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41) Summer's end
Author
Publisher
Baen
Language
English
Description
"Forced to take the first berth he can find, Dave ends up on the Iowa Hill, an old tramp freighter running with a minimal crew and nearing the end of its useful life, plying the routes that the corporations ignore and visiting the kinds of places that the folks on Earth pretend don't exist. Between the assassins, the criminals, and the pirates he needs to deal with, Dave is discovering that there are a lot of things out there that he still needs to...
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
ALA's popular and respected Whole Library Handbook series continues with a volume specifically geared towards those who serve young adults, gathering stellar articles and commentary from some of the country's most innovative and successful teen services librarians. Sections focusing on practice, theory, and the philosophical underpinnings of the profession are supported by current research and historical perspectives.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books/DelRey
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Bear's work contains sweeping futuristic vistas populated by creatures spawned from a decaying universe. The young heroes, each assigned to protect a fragment of the universe's history, must survive long enough to pass that knowledge onto the new universe that is being born.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What's wrong with me? I feel so stuck. Is this all there is? Satya Doyle Byock hears these refrains regularly in her psychotherapy practice, Quarterlife Counseling, where she works exclusively with individuals between the ages of eighteen to thirty-five. She understands their frustration. Some clients have seemingly done everything "right": earn a degree, get a job, meet a partner, settle down. Yet, even after checking these boxes, they are left...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Suicide is the second-leading cause of death in adolescents and young adults, according to the CDC. Though most recent statistics date to 2018, suicide deaths have been rising in the United States for nearly two decades, with a significant rise in the rate among youths aged ten to fourteen"--
Author
Publisher
ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A good problem for libraries to have is a group of teens that grows increasingly bigger at each program until staff are unsure how to manage it. A huge group is still a challenge, and developing a teen club is a solution. What is a Teen Club? In many cases, it is a popular teen school or public library event that the teens want to revisit based on specific passions, such as writing, food, gaming, fashion, or green initiatives...In each of the themed...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It tells the unlikely love story of Maddy, a smart, curious and imaginative eighteen-year-old who due to an illness cannot leave the protection of the hermetically sealed environment within her house, and Olly, the boy next door who won't let that stop them. Maddy is desperate to experience the much more stimulating outside world, and the promise of her first romance.
Publisher
FUNimation Productions
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Embodiment of fire: Goku is in hot water when even his Kaio-Ken attack has no affect on Frieza who is only at fifty percent of his maximum power level. Trump card: Once again Goku is rescued from the depths of dispair by a vision. This time Vegeta talks to Goku from beyond the grave to offer the ailing Saiyan new hope and encouragement. Keep the chance alive: Frieza puts a stop to Goku's struggling efforts to gather enough energy to form the Spirit...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got 'Scholarship Student' written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student intake part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the world, it seems everyone has a different idea of what justice...
Publisher
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, staff working directly with teens explore ideas, services and programs that continue to evolve within their libraries. The challenges revealed emphasize the fact that neglecting teen library services risks a future in which libraries themselves are no longer valuable to the community and the potential advocates which todays teenagers will someday become.
55) The notebook
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who dissaprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now...
56) Wrong turn
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Chris is driving through West Virginia. He takes a detour down an old dirt road, where he becomes distracted and doesn't see an SUV stuck in the middle of the road. He plows into the back after his tires suddenly blow. The driver of the SUV and Chris compare notes on their accidents, they discover that the road has been sabotaged with barbed wire. Two of the group are left to look after the cars while the others set out to find help. However, they...
Publisher
ALA Neal-Schuman, An imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This book is intended to give a broad overview of this radical landscape for public libraries in which librarians are creating innovative, interactive, participatory programming for children and youth by examining seven critical domains that occur across programming as a whole in part I and by taking an in-depth look at the different types of programs that are offered to children and youth that exemplify one of more of these domains in part II"--...