Diaries are personal outlets for many teens, a place to record secrets and observations. Sometimes they become a part of history, such as the one kept by Anne Frank. As a young woman in the American South, Sarah Morgan also kept a now... Read More

“Bounty hunters who start their own businesses should expect to lose money at the beginning.” Established bounty hunters can earn more than $30,000 a year and business looks good through 2008. These and other tidbits are found in a... Read More

“A rock concert should be counterculture and youth-driven—not something you invite your mother to. Rock is the opposite of mothers.” If this sounds like an insider observation about teen thinking, it is. It comes from a Woody... Read More

Teens looking for a role model to lead them through adversity to success should consider Alice Walker. Walker, the first African-American woman to win the Pulitizer Prize for fiction for The Color Purple has triumphed over life’s... Read More

“Wampum should bring peace and bind peace and take the place of blood.” This is according to legend and tradition of how Hiawatha introduced wampum to the Iroquois at the founding of the League of Nations. Tehanetorens (Ray Fadden)... Read More

Sad circumstances are the essence of this book. There are fifteen first person stories drawn from interviews with teenagers of various nationalities living in the Netherlands, away from their families, due to one unfortunate circumstance... Read More

The attempt to inspire a love of poetry in children is a noble educational pursuit, and there is perhaps no easier poet with which to start than Longfellow. His easily accessible work is the stuff of legend and history, of forest and... Read More

Our world, culture and society present teenagers with difficult choices and complex decisions that can have an impact on them for a lifetime. In a book filled with personal anecdotes from teens of diverse backgrounds, "Taste Berries for... Read More