coming of age

After finally getting noticed by someone other than school bullies and his ever-angry father, seventeen-year-old Tyler enjoys his tough new reputation and the attentions of a popular girl, but when life starts to go bad again, he must choose between transforming himself or giving in to his destructive thoughts.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the nineteenth-century novel "Great Expectations, " and its author Charles Dickens.

While her adoptive American mother is away, twelve-year-old Zoya confides in her diary about her revived fears about the Buka, an old woman who waits in the shadows to snatch children, and confronts some truths about her early childhood in her native Russia.

Relates the history of childhood and describes how birth, coming of age, and other important childhood events are celebrated in different countries and by different cultures around the world. Includes recipes and activities.

As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.

Lalla, a young girl living in the Muslim part of West Africa, greatly desires to wear a beautiful malafa like her mother, sister, and cousin, but when she asks those women of authority in her life to have one, they tell her about all the tradition and Islamic religious significance of the malafa and why it is not just any lady who can wear one.

During a party on the last day of her junior year, Nora heads into the woods with her friends to celebrate. Before long, however, they realize they have all become the target of a killer who has begun to hunt them down.

Contains eleven stories about growing up written by well-known authors; including Meg Cabot, Lois Lowry, Cathy Hopkins, and more.

Fourteen-year-old Casey dreads leaving her friends and boyfriend--as well as cell phone and Internet service--to spend a boring summer on a Caribbean island with her naturalist father, stepmother, and brothers, but she has some life-changing experiences, including learning to sail, helping with turtle conservation, surviving storms, and romance.

Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old overachiever, is on the verge of academic burnout when he impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs for one weekend and accompany his neighbor to an out of town job repairing a roof.