Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem

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

If you are a male approaching adulthood, you might be wondering: Are you a boy or a man?

Somewhere Nicky realized from the truth that telling lies was much more fun.

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

I had always been ugly, as far back as I could remember.

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.

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.

Its good to be pretty.

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.

Bestselling author Daniel Pinkwater's story of how Neddie, a shaman, a ghost, three pals, and a maneuver known as the French substitution determine the fate of the world.

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.

The powerful tale of a sheltered girl's daring attempts to enlarge her world, from Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park.

All the good things in Margarets world are collapsing, one by one, like a row of dominoes.

Mercer Buddie wants two things in this world: a girlfriend and the chance to prove to his master falconer father that he's not a flake.

In this funny, action-packed middle grade novel from the author of the American Girl Luciana books,Alison gets invited to be on her dad's reality show, Survivor Guy, and faces important realities about her family, self-reliance, and learning to work together with friends.

When videogame obsessed Pete Watson discovers his dad is not only a super-spy but has been kidnapped and is now trapped inside a video game, he has to use his super gaming skills and enter the game to rescue him.

Art, mystery, fun and friendship,combine in thisillustrated middle grade seriesdebut.

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

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.

A single-subject anthology about the heart''s most powerful emotion, edited by Tavi Gevinson.

Not since The 10th Good Thing About Barney or I''ll Always Love You has there been such a peaceful and inspiring book to help children and adults cope with the loss of a pet.

Lulu was a thumb sucker.

Sarah Vida has given up everything for love.

Harold Kline is an albino--an outcast.

Mo travels to Hong Kong to shoot her movie and unexpectedly comes across another ancient book of martial arts secrets in this fast-paced, high-kicking sequel to The Legendary Mo Seto.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell, with art by Eisner-nominated illustrator Nicole Miles, The Antiracist Kid is the essential illustrated guide to antiracism for empowering the young readers in your life!

In this gorgeously written and authentic novel, Vernica, a Peruvian-American teen with hip dysplasia, auditions to become a mermaid at a Central Florida theme park in the summer before her senior year, all while figuring out her first real boyfriend and how to feel safe in her own body.

A New York Public Library Best Book of the YearA NCSS2023 Notable Social Studies Trade BookWhat was the pandemic of the century like at the start?

This brilliant memoir-in-verse tells the moving story of how a nation learned to celebrate a hero.

A group of magical misfit animals learns to appreciate their seemingly useless powersand themselveswhen they work together to thwart a villains attempt to steal their magic.

When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruizs fatherruns for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes.

In this magical middle grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isnt the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn.

From the best-selling author of the How to Be a Supervillain seriescomes this laugh-out-loud, heavily illustrated story of a shy boy, his best-friend-turned-ghost, and their bucket list of adventures and dares.

Zoe must figure out how to keep a giant kitten safe in this magical adventure about change, expectation, and accepting all for who they truly areregardless of shape or size.

Can a worrier really become a warrior?

A dynamic collective biography that presents 44 of Americas greatest Black movers and shakers, from Frederick Douglass to Aretha Franklin to Barack Obama, written by ESPNs TheUndefeated and illustrated with dazzlingportraits by Rob Ball.

Now a major CBBC TV series.

This book offers practitioners working with 11 to 14 year olds a highly practical education resource for running personal well-being lessons, backed up by scientific research from the field of positive psychology.

A clear explanation of what immigration is, and the reasons people immigrate.

This is Liam.