Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying, violence, abuse and peer pressure

Have you or your child ever been bullied?

This is a story of good over evil, justice over chaos.

Relish a new spin on an old fable by visiting Montana's Lewis and Clark National forest where they have pigs, wolves, and their own version of what really happened to the whimsical little pig brothers.

Janna was always bullied by her brother, and it didn't seem to bother her parents.

Written for both bullies and their victims, I Don't Want to Bully Anymore helps bullies to build confidence and character strengths like kindness, self-regulation, social intelligence, perspective along with others.

Talking to children about sexual safety can be difficult for parents.

Meet The League of Scientists'' five middle-school kids who have the self-appointed responsibility of solving mysteries in their quiet town of East Rapids, MI.

Have you ever marveled at the wisdom you see in the eyes of a dog?

In preschool, children encounter their first experiences in forming and joining social groups outside their family.

From theNew York Times bestselling author Simone Elkeles comes an epiclove story like no other .

While many people appreciate cultural, social, political, and religious diversity, there are others who feel compelled to express their intolerance for others through cruel words and actions.

In preschool, children encounter their first experiences in forming and joining social groups outside their family.

Fans of dark contemporary stories will feel right at home in Jennifer Shaw Wolf's debut as she takes them on an emotional ride through the murky waters of love, shame, and ultimately, forgiveness.

When Arnie is challenged to skateboard down a dangerous hill, he has to decide how far he is willing to go to be "e;cool.

A deadly virus killed every adult on Earth, leaving only the kids behind.

Who knew that non-boy-crazy-jock Brady would return from Europe with an Italian boyfriend?

In this fourth and final book in the Scrubs series, Dan, the quotable man, struggles with his own "e;scrub-ness"e; as he questions the basics of his beliefs about what it takes to be a winner.

Americans are sharply divided on the issue of gun control.

The Confederate prison known as Andersonville existed for only the last fourteen months of the Civil War-but its well-documented legacy of horror has lived on in the diaries of its prisoners and the transcripts of the trial of its commandant.

What are illicit drugs?

**Get ready to meet Perla the feisty, magical rescue dog who will steal your heart and teach children to stand up to bullies**From #1 international bestselling author Isabel Allende and award winning illustrator Sandy Rodriguez comes the first in a series of picture books about a dog called Perla and the family who love her.

Friendships and peer relationships are one of the most difficult things about being a teen.

With queen bees, drama queens and cliquey teens girl friendships can be tough!

Difference is everywhere, just look and see.

'They tried to make me go to my sister's funeral today.

An awkward but handsome fifteen-year-old, Donnie Darning has a brilliant mind but a dysfunctional family.

Fearing to make a sound that would attract attention and perhaps prevent his escape, Kris sits in the dark on the edge of his perfectly made bed.

Wesley Hanson, an uninspired senior at Renton High School in Riverview, is attacked and badly beaten by a boy named B.

The Odd Squad are back!

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued.

It's tough being the new kid.

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.

A New York Times Bestseller Nicolette's awful stepsisters call her ';Mechanica' to demean her, but the nickname fits: she learned to be an inventor at her mother's knee.

The shrinkadinks think I have a screw loose.

After parting ways with her troubled mermaid tribe, Luce just wants to live peacefully on her own.

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

Twelve-year-old June Farrell is sure of one thingshes great at making piesand she plans to prove it by winning a blue ribbon in the Champlain Valley Fair pie competition.

A story about small acts of courage from the author of A Crooked Kind of Perfect.

Fourteen-year-old Luce has had a tough life, but she reaches the depths of despair when she is assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of a grim, gray Alaskan fishing village.

Cara has never been one of those girls: confident, self-possessed, and always ready with the perfect thing to say.

Gordy couldn't be more unhappy about moving back to his hometown of College Hill, where everybody knows his family's troubled history.

In 1944, when her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret changes her mind about the school bully, Gordy, after she discovers he is hiding his own brother, a deserter.

At Penford High School, Brittany Taylor is the queen bee.

Mermaids have been sinking ships and drowning humans for centuries, and now the government is determined to put an end to the mermaid problemby slaughtering all of them.