Børn og unge: personlige og sociale emner: opvækst

Help tweens become confident teens with: 'Life Skills for Tweens' by Ferne Bowe, a concise guide with 70+ practical skills to help kids become happy and successful teenagers .

Three Asian American teen girls look for direction in their lives as they compete against each other at an elite tennis tournament.

In the novel The Awakened: Soul and Sea and a New Life By The Sea, we meet the strong-willed Samantha Lonodson. She dreams of being a marine biologist and is about to start her freshman year of high school at Waterbrookes Academy. If that weren't stressful enough, her mother is battling cancer and when she goes home for a visit, she also discovers some secrets about her family.Join Samantha as she navigates through her high school experience. There are many twists and turns but that is part of growing up.

Ruby Reid has been having a tough time at Crestwood High, but everything changes when cool new girl Ella Mooney moves to town, and the pair find themselves on the run from a mysterious group that wants to capture Ella--who occasionally grows fangs and a tail--and her whole family.

A baby sloth experiences a nighttime tumble and as mama sloth slowly makes her way down the tree, she helps him self-soothe by using his senses.

"Piper Franklin has big plans. First, she'll win the Academic Decathlon with her best friend, Tallulah. Then, she'll finish her life's work: Metaphorical Math. And in the meantime, she and Tallulah will maintain their secret, El Jardin Muerto. Nothing can stop Piper . . . except for puberty. Piper was diagnosed with early-onset puberty, and she's been taking blockers to keep it at bay since she was six years old. But now her doctor thinks it's time for her treatment to end, and Piper's eyes are opened to a completely new world. Piper sees the issues that her older sister and her mom struggle with and gets a very clear picture of her own future--one that she's not sure she likes. Will a changing body change all of Piper's plans? And why does she have to grow up in the first place? Or does she?"--Amazon.

High school senior Claire Jackson's life shatters after an unplanned pregnancy.Not hers, her mother's.With no father named on baby Harry's birth certificate and their mother sinking into despair, Claire finds herself knee deep in diapers, streams of baby barf, and mountains of laundry. Not only does Harry rob Claire of her freedom, but also her future when her mother uses her college funds for day care.Claire's uncle offers to replenish the funds on the condition Harry is given up for adoption. With a troubled and unstable mother, Claire must take control and choose: trade Harry for money and return to her former life, or fight for him.The stakes run high when a baby is involved, and the choices are complicated.

It's the summer before her senior year of high school, and Emery Day feels lost. Everyone around her seems to know what they want to do with their lives. Not only does Emery not know what she wants to do with her life, but her only real passion is watching movies. Her best friend, Tyler, concocts a list of way too many new hobbies for Emery to try out, in the hopes of finding one that finally clicks. Even though this list seems ridiculous, it starts to feel like the only option she has left. With some help from Tyler and an attractive new friend, can Emery complete this list? And even if she does, will it make a difference?From the Publisher:This coming of age book is just the right amount of funny and sass. Emery Day is a character you can fall in love with.

"After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counsellor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her devastation with the healing power of female friendship. Presented as Nora's camp journal, including Nora's sketches of camp life, scraps of letters, and spare poems, The Lightning Circle is an intimate coming-of-age portrait."--

¿Cómo encontrará AJ su camino a la biblioteca en su nuevo vecindario? Con la ayuda de Mamá, AJ hace un mapa. En el camino, él descubre qué hace que su nuevo vecindario sea especial y cómo encontrar el camino de regreso a casa.

Orphan Nikolas dreams of a life as a pirate just like his idol Klaus Störtebeker.

Matteo can't believe it's almost time to move from kindergarten to first grade! He and his classmates have learned so much and they've had a lot of fun. Now they're getting ready for their graduation celebration. Matteo is especially going to miss the class guinea pig, Gus. But maybe guinea pigs can graduate too!

Told from two perspectives, Lily and Will deal with the tumult of seventh grade including secrets, rumors, shifting friendships, overbearing parents, and a first dance.

Six lifelong friends endure a range of trials and tribulations upon entering their sophomore year of high school. Terminal illness, the sinking ship that was once a booming generational family business, and a brush with maniacal killers are only a few examples of such adversity that these young men are faced with. They rely upon one another to conquer each obstacle placed before them; grievances that no adolescent boy should be tasked with. But can their bond and their trust in one another be sufficient to emerge from their respective plights unscathed? And if so, at what cost to their psychological well-beings?

"In this funny picture book exploring a forever childhood question about friendship, squirrel and a mushroom explore the forest through the seasons, show each other special trees, build snow mushrooms, share the good times and bad which become good bad times alongside a friend. Then spring arrives, and so does a new friend. And then another. This raises a profound question for an overthinking squirrel: should we have just one best friend?"--Provided by publisher.

"Friendship and purpose help a grieving man re-engage with his world and talent for fixing things"--

A smart and funny slice-of-life graphic novel for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Kayla Miller about navigating the ups and downs of middle school?from first crushes to crushing the school's science competition.Is this what middle school is all about? Being stuck in the middle? Twelve-year-old Mia feels like everything and everyone is changing?and she is caught in the middle. Stuck between old friends and new friends...between feeling like a kid and growing up...Just as her longtime bff Addy is gravitating towards the popular crowd and starting to care more about school dances than treehouse playdates, Mia finds out that her favorite science camp friend, Tariq, is moving to town and will be going to school with her. She's super excited and can't wait to show him around and help him make friends.But when Tariq arrives in town, he seems like he's grown up a lot, too. No more braces or glasses. A new hair cut. And who knew he was also a soccer star, immediately making the team mid-season?? He's welcomed to Buttonwood Bay Middle School with open arms in a way that Mia can't even recognize, and now she's feeling more lost than ever.Then her science teacher announces the school's science olympics and she and Tariq are teaming up again to crush the competition?just like at camp. Only this time they're joined by a couple of unconventional teammates in Kinsey (more artist than scientist) and the loveable, if also sometimes kind of gross and goofy, Evan.Do Mia and Tariq still have enough of a spark to build a killer robot (figuratively speaking, of course) and take home the prize? Through much experimentation and a little trail and error, Mia navigates new friendships and old as she tries to find her place in middle school?and on the winner's podium.

From critically acclaimed author Alice Oseman comes a smartly crafted contemporary YA novel, perfect for readers who love Rainbow Rowells Fangirl. This is an utterly captivating and authentic teen novel from the author of Solitaire, which VOYA said could put her among the great young adult fiction authors.Frances Janvier spends most of her time studying. Everyone knows Aled Last as that quiet boy who gets straight As. You probably think that they are going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and she is a girl.They dont. They make a podcast. In a world determined to shut them up, knock them down, and set them on a cookie cutter life path, Frances and Aled struggle to find their voices over the course of one life-changing year. Will they have the courage to show everyone who they really are? Or will they be met with radio silence?

"Sona hears music everywhere, even though it has long been outlawed in the land of Devia. Sona is a descendant of the Malechs, foreigners who took over Devia centuries ago. Malechs put Devans to work mining gems and forbade music, so Devans can t cast their own magic anymore. But Sona s world shifts after discovering an orphaned wolf pup. She believes the pup, with its golden ears, might be related to one of the five sacred beasts of Devia, which a Malechian Hunter has been killing one by one. And when someone Sona loves falls ill, she is drawn into a quest with a Devan boy to retrieve the nectar of life. On the perilous journey, Sona must try to avoid the deadly Hunter while keeping her companions safe. But as she uncovers secrets about the Malechian empire and her own identity, Sona realizes that the fate of the sacred beasts, and the future of Devia, just might come down to her."--Provided by publisher.

Anna Kellogg has always felt different. Growing up in Hartwood, New Jersey--where frequent disappearances are attributed to an urban-legend-like beast that dwells in the walled-in swamp at the center of town--can have that effect on people. But for Anna, it's more than that. Since she was a child, she's been plagued by episodes where she sees things others can't see. Feeling different is one thing, but actually being different is another. If it weren't for her best friend, Olivia, Anna's not sure where she'd fit in. But any hopes of having a normal senior year come to a halt when Olivia is attacked in the woods, bitten, and left for dead by a whirling cyclone of claws, fur, and teeth. Though Olivia survives, a sinister entity makes it clear that the mark had been set on Anna...and the miss has set in motion a catastrophic shift that will change Anna and her friends' lives forever.