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Escaping the Endless Adolescence
Written by Joseph Allen and Claudia Worrell Allen
Ballantine Books | Hardcover | October 2009
$25.00/29.95(Canada) | 978-0-345-50789-1 (0-345-50789-4)
Do you sometimes wonder how your teen is ever going to survive on his or her own as an adult? Does your high school junior seem oblivious to the challenges that lie ahead? Does your academically successful nineteen-year-old still expect you to “just take care of” even the most basic life... > Read more
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The Triple Bind
Written by Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D. and Rachel Kranz
Ballantine Books | Trade Paperback | December 29, 2009
$15.00/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-345-50400-5 (0-345-50400-3)
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Practicing
Written by Glenn Kurtz
Knopf | Hardcover | June 2007
$24.00/28.00(Canada) | 978-0-307-26615-6 (0-307-26615-X)
The remarkable odyssey of a classical guitar prodigy who abandons his beloved instrument in defeat at the age of twenty-five, but comes back to it years later with a new kind of passion.
With insight and humor, Glenn Kurtz takes us from his first lessons at a small Long Island guitar school... > Read more
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A Mighty Long Way
Written by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton
One World/Ballantine | Hardcover | August 2009
$26.00/32.00(Canada) | 978-0-345-51100-3 (0-345-51100-X)
"Carlotta Walls LaNier's A Mighty Long Way is a riveting account of nine brave high school students and their families in a quest for quality desegregated public education. What happened in Little Rock in 1957 resulted in America's greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Carlotta's account of events inside and... > Read more
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Word Smart for the TOEFL
Written by Princeton Review
Princeton Review | Trade Paperback | May 2009
$13.99/16.99(Canada) | 978-0-375-42921-7 (0-375-42921-2)
Ideal for students who are planning to take the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language).
Word Smart for the TOEFL helps students with the English vocabulary that is specifically relevant for the TOEFL exam.
Word Smart for the TOEFL presents 250 vocabulary words, including all the most common words from... > Read more
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Look Me in the Eye
Written by John Elder Robison
Three Rivers Press | Trade Paperback | September 2008
$14.95/16.95(Canada) | 978-0-307-39618-1 (0-307-39618-5)
Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he was a teenager, his odd habits—an inclination to blurt out non sequiturs, avoid eye contact, dismantle radios, and dig five-foot holes (and stick his younger brother in them)—had earned him the label... > Read more
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Overcoming Dyslexia
Written by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
Vintage | Trade Paperback | January 2005
$16.95/18.95(Canada) | 978-0-679-78159-2 (0-679-78159-5)
From one of the world’s leading experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plague American children today. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to... > Read more
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The Brightening Glance
Written by Ellen Handler Spitz
Anchor | Trade Paperback | February 2007
$14.95/19.95(Canada) | 978-0-385-72005-2 (0-385-72005-X)
In this original, richly illuminating study of the aesthetic development of children in their primary learning years, Ellen Handler Spitz returns us to the vibrant experience of childhood to explain how the imagination emerges and develops. She looks at how children feel, sense, and relate to what is around them, and... > Read more
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Teaching Hope
Written by The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell
Foreword by Anna Quindlen
Broadway | Trade Paperback | August 2009
$14.99/18.99(Canada) | 978-0-7679-3172-4 (0-7679-3172-6)
Watch Author Erin Gruwell Discuss Teaching Hope on YouTube-- click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8E5-wg3_UQ
“There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet. . . . What could be more soul-satisfying? These are... > Read more
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