Social Pressure

Amina has never been comfortable in the spotlight. She is happy just hanging out with her best friend, Soojin. Except now that she's in middle school everything feels different. Soojin is suddenly hanging out with Emily, one of the "cool" girls in the class, and even talking about changing her name to something more "American." Does Amina need to start changing too? Or hiding who she is to fit in? While Amina grapples with these questions, she is devastated when her local mosque is vandalized.

Do you feel like breaking down as soon as you get home after a long day at school? Are you always worried about what others might think about you? Do you long to find ways to overcome intrusive thoughts so you can "just be a kid?" With the hacks and tools within this guide, you'll become an even better version of yourself.

Sadie thought joining the Pack would be the wildest thing to happen to her this year, but the school year is becoming even harder. On top of classes, Sadie has to navigate her growing feelings for her crush, taming her powers during cheer practice and troublemaking hyenas trying to take her crown. Then there is the massive secret she is keeping from her BFF Lindsey—that could destroy their friendship and The Pack as they know it. Will the shocking truth come out to bite them?

Self-Love for Teen Girls is your personal roadmap to embracing who you are and loving yourself every day. With gentle guidance and heartfelt advice, this book helps you navigate the tricky world of friendships, social media, and self-image. Learn how to build confidence, set healthy boundaries, and handle the ups and downs of teenage life with grace. Through relatable stories, practical tips, and uplifting exercises, you’ll discover the power of self-love and how to be kind to yourself, no matter what. It’s like having a big sister in your corner, cheering you on every step of the way.

Lili St. Crow’s darkly exhilarating Strange Angels novels have won a devoted readership. In the third book of the series, Crow’s unusual heroine, Dru Anderson, has been through the ringer, what with a missing mother, her father turning all undead on her, and forces of evil that just won’t seem to let her be. On the run from a predator with a taste for her blood, Dru can count on help from Graves and Christophe—but they just might do more harm than good as they battle for her affections.

Angeline could read before she was old enough to turn the pages of a book, and she mastered the piano without a single lesson. But being so clever doesn't make life easy for Angeline. Mean kids at school call her a 'genius freak', and her dad seems a bit worried about how to look after her. It is not until she makes friends with a boy who tells the best jokes, and a teacher who loves tropical fish, that things start to get better in some surprising ways for Angeline.

Beyond soccer leagues, music camps, and drama lessons, today's youth are in an education arms race that begins in elementary school. In Hyper Education, Pawan Dhingra uncovers the growing world of high-achievement education and the after-school learning centers, spelling bees, and math competitions that it has spawned.

On a quiet weekend in the country, Sammy and her friends meet Lucinda Huntley and her 200-pound pig, and become involved in a centuries old family feud involving Lucinda's great grandma Moustache Mary. When Mary's pioneer cabin burns to the ground, it's up to Sammy to dig up the cause as the past collides with the present in this highly combustible mystery!

Sadie and her friends should be preparing for end of the year finals but they are about to go on a mission to save one of their own. She was taken from school and they know just where to find her. Things are all going according to plan. But suddenly there's a new girl at school—with the same powers as Sadie—who claws her way into The Pack. But this girl is fiercly confident and soon wants to lead them her own way.

Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. No one can hear her scream. A terrifying tale in the tradition of Carrie and The Exorcist.

Rahim loves animals, but he’s forced to help his grandfather poach pangolins. He does not want to hunt these animals, but he also wants to “be a man” like his grandfather. When he comes across a mother pangolin and her baby in the forest, he must make a decision—stay true to his beliefs or make his grandfather proud.

Unlike other self-help books, this handbook speaks directly to today's youth, with interactive elements and illustrative stories that keep them engaged. No matter the complexity of a teen’s emotional struggles, The Teen’s Coping Toolkit provides a relatable and comprehensive resource.

After a lifetime of being bullied, Daelyn is broken beyond repair. She has tried to kill herself before, and is determined to get it right this time. Though her parents think they can protect her, she finds a Web site for "completers" that seems made just for her. She blogs on its forums, purging her harrowing history. At her private Catholic school, the only person who interacts with her is a boy named Santana. No matter how poorly she treats him, he just won’t leave her alone. And it's too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life...isn’t it?

Kämpfen die Teenager in Ihrem Leben damit, ihre Emotionen inmitten des Drucks von Schule, Freunden und sozialen Medien unter Kontrolle zu halten? Sind Sie auf der Suche nach effektiven Hilfsmitteln, die ihnen helfen, ihre Ängste zu bewältigen und ihr Selbstwertgefühl zu stärken? Sind Ihnen die Komplexitäten des modernen Teenagerlebens manchmal zu viel?

Domina el equilibrio emocional y prospera en los desafíos de la vida en solo semanas, ¡incluso si el estrés se siente abrumador en este momento!

Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she'll need to prove her bravery. Luckily, Impy has just the quest in mind - she'll go to public school after a life of being homeschooled! But it's not easy to act like a noble knight-in-training in middle school. When her new friends encourage her to do something mean, Impy goes along with it. Before long, Impy doesn't even recognize herself. Is she the dragon in her own story or the heroic knight?

Despite Jessica's shocking appearance and the fear she evokes in him and most of the seventh-grade class, Tom slowly develops a tentative friendship with Jessica that changes his life. Firegirl is a powerful story that will show listeners that even the smallest of gestures can have a profound impact on someone's life.

Julian Twerski isn't a bully. He's just made a big mistake. So when he returns to school after a weeklong suspension, his English teacher offers him a deal: If he keeps a journal and writes about the terrible incident that got him and his friends suspended, he can get out of writing a report on Shakespeare. Julian jumps at the chance. And so begins his account of life in sixth grade - blowing up homemade fireworks, writing a love letter for his best friend (with disastrous results), and worrying whether he's still the fastest kid in school.

Society embraces regulations that limit physical harm to others, as when smoking restrictions are defended as protecting bystanders from secondhand smoke. But we have been slower to endorse parallel steps that discourage harmful social environments, as when regulators fail to note that the far greater harm caused when someone becomes a smoker is to make others more likely to smoke. In Under the Influence, Robert Frank attributes this regulatory asymmetry to the laudable belief that individuals should accept responsibility for their own behavior.

You’re juggling school projects, social drama, and the million and one things that pop up in your life, all while trying to figure out who you are. It’s just a lot of craziness, and sometimes it feels like you’re stuck in a cycle of stress and anxiety that just won’t quit. But guess what? You’re not alone in this chaos, and there’s a way to take control.