• Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation): An Olympian's Journey from Airman to Castaway to Captive

    In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history's most thrilling survival epics.  On a May afternoon in 1943, an American military plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a y... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0385742525
    • ASIN: 0385742525
    • ISBN: 0385742525
    • Brand: WaterBrook Press
    • Manufacturer: Ember

  • Lincoln: How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America: A Companion Book for Young Readers to the Steven Spielberg Film

    How did President Abraham Lincoln come to believe that slavery was "morally wrong," and that Congress needed to pass a law to abolish it once and for all? What did he do in January 1865—three months before he was assassinated—to ensure passage of the Thirteenth Amendment?This fast-paced, riveting book answers these questions and more as it tells the story of Lincoln's life and times from his upbringing in Kentucky and Illinois, through his work as a lawyer and congressman, to his candidacies and victory in two Presidential elections. It also describes Lincoln's duties in the Civil War as C... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062265113
    • ASIN: 0062265113
    • ISBN: 0062265113
    • Brand: Brand: Newmarket for It Books
    • Manufacturer: Newmarket for It Books

  • Neinstein's Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care: A Practical Guide (Adolescent Health Care a Practical Guide)

    BMA Medical Book Awards 2017?: BMA Medical Book of the Year 2017? and Paediatrics – First PrizeThe British Medical Association honored Neinstein’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care: A Practical Guide, 6th Edition with these prestigious awards.Highly regarded as the go-to-resource of adolescent medicine for more than 30 years, Neinstein’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care remains the #1 choice for those involved in the care of adolescents and young adults. The 6th Edition continues to deliver practical, authoritative guidance on everything from normal development to legal issue... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1451190085
    • ASIN: 1451190085
    • ISBN: 1451190085
    • Brand: LWW
    • Manufacturer: LWW

  • Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny

    Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the reader chart their own path to success. Based on the author’s motivational speaking at inner-city schools across the country, the letters deal with the tough issues that face young people today. Bombarded with messages from music and the media, Harper set out to dispel the stereotypical image of success that young people receive today and instead emphasizes alternative views of what it truly means to be a successful male, such as educational... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1592402496
    • ASIN: 1592402496
    • ISBN: 1592402496
    • Brand: Brand: Gotham Books
    • Size: Paperback
    • Manufacturer: Avery

  • Jacob's Ghetto: You're not the product of your environment

    A young artistic African American boy sets his sights on winning a lucrative writing competition in hopes of escaping the ghetto he never wanted to call home.Jacob, a bright 10-year-old African American boy with exceptional writing ability, seems to have a promising academic future ahead of him. But living on the south-side of Chicago, life at home is nothing but. He is living in a drug-infested community with a residence overrun with roaches that should be condemned. With an addict for a mother, who’s in a self-induced comatose state most of the time, he’s not in a situation that he can ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1732563527
    • ASIN: 1732563527
    • ISBN: 1732563527
    • Manufacturer: Script Novel Publishing

  • Dear Author: Letters of Hope Top Young Adult Authors Respond to Kids' Toughest Issues

    To millions of kids, the books they read are more than entertainment— they are mirrors to hold up to their own lives. And the creators of those books are more than just writers—they are mentors, confidants, friends, sometimes the only ones who understand. There is often an unspoken, unseen bond between an author and his or her readers. Dear Author brings this bond to light for the whole world to see and to celebrate. Laurie Halse Anderson, Chris Crutcher, Jerry Spinelli, Christopher Paul Curtis, and many more of today’s bestselling YA authors respond to this intimate mix of heartbreaking... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0399237054
    • ASIN: 0399237054
    • ISBN: 0399237054
    • Manufacturer: Philomel Books

  • Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide, 3rd Edition (Library and Information Science Text Series)

    Taking a genre approach, this overview of young adult literature shows new librarians and library science students the criteria to use for selecting quality books, including recommended titles.• Provides unbiased, authoritative guidance for finding recommended classic and recent titles by genre• Presents an excellent introduction to the field of young adult literature for undergraduate and graduate students who intend to be public or school librarians and for librarians who are new to working with young adults • Focuses on timely topics such as diverse books, LGBTQ+ selections, the role ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1440866937
    • ASIN: 1440866937
    • ISBN: 1440866937
    • Manufacturer: Libraries Unlimited

  • Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature: Challenging Genres (Critical Literacy Teaching: Challenging Authors and Genre)

    Young Adult literature, from The Outsiders to Harry Potter, has helped shape the cultural landscape for adolescents perhaps more than any other form of consumable media in the twentieth and twenty-first century. With the rise of mega blockbuster films based on these books in recent years, the young adult genre is being co-opted by curious adult readers and by Hollywood producers. However, while the genre may be getting more readers than ever before, Young Adult literature remains exclusionary and problematic: few titles feature historically marginalized individuals, the books present heteronor... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 9462093962
    • ASIN: 9462093962
    • ISBN: 9462093962
    • Brand: Antero Garcia
    • Manufacturer: Sense Publishers

  • Where the Dead Sit Talking

    2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface. At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who also lives with the family. Sequoyah and Rosemary bon... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 164129017X
    • ASIN: 164129017X
    • ISBN: 164129017X
    • Manufacturer: Soho Press

  • Calling My Name

    “Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear MartinCalling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062656872
    • ASIN: 0062656872
    • ISBN: 0062656872
    • Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books

  • Educated: A Memoir


    • ASIN: B072BLVM83
    • ASIN: B072BLVM83
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Rectangle Blank Book for Young Authors (12-pack), Grades K - 3

    There are endless possiblities with the Rectangle Blank Book for Young Authors. Featuring 16 blank, unlined pages that are ready for anything from imaginative stories to colorful illustrations, this book offers students a place to showcase their artistic skills. Great for independent or group participation, the Rectangle Blank Book for Young Authors makes learning a fun, engaging experience that inspires plenty of creativity. Measuring 7"" x 10"", each of these 16-page books feature a soft cover and durable construction. Great for journaling, drawing, sticker collections, and more, these inexp... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0742403890
    • UPC: 433599137985
    • ASIN: 0742403890
    • ISBN: 0742403890
    • Brand: Instructional Fair
    • Size: 12 pack
    • Manufacturer: Instructional Fair

  • Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)

    In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse readers and all students. This book provides an outline for the study of literature through cultural and literary criticism, via essays that analyze selected YA literature (drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry) in four areas: scribal identities and the self-affirmation of adolescents; gender and sexualities; schooling and education of you... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 113829859X
    • ASIN: 113829859X
    • ISBN: 113829859X
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

  • Essentials of Young Adult Literature (3rd Edition)

    Essentials of Young Adult Literature, 3/e gives readers an engaging and succinct yet comprehensive overview of young adult literature. Using a genre approach and an emphasis on immersion in literature, it prepares tomorrow’s teachers to integrate literature into middle and high school curricula. This book focuses on reading young adult books, not just talking about them. It presents short chapters that include extensive recommended booklists organized by genre and topic, and relates young adult literature to current issues such as standards, the literary canon, censorship, close reading, cr... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 013352227X
    • ASIN: 013352227X
    • ISBN: 9780133522273
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

  • The Hate U Give

    8 starred reviews ∙ Goodreads Choice Awards Best of the Best  ∙  William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller!"Absolutely riveting!" —Jason Reynolds"Stunning." —John Green"This story is necessary. This story is important." —Kirkus (starred review)"Heartbreakingly topical." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A marvel of verisimilitude." —Booklist (starred review)"A powerful, in-your-face novel." —Horn Book (starred review)Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0062498533
    • ASIN: 0062498533
    • ISBN: 0062498533
    • Brand: BALZER BRAY
    • Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray

  • Growing with : Every Parent's Guide to Helping Teenagers and Young Adults Thrive in Their Faith, Family, and Future

    Kara Powell and the team that brought you Sticky Faith use brand new research and real life stories to empower parents with three essential strategies for helping their teenage and young adult children build their

    • UPC: 879449099
    • Rating: 5.0

  • It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be : The world's best selling book

    It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world: a pocket bible for the talented and timid alike to help make

    • UPC: 2162608
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Importance of Being Little : What Young Children Really Need from Grownups

    Originally published in hardcover in 2016 by

    • UPC: 54980485
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Grownup : A Story by the Author of Gone Girl

    "Originally published in the anthology Rogues [as 'What do you do?'] ... by Bantam Books ... in 2014"--Title page

    • UPC: 46592142
    • Rating: 3.6

  • The Universe Builders : Bernie and the Putty: (humorous fantasy and science fiction for young adults)

    Universes don't build themselves. We have staff for that. We call them gods...When a young god named Bernie gets a job building universes, it starts a series of humorous mishaps leading to world-shaking revelations. Challenged

    • UPC: 53418794
    • Rating: 5.0

  • 20/30 Bible Study for Young Adults: Abundance : Living Responsibly with God's Gifts

    Seven chapters offer Bible verses and discussion questions about "a life of joy," "material abundance," "over-indulgence," "Living simply," "money," "ways in which we are handled by our stuff," and "ethics." We'll wrestle with our personal

    • UPC: 507582887

  • The Co-Parenting Handbook : Raising Well-Adjusted and Resilient Kids from Little Ones to Young Adults through Divorce or Separation

    When it comes to a child's sense of family, what divorce breaks apart, solid co-parenting rebuilds. With a tested "here's how" approach, The Co-Parents' Handbook helps parents confidently take on the challenges of raising children

    • UPC: 55695285

  • The Book on Negotiating Real Estate : Expert Strategies for Getting the Best Deals When Buying & Selling Investment Property

    New to the BiggerPockets library, with more than 18,000 first edition units sold. Learn how to close more real estate deals...and make more money in the process! From expert real estate investors and best-selling authors

    • UPC: 909190510

  • Prayers That Avail Much for Young Adults

    Prayers That Avail Much for Young Adults has been written in the same scriptural prayer format as the bestselling Prayers That Avail Much Gold Letter Commemorative Edition. These all new scriptural prayers have been written

    • UPC: 21470735

  • Seventh Dimension - The Door : A Young Adult Fantasy

    A bullied teen discovers a parallel world from ancient

    • UPC: 53408542
    • Rating: 4.8

  • book Divegent paperback young adult veronica roth bestselling author

    • UPC: 264678473492
    • Category: Fiction & Literature
    • Price: 6 USD

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