Juvenile / Social Situations / Adolescence

GirlWise: How to Be Confident, Capable, Cool, and in Control

by Julia Devillers

The Ultimate Teen Girl Bible

What do you do when . . . you're at the lunch table and you knock your soda over into someone's lap? Or, you need a job? You hate your clothes? You're broke? Inside, more than 100...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Relationships: Stories about Family, Friends and Love

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Relationships supports and inspires teenagers, reminding them they are not alone as they read stories written by teens about friends, family, love, loss, and many lessons...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Growing Up: Stories about Growing Up, Meeting Challenges, and Learning from Life

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmakr

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Growing Up supports and inspires teenagers as they grow up as they read stories written by other teens about the problems and issues they face every day. 

Being a teenager...

The Purity Code

by Jim Burns

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The Mates, Dates Guide to Life, Love, and Looking Lusc

by Cathy Hopkins

Time for a lifestyle makeover?

The Mates, Dates girls will show you how!

Four super-tight friends dish their secrets for dealing with life's little dilemmas...

Like boys, for start: what they want, where...

Go Ahead, Ask Me.

by Nico Medina & Billy Merrell

Would you rather be a stereotypically beautiful class-A moron or a Nobel Prize winner with a gimp arm?

Your best friend's significant other hits on you -- and not in a cute, in-front-of-your-best-friend sort...

The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook

by Dilara Hafiz, Imran Hafiz & Yasmine Hafiz

Everything you always wanted to know about Islam -- but didn't know to ask!

What does it mean to be Muslim in America? Ask ten different people and you'll probably receive ten different answers. Islam is...

I've Got This Friend Who: Advice for Teens and Their Friends on Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Risky Behavior, and More

by Anonymous

This interactive book helps teens handle difficult issues: alcohol or other drug use, depression, eating disorders, and more. Personal stories, fast facts and self-tests help young readers recognize when a friend...

Doing It Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices About Sex

by Bronwen Pardes

Enjoy responsibly.

Sex. Sometimes it feels like everybody's doing it. Maybe you are. Maybe you're thinking about it. Maybe it's years away. Whatever.

You need to be ready -- in your head, and down there. You...

The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to Their Younger Selves

by Sarah Moon & James Lecesne

Life-saving letters from a glittering wishlist of top authors. If you received a letter from your older self, what do you think it would say? What do you wish it would say? That the boy you were crushing on...

I Don't Want To Be Crazy

by Samantha Schutz

A harrowing, remarkable poetry memoir about one girl's struggle with anxiety disorder. This is a true story of growing up, breaking down, and coming to grips with a psychological disorder. When Samantha Schutz...

Dear Teen Me: Authors Write Letters to Their Teen Selves

by Miranda Kenneally & E. Kristin Anderson

Dear Teen Me includes reflections and advice from over 70 YA authors (including Lauren Oliver, Ellen Hopkins, and Nancy Holder, to name a few) to their teenage selves. The letters cover a wide range of topics,...

My Feet Aren't Ugly

by Debra Beck

In this funny, honest book, teen expert and mentor Debra Beck provides in-depth examples and exercises to develop the tools you need for self-confidence. Learn how to have fulfilling relationships, make good...

Discovering Wes Moore

by Wes Moore

Through the telling of events from his own life, Wes Moore (author of the bestselling adult title The Other Wes Moore) explores the issues that separate success and failure. He also counterpoints his story...

Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing

by Gary Soto

A poignant, humorous collection by acclaimed poet Gary Soto

The fleeting emotions of teenagers, as changeable as the weather, ring true in these emotionally resonant poems. Told from the point of view of both...

Confessions of a Girl: Truth to Be Told

by Tessa Sean Sean Hershberger

The Fresh Voices series was inspired by a writing contest of by the same name that identified high school writers interested in composing book-length works for young adults. Working with a professional editor,...

Grief Girl

by Erin Vincent

Imagine that you're going through one of the hardest parts of your life—being a teenager—when your parents are killed in a horrific car

crash. Now you, your 17-year-old sister, and your three-year-old brother...

Downsiders

by Neal Shusterman

Beneath the sewer grates and manholes of the city lies a strange and secret world called the Downside.

Every Downsider knows that it's forbidden to go Topside, and most fear a collision of the two worlds. But...

Mean Girls: Facing Your Beauty Turned Beast

by Hayley DiMarco

This completely revised edition of Mean Girls has been redesigned inside and out and will reach junior highers and high schoolers where they are with the help and advice they crave.

A Guy's Guide to Life

by Jason Boyett

What does society want of teen guys? To be independent, tough, and macho? To be a sensitive, caring metrosexual? To excel in school and sports and business? The challenges are many, and we haven't even mentioned...