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You'd Be Home Now cover
You'd Be Home Now
Kathleen Glasgow · 2021
Both explore addiction & trauma
75% genome match
Tricks cover
Tricks
Ellen Hopkins · 2009
Both explore addiction & abuse
72% genome match
Afterward cover
Afterward
Jennifer Mathieu · 2016
Both explore trauma
64% genome match
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Lottery
Beth Goobie · 2002
Both explore trauma
62% genome match
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In Search of April Raintree
Beatrice Mosionier · 1983
Both explore trauma
57% genome match
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The Way I Used To Be
Amber Smith · 2016
Both explore trauma
64% genome match
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Traplines
Eden Robinson · 1996
Both explore family dysfunction
66% genome match
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Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson · 1999
Both explore trauma
64% genome match
The Rules of Survival cover
The Rules of Survival
Nancy Werlin · 2006
Both explore survival & trauma
65% genome match
Girls like us cover
Girls like us
Gail Giles · 2014
Both explore trauma & survival
64% genome match
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Somewhere in the Darkness
Walter Dean Myers · 1992
Both explore redemption
48% genome match
Getting out cover
Getting out
Marsha Norman · 1979
Both explore trauma & redemption
69% genome match

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