A thoughtful, creative, and simple way to stay connected with your family!This engaging prompt journal is the perfect tool to strengthen mother-son relationships. Teens can record memories, swap stories, compare perspectives, and explore their interests with their mom! Letters and interactive lists invite everyone to reflect, write, and doodle about topics timely to their lives and to help teens build self-confidence.With Mother and Son Together, you and your son will:Answer thought-provoking qu...
Most teens think their parents don't know anything about life. This text helps teens understand how to communicate with their parents to improve their relationships. It answers common questions teens have, like: How do I get my parents to be less embarrassing? How do I get them to give me more freedom? And what are my parents thinking?
Burnpile: Surviving the Crash, My Mother, and Myself
by Kelly Thomas
A poignant young adult graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl who uses fandom and art-making to overcome racist bullying. Perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Almost American Girl! Sarah has always struggled to fit in. Born in South Korea and adopted at birth by a white couple, she grows up in a rural community with few Asian neighbors. People whisper in the supermarket. Classmates bully her. She has trouble containing her anger in these moments-but through it all, she has her art...
According to a recent U.S. census, approximately 2.5 million children under the age of eighteen have experienced the death of a parent. Losing a parent at such a young age can have devastating consequences. Beyond the grief children and young adults experience, they can be at risk for many negative outcomes, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress symptoms, as well as diminished self-esteem. Their academic success and relationships with others can also be adversely affected. For...
Coping with a Parent Who Overdrinks (Empowering You)
by Michelle Shreeve
SEX, DRUGS, EDUCATION, POLITICS, SPORT, MARRIAGE, MEDICINE ...C.R.A.P. dishes the dirt on the way your elders and 'betters' fumble with the big issues affecting YOU. Think about it - it's YOUR LIFE and adults (richer, more powerful, and in total control) get all the airtime. It's time for teens to turn ...John Farman's revolutionary C.R.A.P. exposes the social hypocrisy, political fact-twisting, conspiratorial networks, 'holier than thou' clap-trap and concealed cock-ups of our do-as-I-say-and-n...
Written with candour and humour, the "Sunscreen" series offers preteens and teens advice on the topics that interest them most in a compact, highly illustrated paperback that fits conveniently in a handbag or backpack. Not too glib and not overly serious, the "Sunscreen" books deliver just the right information, and the freedom and protection that come with it. This "Sunscreen" title deals with one of the most complicated relationships facing teens - how to communicate with their fathers. It see...
Jason Schmidt wasn't surprised when he came home one day during his junior year of high school and found his father, Mark, crawling around in a giant pool of blood. Things like that had been happening a lot since Mark had been diagnosed with HIV, three years earlier. Jason's life with Mark was full of secrets--about drugs, crime, and sex. If the straights--people with normal lives--ever found out any of those secrets, the police would come. Jason's home would be torn apart. So the rule, since Ja...
A Girl's Guide to Growing Up Being a girl is a lot of fun most of the time. But some days are really difficult. Dealing with a body that is changing before everyone's eyes, increasing amounts of schoolwork, boys, other girls, friends, makeup, clothing, parents. Wow! Life as a preteen or early-teen girl is tough, and that's why every girl has questions about growing up. Fortunately, now you have some help. Girls: What's So Bad About Being Good? is your new guide to surviving those trying times an...
Engaging and simple attachment-based tools for improving social success, boosting self-confidence, feeling more secure, and connecting genuinely with others.Being a teen can feel like a full-time job. If it’s not the pressure to get good grades or get along with your parents, there’s always the anxiety of asking someone out on a date, or the agony of waiting for that first ‘Like’ on your latest post. It’s also a time for big change; in addition to fluctuating hormones and changes in your body, y...
In this uplifting and humorous memoir that includes black-and-white comic illustrations, mother and son tell the story of his growing up - from facing sixty-seven surgeries before the age of fifteen, to making friends, moving across the country, and persevering through hardships. How they tackle extraordinary circumstances with love and resilience is a true testament to Magda and Nathaniel’s family, and to families everywhere who quietly but courageously persist.
Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate, fierce mother; and charts the trajectory of his stepdad’s anger. Hovering over Rex’s story is the talismanic presence of his unborn baby sister. Through it all, Rex threads momen...