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Do you give valentines to your friends or family? Learn about the holiday of love and find out how people show their affection on this special day. Full-color photographs and carefully leveled text make this title a helpful introduction to a well-loved holiday. Age-appropriate critical thinking questions help build nonfiction reading skills.

Coming of age in the drug culture of the 1960s and '70s led many young people to "turn on, tune in, and drop out"-experimenting with every available drug, chasing that ultimate high while looking for someone with whom they could share it. Thinking themselves invincible, they did not realize that they...

Prom is about more than corsages and boutonnieres, promposals and after-parties. It's an event that teens are claiming as a way not only to have fun with friends but to also express their creativity and their identities. Learn about the first gay and lesbian teen couples to insist on the legal...

This is the second book in this series “Happiness”. It is stories about the memory and love of her family. This is a true story of my brother when he was about three or four year old. It was about fifty years ago. We are all still in the memory of that event. It was a tremendous shock for...

If we can't make awareness the authors of bullying at school, let's try to give some power to the victims by teaching them how to defend themselves! Are you bullied at school? You don't know how to defend yourself, orally or physically? You don't understand where the wickedness of other kids...

Learn how to make life so much simpler and better from a sixteen year old girl. That is right – I am merely 16 years old and I have something to say about how you should live your life. Adults are always telling us what to do, but have you seen them – the adults. Some of them don’t look...

Jazz was my mother's close companion for many years—particularly after my father died in 2003. Given Jazzie's practice, therefore, in supporting someone through loss, it made perfect sense that she would help me along my own journey through grief when my mother died from a brain tumour in November...

A Note for the Parents: Our society has gone through several significant changes in the last fifty years. With these changes come new challenges, and we must find a way to address them all in their own right. When I was growing up the United States, the average age for a child’s first sexual encounter...

My Rich Prince is a unique book tackling subject matter that is pertinent to teenage and young adult readers. The author offers readers life advice on a number of issues and warns them of what to look out for. It also discusses what is important and what is not, and explains how readers can maximise...

Slimy is the painful account of my experiences as a bullied, isolated and humiliated child. My journey of abuse began in the fifth grade and continued through the ninth. I chose to share my story so that others will understand how bullying can damage and alter a child’s self-image. How we learn...

With his signature acerbic wit and hilarious voice, twenty-something author, blogger, and entrepreneur Shane Burcaw is back with an essay collection about living a full life in a body that many people perceive as a tragedy. From anecdotes about first introductions where people patted him on the head...

The author of the critically acclaimed SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE continues her autobiography, describing the hardships, poverty, tragedies, and struggles of life for her and her two older siblings, living as refugees in post-World War II Japan.

Wednesday, November 7 My father gave me and my brother a little money. My stomach is all twisted up with hunger, but I don't want to spend the money on anything as frivolous as food. Because it's money my parents earn with their sweat and blood. I have to study well so that I won't...

This is the non-censored version of my life story. Beginning at age 9 and ending at age 19, welcome to the 10 years that shaped my life the most.