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"An insightful, revealing, and practical guide to adolescents' inner world, from a renowned psychologist. Once children hit adolescence, it seems as if overnight "I love you" becomes "leave me alone," and any question from a parent can be dismissed with one word: "fine." But while they may not show it, teens benefit from their parents' curiosity, delight, and connection. In The Teen Interpreter, psychologist Terri Apter looks inside teens' minds-minds...
2) Deviant
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Language
English
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Scottish foster teen Abigail goes to live with her newly discovered father and sister in California, where she uncovers a horrifying global plot to control adolescent behavior.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Teenagers are notorious risk takers. Understand why the adolescent brain leads to this behavior and learn ways to mitigate the hazards. Discover the four main goals of adolescents - which include both fitting in and standing out - plus strategies for maintaining a trusting, open relationship that will make your teen more likely to disclose important concerns.
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"On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother's response only intensifies a sense of shame: 'You exist too much, ' she tells her daughter. Told in vignettes...
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Presents a self-help guide on dealing with eating disorders, providing advice on overcoming anxiety, negative thouughts, and distorted body images and using relaxation techniques and cognitive reframing, with information about treatments and tools for recovery.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out they are really from Cade Jennings, an arrogant student whom she has previously despised, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
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English
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Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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With Anna-Marie McLemore's signature lush prose, Dark and Deepest Red pairs the forbidding magic of a fairy tale with a modern story of passion and betrayal. Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries...
12) Bones of a saint
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English
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In 1970s northern California, fifteen-year-old RJ Armante must fight to save himself and his disabled brother from the Blackjacks gang, and free his hometown, Arcangel, from its past.
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Underland chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Twelve-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City, where he joins forces with Princess Luxa and Ripred the rat to defend the Underlanders and the Nibblers from the army led by the adolescent rat king, the Bane.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Percy Jackson's hope for a normal senior year is shattered as the gods present him with three quests--beginning with the retrieval of Zeus's goblet--in order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation for college.
15) Pink
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Ava does not know who she is or where she belongs, but when she tries out a new personality--and sexual orientation--at a different school, her edgy girlfriend, potential boyfriend, and others are hurt by her lack of honesty.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
19) I'll be the one
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
"Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she'll do it better...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"There's always been a hole in Gio's life. Not because he's into both guys and girls. Not because his father has some drinking issues. Not because his friends are always bringing him their drama. No, the hole in Gio's life takes the shape of his birth mom, who left Gio, his brother, and his father when Gio was nine years old. For eight years, he never heard a word from her . . . and now, just as he's started to get his life together, she's back" --...
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