Social Issues category: 20415 books

Sometimes, breaking the rules is the best thing you can do, especially when the rules don’t allow you to be yourself. For Nadine Rostraver, fourth grade comes with peer pressure and new social rules. For one thing, girls aren’t supposed to hang out with boys anymore. So where does that leave Nadine...

Reaching for Rain is an inspirational collection of short stories about overcoming life's disappointments and depression during early adolenscence. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that an estimate of more than 2.8 million adolescents ages 12 to 17 suffered from a major depressive episode...

Almost everything is going great for Dany. She and Madison are still best friends, she still has her magic sketchbook, and the new school year is looking up. But when Dany creates a duplicate of herself to secretly help with homework and raise her social status, the two of them accidentally unleash...

When Ben Candido and his friends, Ricky and John, decide to post a YouTube video of themselves surfing on top of a car, they finally feel like the somebodies they are meant to be instead of the social nobodies that they are. Overnight, the video becomes the talk of the school, and the boys are sure...

After an incident regarding a crossing guard and a bottle of Martini & Rossi (and his friends), 17-year-old worrier Ben Fletcher must develop his sense of social alignment, take up a hobby, and do some community service to avoid any further probation. He takes a knitting class (it was that...

Waarom je (meestal) gek bent op... van Esther Walraven Grappig en leerzaam boek over vriendschap, familie, liefde en meer Waarom is het belangrijk en fijn om vrienden te hebben? Waarom lijk je op je familieleden? Hoe komt het dat je best vaak ruzie hebt met je broer of zus, terwijl die tegelijk je...

What happens when two besties become full-blown worsties? Avalon Greene rules the fashion scene at her sunny SoCal middle school with a diamond-clad fist, calling out classmates for their fashion-do's and most unfortunate clothes-pas. She's determined to host the social event of the season—a...

Discover what happens when one girl wants to break barriers in a sport dominated by boys in this exciting and thoughtful novel by the author of The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. Mikayla is a wrestler; when you grow up in a house full of brothers who wrestle, it's inevitable. It's...

Chris Rimwood feels like 14 going on 30 because he has serious responsibilities to keep his sister and six other children safe in the dark secrets of the Rimwoods' foster home. He is a young assistant organist at his church, and a secret detective on the case of a seven year old kidnapping. The children...

For fans of Andrew Smith and Frank Portman and the movies Election and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off comes a hilarious and satirical novel about the highs and (very low) lows of the electoral process, proving that the popular vote is the one that matters most. Stacey Wynn was the clear front-runner...

Noah et Liv voient leur bonheur à Boston se détériorer... Noah parviendra-t-il à sauver la femme de sa vie ? Liv et Noah ont tout pour être heureux. Une nouvelle vie à Boston, loin des démons du passé, des jobs qu’ils adorent et un équilibre enfin trouvé. Leur amour n’a jamais...

Mirte baalt van haar ouders. Die behandelen haar als een klein kind, vindt ze. Dus als ze via social media een wat oudere jongen ontmoet die haar `een mooie vrouw vindt, voelt ze zich eindelijk begrepen en serieus genomen. Elke dag appt ze met Twan, en algauw wil hij ook skypen. Mirte gaat helemaal...

Honor is a teenage singer and songwriter who loves music. When a long undiagnosed stomach ailment lands her in the hospital, no one could have imagined that her diagnosis would be cancer. After a hospital technician hears her magnificent voice, Honor shares with him her dream of becoming famous....

This book is about Annabelle Ant, a very hard-working, scheduled and organized ant. She loves her daily routine and becomes upset if her routine is disrupted by any little thing. She loves visitors and cooking for her neighbors on Animal Isle. She enjoys time in her garden, especially time tending...