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ix, 272 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Ruby Karp addresses the issues facing every highschooler, from grades to peer pressure to Snapchat stories, and unpacks their complicated effects on the teen psyche. With dashes of humor throughout, Ruby advises her peers on the importance of feminism ("not just the Spice Girls version"), how to deal with jealousy and friend break-ups, family life, and much more.
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119 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Emmy Award-winning ABC News chief national correspondent and Nightline coanchor Byron Pitts shares the heartbreaking and inspiring stories of six young people who overcame impossible circumstances with extraordinary perseverance. Abuse. Bullying. War. Drug Addiction. Mental Illness. Violence. None of these should be realities for anyone, much less a young person. But for some it is the only reality they have ever known. In these dark circumstances,...
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xiv, 146 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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An experienced sex educator provides insightful information and advice to young adults on the issues of sex, STDs, ethics, teen pregnancy, the pleasures of intimacy and other sex-related topics, in an updated reissue of a useful and candid guide written specifically for teens.
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467 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come. This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader....
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Parenting a teen with intense emotions can be extremely difficult. This much-needed book will give you the tools needed to help your teen regulate his or her emotions. In addition, you'll learn the skills for managing your own reactions so you can survive these difficult years and help your teen thrive. The teen years can be daunting for any parent. But if you are the parent of a teen who lashes out or engages in troubling behavior, you may be unsure...
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1 videodisc (approximately 96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Grace [is] a twenty-something supervisor at a group home for troubled teens. She's passionate, tough and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason ... But Grace's difficult past, her fierce independence -- and the arrival of a distraught new girl at the facility -- create complications that push Grace and Mason to the brink. How this couple overcomes those challenges is what makes this film an entirely unique love story. Grace and...
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153 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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How could one teenage boy's life elicit other kids' first experiences -- even after he dies?. Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two altar boys (and one altar girl) might get up to at the cemetery. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job -- at the mortuary. Will...
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"Wise teens need straight, bold talk, the kind of advice that is sharp enough to help them cut through the false promises and lies of our culture and blunt enough to push back all the old, tired stereotypes of teenagers. This book is fearless, lucid, God focused, and gospel drenched, applied in concrete practices, and aimed at nothing less than your eternal joy. Not the time to slack off. It's the time to stand out."
15) Jeepers creepers
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Alone on a desolate highway, two homebound teens are nearly run off the road by a demented tailgater. Later they spot this maniac disposing a body down into a sewer pipe. When they stop to investigate, they realize the horrible mistake they have made. The unspeakable evil maniac now intends to make them his next victims.
17) Empire Records
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The manager of a struggling record store is desperately trying to avoid a corporate takeover by the mega-chain Music City, while handling the problems of his teenage workers.
18) Valley girl
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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the wake of her daughter's heartbreak, a mother tells her daughter about her first love back in the 1980s. Risking her popular life spent at the mall with her fashionable friends, a songwriting punk bandmember captures her heart and they make beautiful music together.
19) Like a hurricane
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English
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"In this novel in verse for middle readers, a young teen struggles with revealing who he really is to those he loves."--
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