Counseling Education Bibliotherapy Reading List: Drug Abuse

Benjie's life in Harlem, told from many viewpoints, involves drugs and rejection.

Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind

Examines, in simple text and illustrations, what drugs are, what they can do to your body, and the problems of drug addiction.

An African-American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he struggles to make sense of his grandfather's death and his brother's decline into drug addiction. Told with spare grace, Bird is a touching look at how a young boy copes with real-life troubles. Readers will be heartened by Bird's quiet resilience and moved by the healing power of paper and pencil. Winner of Lee & Low's New Voices Award.

A boy discovers that his older brother, whom he worships, is heavily into drugs.