Kids These Days
Kids These Days

Author: Karen Sternheimer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780742546684

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Kids These Days critically examines the hottest news stories of the past few years to assess whether the news is really as bad as it sounds. Is kidnapping by strangers really a bigger threat now than in the past? Are disputes at school now settled with guns instead of fists? And are kids, especially girls, becoming bigger bullies than ever before? This book dissects the stories that made headlines and explores overall trends and statistics to compare the hype to the reality. The truth is that kids today do face unique obstacles and challenges, but their situation isn't nearly as dire as the compelling news accounts would have us believe. Rather, the author proposes that our nation's youth have been targeted as a problem population to absolve adult responsibility for creating the often dangerous and difficult conditions many young people must deal with.

The Isle of Youth
The Isle of Youth

Author: Laura van den Berg

Publisher: FSG Originals

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0374710619

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Laura van den Berg's gorgeous new book, The Isle of Youth, explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. From a newlywed caught in an inscrutable marriage, to private eyes working a baffling case in South Florida, to a teenager who assists her magician mother and steals from the audience, the characters in these bewitching stories are at once vulnerable and dangerous, bighearted and ruthless, and they will do what it takes to survive. Each tale is spun with elegant urgency, and the reader grows attached to the marginalized young women in these stories—women grappling with the choices they've made and searching for the clues to unlock their inner worlds. This is the work of a fearless writer whose stories feel both magical and mystical, earning her the title of "sorceress" from her readers. Be prepared to fall under her spell. An NPR Best Book of 2013

Sudden Flash Youth
Sudden Flash Youth

Author: Christine Perkins-Hazuka

Publisher: Karen and Michael Braziller Bo

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780892553716

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Presents a collection of short stories about significant moments which marked a turning point in the lives of young protagonists by such authors as Anne Mazer, Alan Stewart Carl, Dave Eggers, and Peter Bacho.

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction
Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction

Author: Ingrid E. Castro

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1498597394

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Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular culture genre of science fiction. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency in children’s lives, this collection places science fiction at the heart of this endeavor. Retellings of the past, narratives of the present, and new landscapes of the future, each explored in science fiction, allow for creative reimaginings of the capabilities, movements, and agency of youth. Core themes of generation, embodiment, family, identity, belonging, gender, and friendship traverse across the chapters and inform the contributors’ readings of various film, literature, television, and virtual media sources. Here, children and youth are heterogeneous, and agency as a central analytical concept is interrogated through interdisciplinary, intersectional, intergenerational, and posthuman analyses. The contributors argue that there is vast power in science fiction representations of children’s agency to challenge accepted notions of neoliberal agency, enhance understandings of agency in childhood studies, and further contextualize agency in the lives, voices, and cultures of youth.

Best Books for Young Adults
Best Books for Young Adults

Author: Holly Koelling

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2007-08-13

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 0838935699

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This is a classic, standard resource for collection building and on-the-spot readers advisory absolutely indispensable for school and public libraries.

Friend of My Youth
Friend of My Youth

Author: Alice Munro

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-04-25

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0307814599

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A “wickedly funny” (Newsweek) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”—Chicago Tribune A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. A widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband’s past—and instead discovering unsetting truths about a total stranger. The miraculously accomplished stories in this collection not only astonish and delight, but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. The mastery—the almost numinous ability to say the unsayable—makes Friend of My Youth a genuine literary event.

The Wine of Youth
The Wine of Youth

Author: John Fante

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0062013211

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This new edition of the legendary Dago Red, first published in 1940, contains seven new stories, including "A Nun No More" and "My Father’s God."

A Place for Wolves
A Place for Wolves

Author: Kosoko Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781492673651

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James Mills and his Brazilian boyfriend Tomas must rely on each other as they travel through war-torn Kosovo and try to reunite with their families.

Outstanding Books for the College Bound
Outstanding Books for the College Bound

Author: Angela Carstensen

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2011-05-27

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 083899315X

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More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.