Young Adult Nonfiction

A sweet and simple story of a handsome puppy as he grows and explores his new life as a warm-hearted member of the family. This book marks the beginning of a true story series that will capture the interest of children all around the world. A book children will want to listen to over and over again. A great bedtime story to help bring families closer together.

Join Mrs Beckett's class as they learn all about what happens to trash and how recycling works. They learn about the impact of waste on the environment and how to reuse, reduce, and recycle. Presenting these stories through a familiar classroom setting provides a way for kids to immediate relate to import environmental issues.

This audiobook offers listeners a close-up look at monster trucks. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides a thrilling overview of this exciting vehicle.

This audiobook offers readers a close-up look at choppers. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides a thrilling overview of this exciting vehicle.

The president and his cabinet are responsible for enforcing the laws of the nation, making foreign policy, and working with Congress in creating legislation. Through this title, young readers will understand the scope of the president's power and duties as the real and symbolic face of the nation.

This book shows you how to let your inner beauty shine through - things like the secrets of serenity, steps for staying cool under pressure, building your self-esteem, drawing security from loving others, setting goals, and feeling purposeful - and more.

Whether it's getting better grades, creating better relationships with your friends, parents, or teachers, getting a car, getting into the college that's right for you, getting a date for the prom, or finding your dream job, the Law of Attraction works! Like attracts like - when we align our goals with our best intentions and highest purpose, we can more easily have a better, brighter life.

Since Fidel Castro staged a coup and assumed power of Cuba in 1959, the United States has been obsessed with this small island nation, only 90 miles south of the Florida Keys. But because of the country's isolation, the island and its people have remained a mystery. This revised edition of Cuba takes listeners through the country's storied history, its people, and what the future holds for this island nation.

During World War I, British and American ships were painted with bold colors and crazy patterns from bow to stern. Why would anyone put such eye-catching designs on ships? Desperate to protect ships from German torpedo attacks, British lieutenant-commander Norman Wilkinson proposed what became known as dazzle. These stunning patterns and colors were meant to confuse the enemy about a ship's speed and direction. By the end of the war, more than 4,000 ships had been painted with these mesmerizing designs.

This audiobook offers readers a close-up look at dragsters. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides a thrilling overview of this exciting vehicle.

This audiobook is an empowering guide for children on growing confidence, building resilience, and developing real self-esteem. Its chapters include a child-friendly take on growth mindset, with six techniques to grow confidence and advice on how to block out negativity. Children will learn how to develop self-love, assertiveness, and the power to face their fears!

When Tantoh Nforba was a child, his fellow students mocked him for his interest in gardening. Today he's an environmental hero, bringing clean water and bountiful gardens to the central African nation of Cameroon. Authors Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul share Farmer Tantoh's inspiring story.

Little brown bats do us a big favor. They eat huge numbers of insects! That helps limit the spread of diseases and the damage that insects do to farm crops. But in recent years, large populations of little brown bats have been dying off each winter. Is a virus killing them? Could climate change or pesticides be the cause? Or is it something else? Follow a team of dedicated scientists working to save the little brown bats in this real-life science mystery.

Late in 2013, snowy owls started showing up in places no one expected to find them - including Florida. What had caused so many of these majestic birds to leave their Arctic home and fly to southern Canada and the United States? Scientists quickly began working to find out. Author Sandra Markle brings together firsthand reports from the scientists involved along with stunning photographs of the owls to explain this rare event, known as an irruption.

This story is based on the true experiences of the author as she and her husband Cliff, through pain and joy, have raised their son Aric. Maria's son was hit by a car when he was 14-years-old. He was in a coma for three months. During this period, Maria sat by her son and read him stories until he awoke. Maria and her husband nourished Aric through a successful recovery.

Using technology to bully others is a serious problem many kids face. Learn about cyberbullying, including the effects it has, as well as how to identify and prevent it. Digital Safety Smarts: Preventing Cyberbullying, from the trusted Searchlight Books brand, teaches listeners about the dangers of online interaction and what to do when inappropriate contact happens. It also teaches young people how to use the internet responsibly. The book helps students become good digital citizens in our increasingly digital world.

Let Osvaldo Mouszee guide your children through the life and work of three of the greatest classical composers: Beethoven, Berlioz, and Brahms. The book explains their life and works. Not only that, but you can hear their works included in the recording after learning about the composer. This is great way to educate children on classical composers and bring their works to life!

This audiobook is a "girl's handbook" to guide all the girls who are going through a pressing process on becoming a woman. It embraces the most common descriptions, questions, and tips about menstruation from the beginning to its end.

This close-up look at some of the world's most exciting vehicles introduces listeners to choppers, dragsters, monster trucks, and more. Each audiobook examines multiple facets of these vehicles, including their history, an engaging description of their most important parts, and the technology behind them. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this high-octane series is sure to thrill vehicle enthusiasts.

Through this series of poems, Eunice Olsen, a former Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore, Miss Universe Singapore 2000, actress, host, and executive producer of WomenTalk, hopes to encourage girls from all over the world to know they can be who they want to be and to never give up, just like these women role models whose stories give us hope and strength. This book is for the boys as well, who will play a really important role and be there to empower these girls, to respect women, and to help bring our world to gender parity.