Teenage risk taking: drugs
We look at some of the common forms of risk taking: smoking, drinking and trying drugs. Adolescence is a time of many conflicting emotions. Childhood has been left behind, the rules have changed, and it can be difficult to find your place in this ... [... more]
Net Doctor |
Glandular fever
A guide to glandular fever, including its causes and how it's treated Glandular fever is common during childhood, particularly adolescence, but can occur in adults too. It often lasts a week or two, but can lead to complications including chronic ... [... more]
BBC |
James Alvino
Recognizing and Developing Your Child's Potential from Preschool to Adolescence Parent's Guide to Raising a Gifted Child James Alvino Trade Paperback, 408 pages [... more]
Random House |
Liang Heng
An autobiography of a young Chinese man whose childhood and adolescence were spent in Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution. Son of the Revolution Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro [... more]
Random House |
Vernon J. Baker
Orphaned at age four, Vernon J. Baker was raised in Wyoming by his grandparents, in a town with just a dozen other black families. During adolescence, he spent two years at Father Flanagan's Boys Home in Omaha, Nebraska. He graduated from high ... [... more]
Random House |
Yoichi Funado
His real name is Toshio Manahan, but everyone calls him Japino because he's half-Japanese half-Filipino. Japino reveals the troubling world adolescence we are all familiar with, in a most foreign atmosphere of local guerrilla warfare and a state ... [... more]
Random House |
May In The Valley Of The Rainbow
His real name is Toshio Manahan, but everyone calls him Japino because he's half-Japanese half-Filipino. Japino reveals the troubling world adolescence we are all familiar with, in a most foreign atmosphere of local guerrilla warfare and a state ... [... more]
Random House |
Philip Bashe
Expert, authoritative guidance you can trust on helping your teenager cope with the changes and challenges of adolescence, from The American Academy of Pediatrics. The critical, life-shaping years between twelve and twenty-one have been called ... [... more]
Random House |
Patricia Hersch
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight ... [... more]
Random House |
James Dean 2009 Wall Calendar
 James Dean Wall Calendar: James Dean, in his tragically short career, carved an indelible image into the American consciousness. In just over a year, Dean starred in three films and became a representation of the rebellious American youth of the [... more]
Calendar Club CA |
Doreen Baingana
In her fiction debut, Doreen Baingana follows a Ugandan girl as she navigates the uncertain terrain of adolescence. Set mostly in pastoral Entebbe with stops in the cities Kampala and Los Angeles, Tropical Fish depicts the reality of life for ... [... more]
Random House |
What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?
In the overlapping years when childhood and adolescence blend and shift like waves and sand, nothing is certain and everything is changing. In this extraordinary collection of stories, Avi, one of the most innovative authors writing... What Do ... [... more]
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