Children’s / Teenage general interest: Work, politics and society

Come on a journey with award-winning GP DR AMIR KHAN to discover how families begin and how you became part of your family.

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Meadows longs for "e;normal.

When high school senior Noah Gallagher and his adopted teenage sister, Lo, go to live with their grandmother in her island cottage for the summer, they dont expect much in the way of adventure.

From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.

Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story.

Baseball Heroes is the first book in the middle grade nonfiction series Good Sports, about the inspiring life stories of major league athletes who have overcome obstacles in the course of their life and careers.

Will Nikki and Deja's friendship survive a race for student body president?

Through the eyes of a distinctly non-athletic protagonista fat high school journalist named Mitchveteran sports novelist Deuker reveals the surprising truth behind a mysterious football player named Angel.

Luke was not eager to accompany his best friend, Hayden, and the cocky new kid, Russell, up to the cliff that night.

Catherine Thimmeshs inspiring look at the role of women in American politicspast, present, and futureis now available with updated sections on Hillary Rodham Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, and Nancy Pelosi.

When a new job falls his way, Chance jumps at the opportunity, becoming a runner who picks up strange packages on a daily route and delivers them to a shady man at the marina.

In her seventh adventure, the irrepressible Anastasia decides that charm school is the answer to her career dilemmas.

In July of 2015 a robotic spacecraft reached Pluto after a nine-and-half-year journey.

Hear crisp sounds of the hornbill in the cool air.

One of the biggest differences between humans and animals is the ability to understand the idea of ';If I do X, Y might happen.

Journey to the wave-battered coast of the Pacific Northwest tomeet some of the engineers and scientistsworking to harness the punishing force of our oceans, one of the natures powerful and renewable energy sources.

Garland, Derby, and Triple Clark spend each season traveling highways and byways in their Rambleruntil summer, when small-town Ridge Creek, Virginia, calls them back.

In the Arizona desert, scientists conduct studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change.

Does who you are in high school brand you for life?

Seventeen year-old dirt-bike-riding daredevil Arlo Santiago catches the eye of the U.

When Willa Dixon'sbrother dies on the family lobster boat, her father forbids Willa from stepping foot on deck again.

Tough-as-nails fourteen-year-old Sid may not have expensive boots like the privileged teen riders in Virginia, but she knows her way around horses.

Thirteen-year-old Trav has always wondered about hisdead-before-he-was-born dad.

Explains the variation in Americans'' racial attitudes over the last half-century, fueled by the media.

Considers the relation between law and politics, including human rights, federalism and equal protection.

This book considers the 1996-2006 welfare laws in the United States from a feminist perspective.

This 2004 book explores the history, politics, and theory surrounding the rule of law ideal.

This book identifies the problems with viewing law as a means to an end.

This book outlines the constitutional systems of the six Australian States and ten Commonwealth Territories.

This 2004 book describes the transformation of politics from a territorial voting behavior to one of national homogeneity.

This book by Brian Skyrms is a study of ideas of cooperation and collective action.

This book sheds fresh light on the neglected subject of taxation and welfare.

This book examines monetary policy by focusing on how the President and the Senate influence monetary policy by appointing Federal Reserve members.

Highly topical analysis of the emergence of private authority in the governance of global affairs.

A local study of Catalonia with wide implications for the history of medieval Europe.

An illustrated compendium of the meanings of street-names in the city of Cambridge, first published in 2000.

AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes.

* Raise awareness * Start a club * Use the media * Make a difference * Get involved * Choose an issue * Build a team * Have fun!

Incredible true stories of the most amazing women in American history They were courageous, resourceful pioneers, enduring and adventurous.

Ready-to-use lessons for teaching basic life skills to adolescents with special needs This book offers teachers and parents a unique collection of more than 200 worksheets to help adolescents with special needs build the life skills they need to achieve independence and succeed in everyday life.

Ready-to-use lessons for teaching basic life skills to adolescents with special needs This book offers teachers and parents a unique collection of more than 200 worksheets to help adolescents with special needs build the life skills they need to achieve independence and succeed in everyday life.

This beautiful Spanish-language book, translated from the hugely popularLittle People, BIG DREAMSseries, can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers and those learning the language, whetherat home or in the classroom.

Twelve-year-old Mimi Laskaris is inspired by the Wijsen sisters of Bali to turn her focus from classical piano to a new obsession: forming a grassroots, kid-led movement to ban plastic bags in her new island home in Florida.

Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerful exploration of the history of Black Lives Matter told through photographs, quotes, and informative text by New York Times bestselling authors Veronica Chambers and Jennifer Harlan.