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Playing at Being Bad
The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens
Written by Michael Ungar
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $16.95
“Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.”
Unlike... Read more >
The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens
Written by Michael Ungar
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $16.95
“Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.”
Unlike... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Triple Bind
Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures
Written by Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D. and Rachel Kranz
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
In many ways, today is the best time in history to be a girl: Opportunities for a girl’s success are as unlimited as her dreams. Yet an alarm is sounding, revealing a disturbing portrait of the stresses affecting girls of all ages. Societal expectations, cultural trends, and conflicting messages are creating... Read more >
Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures
Written by Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D. and Rachel Kranz
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
In many ways, today is the best time in history to be a girl: Opportunities for a girl’s success are as unlimited as her dreams. Yet an alarm is sounding, revealing a disturbing portrait of the stresses affecting girls of all ages. Societal expectations, cultural trends, and conflicting messages are creating... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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The Triple Bind
Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures
Written by Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D. and Rachel Kranz
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
In many ways, today is the best time in history to be a girl: Opportunities for a girl’s success are as unlimited as her dreams. Yet an alarm is sounding, revealing a disturbing portrait of the stresses affecting girls of all ages. Societal expectations, cultural trends, and conflicting messages are creating... Read more >
Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today's Pressures
Written by Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D. and Rachel Kranz
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $25.00
In many ways, today is the best time in history to be a girl: Opportunities for a girl’s success are as unlimited as her dreams. Yet an alarm is sounding, revealing a disturbing portrait of the stresses affecting girls of all ages. Societal expectations, cultural trends, and conflicting messages are creating... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Good Teen
Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years
Written by Richard M. Lerner, PH.D
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $14.95
Who says the teen years have to be terrible?
Although the word teenager has become synonymous with trouble, the evidence is clear: Adolescents have gotten a bad rap—and this according to a landmark eight-year study of 4,000 teens from twenty-five states. In The Good Teen, acclaimed researcher Richard M. Lerner sets the... Read more >
Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years
Written by Richard M. Lerner, PH.D
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $14.95
Who says the teen years have to be terrible?
Although the word teenager has become synonymous with trouble, the evidence is clear: Adolescents have gotten a bad rap—and this according to a landmark eight-year study of 4,000 teens from twenty-five states. In The Good Teen, acclaimed researcher Richard M. Lerner sets the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Good Girl Revolution
Young Rebels with Self-Esteem and High Standards
Written by Wendy Shalit
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
Across the country, there’s a youth-led rebellion challenging the status quo. In Seattle and Pittsburgh, teenage girls protest against companies that sell sleazy clothing. Online, a nineteen-year-old describes her struggles with her mother, who she feels is pressuring her to lose her virginity. In a small town outside Philadelphia, an eleventh-grade... Read more >
Young Rebels with Self-Esteem and High Standards
Written by Wendy Shalit
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: July 8, 2008
Price: $15.00
Across the country, there’s a youth-led rebellion challenging the status quo. In Seattle and Pittsburgh, teenage girls protest against companies that sell sleazy clothing. Online, a nineteen-year-old describes her struggles with her mother, who she feels is pressuring her to lose her virginity. In a small town outside Philadelphia, an eleventh-grade... Read more >
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The Good Teen
Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years
Written by Richard M. Lerner, PH.D
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
For many parents the thought of the teen years holds more dread than all the sleepless nights of infancy and scraped knees of childhood combined. After all, teens are obstinate, inconsiderate, and defiant; they sulk and stress; they are prone to bad decisions and unreasonable behavior.
Given the option, most parents... Read more >
Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years
Written by Richard M. Lerner, PH.D
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95
For many parents the thought of the teen years holds more dread than all the sleepless nights of infancy and scraped knees of childhood combined. After all, teens are obstinate, inconsiderate, and defiant; they sulk and stress; they are prone to bad decisions and unreasonable behavior.
Given the option, most parents... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Playing at Being Bad
The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens
Written by Michael Ungar
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $16.95
“Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.”
Unlike... Read more >
The Hidden Resilience of Troubled Teens
Written by Michael Ungar
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2007
Price: $16.95
“Our most troubled youth are far more resilient and healthy than we are ready to admit. If we take the time to listen very closely to our children speak about their experiences beyond our front doors, we hear an entirely different story about their lives than the one we adults tell.”
Unlike... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Girls Gone Mild
Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good
Written by Wendy Shalit
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $25.95
At twenty-three, Wendy Shalit punctured conventional wisdom with A Return to Modesty, arguing that our hope for true lasting love is not a problem to be fixed but rather a wonderful instinct that forms the basis for civilization. Now, in Girls Gone Mild, the brilliantly outspoken author investigates an emerging new... Read more >
Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good
Written by Wendy Shalit
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $25.95
At twenty-three, Wendy Shalit punctured conventional wisdom with A Return to Modesty, arguing that our hope for true lasting love is not a problem to be fixed but rather a wonderful instinct that forms the basis for civilization. Now, in Girls Gone Mild, the brilliantly outspoken author investigates an emerging new... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Girls Gone Mild
Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good
Written by Wendy Shalit
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $25.95
At twenty-three, Wendy Shalit punctured conventional wisdom with A Return to Modesty, arguing that our hope for true lasting love is not a problem to be fixed but rather a wonderful instinct that forms the basis for civilization. Now, in Girls Gone Mild, the brilliantly outspoken author investigates an emerging new... Read more >
Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good
Written by Wendy Shalit
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 26, 2007
Price: $25.95
At twenty-three, Wendy Shalit punctured conventional wisdom with A Return to Modesty, arguing that our hope for true lasting love is not a problem to be fixed but rather a wonderful instinct that forms the basis for civilization. Now, in Girls Gone Mild, the brilliantly outspoken author investigates an emerging new... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Burn Journals
Written by Brent Runyon
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $13.95
BRENT RUNYON WAS 14 years old when he set himself on fire.
This is a true story.
In The Burn Journals, Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year. He takes us into the Burn Unit in a children’s hospital and through painful burn care and skin-grafting... Read more >
Written by Brent Runyon
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $13.95
BRENT RUNYON WAS 14 years old when he set himself on fire.
This is a true story.
In The Burn Journals, Runyon describes that devastating suicide attempt and his recovery over the following year. He takes us into the Burn Unit in a children’s hospital and through painful burn care and skin-grafting... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Burn Journals
Written by Brent Runyon
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $13.95
I don’t want to get out of bed.
I’m so stupid.
I did so many things wrong.
I don’t know what to do.
I’m going to be in so much trouble.
What am I going to do?
I’m completely screwed.
In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and... Read more >
Written by Brent Runyon
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $13.95
I don’t want to get out of bed.
I’m so stupid.
I did so many things wrong.
I don’t know what to do.
I’m going to be in so much trouble.
What am I going to do?
I’m completely screwed.
In 1991, fourteen-year-old Brent Runyon came home from school, doused his bathrobe in gasoline, put it on, and... Read more >
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