problem youth

Tells the story of Sheila, a high school student suffering from severe emotional disturbance, and her attempts to cope by venting her rage, cutting herself, and starving herself before getting the help she needs to begin to recover.

Discusses different kinds of juvenile violence and their causes, as well as the costs of this violence and possible solutions.

Discusses what factors can put teenagers at risk for suicide, teen pregnancy, gang violence, drugs, and other dangers.

Tells the story of David Hahn, the Michigan teenager who built a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard in 1994, endangering the residents of his Michigan hometown and raising the ire of the federal government.

Fourteen-year-old Samuel, already experiencing some of the pangs of growing up, becomes even more confused when he starts receiving cryptic letters from his Grandpa Max who he has not seen in ten years since the death of his dad.

Tells the stories of four troubled teens from very different backgrounds whose lives were turned around through their participation in a fourteen-month-program of rigorous courses, wilderness survival, and group therapy offered at Swift River Academy in Massachusetts.

Tells the story of David Hahn, the Michigan teenager who built a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard in 1994, endangering the residents of his Michigan hometown and raising the ire of the federal government.

Janice Erlbaum recounts her experiences working with the residents of a homeless shelter she lived at more than twenty years earlier, reflecting on her friendship with one troubled young woman who reminded Janice of the girl she used to be.

In response to his grief over the loss of his wife and son to a drunk driver, Wyatt Blaine decides to start up an equine therapy program for troubled teens at his family's ranch and is solicited by the widow of the man responsible for his family's death, who wants Wyatt to welcome her son into his program, which leads all three individuals onto an unexpected path toward love and forgiveness.

Father David Anderton, a homosexual priest educated at Oxford and considered a posh outsider by his neighbors, is attacked by the Scottish town he serves after he kisses Mark, a rebellious teenager to whom he has grown close.