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22) Homeless
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in a real shelter with real homeless people, this film tells the story of Gosh, a teenage boy lost in the bleak routine of life in a shelter.
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277, 16 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Left homeless by the death of his father, fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson sets off with a racehorse, Lean on Pete, on a perilous treck from Portland, Oregon to Wyoming to find a distant aunt, hoping to regain stability in his life.
24) The wizard
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Series
Wizard knight volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of those works, which move past the surface of fantasy and drink from the wellspring of myth. Magic swords, dragons, giants, quests, love, honor, nobility-all the familiar features of fantasy come to fresh life in this masterful work.
The first half of the journey, The Knight, which you are advised to read first, to let the whole story engulf you from the beginning - took a teenage...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tristan (Fernando Ramallo) is passionate about two things other boys his age are not-- growing up and penning his own biography.
Tristán esta a punto de cumplir los quince años. Disfruta de la buena vida que sus padres han construido para el. Y sin embargo, no falta demasiado para que su entorno de protección, cariño y comodidades se desmorone al morir sus padres en un accidente automovilístico. A partir de ahí aprenderá lo...
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Language
English
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Description
Mayim Bialik puts her Ph.D. to work to talk to teen boys about the science and pressures of growing up male in today's world. A must-have book for all teenage boys!
As an observant mother of two boys -- and with plenty of scientific information from her life as a neuroscientist -- Bialik talks directly to teen boys about what it means to grow from a boy to a man biologically, psychologically, and sociologically. She takes a look at what it means...
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Series
Tales of the Otori volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A tour-de-force novel set in ancient Japan filled with passion, fantasy, and feuding warlords. The first volume in the highly anticipated "Tales of the Otori" trilogy. Sixteen-year-old Takeo's village has been massacred by an evil warlord, and he is about to be slain by the men who murdered his parents and neighbors. At the last moment, his life is saved by a nobleman, who claims the boy as his kin and begins his education. But nothing is as it seems....
30) Green is gold
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1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old boy is forced to live with his estranged older brother, an irresponsible marijuana dealer, after his father is sent to prison, and they must discover a way to beat life's odds together.
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English
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"On the surface, capable teenage boys may look lazy. But dig a little deeper, writes child psychologist Adam Price in He's Not Lazy, and you'll often find conflicted boys who want to do well in middle and high school but are afraid to fail, and so do not try. This book can help you become an ally with your son, as he discovers greater self-confidence and accepts responsibility for his future"--
"Boys may seem impervious to school pressures, but they...
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Physical Desc
160 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Let faith be your guide. God has a road for you to walk on your journey. Along the way, you'll have big questions, like: What kind of person do I want to be? How do I get there? Reach for this book, and never lose your direction. Walk in Faith bridges scripture with the everyday challenges of being a teenager. From dealing with peer pressure to dating, these 5-minute devotions help teens successfully navigate some of life's most important moments...
36) Flower
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1 videodisc (approximately 90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rebellious, quick-witted Erica Vandross is a sassy seventeen-year-old living with her single mom Laurie and mom's new boyfriend, Bob. When Bob's son, Luke, moves in with the family after a stint in rehab, Erica finds her life overwhelmed. With Luke and her sidekicks, Kala and Claudine, in tow, Erica acts out by exposing a dark secret of high school teacher Will, with perilous results. Their teenage kicks become a catalyst for growing up in unexpected...
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370 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
How does a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town end up in a freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century? And what happens when a teenage boy thaws him out and miraculously brings him back to life?
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xvi, 485 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane - the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. A Season on Earth is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections - the first two of which were published as A Lifetime on Clouds in 1976 and the last...
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viii, 292 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
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