Young Adult Nonfiction

First exclusively Episcopal prayer book for youth

This prayer book designed for teens draws from the Book of Common Prayer, relevant prayers written by well known Episcopalians, and ancient prayers rooted in the Bible. New and original prayers are also offered, written by contemporary church leaders in the Episcopal Church, as well as by teens themselves, young adults and youth leaders. The book is structured in four parts:

• Daily Prayer. Including morning prayer, table blessings, and night time.
• Prayers for the Seasons of the Church Year. Blessing of a Christmas tree, prayer for Christ in my life for Easter, prayer for courage to share my faith, and more.
• Prayers for Daily Life. Before a special school event, before a sports event, before a test, being left out, bullying, dating, divorce, doubts, forgiveness, friendship, gratitude, grief, guidance, hope, motivation, peer pressure, pets, purpose, and more.
• Prayers for Important Events. Significant birthday, earning a driver’s license, Confirmation, beginning the school year, starting high school, applying for college, graduating high school, going to college, joining the workforce.

Help for teens struggling to reconcile complexity in the world and faith in God.

From the pandemic to polarized politics to school shootings, kids today face a reality that inevitably can lead to a wonder about why. Bad Things, Good People, and God offers help to teenagers as they think through one of the biggest and oldest questions of faith--why bad things happen. With stories from the Bible, a side-eye to some of the “classic” attempts at figuring all of this out, honest talk about sin and suffering, and hope for making sense of it all, this guide allows readers to explore, wonder, curse, lament, and ultimately find a sense of peace around the question of evil.

Bestselling YA novelist Bryan Bliss turns his hand to a challenging topic teenagers don't want a simple answer for—they want to know what's at stake, how it affects the world, and what difference they can make.

In Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castañeda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba . . . and how she came to develop an unhealthy relationship with food.

To help ease her mami’s nervios, Yvonne becomes a perfectionist from a young age, achieving high grades at school and mastering the piano. But as her Cuban family members openly make comments about her awkward desarrollo, or puberty, Yvonne enters a new phase of self-consciousness that begins her obsession with weight.

She abandons the piano for the high school cheerleading team, and reinvents herself, becoming both skinny and popular. However, as a first-generation adolescent born in the United States, Yvonne wrestles with the conflict between the cultural norms of her Hispanic/Latino heritage and American societal expectations.

Plagued by doubt and low self-esteem, Yvonne begins a vicious cycle of weight gain and loss, as she battles Bulimia Nervosa. Beleaguered by feelings of guilt, shame, and inferiority, she develops anxiety, depression, and a reliance on dangerous coping mechanisms.

Ultimately, sage advice from her dear abuela in Guadalajara, Mexico, guides Yvonne to a realization that shifts her perspective of herself and the purpose of her life, providing a foundation for inner peace, and la solución to her past struggles.

A Guided Journal for Teens Understanding of Gender

#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Nonfiction on Maturing and LGBTQ Nonfiction

Write down every thought, every feeling, and every doodle that pops into your mind with this high-quality guided journal destined to be your safe space as you navigate your gender journey.

A witty introduction to Milo Stewart. The start of this journal gives an up close and personal seat to Milo Stewart’s start as a pansexual teen in the hallways of their middle school in Ankeny, Iowa. It is there, where they discover transgender teens are everywhere, living, breathing, and thriving in mundane and ordinary spaces, and where they come into their nonbinary and trans identities

Questions, resources, and prompts to get you thinking. Write down your own experiences with questions and guided journal prompts written to get you to reflect in a safe space. Write about your sexual identity, gender identity, and finally discover yourself. Reflect on who you’ve been and who you want to be, embrace yourself in a whole new way; finding yourself is the goal!

Inside, you’ll find:

• Resources and thought-provoking journal prompts to get you to unleash and discover yourself
• High-quality blank pages to write down your thoughts, feelings, and stories all throughout the book
• Milo Stewart’s compelling true-life story and brief inklings on gender expansive identities, transphobia, media representation and transgender liberation

If you liked inspiring transgender books for transgender children and teens like Beyond the The ABCs of LGBT+, I Love You Unconditionally, or the Gender Identity Workbook for Teens, you’ll love Trans Futures Now.

Inventaron la seda, entrenaron ninjas y curaron la lepra, pero la historia intentó olvidarlas.

Estos 52 relatos de mujeres brillantes e inspiradoras de todo el mundo cuentan cómo desafiaron los roles de género e impactaron directamente en la historia de la humanidad, ya sea con sus descubrimientos, su trabajo o su astucia.

Con un tono lleno de humor y casi como un cuento, Mackenzi Lee nos detalla la vida de estas chicas rudas, que incluyen, entre otras, a la legendaria inventora de la seda, la emperadora Xi Ling Shi; a la primera novelista del mundo, Murasaki Shikibu; y a la mujer que transformó la física moderna, Emmy Noether.

Mujeres que rompieron con los moldes tradicionales de su tiempo para facilitar el camino a las generaciones modernas.

Las bellas ilustraciones que acompañan a cada una de las biografías, hechas por Petra Eriksson, logran una poderosa combinación que enamora desde la primera vista. Eriksson consigue que sus dibujos parezcan saltar de la página y llamen la atención del lector.

Además del giro humorístico de su escritura, la autora ha dotado a sus personajes con una profundidad que las vuelve más humanas. Así, cada una de estas chicas rudas deja entrever el lado positivo y el negativo de su personalidad, lo que las acerca más al lector al alejarlas de las tradicionales biografías acartonadas.

Mackenzi Lee ha recibido varios galardones, y recientemente fue contratada por Marvel para escribir tres libros sobre los antihéroes de esta marca de cómics que ha tenido tanto éxito en el cine.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

They invented silk, trained ninjas, and cured leprosy, but history tried to forget them.

These 52 stories of brilliant and inspiring women from around the world tell how they defied gender roles and directly impacted human history—whether through their discoveries, their work, or their ingenuity.

With a humorous tone and almost like a fairy tale, Mackenzi Lee details the lives of these fierce women, including the legendary inventor of silk, Empress Xi Ling Shi; the world’s first novelist, Murasaki Shikibu; and the woman who transformed modern physics, Emmy Noether.

Women who broke the traditional molds of their time to pave the way for modern generations.

The beautiful illustrations accompanying each biography, created by Petra Eriksson, achieve a powerful combination that captivates at first glance. Eriksson makes her drawings seem to leap off the page and grab the reader’s attention.

Beyond the humorous twist in her writing, the author has given her characters depth that makes them more human. Thus, each of these fierce women reveals both the positive and negative sides of their personality, bringing them closer to the reader and moving away from traditional, rigid biographies.

Mackenzi Lee has received several awards and was recently hired by Marvel to write three books about the brand’s antiheroes, which have been highly successful in film.

Although many adults believe they have had encounters with strange creatures from alien spaceships, not everyone has actually reported their experiences to official investigators. But if you're a young person it's even less likely that people will believe you and more likely that your story will never be officially recorded. After all, who would believe a kid?

I Saw It Too! is the first collection of stories told by children, documenting what they saw and when they saw it. These accounts are real cases of UFOs they've seen or alien creatures they've encountered that were reported to government or military officials, UFO investigators, and journalists.

Inside you will find eighteen of these strange, fascinating, and believable tales recounted by young people from around the world with story illustrations by Stacey Archer with Lonigan Gilbert. The truth is really out there, and renowned ufologist Chris Rutkowski has tracked it down!

Life at home is so unbearable that these kids will risk their lives and face colossal challenges to escape to the United States and find safety. 

This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White shines a light on five individual kids from among the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors who enter the US each year. In stark black and white illustrations, she helps us understand why some young people would literally risk their lives to seek safety in the US. Each one of them has been backed into a corner where emigration to the US seems like their only hope. 

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death, a young adult version of his life, based on the biography USA Today called “magnificent”

“A history of a global luminary figure that serves as a reminder of the courageous freedom-fighting work in front of us."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Adapted from Martin Duberman’s “superb” (New York Times) biography of Paul Robeson, and featuring an introduction by award-winning young adult author Jason Reynolds, along with explanations of key terms and photographs from Robeson’s life, this is a thrilling addition to the young adult canon.

Paul Robeson was destined for greatness. The son of an ex-slave who upon his college graduation ranked first in his class, Robeson was proclaimed the future “leader of the colored race in America.” Although a graduate of Columbia Law School, he abandoned his law career (and the racism he encountered there) and began a hugely successful career as an internationally celebrated actor and singer. Robeson’s triumphs on the stage earned him esteem among white and Black Americans across the country, although his daring and principled activism eventually made him an outcast from the entertainment industry, and his radical views made many consider him a public enemy.

Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me is an introduction for readers in middle and high school to the inspiring and complicated life of one of America’s most fascinating figures, whose story of artistry, heroism, conviction, and conflict is newly relevant today.

Eureka! Silver Award Honor Book

An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice.

Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy functions in North America and gives readers tools to understand how racism impacts their lives. From dismantling internalized racism, decolonizing schools, joining social justice movements and more, Dill lays out paths to personal liberation and social transformation.

Vibrant, dramatic collages by stylo starr complement Dill’s propulsive voice. Fueled by joy and hope as much as by rage and sorrow, this groundbreaking book empowers racialized young people to be confident in their identities and embrace the fullness of their futures.

A New Kids’ Books That Encourage Compassion, Connection, Hope and Inclusion —The Toronto Star

“Eloquent and inspiring . . .” —​STARRED review, Booklist

"There is no death. Only a change of worlds.”
       —Chief Seattle [Seatlh], Suquamish Chief       

What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, and they kept their cultures alive.

When the only possible “victory” was survival, they survived.

In this brilliant follow up to Turtle Island, esteemed academic Eldon Yellowhorn and award-winning author Kathy Lowinger team up again, this time to tell the stories of what Indigenous people did when invaders arrived on their homelands. What the Eagle Sees shares accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered in Indigenous history from a vastly under-represented perspective—an Indigenous viewpoint.

A unique YA anthology of poetry, prose, and artwork written by youth for youth, that addresses the complexities of navigating teenage life in an increasingly changing and complex world.

This mixed-media anthology takes readers on an emotional journey through the highs and lows of being a teen in these turbulent and often challenging times. Beautifully designed by Sy Rohoman alongside poignant artwork from Cleopatria Peterson, the book showcases poetry, memoir, art, photos, and essays, exploring racism, mental health, substance use, and difficult relationships. In the process, the artists show how they have made their own way despite societal and personal challenges.

Let Me Be Honest demonstrates the power of these young artists’ voices while also acting as a balm and road map for young readers who are experiencing similar circumstances.

We can change the world with genetic modification—but should we? 
 

CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. If it sounds complicated, it is—but it’s also one of the most powerful ways we can shape the future. And it’s poised to completely upend the way we think about science.
 

Author Yolanda Ridge tackles this topic in a friendly and accessible tone, with two introductory chapters covering the basics of DNA and genetic modification before taking readers through the ways that this ground-breaking science could affect them by potentially:

-          eliminating diseases like malaria and cancer,  

-          improving the stability of our food supply, and

-          helping to manage conservation efforts for threatened animals and environments.
 

But all of these possible advancements come with risks, the biggest being that the consequences are unknown. Chapters end with “Stop, Go, Yield” sections encouraging readers to consider the pros and cons of using CRISPR. “Cutting Questions” give readers the opportunity to further reflect on the ethics of the science.
 

CRISPR is a game changer. This important book, with detailed scientific illustrations, brings much needed clarity to a topic that will affect readers for generations to come.

A wide-ranging anthology that shines a light on untold Indigenous stories as chronicled by Indigenous creators, compiled by the acclaimed team behind Turtle Island and Sky Wolf’s Call.

For too long, stories and artistic expressions from Indigenous people have been written and recorded by others, not by the individuals who have experienced the events.

In Ours to Tell, sixteen Indigenous creators relate traditions, accounts of historical events, and their own lived experiences. Novelists, poets, graphic artists, historians, craftspeople, and mapmakers chronicle stories on the struggles and triumphs lived by Indigenous people, and the impact these stories have had on their culture and history. Some of the profiles included are:

• Indigenous poet E. Pauline Johnson
• acclaimed novelist Tommy Orange
• brave warrior Standing Bear
• poet and activist Rita Joe

With each profile accompanied by rich visuals, from archival photos to contemporary art, Ours to Tell brilliantly spotlights Indigenous life, past and present, through an Indigenous lens. Because each profile gives an historical and cultural context, what emerges is a history of Indigenous people.

Engrossing true stories of the pioneers of epidemiology who risked their lives to find the source of deadly diseases—now revised to include updated information and a new chapter on Covid-19.

More people have died in disease epidemics than in wars or other disasters, but the process of identifying these diseases and determining how they spread is often a terrifying gamble. Epidemiologists have been ignored, mocked, or silenced all while trying to protect the population and identify “patient zero”—the first person to have contracted the disease, and a key piece in solving the epidemic puzzle.

Patient Zero tracks the gripping tales of eight epidemics and pandemics—how they started, how they spread, and the fight to stop them. This revised edition combines a brand-new design with updated information and features diseases such as Spanish Influenza, Ebola, and AIDS, as well as a new chapter on Covid-19.

A groundbreaking memoir about growing up mixed-race in Ireland, by the Irish Book Award-winning author and media personality Leon Diop.

Mixed-race experience in Ireland has never been described so honestly. Diop, a charismatic public figure and strong positive male role-model for young Irish people, tells his story from his first day as the only brown boy in school to his powerful recent experience reconnecting with his African roots in Senegal.

Growing up, Diop struggled with his identity, got into trouble, and lost his way, before turning his life around and finding his mission: helping Black and mixed-race Irish people tell their own stories. He founded Black & Irish and developed it into an advocacy group, a podcast with RTÉ, and an award-winning book (published by Little Island in 2023).

Now it is Diop’s turn to tell his own story, his journey from mixed-up kid to embracing his own identity, one that will inspire young people and help counter dangerous political narratives in Ireland today.

Si eres fan del romantasy, no podrás resistirte.

Dragones, guerreros valientes, hadas encantadoras y seres fantásticos: todo lo que necesitas para que tu imaginación vuele y tus personajes de romantasy preferidos cobren vida.

Con más de sesenta ilustraciones de distintas artistas, esta es una invitación a un mundo donde los amantes se convierten en enemigos, los enemigos en amantes y los lectores en los verdaderos protagonistas.

Solo sumérgete, colorea y deja que tus historias favoritas se hagan realidad.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

If you're a romantasy fan, you won't be able to resist.

Dragons, brave warriors, enchanting fairies, and magical beings: everything you need to let your imagination soar and bring your favorite romantasy characters to life.

With over sixty illustrations by various artists, this is an invitation to a world where lovers become enemies, enemies become lovers, and readers become the true protagonists.

Just dive in, color, and let your favorite stories come to life.

Hope Rising 365 is a through-the-year devotional for Christian young women in their teenage years and in their 20's. This beautifully produced book full of reflections makes an essential companion through the highs and lows of young women's lives.

A lot can happen in a year. There may be highlights, lowlights or massive life changes. Sometimes things are incredibly exciting and sometimes they're really scary.

Hope Rising 365 offers encouragement and advice for whatever each day holds. Filled with personal stories, Bible wisdom and inspirational thoughts, this daily devotional brings together reflections from Meg Cannon and a whole host of women -- Naomi Aidoo, Jessie Faerber, Rachel Gardner, Ruth Jackson, and Rachael Newham -- to cheer you on during the year ahead.

These strong female voices in the fields of youth and student ministries provide relatable and inspiring reflections based on their experiences as young women and with the wisdom of further life experiences.

Experiencing loss as a teenager or young person can be extremely isolating.

Madeleine Davies experienced this herself at the age of twelve years old when her mother died. Over 20 years later, she can still remember the loneliness that surrounded her, which is what prompted her to write this book, Lights for the Path: A Guide Through Grief, Pain and Loss.

Bringing together stories of loss, advice from doctors, counsellors, authors, as well as Madeleine's own experience, this book offers practical tips and incredible comfort to young readers everywhere. Those working with young people will also find this book to be a valuable resource for helping to support teenagers who have experienced a death of a relative or friend.

After reading Lights for the Path, readers will find comfort in knowing that they are not alone and they will find their way.

Prayer is the key to knowing and communicating with God, unlocking a lifelong faith and being the primary bedrock of Christian faith.

Signal Fire explores the myriad of different ways in which we can connect with God, both together and alone. This handy guide provides opportunities to try out different aspects of prayer, equipping young people with a prayer life of their own.

Prayer is a refuge in times when everything else is failing; it's a compass when we're lost and a firework when we're joy-struck. Prayer is the subject of a thousand distinct metaphors, and they're all both true and insufficient. Why? Because prayer is direct connection with God, and the pathway to making sense of life itself.

Signal Fire encourages young people to develop a life of prayer and connection with God and invest in this key practice of lasting faith. Martin Saunders, Director of Innovation at Youthscape, writes an accessible and practical book for teenagers with some points for reflection and discussion at the end of each chapter.

This book can be used alone by a young person or used by youth workers to work through with a group.

This book unpacks seven core values of the Christian life, giving young people a simple framework for an active faith that goes against the grain of an 'all about me' culture.

You are not the centre of the universe.

When we're so focused on our own lives and concerns, it's easy to forget that the world doesn't revolve around us. This book unpacks seven core values of the Christian life - with God at the centre - exploring whether this in fact is a much more fulfilling way to live.

Offering a new vision of the Christian faith for today's generation, this lively, engaging look at discipleship is full of warmth and practical advice, making it the perfect introduction for young people looking to follow Jesus.

For girls who want to know where we can find our true value, beauty and purpose.

Are you looking for a book that challenges us to question where we've got our ideas about beauty and identity from? Are you looking to find the identity God created you for?

We learn that our value doesn't come from our grades, our body shape, our past, or the number of likes on our latest social media post.

We girls know what it's like to feel inadequate. Despite our best efforts, we constantly compare ourselves to the models in magazines, the selfies we see on Instagram, and even our closest friends.But we're worth so much more than what we tell ourselves.

'More Than Just Pretty' teaches us about our value that doesn't come from our grades, our body shape, our past, or the number of likes on our latest social media post. We're so much more than just pretty. We're pretty funny, pretty kind, pretty ambitious, and all round pretty great. And it's time we knew it as written in 'More Than Just Pretty'.

Join Jessie and discover even more about who you are, and who you're created to be.

A fascinating look at hip hop, the world’s most popular music, and what it means to young people all over the globe, written by an acclaimed pop-culture critic. An excellent introduction to hip hop for young adults.

Hip hop is arguably the predominant global youth subculture of this generation. In this book Dalton Higgins takes vivid snapshots of the hip hop scenes in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and more.

American hip hop has gone through growing pains, and is questioned for being too commercialized to articulate the hopes, concerns and dreams of marginal youth and community members. Outside the US, hip hop culture is often a political tool to mobilize disenfranchised communities around hard issues, with little support from mainstream corporations or sponsors.

Higgins taps into his own powers of pop culture prognostication to predict the future of the genre and the youth culture that spawned it, as hip hop spreads its tentacles to the furthest reaches of humanity.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." — Globe and Mail

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6

Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

Author Deborah Ellis travels across the continent, interviewing more than forty Native American kids and letting them tell their own stories.

They come from all over the continent — from Iqaluit to Texas, Haida Gwaii to North Carolina. Their stories are sometimes heartbreaking; more often full of pride and hope.

You’ll meet Tingo, who has spent most of his young life living in foster homes and motels, and is now thriving after becoming involved with a Native Friendship Center; Myleka and Tulane, young Navajo artists; Eagleson, who started drinking at age twelve but now continues his family tradition working as a carver in Seattle; Nena, whose Seminole ancestors remained behind in Florida during the Indian Removals, and who is heading to New Mexico as winner of her local science fair; Isabella, who defines herself more as Native than American; Destiny, with a family history of alcoholism and suicide, who is now a writer and pow-wow dancer.

Deborah briefly introduces each child and then steps back, letting the kids speak directly to the reader. The result is a collection of frank and often surprising interviews with kids aged nine to eighteen, as they talk about their daily lives, about the things that interest them, and about how being Indigenous has affected who they are and how they see the world.

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.9
Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).

This fascinating look at Africa refutes the common assumption that the Western world is the solution to the challenges the continent faces. An excellent introduction to the subject for young adults.

Think Africa, and many people think of brutal war, endless famine, pervasive corruption, unworthy rulers, universal poverty, an AIDS epidemic out of control. As this book in the Groundwork Guides series shows, these characteristics are both true and a caricature at the same time.

With the bold new presence of China in Africa, with an active and angry civil society demanding more from their governments, and with a new generation of leaders apparently committed to doing better in the future, a real possibility for positive change now exists. But for Africa to move forward, the citizens of rich countries must be aware of the false premises on which their own leaders deal with the continent.

While Africa faces a daunting list of challenges, the vast majority of the continent's citizens live ordinary lives with the hopes and dreams that all of us share.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6

Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

A book about media power, media ethics, media corporations and the need for reliable, unfiltered international news. An excellent introduction to the news for young adults.

Too many of us have no choice about the type of news we receive. Too many of us remain ignorant of major issues and diverse opinions because the news isn't providing them. Over the past twenty years the news media has become more restricted, less diverse and of steadily declining quality. Fewer owners and managers control editorial policies, journalists have been sacked, and those who remain find themselves working at a faster pace on more superficial stories. Most of us rely on a dominant media, controlled by a few globalized giants. These groups have attained enormous financial and political power.

But as this book shows, the trends are not all bad. Outside the West, particularly in Asia, citizens receive better and more diverse news than ever before. Rising levels of literacy and education in India, Korea, Indonesia and China have fostered vastly increased newspaper circulations, and the Internet has brought a much broader world to some restricted societies.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." — Globe and Mail

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6

Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

An introduction to slavery in the world today, in rich and developing nations alike. Clearly and concisely written for young adult readers.

Twenty-seven million people — young and old, men and women — are locked in bondage worldwide. Slavery Today traces the products created by this inhuman system from the jungle and farm through the global markets and into our lives and homes.

Co-authored by the world's leading experts on modern slavery, it unpacks the controversies over prostitution and the buying back of slaves while setting out solutions and demonstrating how readers can get involved in the global anti-slavery movement.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." — Globe and Mail

This book explores today’s global dependency on oil and reveals the sobering realities of the relationship between oil, politics and money. An excellent introduction for young adults.

Oil, our main source of energy, underlies the world's economy. In the twentieth century its availability and relatively low price allowed for the industrial growth and development of the world's leading economies. The new rapidly developing giants, India and China, want access to the same possibilities. But today we know that cheap, easily accessible oil supplies are dwindling, and we are beginning to recognize the true cost to the world's environment of our profligate use of this form of energy.

As Oil shows, a substantial portion of the world's remaining supply lies in countries whose interests are not identical with those of the major industrial powers.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail

Being Muslim is written for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It presents a readable explanation of the most complex and emotion-laden issues of our troubled times. The varying branches of Islam are analyzed and their history outlined — but the focus is on the present.

In speaking about and crossing political, cultural and religious divisions, this book offers a unique perspective, forged in Canada, a country where people from everywhere on earth have found a way to live in peace. Terrorism. Wars. Jihad. Hijab. Polygamy. Muhammad's many wives. Muslim prayer. Female circumcision. Honor killings. Sharia. Stoning. Status of Muslim women. All these topics and more are tackled in this fascinating and informative book for young adult readers.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." — Globe and Mail

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6

Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

Revised and updated edition

Scientists have been warning the world about global warming for almost three decades. But the rest of us are only now starting to get the message. The planet is warming at an unusually rapid rate, and this warming is largely being caused by human activity. Shrinking glaciers, thawing permafrost, erratic weather and threatened freshwater supplies are already affecting the lives of people around the globe, and the worst is yet to come.

The crisis is real, but there is little consensus about how to confront the problem, not only because the science is complex, but because the economic, political and social implications of taking action are vast, far-reaching and unsettling. And despite the urgency, climate change deniers seem to be more vocal than ever.

This revised and updated edition includes the most recent scientific findings while addressing the main issues. What is happening, and how did we get here? What is the basic science behind climate change? What is going to happen in the future? And, most important, why is it so hard for us to accept what is going on, and what can we do about it?

Charts, maps, a glossary, an index and suggestions for further reading accompany the text.

A thought-provoking look at the demands and expectations we place on our growing cities in the twenty-first century. An excellent introduction to the subject for young adults.

Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas. The search for better housing, transit, economic opportunity, and security within neighbourhoods forces today's city-dwellers -- in both the developed world and in megacities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America -- to confront what it means to live in our urban world.

In this book, cities specialist John Lorinc considers the enormous implications of the mass migration away from rural regions, and predicts that solutions will emerge from neighbourhoods and dynamic networks linking communities to governments and the broader urban world.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6

Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

 A fascinating look at empires and imperialism, and the new kind of empire the United States has become. An excellent introduction for young adults.

The United States presides over the most far-flung imperial system ever established. Empire compares the American Empire to those of the past, finding that much can be learned from the fates of the British, Roman, Chinese, Incan, and Aztec empires.

James Laxer draws ominous parallels with the British who discovered too late that empire building ultimately threatens the health of democracy at home. Documenting how the American Empire works and what it means to the rest of the world, Empire asks: Does the American Empire bring stability to a troubled world? Or, like its imperial predecessors, does it impose inequality and oppression on humanity? And what happens when an empire stumbles?

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

What is genocide? Why does it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again?

At the end of the Second World War, with the establishment of the United Nations, the holding of the Nuremberg Trials and the adoption of the Genocide Convention, the international community assured itself that genocide would never happen again. But never again has become a meaningless phrase.

This book asks why. It also asks, what is genocide? Where has it happened in the past? Who is being threatened by genocide today? And what can we do to prevent this terrible crime from recurring?

Providing an overview of the history of genocide worldwide, this revised, expanded edition helps readers answer these questions. It brings them up to date with recent events—the killing of the Rohingya in Myanmar, the persecution of the Uyghurs in China, the broader recognition of the genocide of Indigenous Peoples, the resurgence of fighting in Darfur, and the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. It examines and elucidates the debates and controversies surrounding the use of the term genocide as well as the reasons for the common response by individuals, governments and the United Nations — denial.

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A Booklist Editors’ Choice and a Society of School Librarians International (SSLI) Honor Book

Street gangs have exploded worldwide. Tattoos, baggy pants, tagging, gangsta style, the unspoken threat -- it's all just around the corner in most of the world's major cities. From the streets of Los Angeles to the shantytowns of Cape Town, hundreds of thousands of "at risk" youth are deciding whether they should join their local gang.

Violence, guns, the drug trade, racism, poverty, families under pressure and ever-widening slums all provide a witch's brew in which the youth gang tempts young males and females with a sense of identity and belonging that their world has denied them.

Gangs exposes the roots of the problem as it moves from the banlieues of France to the favelas of Brazil. It offers a startling analysis of the complicity of the official adult world and some controversial ideas for reforms that might just undermine the appeal of gang life.

For many of the world's young -- especially those who are poor -- joining a gang is a real career choice. It is a choice that can be as deadly for young gangsters as for their victims. Richard Swift shows us that we fail to understand gangs at our peril.

An investigation of the origins of democracy in a range of countries and societies, from ancient Greece to modern times, and the threats that democracy is under today. An excellent introduction to democracy for young adults.

In this eye-opening work, political scientist and award-winning author James Laxer warns readers that our common assumptions about democracy — that it is a natural progression of advanced societies and that it is on the rise worldwide — are misguided. Democracy, in fact, is very fragile.

Showcasing examples from all over the world, this book explains the rise of democracy in the twentieth century and examines the current status of democracy in advanced countries and in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Laxer warns that globalization and the widening gap between the rich and poor threaten to weaken democracy and the vigor of democratic regimes — even in countries where it has been long established.

"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." — Globe and Mail

Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1

Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3

Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).

Learn from the Best and Elevate Your Game

"To all the young athletes out there looking for motivation check out Trust The Grind." ―Jason Kidd, Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

#1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Fitness & Exercise, Baseball & Softball, and Sports

Trust the Grind is an exceptional book for teenage boys and young adults, promising to revolutionize your understanding of success and athletic prowess. Gain exclusive insights from top athletes and learn the valuable habits that catapulted them to the pinnacle of their sports.

Unleash your potential with Trust the Grind. This inspiring book for teenage boys offers a front-row seat to the journey of world-class athletes, uncovering the secrets that drove their rise to the top. With insightful interviews from stars across eleven sports, you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the habits and principles that shaped their success.

Master the art of discipline and drive. This athlete book offers not just tales of astonishing victories, but an examination of the habits and practices behind them. For teen boys or young adults with sports aspirations or any other field, it delivers invaluable life lessons on goal setting, discipline, sacrifice, and maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle.

Athletes interviewed in Trust The Grind. Jason Kidd, Chipper Jones,Terrell Owens, Paige VanZant, Manny Pacquiao, Mike Modano, Jimmie Johnson, Gary Player, Deena Kastor, Ryan Sheckler, Georges St-Pierre, Ryan Lochte, Devin Hester, Andruw Jones, Luis Gonzalez, and Tim Hudson.

Inside discover:

• Success habits that foster discipline, drive, and goal setting
• Insights into maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle
• Inspirational stories and valuable life lessons applicable beyond sports

Fans of books like Mental Toughness For Young Athletes, Shoot your Shot, The Young Champion's Mind, Think Like a Warrior, The Cost of These Dreams, Relentless, or Shaken, will love Trust the Grind.

Manual para sobrevivir a un corazón roto y, sobre todo, para asumir que está bien estar mal.

Amalia se enfrenta a un corazón roto… ¿el suyo? Con una mirada positiva, enérgica y con toques de humor, construye un kit de primeros auxilios absolutamente interactivo: muy útil para combatir el desamor a través de reflexiones, consejos, recetas y montones de listas e ideas ingeniosas capaces de transformar una experiencia negativa en una fuerza liberadora.

Cambiar no es una renuncia sino una promesa, nos dice la autora. Porque si algo no funciona, SIEMPRE habrá un nuevo amor o una nueva vida.

Porque en el amor y en el desamor nunca estamos solos.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Amalia deals with a broken heart… her own? With a positive, energetic approach, with hints of humor, she builds a completely interactive first aid kit, which comes in handy to face the lack of love through reflection, advice, recipes and tons of lists and clever ideas capable of transforming a negative experience into a liberating force. Changing does not mean giving something up, but rather promising something, says the author. Because if something is not working out, there will ALWAYS be a new love or a new life.

Because when it comes to love, or the lack thereof, we are never alone. 

A manual to survive a broken heart and, above all, accept that it is OK to feel bad.

A young readers edition of the bestselling book from Auschwitz survivor Hédi Fried that answers questions about the Holocaust with sensitivity and candor.

“Something like what Anne Frank might have written had she survived … Timeless lessons taught with simple eloquence.” Kirkus Reviews

Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her sister were forced into hard labor. Now ninety-nine, she has devoted her life to educating young people about the Holocaust and answering their questions. This new edition of her bestselling book is perfect for readers aged 10–17. This is a deeply human book for people of all ages that urges us never to forget and never to repeat.

• The perfect conversation starter for educators to teach young people about the reality of the Holocaust from lived experience.
• Wonderful companion piece to Art Speigelman’s Maus.
• In the wake of recent reports that a shocking proportion of young people in the US know little to nothing about the Holocaust, alongside a concerning new wave of antisemitism in the US and Europe, this deeply personal first-hand account is especially timely.

Be Brave is a guided notebook with tools, advice, and inspiration to help teenagers build self-confidence, inner strength, and resilience.

This practical guide helps teenagers to build self-confidence, inner strength, and resilience and includes tips, exercises, and ideas to help readers explore how paying attention to their actions, being curious and staying positive can bring out the best in them. 

Topics include:

• Dealing with gossip
• Cyberbullies
• Resisting peer pressure
• Mastering public speaking
• Performing live on stage
• Learning how to make the right decisions
• Coping with embarrassing moments
• Practising self-belief
• Realising their dreams.

TEEN Breathe is the sister magazine to bestselling and award-winning Breathe, it aims to promote wellbeing and mindfulness to cultivate a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life for teenagers.

Be Positive is a guided notebook with tools, advice, and inspiration to help teenagers achieve their goals.

This practical guide encourages teenagers to embrace happiness and make steps towards a more fulfilled life by challenging their critical inner voice. It offers them the tools to build their self-esteem, increase motivation, and find the courage to face new challenges and embrace new opportunities.

Topics include:

• Gather some sayings
• Ditch the routine
• Say yes
• Making new friends
• New habits, new you

TEEN Breathe is the sister magazine to bestselling and award-winning Breathe, it aims to promote wellbeing and mindfulness to cultivate a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life for teenagers.

Dive into the depths of the unknown with The Underwater Mystery, where Jin Tan leads the adventure! Imagine a world where the ocean holds incredible secrets—like waves you can’t even see from the surface. Follow Jin as she unravels the fascinating science of internal waves, mysterious forces that can stop ships in their tracks, and even affect submarines. Travel back in time to learn about the strange “dead water” phenomenon, first experienced by real-life explorer Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. Explore how these invisible waves shape our climate, protect coral reefs, and present unexpected challenges to submarines!

Packed with mind-blowing facts, hands-on experiments you can try at home, and thrilling true stories, Jin guides you through a hidden world beneath the ocean’s surface. Find out why the Arctic ice is melting faster, how waves can form and travel between layers of water without losing its identity, and what makes these mysterious waves so powerful. Ready to dive into an ocean full of hidden wonders? Join Jin Tan in The Underwater Mystery for an unforgettable adventure!

Strong, quick, and physically dominant – Erling Haaland is the Manchester City striker who has it all. From an early age, his impatience and his determination to succeed always singled him out as a player to watch. This is the inspiring story of how a boy from Bryne in Norway used his extraordinary skill and his total self-belief to become one of the greatest strikers in the world.

This biography is one of the new titles in Leapfrog's Tales from the Pitch series. These fast-moving reads offer a fresh take on the familiar football biography format.

• Each book focuses on one up-and-coming football superstar, often players who are still to reach the summit of their career. 
  
• The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury and rejection, making these moving and inspirational stories. 
  
• The books are brimming with football banter that will have the knowing fans smiling. 
  
• And each players story is littered with football tricks and tips, so readers can learn the arts of the glorious game. 
  

At only 120 pages long, Tales from the Pitch are easy to read and very fast-paced reads. So, meet the footballers behind the iconic tackles and goals, and find out what makes each of these players so special.

¡Tú decides cómo eres!

“Este libro es tan genial y tan necesario que me dan ganas de viajar al pasado y regalárselo a mi yo adolescente, abrazarla y prometerle que todo va a estar bien, y finalmente decirle: Amiga, date cuenta.” —Amalia Andrade

¡HEY! Tenemos tres noticias: Primero, la mala: a esta edad surgen tantas dudas que tus neuronas explotan como palomitas de maíz. Luego, una peor: si le preguntas a tu familia, seguramente se pondrán tan nerviosos que van a salir corriendo. Por último, la buena: en este libro encontrarás información sobre tu primera cita con la ginecóloga, tatuajes, la menstruación, qué hacer cuando tienes un crush, la comunidad LGBTI+, sexualidad, cómo luchar contra el machismo, lo increíble que es ser tú misma y otros temas de los que hasta tus papás van a aprender un montón.

¡Incluye stickers increíbles y miles de dibujitos! Es más, ¡incluye un mágico traductor adulto-español!

Amiga, date cuenta: crecer es difícil, pero también es una experiencia maravillosa. No te preocupes, aquí tienes a dos cómplices que te acompañarán y te hablarán de todo lo que a “tus mayores” les da miedo contarte.

Veñ, se va a poner chido.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

You decide who you are!

"This book is so amazing and so necessary that it makes me want to travel back in time, give it to my teenage self, hug her, promise her that everything is going to be okay, and finally tell her: Girl, wake up." —Amalia Andrade

HEY! We have three announcements: First, the bad news—at this age, you have so many questions that your brain feels like it's popping like popcorn. Then, the worse news—if you ask your family, they'll probably get so nervous that they’ll run away. And finally, the good news—in this book, you'll find info on your first gynecologist appointment, tattoos, periods, what to do when you have a crush, the LGBTQ+ community, sexuality, how to fight sexism, how amazing it is to be yourself, and other topics that even your parents might learn a lot from.

It comes with awesome stickers and tons of doodles! Plus, it even has a magical adult-to-teen translator!

Girl, wake up—growing up is tough, but it's also an incredible experience. Don’t worry, you have two partners-in-crime here to guide you through everything your elders are too scared to talk about.

Come on, it's gonna be awesome!

Be Calm is a guided notebook with tools, advice, and inspiration to help teenagers learn how to relax and cope with stress.

This practical guide helps teenagers learn how to be more peaceful and freer from worry, and to remain cool in times of stress. It includes various strategies, from yoga and meditation exercises to learning how to manage strong emotions, revising effectively to stargazing and creating a DIY retreat.

Topics include:

• A journal for life
• Starting your journal
• Top tips
• How to study the clouds

TEEN Breathe is the sister magazine to bestselling and award-winning Breathe, it aims to promote wellbeing and mindfulness to cultivate a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life for teenagers.

In this heartfelt and often-funny memoir, author Sonya Ballantyne gives us a look at her younger self’s diary and inner life as she struggles to find herself in the pop culture she loves.

Before she was a successful writer, Sonya Ballantyne was just another kid growing up on the rez, searching for her place in the world. Her love of comics, fantasy novels, movies, and all things geeky helped her understand her life at school, her relationships with her family, and her identity. But growing up wasn’t easy and Sonya faced racism and bullying at school. Sonya takes the lessons from superhero comics to be brave in the face of adversity, to grow from strife, and to keep pushing forward towards her dreams. How did she find her way to the other side and live to tell the tale?
 

Imagina que un día vas a tu lugar secreto en un antiguo parque de atracciones y olvidas tu cuaderno de ideas, y cuando vuelves a buscarlo descubres una nota misteriosa que se dirige directamente a ti. ¿Responderías? Así fue como Mila y Leo se conocieron. Bueno, en realidad no. Se conocieron en el colegio y sí, se disgustaron al instante (son muy diferentes, ya verás). Por suerte, gracias a las notas del cuaderno perdido, descubrieron que tenían mucho en común: como las inmensas ganas de hacer preguntas. Así fue como formaron unclub secreto. El problema llegó cuando se dieron cuenta de que dos miembros no eran suficientes, así que decidieron buscar (¡o crear!) un tercero.
Zander: ¡Comienzan las preguntas! es el primer libro inspirado en la serie de filosofía para niños.

Mila, Leo y Zander invitan a los jóvenes a reflexionar, de manera educativa y humorística, sobre lo que significa ser humano.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Imagine that one day you go to your secret place in an old amusement park and you forget your notebook of ideas, and when you go back to look for it you discover a mysterious note that directly addresses you. Would you respond? That’s how Mila and Leo met. Well, not really. They met at school and yes, they disliked each other instantly (they are very different, you'll see). Luckily, thanks to the notes in the lost notebook, they discovered that they had a lot in common: like the immense desire to ask questions. That's how they formed a secret club. The problem came when they realized that two members were not enough, so they decided to look for (or create!!) a third.
Zander: The questions begin! is the first book inspired by the philosophy series for children.

Mila, Leo and Zander invite young people to reflect, in an educational and humorous way, on what it means to be human.

Vampiros, casas embrujadas, portales a otra dimensión… La sociedad de las pesadillas lo ha visto todo y ahora es tu turno de unirte a sus aventuras.

Conviértete en un cazafantasmas experto con toda la información y consejos que estos seis mejores amigos han recopilado en sus investigaciones alrededor del mundo. En esta guía no solo encontrarás una detallada explicación de todas las herramientas que necesitas parainvestigar fenómenos del más allá, también descubrirás detalles exclusivos de sus casos más famosos, como su estadía en la casa de El conjuro, su visita al tenebroso bosque de Arashiyama, en Japón, su investigación sobre las brujas de Salem y sus aventuras en el hotel embrujado más famoso de México.

¡Prepárate para un viaje escalofriante y lleno de sorpresas! En este manual tendrás un vistazo exclusivo a la colección de objetos malditos de Raiza; Claudia revelará detalles nunca antes contados de sus casos más intrigantes; Pato te enseñará los secretos ocultos del tarot y, quién sabe, quizá incluso descifres un escalofriante mensaje oculto de Gera. No importa si eres tan escéptico como Reny o si te asustas tan fácilmente como Andrea... este libro te atrapará de principio a fin.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

 Vampires, haunted houses, portals to another dimension… The Nightmare Society has seen it all, and now it’s your turn to join their adventures.

Become an expert ghost hunter with all the information and tips these six best friends have gathered in their investigations around the world. In this guide, you’ll not only find a detailed explanation of all the tools you need to investigate paranormal phenomena, but you’ll also discover exclusive details of their most famous cases, like their stay in the house from The Conjuring, their visit to the eerie Arashiyama forest in Japan, their investigation of the Salem witches, and their adventures in the most haunted hotel in Mexico.

Get ready for a spine-chilling journey full of surprises! In this manual, you’ll get an exclusive look at Raiza’s collection of cursed objects; Claudia will reveal never-before-told details of her most intriguing cases; Pato will teach you the hidden secrets of tarot, and who knows, you might even decipher a chilling hidden message from Gera. It doesn’t matter if you’re as skeptical as Reny or if you get scared as easily as Andrea… this book will captivate you from start to finish.

Be Original is a guided notebook that provides tools, advice, and inspiration to help teenagers to identify and embrace their individuality.

This practical guide inspires teenagers to discover what makes them unique, celebrate their originality and present their most authentic selves to the world.

Including topics such as:

• Resisting peer pressure
• Pushing past their comfort zone
• Believing in themselves to realise their dreams.

TEEN Breathe is the sister magazine to bestselling and award-winning Breathe, it aims to promote wellbeing and mindfulness to cultivate a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life for teenagers.

Be Kind is a guided notebook with tools, advice, and inspiration to help teenagers be compassionate to themselves and others.

This practical guide teaches teenagers how to treat everyone with respect, compassion, and care, including themselves.

The book covers a range of topics, including:

• Identifying strengths and accepting flaws
• Letting go of negative thoughts
• Embracing failure
• Forgiving others
• Giving compliments
• Celebrating cultural differences
• Being nice to the planet.

TEEN Breathe is the sister magazine to bestselling and award-winning Breathe, it aims to promote wellbeing and mindfulness to cultivate a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life for teenagers.

El fin del amor nunca es fácil; Alberto Villarreal lo sabe bien.

Por ello, ahora explora su pasado y evoca con valentía sus propias desilusiones amorosas para encontrar las respuestas que él, y cualquiera que haya tenido el corazón roto, necesitan.

Mediante consejos, anécdotas, recomendaciones de lectura y reflexiones, este libro te ayudará a aceptar que el amor puede existir incluso cuando una relación se acaba y que soltar a alguien no necesariamente implica borrarlo de tu historia.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The end of love is never easy; Alberto Villarreal knows this well.

That’s why he now explores his past and bravely recalls his own romantic disappointments to find the answers that he, and anyone who has had their heart broken, needs.

Through advice, anecdotes, reading recommendations, and reflections, this book will help you accept that love can exist even when a relationship ends and that letting go of someone doesn’t necessarily mean erasing them from your story.

A Be Yourself Guide for Teen Girls

#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Maturing, School & Education, Bullying Issues, Dating & Intimacy

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.

Support for young women as they navigate one of the most confusing and challenging times of their lives. When Amanda Ford emerged from her tumultuous teenage years, she saw the need for a guide to help girls learn to listen to their inner voices and think for themselves. Be True To Yourself is the big sister Amanda never had―and always wanted to be. It provides the encouragement and guidance she wished, as a teenage girl, that an older sister had given her, as well as stories and advice that she would have loved to share with a younger sister during her own teen years.

Your daughter, granddaughter, niece, or young friend will learn to listen to her heart with this coming-of-age guide. Girls will find comfort, encouragement, and insight in these pages, along with suggestions for articulating and confiding their feelings, fears, and frustrations. They will learn more about so many important topics introduced during adolescence, such as:

• How to love yourself, boost your self-confidence, and receive compliments well
• How to determine your own values, be true to yourself, and follow through on your promises
• How to cherish your friends and family―even when they’re getting on your last nerve

If you appreciated self-development books for teens like The Ultimate Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens, Just As You Are, You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way, or Embracing the Awkward, then you’ll love Be True to Yourself.

It didn't always look as though Raheem Sterling would make it as a world-class player. From a difficult start in life to a tough time in the spotlight, Raheem has always had to think on his feet. This is the incredible story of how a boy who grew up in the shadow of Wembley Stadium used his grit and passion to steer himself to the very top.

• Each book focuses on one up-and-coming football superstar, often players who are still to reach the summit of their career. 
  
• The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury and rejection, making these moving and inspirational stories. 
  
• The books are brimming with football banter that will have the knowing fans smiling. 
  
• And each players story is littered with football tricks and tips, so readers can learn the arts of the glorious game. 
  

At only 120 pages long, Tales from the Pitch are easy to read and very fast-paced reads. So, meet the footballers behind the iconic tackles and goals, and find out what makes each of these players so special.

Women Scientists and Entrepreneurs You Should Know

“A book that is sure to inspire a new generation of girls in STEM. Educational and inspiring!” ─ Felicia Day, New York Times bestseller, American actress, gamer, writer, web series creator, and queen of the geeks.

#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Inventions and History of Science and Biographies.

From saving the oceans to improving the rehabilitation and job prospects of people struggling in prison, these badass female scientists and entrepreneurs are changing the world.

Take a look at what the future holds—and how women are making it better. In The Future of Science is Female, author and award-winning journalist Zara Stone shares the fascinating, complicated stories of how a diverse group of powerful women got started—from the perspective of those still working it out as they go along. Take 22-year old Dominique Barnes, a female hero of the oceans. She was worried about all the dolphins and whales killed during shrimp farming, so the marine biologist created a tasty, affordable plant-based shrimp alternative. And she's just one of the sheroes you will discover in The Future of Science is Female.

Real encouragement and inspiration for today's amazing girls. Forget the "ivory tower" of accomplishment. Learn about the drama, tears, and adventures everyday women heroes face as they race to fix everything the world has messed up. The Future of Science is Female inspires future female founders of the world to turn their dreams into reality.

Readers of inspiring books about strong women like The Book of Awesome Women, Galaxy Girls, and Girls Who Run the World will love The Future of Science is Female. Inside also learn about:

• Kimberlie Le and her edible synthesized fungi that tastes just like your favorite seafood
• Pree Walia's Nailbot, a portable printer that prints nail art from a cellphone and encourages girls to join STEM programs

From humble beginnings in Brazil to becoming part of the most feared attacking trio in world soccer, Neymar has come a long way. But his path to the top was far from straightforward. After overcoming an injury that nearly finished his career, he struggled with the burdens and frustrations of carrying the dreams of a nation, at the age of just 24. Join the new Prince of Santos as he embarks on a personal quest – and wins some of the biggest trophies in soccer on the way. Neymar plays for Al Hilal in the Saudi Pro League and the Brazil National Team. 

This biography is one of the new titles in Leapfrog's Tales from the Pitch series. These fast-moving reads offer a fresh take on the familiar football biography format.

• Each book focuses on one up-and-coming football superstar, often players who are still to reach the summit of their career. 
  
• The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury and rejection, making these moving and inspirational stories. 
  
• The books are brimming with football banter that will have the knowing fans smiling. 
  
• And each players story is littered with football tricks and tips, so readers can learn the arts of the glorious game. 
  

At only 120 pages long, Tales from the Pitch are easy to read and very fast-paced reads. So, meet the footballers behind the iconic tackles and goals, and find out what makes each of these players so special.

• Musicians young teens will know and love: Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, Lil Nas X, and more!
• Iconic artists from past generations: readers will learn about the extraordinary impact of artists such as Nina Simone, Neil Young, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman, and more.
• Playlists for each social justice issue: Each chapter includes a playlist with recommended songs about an area of activism, from classic tracks to contemporary hits.

An uplifting guide for Christian teen girls to live life knowing they are love by God.

Taking Romans 12:2 as its foundation—“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, you may prove the will of God, that which is good, acceptable, and perfect”— the book dares readers to explore critical issues such as self-esteem, courage, honesty, and identity through the lens of scripture and experience, offering the positive message that they are valued and loved by God.

Change the way you look at money before you turn 20—and become a FI Freak!

Most teenagers are told about only one financial path: Work until you’re old and then retire. But what if you want to spend your adult life traveling, creating, or bettering the world instead of working all day, every day?

Financial independence (FI) is the only way to win the resource you can’t rewind: time. Time for yourself, time for your family and friends, and time for your dreams. Build the freedom to define your own future by building a strong financial base—which means saving more, spending less, and starting to invest as soon as possible.

First to a Million explores the many advantages of FI while explaining the secrets of investing, living frugally, and maintaining an entrepreneurial mindset. Treating your finances differently than the average teenager will put you miles ahead of your peers, and with time (and compounding) on your side, you can win the game before it even starts!

Inside the Book, You’ll Learn:

Be Healthy is a guided notebook with tools, advice, and inspiration to help teenagers to lead a healthier lifestyle.

This practical guide for teenagers offers powerful strategies to keep the body and mind healthy.

Contents include:

• Tips for a better sleep
• How to maintain a balanced diet
• Simple steps to develop good habits
• Fun mood-boosting activities.

TEEN Breathe is the sister magazine to bestselling and award-winning Breathe, it aims to promote wellbeing and mindfulness to cultivate a happier, healthier, more fulfilled life for teenagers.

Finally, the real history of Switzerland for clever kids and clever kids-at-heart! 

Dukes slaughtered by filthy peasants, innocent "witches" hung up by their necks, buried gold, female mountaineers and, of course, all those murderous cows ... Not the fake history of Heidi and William Tell, but "Swisstory" – from ancient mountain people right up to women's right to vote. Hilariously illustrated by bestselling Swiss artist Michael Meister, Swisstory is outrageous, fascinating, gruesome – and completely true.

A Radiant Daily Devotional for Teenage Girls

#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Biblical Studies

Radiant Faith by M.J. Fievre is a 52-week devotional guide designed to help teenage girls deepen their faith and spiritual connection. By incorporating personal stories, scripture, and prayer, this guide aims to inspire and empower teenage girls to live confidently in their faith.

Seeking an empowering daily devotional for spiritual and personal growth? Radiant Faith is the christian journal book to kickstart your spiritual journey. With daily readings, reflection questions, and journaling pages, you’ll grow your faith and connection with God.   

Thrive with this spiritual and personal growth book. This 52-week devotional for teenage girls equips teenage readers with tools and questions to ignite their passion for God while building confidence and resilience in their faith. 

Inside, you’ll find:

• 52 weekly Christian devotionals exploring crucial themes for teenage girls
• Practical advice and encouragement to help teenage girls navigate daily challenges
• Relatable stories and reflection questions that foster a sense of identity and sisterhood

If you're looking for Christian books or books for teenage girls, add this to your cart! If you liked Fearless Faith, Choose Kindness, or Prayers for Calm, you’ll love Radiant Faith.

Half of all people on earth have vaginas. But how much do we know about that part of our body? And why are we too shy to talk about it? 

Lili Sohn thought she knew all she needed to know about her own anatomy, but then she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 29, and she didn’t recognize her own body. So, what is a woman anyway? What if I don’t have breasts or a uterus? You are what you feel, that’s what Sohn discovers in Vagina Love. Come along as she strays from the classical anatomical path created by a patriarchal society, and instead uses vibrant illustrations and disarming humor combined with concrete scientific facts to form an easily accessible and comprehensive guide to the reproductive anatomy of people with vaginas, from periods to menopause, from orgasms to contraceptives. 

To become a mogul, you have to be a misfit at heart.

Hisham Ahmad shares his story of how feeling invisible can truly lead to finding your tribe and using your remarkable imagination to create innovation—all while learning the skills to bring these inventions to life.

Misfit Mogul is a guide for all kids who don’t understand why they’re bored in class, adults who don’t understand why they’re bored in general, and those seeking mega-success when it feels out of reach. When in doubt, you gotta Misfit the situation.

As a young entrepreneur with several patents, companies, and the spirit of a true outsider-turned-innovator, Hisham reveals the hidden truths about business, finance, and lasting success. With his companies worth $100 million and growing, Hisham is considered one of the youngest moguls and thought leaders in America.

Misfit Mogul will take you to your “new school,” a place where you’re catapulted from invisible to innovator, and eventually, to teenage millionaire.

Born in a small Pennsylvania town, it was never certain that Christian Pulisic would be able to realize his full potential. But his youth, agility and impressive skills have taken Christian to some of the most demanding leagues in the world - and made him captain of the United States national team. After playing a crucial role in Chelsea's 2021 Champions League victory, Pulisic has now moved to serial Champions League winner, AC Milan.

This is the astonishing story of how this impressive youngster became the most expensive American soccer player in history.

This biography is one of the new titles in Leapfrog's Tales from the Pitch series. These fast-moving reads offer a fresh take on the familiar football biography format.

• Each book focuses on one up-and-coming football superstar, often players who are still to reach the summit of their career. 
  
• The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury and rejection, making these moving and inspirational stories. 
  
• The books are brimming with football banter that will have the knowing fans smiling. 
  
• And each players story is littered with football tricks and tips, so readers can learn the arts of the glorious game. 
  

At only 120 pages long, Tales from the Pitch are easy to read and very fast-paced reads. So, meet the footballers behind the iconic tackles and goals, and find out what makes each of these players so special.

For 200 years people have sought the treasure buried on Oak Island on Canada’s East Coast. Bob Restall got his chance, but it ended in tragedy.

A fabulous treasure lies buried deep within an island on Canada’s East Coast. Or so they say. For more than 200 years, treasure-hunters have come to Oak Island, spent fortunes, worked long and hard, and left empty-handed.

When Bob Restall and his family got their chance to search for treasure on Oak Island, they believed they soon would succeed where others had failed. But the island resisted. For nearly six years the Restalls lived and laboured on Oak Island, spurred on by small successes and tantalizing clues. And then one August day, the Restall hunt for buried treasure came to a sudden and tragic end.

Oak Island Family, written by Bob and Mildred Restall’s daughter, gives a clear account of Oak Islands strange history and the Restall family’s attempt to change it. Personal notes and more than 50 never-before-published photographs and sketches help make Oak Island Family an engrossing read. Anyone who loves mystery, adventure, and a good human interest story will enjoy this book.

Un entretenido recorrido por el cuerpo humano con Triptofanito y sus amigos, lleno de aventuras, emoción y peligro.

Ya sea para acercarse a la estructura de los órganos del cuerpo o para conocer su funcionamiento, este popular texto despierta la curiosidad de los lectores por profundizar en las ciencias de la salud. Este clásico renovado nos permite entender el cuerpo como un sistema formado por subsistemas, pero con claridad y de una manera que promueve tomar un papel activo en la salud.

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An entertaining tour of the human body with Triptofanito and his friends, full of adventures, excitement, and danger.

Whether to get closer to the structure of the body's organs, or to learn about their functioning, this popular text piques curiosity of readers to go deeper into the health sciences. This renewed classic allows us to understand the body as a system made up of subsystems, but with clarity and in a way that promotes taking an active role in one’s health.

Quijotescos cruces entre la ciencia y la literatura

Un ratón de biblioteca y una rata de laboratorio unieron fuerzas y conocimientos. Querían experimentar con los clásicos de la literatura universal. Y un científico, muy ducho, estaba ahí para poner en un libro el resultado de aquel experimento.

Homero y la medicina de guerra, Virgilio y la vulcanología, Shakespeare y la climatología, Austen y la psicología, entre muchos otros cruces quijotescos, fáusticos, dantescos y hasta macondianos fueron como un banquete para esos roedores. ¡Disfrútalo tú también!

Be Happy is a guided notebook for teenagers, providing tools, advice, and inspiration to promote joy and wellbeing.

This practical guide helps teenagers to focus on the positives in their lives, set goals and discover the best in themselves. It covers a range of topics, from what happiness really is to simple ways to boost their mood, practising acceptance, managing their online reputation, making time for themselves, focusing on hopes and goals for the future, and enjoying the simple things in life. 

• The popular Be You series has been designed to help teenagers with the most common issues they face today
• Beautifully illustrated guide providing tools, advice, and inspiration to promote joy
• Includes supportive, unpatronizing and gender-neutral language

A Motivational, Self Help Book for Teens

Young adulthood can be overwhelming. This self help workbook for teens teaches you how to navigate your teenage years and set meaningful, impactful goals. 

The most important life skills for teens. Your teenage years are the perfect time to set yourself up for lifetime success. If you feel lost or think you lack self-confidence, this book can be your guiding light to the life you want to live now and in your future adulthood. In this workbook, you’ll gain the skills you need to become focused, motivated, and self-reliant.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has a new companion workbook. Best-selling author Sean Covey uses engaging activities and thought-provoking self-evaluations to help you build and maintain healthy habits. You have your whole life ahead of you; use this book as your secret weapon. Let The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: Mini-Workbook be your guide to happy teenage years and thriving adulthood.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Weekly challenges to push you out of your comfort zone and into personal growth
• Helpful tips on building self-confidence and navigating social pressures
• Life skills for teens that set you up for a smart and successful adult life

If you liked Adulting for Beginners, The Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens, or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, you’ll love The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: Mini-Workbook.

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 This is a book about fear. About how it works, how it takes hold over us, and how it dogs us from childhood (the monsters under the bed) to adulthood (careers, relationships, accidentally sending that risky text to the wrong person--all the things that make us want to bite our nails). But this is also a book about that monster our fear can warp into when it grows too powerful, a phenomenon we are all too familiar with and that more and more of us are struggling against: anxiety. 

Author and illustrator Amalia Andrade had her own battle with anxiety, and not only did she make it out the other side, she learned sometimes it's the very thing that almost sinks you that can save you. Through the lessons, exercises, and often hilarious personal stories Amalia shares in these pages, together you will learn how to make those feelings your friends and turn your fears into superpowers.

Helen Betty Osborne, known as Betty to her closest friends and family, dreamed of becoming a teacher. She left home to attend residential school and later moved to The Pas, Manitoba, to attend high school. On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have been murdered or gone missing. This is her story.

Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story has been selected as a White Raven 2016 by the International Youth Library for its annual catalogue of book recommendations in the field of international children’s and youth literature. This year’s White Ravens catalogue contains 200 titles in 42 languages from 60 countries.

Cuidado. Las emociones que se reflejan están más cerca de lo que parecen. 

Un libro que por momentos no quise escribir; sobre el vacío que llevamos en la boca del estómago y sobre cómo detrás de fotos, dibujos, poemas y canciones está la herramienta más certera para decir dónde nos duele lo que nos duele.

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From the ‘Spanish-speaking Brené Brown’ comes a practical, illustrated guide to how (and where) our bodies are affected by emotions. 

What is the right way to talk about our emotions and feelings? Are the two synonyms or altogether different words? These are the questions Amalia Andrade addresses in this insightful book about emotions, feelings and affections, where—through a mix of personal anecdotes, photographs, illustrations and data—Andrade offers a guide to learning exactly how our bodies are affected by our reactions to daily life.

Through the Pacific Northwest forests and along the rugged coastal shores of California, a young environmentalist’s coming-of-age story about learning, discovery, and survival

Wolf Girl takes readers on Doniga’s journey: from the wilderness immersion school where she was taught by Indigenous elders and wildlife trackers, to hitchhiking across the Pacific Northwest, to Alaska, where she fell in love with tracking wolves.

These experiences shaped and inspired Doniga to become the leader in the regenerative agricultural movement that she is today. Today’s youth are at the forefront of climate change activism, and will see themselves in Doniga’s story, in the message that you can find yourself by finding—and fighting for—your place within the world at large.

Youth aren’t just the activists of tomorrow—they’re the activists of today. Wolf Girl is an inspiring memoir of a young girl’s quest to save the planet. —-Michelle Roehm McCann, author of Enough is Enough: How Students Can Join the Fight for Gun Safety and the Girls Who Rocked the World series

Wolf Girl makes a great gift for any young person wanting to make a difference.

Publisher’s note: This is a young adult adaptation of Doniga Markegard’s Dawn Again.

Now a lethal striker for his boyhood club – and an international superstar – Marcus Rashford is living his dream. But from navigating a ruthless academy to playing under one of the fiercest managers in the game, Marcus's meteoric rise to the top of Manchester United wasn't always easy. 

This is the story of how a boy from Manchester used his passion and his talent to steer himself on a path to greatness. 

This biography is one of the new titles in Leapfrog's Tales from the Pitch series. These fast-moving reads offer a fresh take on the familiar football biography format.

• Each book focuses on one up-and-coming football superstar, often players who are still to reach the summit of their career. 
  
• The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury and rejection, making these moving and inspirational stories. 
  
• The books are brimming with football banter that will have the knowing fans smiling. 
  
• And each players story is littered with football tricks and tips, so readers can learn the arts of the glorious game. 
  

At only 120 pages long, Tales from the Pitch are easy to read and very fast-paced reads. So, meet the footballers behind the iconic tackles and goals, and find out what makes each of these players so special.

Si quieres enterarte de las últimas novedades de la boy band del momento, este es tu libro. En él, recorrerás cada uno de los discos que han lanzado a lo largo de su trayectoria y podrás conocer todo sobre: Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V y Jungkook.

Únete al fandom en el que lo mejor está por venir.

This fully illustrated picture book tells the story of soccer superstar Lionel Messi in a fun, simple way that's perfect for the very youngest soccer fan.

In Soccer Stories: Messi, young readers will find out how Lionel Messi went from being the smallest player on the field to being known as the 'Greatest of All Time' with his incredible runs, ball control and lots and lots of goals! With simple text and engaging art, this fully illustrated picture book is the ideal first read for little soccer fans. They'll love the story of Messi's triumph, especially when they learn that once he was just a soccer-loving kid just like them.

24 Major Biology Topics You Should Know

Explore the wonders of biology inside and outside of the classroom with The Amoeba Sisters’ Cartoon Guide to Biology.  

#1 Best Seller in Ecology for Teens & Young Adults, Teen & Young Adult Experiments & Projects, and Teen & Young Adult History of Science

Science facts made easy. From the dynamic sister duo behind the beloved Amoeba Sisters YouTube channel, this visual learning book features 24 major educational concepts commonly taught in life sciences courses. Designed to alleviate the intimidation often associated with complex science concepts, this guide employs amusing mnemonics, real-world examples, and light-hearted humorous anecdotes to make biology topics more approachable and relatable.

Designed for anyone studying biology. Whether you’re a high school student, a college scholar, or a curious biology enthusiast, this book ensures that learning biology remains engaging and accessible for all ages to enjoy. This book tackles topics students often find difficult, such as cell transport, cellular respiration, protein synthesis, DNA replication, mitosis, and meiosis, with each chapter addressing stumbling blocks they may encounter in the classroom or during study prep. Whether used as an introduction to a concept or to recap a lesson, this book also makes a great supplement to your biology textbook as a classroom set.

Pairs well with any biology course.

• Illustrations, diagrams, and cartoons break down complex biology concepts
• Short chapters provide a biology foundation in the style of Amoeba Sisters videos
• Useful for teachers and students, includes objectives at end of each chapter to help with test preparation
• Glossary of over 250 biology vocabulary words with easy-to-understand, brief definitions

So if you enjoy teen and kid science books such as Physics for Curious Kids, Awesome Facts That Will Make You Look Super Smart, or Noah’s Fascinating World of STEAM Experiments, then you’ll love The Amoeba Sisters’ Cartoon Guide to Biology.

Going vegan is the single most important thing you can do if you want to get serious about animal rights. Yet, going vegan isn't always easy when you're young. You're living under your parents' roof, you probably don't buy your own groceries, and your friends, family, and teachers might look at you like you're nuts. So, how do you do it?

In this essential guide for the curious, aspiring, and current teenage vegan, Claire Askew draws on her years of experience as a teenage vegan and provides the tools for going vegan and staying vegan as a teen. Full of advice, stories, tips, and resources, Claire covers topics like: how to go vegan and stay sane; how to tell your parents so they don't freak out; how to deal with friends who don't get it; how to eat and stay healthy as a vegan; how to get out of dissection assignments in school; and tons more. Whether you're a teenager who is thinking about going vegan or already vegan, this is the ultimate resource, written by someone like you, for you.

Revolutionize Your Journey Through Young Adulthood

If you’ve been struggling in your young adulthood journey, you are not alone. CEO, humanitarian, and personal development coach Josh Brazier is here to help you find your confidence and launch your dream career.

More than a career guide book. This is a book for self improvement, a roadmap to finding inspiration and motivation in pursuing meaningful experiences and making a positive impact in the world. Through Brazier's guidance and encouragement, you will learn how to create positive momentum in your life and stop holding yourself back from your own potential. If you’re feeling stuck, lost, or struggling with personal development and growth, this book will help you find yourself in various aspects of your life such as education, career, relationships, and self-esteem.

Find your place in the world with this insightful professional development book. Like many young people, you may struggle find your place in the big, scary “real world.” If you’re a young adult or college student at a transitional stage in your life, facing uncertainties about your future path and looking for ways to create purposeful endeavors, Making Plans That Stick will give you the tools you need to finally get unstuck and start living the full life you deserve to live.

Inside, you’ll learn:

• How to strategically set and meet personal and professional goals by overcoming obstacles, recognizing opportunities, improving relationships, and finding a sense of purpose in your life
• How to make lasting changes and find an exciting adult job that fills you with pride
• How to gain self-confidence and self-assurance in who you are and what you offer to the world.

If you liked The Defining Decade, Adulting for Beginners, or The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens on the Go, you’ll love Making Plans That Stick.

The Perfect Gift for a Future MasterChef

“The Healthy Teen Cookbook is a delightful way get younger cooks and foodies into the kitchen." —Foodsided

# 1 Best Seller in Teen & Young Adult Cooking & Food

A cookbook written “for teens by a teen.” Filled with tried-and-true recipes with budding chefs in mind.

Award-Winning MasterChef Junior. Teen master chef Remmi Smith is on a mission to bring healthy and easy recipes to the busy teenagers of today. Named by Huffington Post and Food Tank as one of “20 Young People Changing the Food System,” Remmi has hosted two cooking shows and is a national Student Ambassador for a leading food services company. A Chopped Junior chef, she travels all over the country giving appearances at National School Board Associations and places of family entertainment. She was named one of the “Top 20 Entrepreneurs” by Teen Business and her Italian salad dressing is sold at Whole Foods Market and other specialty stores.

Cookbook for teens with easy recipes. Remmi shows that cooking can be fun. She uses fruits to add natural sweetness, introduces lots of vegetables, and is light on spices to make the dishes more appealing to kids and teens. Recipes like Curry Shrimp and Rice, Stuffed Peppers with Cottage Cheese, and Tanzanian Family Feast, among others, are bound to become new family favorites!

Adventures with Food. Part of growing up is learning what foods and flavors appeal to your unique palette. Remmi makes the learning fun. She takes young cooks on a culinary journey across the seven continents, highlighting various countries and their popular foods and national dishes. Each section of the book features geographic descriptions, a full menu (from appetizer to dessert), fun facts, brain teasers, personal tips, and mouth-watering photos.

If you liked teen cookbooks like Teens Cook, The Baking Cookbook for Teens, or The Cookbook for Teens, you’ll love Remmi Smith’s The Healthy Teen Cookbook.

Este libro se centra en algunas de ellas. No es un compendio de palabras domingueras, sino de breves ensayos donde la autora comparte cómo las más distinguidas compañeras, las palabras, llegaron a ampliar su mundo, como pueden ampliar el nuestro.

“Este libro -advierte el autor- no es un manual de ética para alumnos de bachillerato. No contiene información sobre los más destacados autores y más importantes movimientos de la teoría moral a lo largo de la historia...

Este libro no es más que eso, sólo un libro. Personal y subjetivo, como la relación que une a un padre con su hijo; pero por eso mismo universal como la relación entre padre e hijo, la más común de todas.

Ha sido pensado y escrito para que puedan leerlo los adolescentes: probablemente enseñará muy pocas cosas a sus maestros. Su objetivo no es fabricar ciudadanos bienpensantes (ni mucho menos malpensados) sino estimular el desarrollo de librepensadores”

In 1812, a 67-year-old black United Empire Loyalist named Richard Pierpoint helped raise "a corps of Coloured Men to stand and fight together" against the Americans who were threatening to invade the tiny British colony of Upper Canada.

Pierpoint's unique fighting unit would not only see service throughout the War of 1812, it would also be the first colonial military unit reactiviated to quash the Rebellion of 1837. It would go on to serve as a police force, keeping the peace among the competing Irish immigrant gangs during the construction of the Welland Canal.

Pierpoint and the Coloured Corps are the central focus, but the sidebars featuring fascinating facts about the rise and fall of slavery in North America and the state of African-Canadians in early Canada provide an entertaining and informative supplement. Among other tidbits, readers will find out why "Good Queen Bess" launched the British slave industry and how Scottish pineapples are connected to the American Declaration of Independence.

From 1906 to 1914, the Empress of Ireland, one of the fastest and most elegant liners of the Edwardian era, graced the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Remembered primarily for sinking in only 14 minutes in the St. Lawrence River and for having a greater loss of passenger life than the Titanic, the Empress's true legacy is the significant role it played in the building of Canada.

During the ship's many crossings between Canada and England, it ferried royalty, politicians, scientists, authors, actors, captains of industry, and military servicemen aboard its decks, but most important, it carried more than 115,000 hopeful immigrants who left Europe to build new lives on Canadian soil.

Into the Mist is the story of the Empress of Ireland, of the many people who walked its decks, and how, in the early morning of May 29, 1914, it came to rest on the bottom of the St. Lawrence River.

Short-listed for the 2014 Forest of Reading - White Pine Award for Non-Fiction

Canada was young during the First World War, and with as many as 20,000 underage soldiers leaving their homes to join the war effort, the country’s army was, too. Jim, at 17, was one of them, and he penned countless letters home. But these weren’t the writings of an ordinary boy. They were the letters of a lad who left a small farming community for the city on July 15, 1915, a boy who volunteered to serve with the 79th Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders.

Jim’s letters home gloss over the horrors of war, focusing instead on issues of the home front: of harvesting, training the horses, and the price of hogs. Rarely do these letters, especially those to his mother and father, mention the mud and rats, the lice and stench of the trenches, or the night duty of cutting barbed wire in no man’s land. For 95 years his letters remained in a shoebox decorated by his mother.

Jim was just 18 when he was wounded and died during the Battle of the Somme. Hold the Oxo! tells the story that lies between the lines of his letters, filling in the historical context and helping us to understand what it was like to be Jim.

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive programmable credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It can be used for many of the things that your PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and playing games, but its real purpose is to inspire children (and adults) to learn how to program. Over five million Raspberry Pis have been sold worldwide, so far!

Raspberry Pi 3 in easy steps starts with the basic components you”ll need, setting up the system and logging into the console. Then, in easy steps, it introduces you to the Raspbian operating system that is optimized for the Raspberry Pi. You”ll learn how to customize the look and feel of your system, how to navigate the file system, and how to use the powerful system “shell” to make things happen for you. The new GPIO interface is fully described, and the new NOOBS installer is also described for setup.

Raspberry Pi 3 in easy steps enables complete beginners to create their very own computer programs with the Scratch visual programming environment. It also instructs programming in the high-level (human-readable) Python programming language, which is processed by the Python “interpreter” to produce results fast. Examples demonstrate how to use the included Python “pygame” module, to make your own games, and how to use the included “Tkinter” module to create graphical windowed apps.

Raspberry Pi 3 in easy steps also illustrates how to control electrical input and output on the Raspberry Pi header from Python scripts, including lighting a lamp, adding more buttons and controlling projects. With the knowledge gained from this book the reader can confidently advance to any future electronic Raspberry Pi project or other explore other programming environments.

A Be Yourself Guide for Teen Girls

#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Maturing, School & Education, Bullying Issues, Dating & Intimacy

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.

Support for young women as they navigate one of the most confusing and challenging times of their lives. When Amanda Ford emerged from her tumultuous teenage years, she saw the need for a guide to help girls learn to listen to their inner voices and think for themselves. Be True To Yourself is the big sister Amanda never had―and always wanted to be. It provides the encouragement and guidance she wished, as a teenage girl, that an older sister had given her, as well as stories and advice that she would have loved to share with a younger sister during her own teen years.

Your daughter, granddaughter, niece, or young friend will learn to listen to her heart with this coming-of-age guide. Girls will find comfort, encouragement, and insight in these pages, along with suggestions for articulating and confiding their feelings, fears, and frustrations. They will learn more about so many important topics introduced during adolescence, such as:

• How to love yourself, boost your self-confidence, and receive compliments well
• How to determine your own values, be true to yourself, and follow through on your promises
• How to cherish your friends and family―even when they’re getting on your last nerve

If you appreciated self-development books for teens like The Ultimate Self-Esteem Workbook for Teens, Just As You Are, You Don't Have to Learn Everything the Hard Way, or Embracing the Awkward, then you’ll love Be True to Yourself.

Millions of children and young people worldwide are using Scratch to make their own games and animations.

Following on from the success of Scratch Programming in easy steps, 2nd edition, Cool Scratch Projects in easy steps gives you great ideas to create computer games and other projects that’ll impress your friends and family – and you’ll have endless fun creating and playing them! The book provides step-by-step instructions for building projects that show off some of the cool things you can do with Scratch.

It starts with two simple projects to get you started. Find out how to:

• Make a game with animated cartoon characters
• Build a drum machine and make random music
• Use anaglyph glasses for 3D effects and 3D Art
• Design amazing mazes in a 3D environment
• Create your own stop motion films
• Use the ScratchJr app to create games and interactive stories anywhere using your iPad or Android tablet

Scoring over 790 goals during his career so far, Cristiano Ronaldo is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Winning trophies as both a forward for Manchester United and Captain of the Portuguese national team, Ronaldo is one of the biggest names in football. 

This biography is one of the new titles in Leapfrog's Tales from the Pitch series. These fast-moving reads offer a fresh take on the familiar football biography format. 

• Each book focuses on one up-and-coming football superstar, often players who are still to reach the summit of their career. 
  
• The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury and rejection, making these moving and inspirational stories. 
  
• The books are brimming with football banter that will have the knowing fans smiling. 
  
• And each players story is littered with football tricks and tips, so readers can learn the arts of the glorious game. 
  

At only 120 pages long, Tales from the Pitch are easy to read and very fast-paced reads. So, meet the footballers behind the iconic tackles and goals, and find out what makes each of these players so special.

The inspiring story of how Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of key figures in the infamous Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, have come together to fight for racial equality.

Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found that Homer Plessy could be charged with breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that “separate-but-equal” was constitutional, sparking decades of unjust laws and discriminatory attitudes.

In Together, Amy Nathan threads the personal stories of Keith and Phoebe into the larger history of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, race relations, and civil rights movements in New Orleans and throughout the U.S. This second edition includes a new epilogue describing a triumph that occurred a year after the first edition was published. In 2022, the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation, which was created by Keith and Phoebe in 2009 to change the legacy of the case that links their families, worked with a legal team and won a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy.

Includes black and white photos throughout.

"Together has a second edition that adds a new coda to Homer Plessy's legal saga. Nearly 125 years to the day when [Homer] Plessy pled guilty in January 1897 and paid a $25 fine for violating the state's Separate Car Act, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards finally pardoned him for his act of civil disobedience. The book's author, Amy Nathan, recently spoke to Law360 about Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson's shared history, their petition for Homer Plessy's pardon, and how they replaced the 'versus' of Plessy v. Ferguson with 'and' to form the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation in 2009 to help educate people about the case and the legacy of segregation."—Law360

The savage struggle to take control of the North American wilderness during the epic Seven Years War (1756-63) between France and England is a gripping tale. As the two European powers battled each other for global economic, political and military supremacy in what some have called the first world war, the brutal conflict took on a unique North American character, particularly in the role Native allies played on both sides.

Formal European tactics and military protocols were out of place in the harsh, unforgiving forests of the New World. Cavalry, mass infantry columns, and volley fire proved less effective in the heavily wooded terrain of North America than it did in Europe. What mattered in the colonial hinterland of New France and the British American colonies was an ability to navigate, travel, and survive in the uncharted wilderness. Equally important was the capacity to strike at the enemy with surprise, speed, and violence.

After all, the reward for victory was substantial – mastery of North America.

The story of a little-known Canadian victory in the Second Boer War.

In the fall of 1899, Britain entered the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa confident that its army would make short work of a collection of armed farmers. However, initial confrontations quickly changed attitudes. Following a series of humiliating defeats, Britain quickly sought additional troops. Canada answered the call, and its first contingent consisted of the 2nd (Special Service) Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (RCR).

Fighting their first battle at Paardeburg Drift from February 18 to 27, 1900, The RCR did Canada proud, serving with distinction and demonstrating endurance and tenacity that rivalled the famous British regulars. This victory came at a cost, though. The RCR suffered 39 killed and 123 wounded, but its accomplishments were impressive. Canadians delivered the first major British triumph, which became the turning point of the conflict. The victory also awakened patriotism and national identity at home and earned Canada recognition as a sovereign power.

Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar, Julie Payette, Robert Thirsk, Chris Hadfield, and more recently, Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque de Soleil, all have one thing in common: they’re some of the very few Canadians who have been in space.

The launch of a spaceship is terribly exciting. That’s why thousands of people come to watch. They laugh, cheer, and applaud as the rocket rises. They see the smoke, steam, and white-hot fire as millions of litres of fuel burn in seconds. They feel the chest-thumping impact of the sound. Then they stare upward for a long time until they can no longer see even a tiny speck in the distant sky. By that time, the craft is in space. Canada’s astronauts come from across the nation: from farms, cities, and little towns.

They went to large schools and to small ones. Maple Leaf in Space showcases these amazing Canadians who have ventured off our planet and delivers some of the thrill of what that’s like.

In If You Give an Ox an Oxy, adolescents meet an ox who takes a prescription medication called an opioid. They follow him as he goes from taking a few opioids, to overusing them, and finally becoming addicted, learning about treatment for addiction and how dangerous taking illegal opioid drugs can be.

Inspired by the mouse who was clearly addicted to cookies, Ox’s story demonstrates how opioid use often leads to a cycle of addiction and recovery. Too often this cycle is hard to break. Although Ox’s story is told in a childlike way, opioid use is a very serious and complex topic. Written by national expert on the opioid epidemic Dr. Laura E. Happe, If You Give an Ox an Oxy focuses on preventing opioid misuse for the next generation. Dr. Happe transforms the beloved childhood picture book into an educational resource that teens are sure to remember to help them understand the risks of opioid use—and why it’s best not to start in the first place.

Celebrated as the saviour of Upper Canada, Major General Sir Isaac Brock was a charismatic leader who won the respect not only of his own troops, but also of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh and even men among his enemy. His motto could well have been 'speak loud and look big.' Although this attitude earned him a reputation for brashness, it also enabled his success and propelled him into the significant role he would play in the War of 1812.

A Football-Lover's Guide to Harry Kane

Harry Edward Kane MBE is regarded as one of the best strikers in football, with an incredible goal scoring record to his name. He plays for Bayern Munich having spent 14 years with Tottenham Hotspur where he was the club's highest goal scorer.

This biography is one of the new titles in Leapfrog's Tales from the Pitch series. These fast-moving reads offer a fresh take on the familiar football biography format.

• Each book focuses on one up-and-coming football superstar, often players who are still to reach the summit of their career. 
• The players are from all walks of life and have faced failure, injury, and rejection, making these moving and inspirational stories. 
• The books are brimming with football banter that will have the knowing fans smiling. 
• And each player’s story is littered with football tricks and tips, so readers can learn the arts of the glorious game.