Describes coping behavior patterns that are successful for coping with yourself, criticism, parents, adults, other young people and gives techniques on assertiveness.
Presents a graphic novelization of Ann M. Martin's novel in which a fight breaks out among the members of the Baby-sitters Club, and timid Mary Anne finds herself becoming more assertive as a baby sitter and in her relationships with her father and friends.
Seventeen-year-old Mandy often plays the helpless role with her father and boyfriend but as she becomes caught up in the social turmoil of the early 1970's, she begins to feel the need to assert her independence.
A child who never says anything when other children are being teased or bullied finds herself in their position one day when jokes are made at her expense and no one speaks up.
Longing to hide from the world after the trauma of her parents' divorce and the terrible bullying inflicted on her in school, teenaged Shelley moves with her timid mother to a remote cottage in the English countryside where all goes well, until an intruder invades their reclusive life and nothing is ever the same again.
Increasingly stifled by her overprotective mother and the demands of her fledgling acting career, sixteen-year-old Valerie comes to realize that she must make her own decisions about the direction of her life.
Describes coping behavior patterns that are successful for coping with yourself, criticism, parents, adults, other young people and gives techniques on assertiveness.
