life skills

Presents information on problems encountered by children of interracial marriage and lets children tell their own stories.

Discusses Brooke Shields' program for learning to control your own life after high school upon leaving home for college.

Offers advice to young girls on controlling clutter in their backpacks, lockers, and bedrooms; and includes related crafts.

A collection of humorous musings on conditions in our life.

A comprehensive research text and accompanying DVD designed to help students achieve the skills necessary to succeed in the digital world, with strategies for developing critical thinking, communication, and information literacy skills.

Provides basic knowledge and practical information that will help people survive and make a living on their own; and discusses topics such as social skills, taxes, financial planning, roommates, laundry, and insurance.

Details real-life survival stories from individuals who have overcome great catastrophes in their lives, and discusses racial prejudice, cancer, natural disasters, domestic abuse, violence, and more.

Offers teenagers advice on how to deal with the issues they face and grow up to become competent, successful adults.

Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore's detailed plans for the next twenty years of her life are derailed when her bohemian grandmother insists that she join her in Southeast Asia for the summer, but as she writes a novel about her experiences, Vassar discovers new possibilities.

Discusses how to develop appropriate negotiating strategies and describes how they can be used at school and on the job.