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Author
Publisher
Viva Editions
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenagers are left feeling unheard and misunderstood, and parents are left feeling bewildered by the changes in their child at adolescence and their sudden lack of effectiveness as parents. The parent has become unavailable, the teen responds in kind, and a negative, often destructive cycle of communication begins. Well, the truth of the matter is, you can physically be right next to someone and still not really be available to them. If you need them...
5) Robo
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mitya is an imaginative twelve-year-old boy, who loves to draw comics of superheroes and dreams of becoming an artist. His parents have built and programmed a Universal Rescue Robot, aka ROBO, to rescue people from dangerous situations. Due to ROBO's alleged malfunction, the director of the research facility deems the fled robot as a menace to society. In his search for a family, ROBO meets Mitya, and the two form a true friendship while on the run....
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sisters Camryn and Erin Kelly have teamed up once again to answer your questions about life. They talk about friendship, boys, school, having confidence, gossip, Jesus, social media, money, forgiveness, and so much more! Join the Kelly girls as they share their hearts with you and learn how you can apply Scripture and prayer into everything you do, how to live out God's purpose in your day-to-day life, and how God's never-ending love is for you.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This astonishing, devastating debut novel, riven through with mystery and magic, tells the story of a lonely girl living in a small African town and her struggle to free herself from her mercurial, charming mother. Ayosa is a wandering spirit- joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who...
10) Abe
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef who wants his cooking to bring people together, but his half-Israeli, half-Palestinian family has never had a meal that didn't end in a fight. Ditching his traditional summer camp, Abe begins working with Chico, an adventurous street chef who encourages him to think outside his old cuisines. However, when Abe's deceit is uncovered, he must grapple with his family and his passions and whether even the most lovingly...
Author
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
BETWEEN is a modern guide for parents of 8-13 year-olds -- also known as 'tweenagers'. Parenting expert and mother of four Sarah Ockwell-Smith will consider all the issues faced by parents and tweens today, with a focus on the biology, neurology, psychology and sociology of adolescence as well as plenty of practical parenting advice for common everyday situations.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Grey lives in the legend-haunted New England town of Ander's Landing, and he can't help but feel like a pair of eyes is watching his every move. He discovers odd, gruesome bits and pieces from the graveyard that are left for him as gifts like art carved from bones or jewelry made from (hopefully not human) remains. Soon Grey is caught up in something bigger than he could ever have imagined. He finds himself drawn into a strange mystery...
18) Moonrise kingdom
Series
Criterion collection volume 776
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1960s New England, two twelve-year-olds from a small town run away together and a search party forms to look for them.