self-esteem

Syd, who is much more comfortable with animals than people, asks her friends for a tarot reading, then fears the dire predictions are coming true as her parents fight, her aging cat suffers, and her friendships are tested.

Haunted by serious problems in her recent past, thirteen-year-old Cassie makes a fresh start at a Seattle school but is drawn by dangerous new friends into a world of sex, drugs, and violence, while her parents remain oblivious.

Thirteen-year-old Kyle, who is hopeless in math, is tempted to cheat on an exam to please his demanding, heavily drinking father.

Carmen has been shaped by her mother to believe that true beauty and success means being thin, so she begins to take charge of the only thing she can control--what she eats.

While in London visiting her mother, fifteen-year-old Miranda guiltily enjoys the company of a British boy while wondering why her boyfriend is out of touch, but she returns home to find her friendships, love life, family, and math team are all in turmoil.

Fifteen-year-old Patty Ho, half Taiwanese and half white, feels she never fits in, but when her overly-strict mother ships her off to math camp at Stanford, instead being miserable, Patty starts to become comfortable with her true self.

Known as "The Human Calculator," fifteen-year-old Miranda is anything but popular, and it seems that will only get worse when she has to move in with her estranged father and his family, then is blackmailed into planning a school dance, where she will be escorted by a freshman while her stepsister dances with Miranda's dream date.

After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.

Featuring full-color photographs and Web sites, this book describes how to create a respectful bully-free environment.

Discusses problems facing young people such as making choices, learning about and liking yourself, and solving problems.