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Tackles the tough and sensitive issues of sexuality to prepare teens for their adolescent years, instilling godly values about sex, their body, and relationships. Ages 8 to 14.

Optimized for use on the KOBO, this delightful picture book explores questions and concerns about physical disabilities in a simple and reassuring way. Younger children can find out about individual disabilities, special equipment that is available to help the disabled, and how people of all ages...

In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk—author of Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens—offers powerful tools based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you regulate your emotions so you can build better relationships with your parents, friends, and peers.   Do...

What is the ideal way to give birth to your baby? Is it a high-tech delivery, with drugs, and monitors, and surgery? Or is it more naturally, with a midwife and/or birth center? Is it possible today to combine the best of twentieth-century medicine with the human advantages of a natural childbirth? Penny...

A Girl's Guide to Growing Up Being a girl is a lot of fun most of the time. But some days are really difficult. Dealing with a body that is changing before everyone's eyes, increasing amounts of schoolwork, boys, other girls, friends, makeup, clothing, parents. Wow! Life as a preteen or early-teen...

What is God? is the first title in Etan Boritzer’s best selling What is? series of Life Concepts books on character education and social issues. What is God? is an introduction to the comparative study of major world’s religions. Author Boritzer explores the different teachers and books available...

Everything you always wanted to know about Islam -- but didn't know to ask! What does it mean to be Muslim in America? Ask ten different people and you'll probably receive ten different answers. Islam is as dynamic as it is misunderstood, and has been in a state of constant change and development...

From the critically acclaimed author of THIS BOOK IS GAY, James Dawson, now writing as Juno Dawson From the critically acclaimed author of THIS BOOK IS GAY, James Dawson, now writing as Juno Dawson. We all have a mind, so we all need to take care of our mental health as much as we need to take...

Stories of Diversity in the Social Emotional Library series presents real life, historical, and modern stories that celebrate diversity as displayed in everyday life. Through the collection of five separate stories, thought-provoking issues and questions, as well as hands-on activities, encourage the development of critical life skills, empathy, and social emotional growth.

From the authors of Kar-Bens award-winning Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Childrens Holocaust Memorial, comes a book about teaching the lessons of tolerance gleaned from the Holocaust. In Bullies and the Three Monkeys, Peter W. Schroeder and Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, searching for lessons...

Hope Syndreamz is proud to release "Amir's First Haircut" the **fourth English-printed **book in Her **Septology Saga **focusing on life's lessons through the eyes of a young boy. Amir's first fast-approaching visit to the Barbershop is cloaked in a blanket of fright. Especially after...

Teens struggling with an eating disorder or negative body image will find solace in the riveting real-life stories compiled in this book. In first-person accounts, young adults discuss their efforts to overcome challenges including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder. Whether...

In today's world of economic uncertainty, homelessness is a growing problem for families everywhere. Homelessness can happen with little warning, and when it does occur, it is vital to know what actions to take immediately, and what resources are available. Readers will find practical strategies to...

Despite the fact that it is condemned all around the world, the practice of torture persists to this day. This book examines the arguments put forth both for and against torture, its history, and the international laws that prohibit it. Readers will learn how the first international laws protecting...