“I’ve decided to start a blog about what it’s like to get a life-threatening disease.” With these words, seventeen-year-old Norwegian Regine Stokke opens her heart and mind to the world as she shares her battle with a rare and... Read More

“The self is just a story in our thoughts,” declares ALA award-winning author Dale Carlson. Fortuitously, our stories are something that we have the power to change. This conviction is at the center of Understand Your Self, her... Read More

Young people from bi- or multiracial backgrounds will find their own voices echoed and amplified in this slim volume; the book may help those from a single race background begin to understand their multiracial friends or family members,... Read More

High school is a time of making friends and memories for most young adults. As they escape childhood and start down the path toward adulthood, all but a very few students believe achieving social success is hugely important. For those... Read More

If only we knew then what we know now, everything would be different. Or would it? Most of the contributors to this terrific book of letters from young adult authors to their teenage selves come to the opposite conclusion; that is, no... Read More

Tailored to a teenage female audience, "The Book of Styling" insists from the get-go that perfect style does not exist. “Style is about the journey, not the destination,” explains Somer Flaherty. “The key to enhancing your own... Read More

Freelance writer and editor Laura Barcella has capitalized on the whole 2012 mythos with this compilation of fifty pop-culture items (books, films, music, TV series, art and comic books among them) which have the end of the world as... Read More

If every job had a guidebook as easy to read yet informative as Don’t Sit on the Baby, we would all be choosing our careers more wisely. Author Halley Bondy helps readers decide whether child care is the right path for them, then... Read More