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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
Author
Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Popular speaker and New York Times bestselling author partners with his daughters to help teens tackle overthinking by replacing self-defeating thoughts with a positive, healthy mindset that pushes them forward in life rather than holding them back"--
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloguing items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past....
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Language
English
Description
Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices have led to one last hedonistic hurrah as Monty, his best friend and crush Percy, and Monty's sister Felicity begin a Grand Tour of Europe. When a reckless decision turns their trip abroad into a harrowing...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An interactive guide for teens shares quizzes and activity suggestions for navigating the tumultuous, confusing and sometimes depressing challenges of adolescence, sharing positive advice on topics ranging from relationships and self-image to willpower and learning from failure.
Author
Publisher
Conari Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In this book of short daily meditations and essays, Amanda Ford, a young adult herself, offers stories, information, and advice on all the important issues facing young women today: boys, dating, drinking, self-respect, self-love, fights with friends, dealing with parents, and more.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
If you asked anyone in his small Vermont town, they'd tell you the facts: James Liddell, star athlete, decent student, and sort-of boyfriend to cute, peppy Theresa, is a happy, funny, carefree guy. But whenever James sits down at his desk to write, he tells a different story. As he fills his drawers with letters to the people in his world -- letters he never intends to send -- he spills the truth: he's trying hard, but he just isn't into Theresa....
8) You got this
Author
Publisher
Wren & Rook
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The most powerful thing you can be when you grow up is yourself. I wanted to be a unicorn. I wanted to be a princess. I wanted to be an astronaut. But the thing I really wanted to be more than anything else, was a little less like me. It was only recently that I realised not wanting to be me was at the heart of every dumb decision I ever made. And so now I find myself writing this book containing all the life lessons I wish someone had taught me....
9) The fall
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In writing in his journal about middle school classmate Morgan Mallen's suicide from bullying, Sam explores whether he was a friend, or one of the bullies who ignored her at school and tormented her online.
Author
Language
English
Description
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee, without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
They lay for a while on their backs, gazing into the starry expanse through the railroad tracks, listening to the dark river below. This might be it, Dill thought. This might be...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing, an imprint of Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Empower teens to build their own paths with strategies that encourage self-discovery, autonomy, and connection. Blaze Your Own Trail invites teens to consider their values, goals, and interests, and take steps toward building the life-and blazing the trail-they want for themselves. Teens follow the three sections of the book-the inner path, the outer path, and the onward path-to explore a breadth of topics, from developing a vision for their future...
Author
Publisher
Multnomah Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Two Christian teenage writers challenge their peers to create a brighter future, combating the idea of adolescence as a vacation from responsibility and providing humorous personal anecdotes, practical examples, and stories of real-life "rebelutionaries"in action
Author
Series
Little blue envelopes volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a deceased aunt leaves 17-year old Ginny thirteen little blue envelopes along with instructions (and the funds) to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn't know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them.
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Fièvre offers affirmations and words of empowerment to help Black young men get through the day. In addition to prompts to help readers reflect and divulge what they are feeling on a deeper level, she includes instruction for gaining perspective, freedom, and power in the face of macro- and microaggressions. Designed to be spread over 52 weeks, the lessons will help you get motivated to make real changes in your life and your way of thinking. --...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Griffin Watts is 13 years old in 1974 New York, a city which, at the brink of financial collapse, seems to crumble around him at roughly the same rate as his family. Desperate to forge a connection to his father, Griffin gets co-opted into his illicit and dangerous architectural salvage business, which allows him to discover the centuries old sculptures (gargoyles) carved into buildings all over the city by immigrant artisans. As his father's obsession...
17) Hope ablaze
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh's niece--the poet who will fill her uncle's shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option. When Nida is illegally frisked at a Democratic Senatorial candidate's political rally, she writes a scathing poem about the politician, never...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Updated with stories that trace the Olympic gold medalist's journey from youth soccer to the Hall of Fame, an adaptation of the best-selling Wolfpack inspires readers to harness their inner strength, forge their own path, and band together with teammates to make the world a better place.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Falling for a young man who has accepted a job at a hippie Quaker school, Flora leaves her elite prep school to join him, but must make the most of the situation when he fails to show up, in a story told through letters, emails, and news stories.
20) Criss cross
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
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