Non-Fiction
How-To and Advice
Real Friends vs. the Other KindInsider information on making friends, resolving disputes, and dealing with other common concern such as gossip, exclusion, and cyberbullying. There’s also expert advice on crushes, peer pressure, and being there for friends who need help.
What Makes Us a Family?Whether you're adopted, being raised by grandparents, or even visiting your parent in jail, the people around you are still the ones who love you. Explore some of these stories to see how you can better relate to your own relatives. Getting to know your family is also a way to get to know yourself.
Yes, Your Parents are Crazy!Discusses the difficulties of being a teenager in today's society and provides insights on how to survive adolescence and stay connected with one's parents.
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Teens Talk RelationshipsTrue stories written by teenagers, and by adults writing about their teenage years, focusing on teen relationships with parents, friends, crushes, boyfriends and girlfriends.
What's Up with My Family?Expert information for getting along with parents and handling common concerns that come up at home. Readers will find advice for dealing with sibling conflicts, coping with divorce and life in a blended family, and being assertive when adults are genuinely unfair.
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Memoirs
Chinese CinderellaAdeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family.
The Glass Castle: A MemoirJeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jeannette and her brother and sisters had to fend for themselves, supporting one another as they weathered their parents' betrayals and, finally, found the resources and will to leave home.
Stitches: A MemoirMeet David Small, an anxious yet talented child who too often became the unwitting object of his parents' buried frustration and rage. Edward Small was convinced that he could cure his young son's respiratory problems with heavy doses of radiation, possibly causing David's cancer. Elizabeth Small, stingy and scolding, ran the Small household under a cone of silence where emotions, especially her own, were hidden. With dazzling images that turn nightmare into fairy tale, Small tells us of his journey from sickly child to cancer patient, to troubled teen whose risky decision to run away from home at sixteen will resonate as the ultimate survival statement.
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Farewell to ManzanarJeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Farewell To Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention . . . and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barbed wire in the United States.
Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, & What I LearnedTold entirely in sequential art, here is the story of the life-changing friendship between the author, a cartoonist from Long Island, and Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive AIDS activist, which was filmed day by day on MTV's Real World San Francisco. From Winick's initial preconceptions about the disease to the ultimate moments of heartbreaking loss, the author bravely invites readers into a life-altering experience.
We Beat the StreetGrowing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George,and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at their school made the three boys aware of the opportunities available to them in the medical and dental professions, they made a pact among themselves that they would become doctors. It took a lot of determination—and a lot of support from one another—but despite all the hardships along the way, the three succeeded.
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