Teen Life

Walking through life, I have experienced the high of highs and the low of lows. I have fallen in love and I have been heartbroken, I have experienced life and grief has knocked at my door. I am happy but there are days I am sad. I love life but there are days I just don’t. Negative thoughts are monsters I slay each day. We all go through the same emotions as humans. I took to writing just to cope and I hope as you read, these words will help you cope too. I am learning to live each day as it comes. These are just my thoughts into words.

Are you a parent who wants to empower your teenager with the skills and mindset they need to thrive in today's world? If so, The Confident Teen is the book you've been searching for. In a world filled with false promises and misleading claims, I understand your skepticism.

Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They’re taboo. They’re embarrassing. They’re gross. And due to a crumbling or nonexistent national sex ed program, they are misunderstood. Because of these stigmas, a status quo has been established to exclude people who menstruate from the seat at the decision-making table, creating discriminations like the tampon tax, medicines that favor male biology, and more. Period Power aims to explain what menstruation is, shed light on the stigmas and resulting biases, and create a strategy to end the silence and prompt conversation about periods.

Katsuyamas never quit - but 17-year-old CJ doesn’t even know where to start. She’s never lived up to her mom’s type A ambition, and she’s perfectly happy just helping her aunt Hannah at their family’s flower shop. She doesn’t buy into Hannah’s romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill of which she might even be proud. Then her mom decides to sell the shop - to the family who swindled CJ’s grandparents during WWII.

Amish Knit & Crochet Circle: Smicksburg Tales 5, consist of 8 episodes along with 8 thrifty recipes that Granny shares with the new outreach at the Smicksburg Baptist Church. But this gives Granny time to get involved Amish women in need. The Punxsutawney Amish cell phone kerfuffle is in full swing. Clara and Jacob move down to Smicksburg, hoping their kin will follow a narrower path. Melvin wants a cell phone in his variety store sending Fannie into a tizzy. Would Melvin expect her to move to Punsxy? NEVER! A very homesick Ella visits from New York, a rift in her marriage and soul. Widow ...

Priscilla Wilkens was angry with the world over the loss of her parents when the courts ordered her to live with her aunt and uncle. Her cousin, Lori Belle, was about as backward as they came. Priscilla was a proper girl from a high society New York city and couldn't believe she was on her way to live in a small-town rural city in Utah in the middle of nowhere and she would have to live around pigs and cows and who knew what else! Well, lookout world, because they had another thing coming! She would be 18 soon...and then she would decide what was best for her! It certainly wouldn't be ...

It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and a boy and a girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning; Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again. But they don't. This is a story of two people who do not belong in each other's lives, and who find each other at a time when they desperately need someone who doesn't belong in their lives.

A poignant coming-of-age story told in two alternating voices: a California teenager railing against the Vietnamese culture, juxtaposed with her father as an eleven-year-old boat person on a harrowing and traumatic refugee journey from Vietnam to the U.S.

Ten-year-old Katy Gordon loves baseball, and she's good at it, too. She tries out for the 1958 Little League season in the disguise of a boy, and she gets in easily. But when the coach finds out she's a girl, he forbids her from playing. "Since the beginning of baseball as an organized sport, it has always been the sole province of male athletes, and will remain so", says the Little League director. It's not fair, and Katy, who's also learning about the Civil Rights Movement in school, recognizes this as another societal injustice.

Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super cool mom was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Now, with a decade of grief and nervous laughter under her belt, Tyler shares the story of that gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, extremely awkward time in her life. Dancing at the Pity Party is a frank and refreshingly funny look at what it’s like to grieve - for anyone struggling with loss who just wants someone to get it.

It is 1939, Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings.

Thirteen-year-old Maureen Kiernan can’t understand the scary feeling that something dreadful is about to happen. After all, she likes her life. She loves living in New York, is first chair in the cello section of the school orchestra, and is accepted into the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School. So why is she feeling so distraught? For one thing, the happy atmosphere in her house changed almost overnight. Her parents are withdrawn and secretive, acting as if she’s not old enough to handle the truth. Her overactive imagination goes into high gear, believing that one of the ...

Edward appears to be an ordinary mature college student studying forensic science, but behind his quiet exterior lies a dark obsession with the dark web.Addicted to its anonymity, Edward immerses himself in illegal chat rooms and unsettling content. His fascination with the shadows of the human mind begins to blur the lines between his online world and reality. When Phoebe, a fellow student, takes an interest in Edward, she has no idea he’s been stalking women at the college—and she might be next. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Carter and his team are investigating the suspicious death ...

Feeling like you're cruising through the teen years without a roadmap? It's time to switch gears and soar with this ultimate guide. From mastering money to nailing career choices and building rock-solid friendships, this book is your ticket to leveling up—starting right now!

I think we can all agree that having your finances in order can make living a happy life much easier. Make sure your young person doesn’t fall into the trap of asking “Where is all my money going?” or “Why didn’t they teach me this stuff in school?!” Author Stephen Carter is a high school teacher-turned-entrepreneur and had made it his mission to help young people manage their money better. Through a pause-resisting narrative, Stephen tells the story of a sophomore named Andrew Black, as he navigates the world of finance alongside his instructor, Mr. Sharp.

As you listen to this audiobook, you will receive seven of the most important mental and emotional tools that every parent and child needs to have in their arsenal. These tools include resilience, creativity, mindfulness, self-compassion, and more, and as you listen, you’ll learn of the importance of each tool as well as how to develop it for yourself and how to foster it in your children.

Meet Evan Wright, an ambitious college student with an unassuming secret – she's a century-old time traveler. For over a century, she has rubbed shoulders with history's greatest minds, received the seductive advances of Casanova, and grooved with Jim Morrison at Woodstock. These extraordinary experiences allowed her to escape the painful realities of her own time. But now, everything is at stake. She’s lost the love of her life somewhere in time. To reunite with him, she must recover her past memories while evading malevolent pursuers in this fast-paced journey that will take her ...

This book is about GOD’S Cosmic Laugh. I can hear GOD laugh every day. No, I'm not delusional. I'm serious. It's not a normal laugh. It's a cosmic laugh. It's a soundless laugh which vibrates and pervades the entire universe. BUT why does GOD laugh? God was alone and felt lonely and bored. HE needed entertainment. So, in his wisdom, he created us human beings and gave us a special ability called a MIND. Some people have a wrong notion that GOD gave us a mind so that we could think intelligently and progress as a race. In fact, the contrary is true. GOD gave us a MIND so that the mind ...

A young girl awakens to find she has memories from two different pasts, fifty years apart, and both ended tragically when eight years old. She feels different. She is different. She is alive! She (April) is warned by 'Travis', who resides inside her head, to trust no-one, not even the Professor, her 'Pa'. April is also under the strict guardianship of Li-Ming, her 'educator'. When transported across America in a specially adapted RV (the CatV), they meet Jack, who befriends April and Li-Ming, appearing when they are in trouble. The journey allows April to discover more about herself, and of...

They came in summer. They fell upon the land swiftly and suddenly. Through autumn they spread, like locusts, like mice, like a plague. Now its winter. They're still here. But so too are Ellie and Homer and their friends.