teenagers

"The average teen spends more time at school than anywhere except in bed asleep. This book investigates how your health can affect your experience at school. It looks at both chronic illness and mental health issues, providing some basic information on the most common diagnoses that impact teens. It also provides tips on stress management, identigying high-risk behaviors, and other ways you can stay healthy at school"--Back cover.

Provides teens with a solid and practical introduction to living a healthy lifestyle, covering healthy diet, grocery shopping, cooking, exercising, mental health, and more.

A collection of twenty-seven true stories that details the experiences of teenagers dealing with issues concerning diet, exercise, and stress.

"A practical, easy-to-use handbook for teenagers that will help you learn how to develop a healthy and loving relationship with your body and food"--Provided by publisher.

"This book presents the facts on drug and alcohol use: how it affects the brain, how some drugs work differently from others, and what the long-term consequences can be. Readers will also fond out about how to recognize addiction and what to do about it"--Back cover.

"Anna loves movies. If her life were a movie and she wrote the script, she wouldn't be living with her reserved parents in rural Pennsylvania. And she wouldn't have to face her pregnant sister who just moved back home after being gone for three years. Feeling stuck, all Anna wants to do is disappear into her TV screen. But when Anna strikes up a friendship with Aiden, a cashier at one of the last remaining video stores in the state, she finds unexpected acceptance in his virtual film club. Anna knows happy endings are for the movies, but maybe she can find her own"--Provided by publisher.

"Mei Lee is a confident, dorky thirteen-year-old torn between staying her mother's dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. And as if changes to her interests, relationships, and body weren't enough, whenever she gets too excited (which for a teenager is practically ALWAYS), she 'poofs' into a giant red panda"--Provided by publisher.

"Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. When they are suddenly deported, Maria decides to hide out in Jake's place rather than risk becoming a ward of the state. But when she is abducted by young men on the lookout for teenage girls who have lost their parents to deportation, Jake is determined to find a way to rescue Maria before she's turned over to the authorities. Or worse"--Provided by publisher.

"One kiss lasts a moment. But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime. One boy. One girl. A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade. A bond that neither time nor distance can break. A bond that will last forever. Or so they believe. When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a child, he has just one thing on his mind. Why did the girl who was one half of his soul, who promised to wait faithfully for his return, cut him off without a word of explanation? Rune's heart was broken two years ago when Poppy fell silent. But when he discovers the truth of her absence, he finds that the greatest heartache is yet to come."--.

It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and today Alix, who usually tries to control her anger, let it finally run free. Alix lashes out and before she knows it, her coach is dragging her off Lindsay, and the invitation to the Canada National Women's U18 Team's summer camp is on the line. She needs to learn how to control this anger, and she is sure Ezra, the popular and poised theater kid from her grade is the answer. So she asks for his help. But as they hang out and start to get closer, Alix learns that there is more to Ezra than the cool front he puts on. And that maybe this friendship could become something more.