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Who Cares for Our Children: The Child Care Crisis in the Other America

Valerie Polakow Teachers College Press 240 pages, $19.95. A careful, provocative analysis of the heartbreaking trials of low-income families in need of...

College Rules! How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College

Sherrie Nist-Olejnik, Ph.D., and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Ph.D. Ten Speed Press 304 pages, $14.95. One of the biggest challenges as a student...

Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different

Donald Asher Ten Speed Press 287 pages, $21.95. A Princeton Review for the average teenage space cadet. As the title would indicate,...

Keeping It Real

Heather Jamison with Henry J. Rogers Kregel Publications 152 pages, $10.99. A colorful guide that will attract younger girls to its faith-based...

Physical Activity and Health of Hong Kong Youth

David P. Johns and Koenraad J. Lindner The Chinese University Press 254 pages, $27. Written by professionals for clinicians, medical practitioners and...

Extreme Economics

Keen Babbage Rowman and Littlefield Education 187 pages, $27.95. Aimed at educators, this book outlines what children and teenagers need to know...

The Naked Truth About Your Money

Bill DeShurko Alpha Books 320 pages, $16.95. Young adults face lots of temptations – and many of them aren’t cheap. In an...

Multicultural Understanding of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Implications for Mental Health Assessment

Thomas M. Achenbach and Leslie A. Rescorla The Guilford Press 322 pages, $40. Achenbach and Rescorla integrate international findings to examine the...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Suicidal Adolescents

Alec L. Miller, Jill H. Rathus and Marsha M. Linehan The Guilford Press 346 pages, $40. An exhaustive and practical presentation of...

What Do I Say to a Friend Who’s Gay?

Emily Parke Chase Kregel Publications 128 pages, $9.99. The Christian perspective of this book targets teenagers trying to understand a friend’s homosexuality....

Creating Entrepreneurs

When it comes to teaching youth how to make a living, the lesson almost always boils down to the same formula: Work...

Foster Teens Find Help in State Care

Daytona Beach News-Journal Although they’ve often been removed from the places, friends, teachers and coping mechanisms that helped them weather abusive situations...

Me Lonely? Not Now, Thanks to the ‘Family Finding’ Search

The San Francisco Chronicle A combination of high-tech Internet searches and old-fashioned detective work is helping 22 California counties locate the extended...

State’s Youth Prisons Mired in Hopelessness (Part 1) A New Approach to Help Young Offenders (Part 2)

The San Francisco Chronicle It’s well-documented: Young offenders in California’s juvenile justice system face frequent violence and receive little rehabilitation. Some advocates...

Children of Meth Abusers Have Little Access to Help

The State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.) Most methamphetamine users and “cookers” are of prime childbearing age – often raising small children in homes...

Deportations Strand Young U.S. Citizens

The Chicago Tribune Since the deportation of their mother last year as a “criminal alien,” 22-year-old University of Texas senior Luissana Santibanez...

Hard Lessons: The Struggle to Keep Milwaukee Schools Safe

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel This four-part investigative series on Milwaukee Public Schools examines intensifying campus violence that has teachers filing complaints and...

School Fears on the Rise

The Philadelphia Inquirer In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings and the eighth anniversary of Columbine High School killings, nervous school...

Urban Boatbuilders

St. Paul, Minn. (651) 644-9225 http://www.urbanboatbuilders.org Objective: To provide experiential learning and personal growth through building wooden boats. In a Nutshell: Urban...

Nabulungi Akinshegun

Nabulungi Akinshegun Photo: Interages Program Coordinator Across Ages Mentoring Interages (301) 949-3551 http://www.interagesmd.org Age: 28 Salary: $41,500 About the Organization: Interages links...