Natasha Friend has a series for young adults that helps them deal with serious issues and concerns. "Lush" is about a girl whose father is an alcoholic and whose mother keeps enabling his drinking. She has no one to turn to and starts corresponding with an unknown person by exchanging notes placed in a book in the library. Through these notes, the other person reveals that they are gay and their families issues with this as well. Things come to a head when the girl's father bashes her baby brother's face with a whiskey bottle to the point of breaking his cheekbone and requiring stitches. Can the father stop drinking? Can their relationship be repaired? In the back of the book are also resources for young adults dealing with these types of issues.
The other books in the series are "Bounce" (about adapting to life with step-parents and step-siblings) and "Perfect" (about eating disorders and the pressures to be perfect).
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