Adolescence category: 1257 books
by Alan Richard Barton
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A country boy's life is devastated when his family abruptly uproot to London giving no satisfactory explanation, a mystery he agonises over and must try to solve. Small for his age and in fear of his moody, tyrannical father, he struggles to come to terms with life in the big city. Then he discovers...
The Adventures Traveling the Americas
A Trans-Continental Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
After hearing the news that Leonardo's job has relocated him to another country, Isabel has to decide when would be the best time to tell the children and how. Noticing how nervous Isabel had become after being told the news of the relocation, Leonardo takes a vacation day from work to make plans...
by Laura Kosloff, Mark Trexler
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Thousands of teenagers from other countries spend one or more years studying in the U.S. They come from countries all over the world, entering the U.S. through different educational programs and visas. In each case the students, parents back home, and host families are taking a big leap. Many of the...
Doin' Time
Everyone Deserves a Second Chance
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Some kids get all the breaks. Some don't. This book is about the ones who ended up in prison, the ones who had been abused or taken away from their families, who had given up on society. Doin' Time tells the stories of nine men who came from troubled and turbulent backgrounds and who got offered a...
by Steven Levenkron
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 1999
A seminal work on treating self-mutilation, revised and updated with illuminating case studies and newly available resources.
Nearly a decade ago, Cutting boldly addressed a traumatic psychological disorder now affecting as many as two million Americans and one in fifty adolescents. More than...
by Diamond Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The young person’s guide to successful adulting.
This workbook is designed to provide a skeleton of information that each young person can customize in order to fit their specific needs. It requires careful consideration and mental practice on the part of the reader.
This interactive...
Youth-led Development
Harnessing the energy of youth to make poverty history
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Many strange things are done in the name of ?development?: agencies build concrete boxes with tin roofs, cram 120 children into them and call it ?education?; millions are invested in youth?training? but little in job creation, which means youth move from being unskilled unemployed to skilled unemployed....
Out of Montana
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
When Gordon Noel was five years old he came home from school to find that his father had left his mother for another woman. There were no roadmaps for divorced kids in 1940s Montana, and for the next thirteen years, Noel seldom saw his father despite living in the same town. In Out of Montana, Noel...
DISCOVER YOURSELF
How To Uncover Your Uniqueness and Unleash Your Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Life is beyond just going to school, getting a good job, raising a family and running a rat race of unnecessary competition with others. Life is a call to duty, a call to serve, a call to fulfill a unique mandate. How do you know where you can give your best contributions to humanity and find fulfillment...
Why Are You Always on the Phone?
SMART Skills with the Smartphone Generation
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Why Are You Always on the Phone? SMART Skills with the Smartphone Generation is a revelation and an actual depiction of what goes on in the everyday lives of youth who are connected and are online most of the time either vi
Raising A Daughter
From cradle to marriage and after
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Every enviornment makes its own specific social and moral demands on the individual. As such,in the Indian environment today raising a daughter is not what it used to be a few decades earlier.Keeping this in view, the book has been created especially for the mothers of today. The mother of two daughters,...
Growing Strong Girls
Practical Tools to Cultivate Connection in the Preteen Years Practical Tools to Cultivate Connection in the Preteen Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“To grow up strong and confident, girls need connection with kind, competent adults, yet all too often they push that support away. For every parent, teacher, or mentor who has ever wondered, ‘How do I get through to her?’ Lindsay Sealey has given us a wealth of answers in her book Growing Strong...
by Jim Peters and Ian Thurlow
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2003
Be constructive. The Building Resiliency series takes a strengths-based approach that will help teachers gain an understanding of resiliency and how to build and nurture it. It works on the premise that resiliency-based practices assist young people to direct their energies towards achieving...
by Patsy C. Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
An Instant Reference For New Parents Concerning Baby Shower Gifts, Baby Names, Baby Shower Invitations, Baby Shower Planning Guide and Baby's R Us One Stop Shopping.