodies. From how to navigate peer pressureto outlets for stressto the potential consequences ofexperimenting, Nic and DavidSheff lay out the facts so that middle grade readers can educate themselves.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 5th grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 10 years.

There are 272 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Nic Sheff is the author of Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction . Visit Twitter @nic_sheff. Nic Sheff and his father David Sheff captured a nation of readers with their bestselling memoirs, Tweak and Beautiful Boy . These books explore teen drug addiction from two different points of view: a father's and a son's. Nic currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and writes for TV, including for the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why .