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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 146
Language
English
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
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...
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Language
English
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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
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
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Recognizing a need for puberty education books for younger children, award-winning author Lynda Madaras published Ready, Set, Grow!: A What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Younger Girls in 2003 to widespread acclaim. Now, in her uniquely straightforward, warm, and funny style, Madaras introduces On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow!: A "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Younger Boys. Responding to real-life questions and concerns from younger boys about...
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
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Honestly? ... Why wait for something when I can enjoy it now?" "These images don't really affect me ...do they?" "How could smoking a little weed really be that bad when it's becoming legalized everywhere?" "I'd like to tell you I don't care what others think, but honestly, I want to be liked." Maybe you're thinking, "I've had one ...maybe even a few of these thoughts, and I don't know how to even begin to deal with them." The good news? You're not...
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...
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Language
English
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Captains Courageous is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.
The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers,...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A 17-year-old is sent to the country to live with his much-older half-brother and falls into an unexpected affair in this novel by Man Booker Prize-winning author David Storey The narrator of Storey's 11th novel is an angst-ridden 17-year-old who shares intimate details of his life in the form of memos written to himself. Born in Beverly Hills, California, Richard "Rick" Audlin now lives with his film producer half-brother, Gerry-who is 35-years his...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone." He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves,...
Author
Publisher
TOKYOPOP
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Fynn's favorite activities are skipping class, smoking, and lying around. So when he's told it's time to shape up and try doing something else for a change, he has no idea where to even start. Then, on a nighttime walk around his neighborhood, he sees a stranger with a telescope up on a hill: his name is Niko, and he loves to watch the stars. Intrigued, Flynn decides to find out more about this nerdy boy and what could be so interesting about the...
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Series
Language
English
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"Townsend's wit is razor sharp" as her self-proclaimed intellectual adolescent hero continues his hilarious angst-filled secret diary (The Mirror). I can ' t wait until I am fully mature and can make urban conversation with intellectuals. Growing up among inferiors in Great Britain isn't easy for a sensitive fifteen-year-old "poet of the Midlands" like Adrian Mole, considering everything in the world is conspiring to scar him for life: His hormones...
14) Fence: #11
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It all comes down to this the final match that will determine who makes the team, and who gets left behind.
15) Fence: #10
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Nicholas is determined to get Seiji to focus on him and him alone.
16) Fence #6
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After an unexpected defeat, tensions run high among the fencers of Kings Row.
17) Fence: #9
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The rematch that had to happen -- Seiji vs Nicholas and neither is walking out the same!
18) Fence #4
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Nicholas begins to overthink everything as he struggles to prove he deserves his place at Kings Row.
19) Mortal Remains
Author
Publisher
Sterling Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Six Feet Under meets Edward Scissorhands in Mortal Remains , a tight, smartly written romance with an occult twist. Though her classmates call her Morticia and Ghoul Girl, Lily actually likes her work -- the dead are good listeners, and they don't judge. Lily learns their stories, shares her worries with them as she makes up their faces, and embroiders pillows for their final rest. "The way I figure it," says Lily, "a person's arrival into this world...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From one of the twentieth century's most innovative authors, a gritty, cinematic tale about a young thief whose grasp on reality is starting to get away from him At the park where the outcasts of Washington, DC, gather, everyone calls him Yogi. Although only a boy, he steals like a man, taking jewelry and money from wherever and whomever he can. When he's flush, Yogi spends like a prince, eating beef stew and wasting whole afternoons at the cinema....
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