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Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In Boys Should Be Boys, one of our most trusted authorities helps parents restore the delights of boyhood and enable today's boys to become the mature, confident, and thoughtful men of tomorrow. Boys will always be boys-rambunctious, adventurous, and curious, climbing trees, building forts, playing tackle football, and pushing their growing bodies to the limit as part of the rite of passage into manhood. But today our sons face an increasingly hostile...
Author
Publisher
Applesauce Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The #1 bestselling Boy's Body Book includes everything you need to know about growing up, even the embarrassing stuff. The newly updated fifth edition provides advice for parents and addresses questions a pre-teen boy may have while maturing through puberty. Everything is changing! How will you survive this trying time in your life? This book made just for boys contains all of the guy stuff you need to know about growing up, from your voice changing...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Boys Written by an experienced educator and her daughter in a reassuring and down-to-earth style, The "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Boys gives sensitive straight talk on: the body's changing size and shape; diet and exercise; the growth spurt; the reproductive organs; body hair; voice changes; romantic and sexual feelings; and puberty in the opposite sex. It also includes information on steroid...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 146
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain's criminal underworld in this "brilliant and uncompromising" thriller ( The New York Times ). Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown, raised amid the casual violence and corruption in the dire prewar Brighton slums, has left his final judgment in the hands of God. On the streets, impelled by his own twisted moral doctrine, he leads a motley pack of gangsters whose sleazy little rackets have most recently erupted...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
From highlighting social injustice to building infrastructure to feeding the hungry, there are men doing ground-breaking work for good all over the world. Stand-Up Guys features inspiring stories of Christian men who have made an impact on their communities. Being a man can mean many things, and boys should know they can follow any path they want and still change the world. Featuring important historical figures such as Eric Liddell and George Washington...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Madaras growing-up guides are acknowledged by parents, educators, librarians, and doctors for their unique, nonthreatening style, excellent organization, and thorough coverage of both the physical and emotional issues surrounding puberty and adolescence. And kids love them too! As one fan wrote, "Dear Lynda, I can't believe that you, a mom, knew all this stuff!" My Body, My Self for Boys is filled with activities, checklists, illustrations, and...
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nate Wright has all kinds of big plans and tricks up his sleeve, including writing a new hit children's book, trying to convince his dad to get him a new dog for Christmas, and helping his friend Chad score a new nickname at P.S. 38. As usual, things never quite turn out exactly like he planned.
14) You
Author
Language
English
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Description
This wasn't the way it was supposed to go. You're just a typical fifteen-year-old sophomore, an average guy named Kyle Chase. This can't be happening to you. But then, how do you explain all the blood? How do you explain how you got here in the first place? There had to have been signs, had to have been some clues it was coming. Did you miss them, or ignore them? Maybe if you can figure out where it all went wrong, you can still make it right. Or...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the dad who created the viral tweet supporting his son's nail polish, this essential parenting guide shares 38 parenting tips for battling gender norms, bringing down "man up" culture, and helping sons realize their potential.
Our boys are in a crisis. Toxic masculinity and tough guy-ism are on display daily from our leaders, and we see anger, dysfunction, violence, and depression in young men who are suffocated by harmful social codes. Our...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
• In his long-awaited debut short story collection, Nebula award-winning author Sam J. Miller delivers a hauntingly beautiful and occasionally terrifying paen at the intersection between queer life in the past, present, and future.
• Miller (The Art of Starving, Blackfish City, The Blade Between) has found acclaim across genres; this collection will appeal to his LGBTQIA+, horror, fantasy, and literary fiction readers
• National marketing...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This novel, first published in 1896, is the story of Dick Perrot, born and bred in the Jago; but it is also a brilliant portrait of the community. The Jago is a London slum where crime and violence are the only way of life, and from which there is no escape for the inhabitants. Only the characters themselves are fictional: Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily...
18) Edisto: A Novel
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Finalist for the National Book Award: Through the eyes of a precocious twelve-year-old in a seaside South Carolina town, the world of love, sex, friendship, and betrayal blossoms Simons Everson Manigault is not a typical twelve-year-old boy in tiny Edisto, South Carolina , in the late 1960s. At the insistence of his challenging mother (known to local blacks as "the Duchess"), who believes her son to possess a capacity for genius, Simons immerses himself...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty-two-year-old neo-Nazi Vincent Nolan becomes a media sensation after he proclaims himself a changed man and volunteers to work with World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow, with the help of fund-raiser and single mom Bonnie Kalen.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dangerous Book for Boys comes the long-awaited sequel - another action-packed adventure guide featuring full-color illustrations, perfect for dads, grads, and boys of all ages. The Double Dangerous Book for Boys is a treasure trove of the essential activities and skills that have defined generations of boyhoods, from building a treehouse to fishing to finding true north. Designed with the same...
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