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Draw 200 Animals: The Step-by-Step Way to
Draw Horses, Cats, Dogs, Birds, Fish, and Many
More Creatures
Lee J. Ames
A compendium of step-by-step drawing exercises
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Life Inside My Mind: 31 Authors Share Their
Personal Struggles
Jessica Burkhart, Maureen Johnson, Robison Wells, Lauren
Oliver, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Amy Reed, Aprilynne Pike,
Rachel M. Wilson, Dan Wells, Amber Benson, E. Kristin
Anderson
Have you ever felt like you just couldn’t get out of bed?
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Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card
Sara Saedi
In development as a television series from Reese
Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production
company and ABC Studios!
The hilarious, poignant, and true story of one
teen’s experience growing up in America as an
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SHOUT
Laurie Halse Anderson
A searing poetic memoir and call to action from
the bestselling and award-winning author of
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!
Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the
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The Great Nijinsky: God of Dance
Lynn Curlee
Dance prodigy, sex symbol, gay pioneer, cultural
icon—Vaslav Nijinsky rose to fame as the star of
the Ballets Russes in Paris before mental illness
stole his career and the last thirty years of his life.
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9781580898003 obsessive artistry, celebrity, and notoriety.
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the Ballets Russes’s inaugural season, Nijinsky became an
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For Every One
Jason Reynolds
For Every One is exactly that: for every one. For every
one person. For every one who has a dream. But
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better than they are. Kids who dream of doing more than
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My Shot: Balancing It All and Standing Tall
Elena Delle Donne
Elena Delle Donne has always forged her own path.
During her first year of college, she walked away from a
scholarship and chance to play for Geno Aurriema at
UConn—the most prestigious women’s college basketball
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Burned out and questioning her passion for basketball,
she attended the University of Delaware and took...
Yes She Can: 10 Stories of Hope & Change from
Young Female Staffers of the Obama White House
Molly Dillon
“An excellent guide to the how and why of a life of
public service.”—Amy Poehler
Return to President Obama’s White House in this
anthology for young women by young women,
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Includes a foreword by actress (Grown-Ish) and
activist Yara Shahidi! Shahidi is the creator of
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I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's
Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope
Chessy Prout, Jenn Abelson
The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages
fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual
assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story
of one of those girls.
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Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory
Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories
Sarah Lerner
Featuring art and writing from the students of the
Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the events
of February 14, and a poignant representation of
grief, healing, and hope.
9781984849991 The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
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8 Steps to Paying Less for College: A Crash
Course in Scholarships, Grants, and Financial Aid
Princeton Review
FINANCIAL AID MADE EASY! This concise,
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The underlying message is simple: Parents and students
Who Was Napoleon?
Jim Gigliotti, Who HQ, Gregory Copeland
Learn more about Napoleon Bonaparte, the
decorated French military leader who conquered
much of Europe in the early nineteenth century.
Born in the Mediterranean island of Corsica, Napoleon
Bonaparte felt like an outsider once his family moved to
9780448488608 France. But he found his life’s calling after graduating from
$5.99 military school. Napoleon went on to become a brilliant
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created many laws, whic...
MARGARET K. MCELDERRY BOOKS
The Best Value Colleges, 2019 Edition: 200
Schools with Exceptional ROI for Your Tuition
Investment
Princeton Review, Robert Franek
DISCOVER COLLEGES THAT OFFER EXCEPTIONAL
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Child of the Holocaust: Penguin Modern Classics
Edition
Jack Kuper
The harrowing true story of a young boy exiled in
World War II Poland, this memoir of survival has
been hailed as a quintessential classic, as powerful
as Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl, and
celebrated for its rare beauty.
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Germans had come to his village in rural Poland and
removed all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to
change his name, forget his language, and abandon his
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Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln
and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis
James L. Swanson
In this young readers’ adaptation of Bloody Crimes—and
companion to his bestselling Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
—James L. Swanson crafts a suspense-filled true-crime
thriller that brings to life two epic events of the Civil War
era: the manhunt to apprehend Jefferson Davis, the
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$8.99 army’s final defeat by the Union, and the momentous
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body from Washington, DC, to his home in Springfield
following his ...
Who Was Nikola Tesla?
Jim Gigliotti, Who HQ, John Hinderliter
Get ready for the electrifying biography of Nikola
Tesla—part creative genius, part mad scientist, and
100% innovator.
When Nikola Tesla arrived in the United States in 1884, he
didn’t have much money, but he did have a letter of
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$5.99 working relationship between the two men was short
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harsh competitors. One of the most influential scientists of
all time, Nikola Tesla is celebrated for his experim...
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Endurance, Young Readers Edition: My Year
in Space and How I Got There
Scott Kelly
Discover what it’s like to spend a year in space in
this awe-inspiring memoir from a real-life NASA
astronaut who did just that!
Prepare to blast off with astronaut Scott Kelly as he takes
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$17.99 International Space Station and his life prior to becoming
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Discover the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight,
the pressures of living in close quarters with people from
many countries, the extremely dangerous risk of colliding
Kid Scientists: True Tales of Childhood from
Science Superstars
David Stabler, Anoosha Syed
Funny and totally true childhood biographies and
full-color illustrations tell tales from the challenging
yet defining growing-up years of Albert Einstein,
Jane Goodall, Marie Curie, and 12 other brilliant
scientists.
9781683690740
$13.95 Every great scientist started out as a kid. Before their
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world, the world’s most celebrated scientists had
regular-kid problems just like you. Stephen Hawking
hated school, and preferred to spend his free time building
model ...
Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different:
True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the
World without Killing Dragons
Ben Brooks, Quinton Wintor
New York Times bestseller
Boys can be anything they want to be! This timely
book joins and expands the gender-role
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$16.99 welcome alternative message: that masculinity
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You won't find any stories of slaying dragons or saving
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Different, author Ben Brooks-with the help of Quinton
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees
Don Brown
Sibert Honor Medalist · New York Public Library
Best Of 2018 · The Horn Book’s Fanfare 2018 list ·
Kirkus Best Books of 2018 · YALSA Excellence in
Nonfiction Winner
In the tradition of two-time Sibert honor winner
9781328810151 Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color
$18.99 nonfiction graphic novels The Great American Dust
Hardcover Picture Book Bowl and Drowned City, The Unwanted is an
important, timely, and eye-opening exploration of
the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis, exposing the
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CROWN BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
Hey, Kiddo (National Book Award Finalist)
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
A National Book Award Finalist!
In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to
draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's
family is much more complicated than that. His mom is
an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's
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$14.99 grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very
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with raising chi...
(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the
Conversation about Mental Health
Kelly Jensen
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018
Who’s Crazy?
What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy
9781616207816 offensive? What happens when a label like that gets
$16.95 attached to your everyday experiences?
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To understand mental health, we need to talk openly
about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy,
there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the
word itself means different things—wild? extreme?
Mary Shelley: The Strange True Tale of
Frankenstein's Creator
Catherine Reef
On the 200th anniversary of the publication of
Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its
author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark
gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and
one of the strangest love stories in literary history.
9781328740052
$18.99 The story of Frankenstein’s creator is a strange, romantic,
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Mary ran away to Lake Geneva with the poet Percy
Bysshe Shelley when she was just sixteen. It was there,
during a cold and wet s...
Where Is the Tower of London?
Janet B. Pascal, Who HQ, David Malan
The Tower of London holds almost a thousand
years’ worth of secrets!
The Tower of London draws more than 2 million visitors a
year! Almost 1,000 years old and first built by William the
Conqueror in 1066, the tower has been a fortress, a
9781524786069 palace, a zoo, and an exhibit site for the amazing Crown
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Paperback what accounts for its popularity! Two young princes in the
time of King Richard III were never again heard from after
entering the castle, and two ...
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Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution
Bernie Sanders
Throughout the Presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders
galvanized voters with his progressive platform and vision
for America. In this book, Sanders shares his ideas for
continuing a political revolution to fight for a progressive
economic, environmental, racial and social justice agenda
that create jobs, raises wages, protects the environment
9781250160492 and provides health care for all. Geared toward teen
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Lincoln's Grave Robbers (Scholastic Focus)
Steve Sheinkin
A true-crime thriller -- the first book for teens to
tell the nearly unknown tale of the brazen attempt
to steal Abraham Lincoln's body. Reissued in
Scholastic Focus, with an exciting new cover.
The action begins in October of 1875, as Secret Service
9781338290134 agents raid the Fulton, Illinois, workshop of master
$8.99 counterfeiter Ben Boyd. Soon after Boyd is hauled off to
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back room of a smoky Chicago saloon to discuss how to
spring their ringleader. Thei...
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices:
Words and Images of Hope
Wade Hudson, Cheryl Willis Hudson
Fifty of the foremost diverse children’s authors and
illustrators—including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline
Woodson, and Kwame Alexander—share answers
to the question, “In this divisive world, what shall
we tell our children?” in this beautiful, full-color
9780525580423 keepsake collection, published in partnership with
$18.99 Just Us Books.
Hardcover
What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak,
and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly
designed pages of original art and prose, fifty diverse
creators lend v...
Gods and Heroes: Mythology Around the World
Korwin Briggs
Meet the Original Superheroes.
Before there was Batman, Wonder Woman, or Black
Panther...there was Indra, Hindu king of gods, who battled
a fearsome snake to save the world from drought.
Athena, the powerful Greek goddess of wisdom who could
9781523503780 decide the fate of battles before they even began.
$19.95 Okuninushi, the Japanese hero who defeated eighty
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boards chance at immortality.
Featuring more than 70 characters from 23 cultures
around the world, this A-to-Z ...
SQUARE FISH
The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Greece: A
Handbook for Time Travelers
Jonathan W. Stokes
From the publishing house that brought you the
Who Was? books comes the next big series to
make history approachable, engaging, and funny!
The Thrifty Guide to Ancient Greece: A Handbook for
9780451480279 Time Travelers is a snappy, informative, illustrated travel
$13.99 guide with everything the sensible time traveler needs to
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How can I find a decent tunic that won’t break my bank
account?
Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of
Defiance, Strength, and Courage
Amy Klobuchar, In This Together Media
A powerful collection of essays from actors,
activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers,
and teens, including Senator Amy Klobuchar,
actress Alia Shawkat, actor Maulik Pancholy, poet
Azure Antoinette, teen activist Gavin Grimm, and
9781524771966 many, many more, each writing about a time in
$18.99 their youth when they were held back because of
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persisted.
“Aren’t you a terrorist?” “There are no roles for people
who look like you.” “That’s a sin.” “No girls allowed....
Weird But True 9: Expanded Edition
National Geographic Kids
Did you know that rats prefer classical music to
jazz? Or that you can swim as fast in syrup as you
can in water? It’s all totally weird…but true!
The world can be a pretty wacky place! Kids will have a
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$8.99 and amazing facts. Topics include science, space, weather,
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else under the sun, presented with fascinating photos and
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Dog Science Unleashed: Fun Activities to do
with your Canine Companion
Jodi Wheeler-Toppen
Learn about science with the most faithful lab
partner you’ll ever have—your dog! Discover how
your canine companion thinks, moves, drinks,
stays warm, gets clean, cools off, and more.
9781426331534 Have fun with 22 safe and pup-friendly activities that let
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Trade Paperback tick. Learn to take your dog’s pulse and find out how
much blood is pumping through his body. Find out if your
dog hears things you can’t by making a dog whistle. What
colors can your dog see? Is he col...
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Eat Your Words
Charlotte Foltz Jones, John O'Brien
Baked Alaska, melba toast, hush puppies, and coconuts.
You’d be surprised at how these food names came to be.
And have you ever wondered why we use the expression
"selling like hotcakes"? Or how about "spill the beans"?
There are many fascinating and funny stories about the
language of food—and the food hidden in our language!
9781524766818 Charlotte Foltz Jones has compiled a feast of her favorite
$12.99 anecdotes, and John O’Brien’s delightfully pun-filled
Hardcover drawings provide the dessert. Bon appetit!
Far from the Tree: Young Adult Edition--How
Children and Their Parents Learn to Accept One
Another . . . Our Differences Unite Us
Andrew Solomon, Laurie Calkhoven
The old adage says that the apple doesn’t fall far from the
tree, meaning that children usually resemble their
parents. But what happens when the apples fall
somewhere else—sometimes a couple of orchards away,
9781481440912 sometimes on the other side of the world?
$12.99
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families accommodate children who have a variety of
differences: families of people who are deaf, who are
dwarfs, who have Down syndrome, who have autism,
who have schizophrenia, who have mul...
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
Elizabeth Partridge
First came John Lennon. Then Marching for
Freedom. Now National Book Award-finalist
Elizabeth Partridge takes on the ultimate 60s topic:
Vietnam.
In March 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent troops
9780670785063 into Vietnam. 57,939 American soldiers would be killed
$22.99 and seventeen years would pass before this controversial
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of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982.
The history of this era is complex; the cultural impact
extraordinary. But it’s the person...
Radioactive!: How Irène Curie and Lise Meitner
Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
Winifred Conkling
The fascinating, little-known story of how two
brilliant female physicists’ groundbreaking
discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and
9781616206413 fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that
$10.95 would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This
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create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie
shared a Nobel Prize with her husband for their work. But
when she was nominated t...
DELACORTE BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS
Weird But True Know-It-All: Greek
Mythology
Sarah Wassner Flynn
Classic stories from Greek mythology come to life
in this latest single-subject themed book in the
Weird But True spin-off series, Know-It-All.
Zeus, Hades, Aphrodite, Hera, Poseidon, Hercules,
9781426331893 Achilles, Ares, Apollo, Athena, Artemis, Dionysus,
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facts accompanied by lush original full-color art cover
everything kids need to know abou...
Girl CEO
Katherine Ellison, Ronnie Cohen , Tory Burch, Georgia
Rucker
Mini-biographies of leading women entrepreneurs—from
Katrina Lake to Oprah, Tavi Gevinson to Sheryl Sandberg,
and Ursula Burns to Diane von Furstenberg—offer
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focus on the challenges faced (and overcome) by girls and
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All Heart: My Dedication and Determination to
Become One of Soccer's Best
Carli Lloyd, Wayne Coffey
Two-time FIFA Player of the Year Carli Lloyd tells
her inspirational story of going from nearly quitting
soccer to the number one player in the world in
this young reader’s edition of her memoir When
Nobody Was Watching, now available in
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Then she met James Galanis, a trainer who believed in
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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of
the Emmett Till Case
Chris Crowe
Revised and updated with new information, this
Jane Adams award winner is an in-depth
examination of the Emmett Till murder case, a
catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement.
9780451478726 The kidnapping and violent murder of fourteen-year-old
$10.99 Emmett Till in 1955 was and is a uniquely American
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family in a small town in Mississippi, when he allegedly
whistled at a white woman. Three days later, his brutally
beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie...
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What Was the Ice Age?
Nico Medina, Who HQ, David Groff
A mesmerizing overview of the world as it was
when glaciers covered the earth and long-extinct
creatures like the woolly mammoths and saber-
toothed cats battled to survive.
Go back 20,000 years ago to a time of much colder global
9780399543890 temperatures when glaciers and extensive sheets of ice
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and climate, leading to the evolution of creatures such as
giant armadillos, saber-toothed cats, and woolly ...
Weird But True Know-It-All: U.S. Presidents
Brianna DuMont
What’s so weird about U.S. presidents? Plenty! Did you
know that Abraham Lincoln was a great wrestler? That
Ulysses S. Grant got a speeding ticket riding his horse –
twice! Or that Benjamin Harrison was afraid of electricity?
And let’s not forget that President McKinley had a pet
parrot that whistled “Yankee Doodle Dandy” duets with
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$12.99 have a blast learning that there’s a lot of substance – and
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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for
Education and Changed the World (Young Readers
Edition)
Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
The bestselling memoir by Nobel Peace Prize
winner Malala Yousafzai.
I Am Malala. This is my story.
9780316327916
$10.99 Malala Yousafzai was only ten years old when the Taliban
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They said women weren't allowed to go to the market.
They said girls couldn't go to school.
Raised in a once-peaceful area of Pakistan transformed by
The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide for
Teens and Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity
Rylan Jay Testa, Deborah Coolhart, Jayme Peta, Ryan K
Sallans, Arlene Istar Lev
This one-of-a-kind, comprehensive workbook will
help you navigate your gender identity and
expression at home, in school, and with peers.
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$17.95 (TGNC) teen, you may experience unique challenges with
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experiencing common teen challenges such as body
changes and peer pressure, you may be wondering how
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PENGUIN WORKSHOP
Spinning
Tillie Walden
Figure skating was Tillie Walden’s life. She woke before
dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice
after school, and spent weekends competing in glitter and
tights. It was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven
from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as Tillie's
interests evolve, from her growing passion for art to a first
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Poignant and captivating,...
Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and
Spectacular
Mayim Bialik
What does it mean to be a girl in today’s world?
Using her own experiences as an actress, scientist,
and writer, TV star Mayim Bialik talks directly to
teens about everything from first kisses and first
periods to rocky friendships, family responsibilities,
9780399548604 and figuring out your true passion.
$18.99
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There are pressures of family, friends, romantic interests,
and school, not to mention changing bodies, evolving
social circles, and shifting views on t...
The V-Word: True Stories about First-Time Sex
Amber J. Keyser
Losing it. Popping your cherry. Handing in your V-card.
First time sex is a big unknown. Will it be candlelight and
rose petals or quick and uncomfortable? Is it about love or
about lust? Deciding to have sex for the first time is a
choice that’s often fraught with anxiety and joy. But do
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Justina Ireland, Sara Ryan, Carrie Mesrobian, Erica
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Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret
Life of a Transgender Teen
Arin Andrews
In this revolutionary first-of-its-kind memoir, Arin Andrews
details the journey that led him to make the
life-transforming decision to undergo gender
reassignment as a high school junior. In his captivatingly
witty, honest voice, Arin reveals the challenges he faced as
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Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition
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Rapture Practice: A True Story About Growing
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