Issues
Books to Help Teens Cope Bibliography
An AskDrJami.org Bibliography by Lynn Evarts of Sauk Prairie High School...[more]
Divorce Bibliography for Kids in Grades 3-6
When parents divorce, children often feel confusion, sadness, anger, and guilt. They may wonder what is going to happen to them and how their lives will change. Should remarriage occur, children may feel displaced by the new stepparent. They may feel jealous...[more]
Drinking and Driving Bibliography for Teens in Grades 9-12
As the end of the school year approaches, many teens will participate in one of the most important rituals of high school life - the Prom. For many, this may involve drinking either before of after the prom, and driving...[more]
What the Statistics Indicate: Unlike any previous generation, today's teens are bombarded at an alarming rate by media messages conveyed through television, movies, radio, Internet, video games, billboards, T-shirts and caps, magazines, newspapers, bumper stickers...[more]
When librarians bring people together, everyone wins. Like its politicians and wars," the late English essayist J. B. Priestly once lamented, "society has the teenagers it deserves." A recent discussion on the Young Adult Library Services Association's (YALSA) listserv...[more]
If we want boys to love books, it's important to recognize what they want. Houston, we have a problem! No, I'm not talking about the Apollo 13 space mission. I'm referring to earthbound boys whose career choices are significantly limited because of a well-documented problem...[more]
"The first time Alex called Tabitha a bitch, she thought he was kidding-after all, they were in love" (Hudepohl 169). There are other teen boys like Alex who say similar words to their girlfriends. Tabitha is encountering one of the most...[more]
How to provide the critical skills young people need to overcome adversity -- Amanda was everything I had hoped for in my son's first serious girlfriend. She was polite, outgoing, and cute as a button. Like others who knew her, I was completely taken with her charm...[more]
The night before the important test in first block, John studies until 3:00 am. Only when he cannot keep his eyes open any longer does he turn out the lights, hoping for a few hours of sleep. Even though he meant to set the alarm...[more]
"My guess is not much" wasn't the response I was hoping for when I asked Laurence Steinberg, a psychology professor at Philadelphia's Temple University and an expert on adolescence, to speculate on the importance of libraries to today's Internet-loving teens...[more]
Most adults are challenged when it comes to understanding teens' motives. "What were they thinking of?" is an all-too-common response. Without a doubt, no developmental period in our lives is more confounding...[more]
Children and adolescents are the innocent victims of war and conflict. Fortunately, most youth living in America have never experienced war first-hand. The closest they have come to this type of violence is the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. However...[more]
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