Describes what downers are and their effects on the body and mind.

Chrissie Swanson, a paranoid high school senior, struggles to take control of the events that are shaping her life.

This book "is Sir Alick Downer's lively story of this well-known family since its first members arrived in South Australia in 1837"--Cover description.

Travel through time to meet the people and visit the places that have given Downers Grove its rich, unique heritage. On a May evening in 1832, a solitary 50-year-old man on horseback rode toward an oak grove that rose majestically from the quiet Illinois prairie. Stopping at this beautiful site, the man bent a sapling to mark his claim to the rich Illinois farmland that would be his for the settling. In that singular act, Pierce Downer founded the town that would bear his name: Downers Grove, Illinois. He could hardly have imagined the remarkable development of the bucolic prairie town, 22 miles west of Chicago, as it grew to a thriving suburb with a population of nearly 50,000. Many unique and influential people have shaped the history of Downers Grove.