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.