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Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue

Gender identity is reported to be solidified as early as age 6. When adults fill out applications or participate in the census...

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That’s So Gay! Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community

“Faggot!” “What a lez-bo!” “That’s so gay!” These words are bandied about so frequently in school hallways and on social media and...

Q&A With Patrick Boyle, Author of ‘Scout’s Honor’

First, the scout leaders befriended the boys, then mentored them … and ultimately, molested them. And then, all too often, the scout...

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Turnaround Tools for the Teenage Brain: Helping Underperforming Students Become Lifelong Learners

Jensen and Snider tackle a most significant educational issue — student drop-out rates — by describing the turnaround tools “to create a...

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10 Lessons from New York City Schools: What Really Works to Improve Education

For those in the service of youth, hope springs eternal at summer’s end. Back-to-school season triggers memorable sensory registers: the smell of...

The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir

“I’m The Girl Who Faked Her Own Pregnancy as a Senior Project,” declares Gaby Rodriguez on the opening page of this story...

Violence in Student Writing: A School Administrator’s Guide

When Gretchen Oltman began teaching English literature to “a rough crowd” of Nebraska high school juniors and seniors in 1999, she assigned...

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens Brooke Hauser Free Press 308 pages It’s not...

Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers

Hurt 2.0: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers Chap Clark Baker Academic 264 pages More than 55,000 readers of the first edition...

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M. K. Reed, art by Jonathan Hill First Second/Roaring Brook Press 216 pages As the shortest kid in his class in Americus,...

“GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens” and “Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens”

GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Teens: Revised and updated 2nd edition Kelly Huegel Free Spirit Publishing...

The R Word

By Marianne Modica Morning Joy Media 297 pages. The “‘N word’ equivalent for white people is ‘the R word,’” says Marianne Modica...

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Not Just A Game:Power, Politics, & American Sports

Not Just a Game: Power, Politics, & American Sports Directed by Jeremy Earp Written by Dave Zirin, Jeremy Earp and Chris Boulton...

‘Born, Not Raised’ by Susan Madden Lankford

The most engaging elements came from the kids themselves. Scrawled on the bottom of handouts, the backs of postcards or between the...

Living with Cancer: The Ultimate Teen Guide

Denise Thornton Scarecrow Press/Rowman & Littlefield 175 pages. “Lots of kids think they are invincible,” says Peter, who learned he had...

Ask Us Who We Are: Foster Care in Vermont

Directed by Bess O’Brien Kingdom County Productions75 minutes. DVD; educational package includes two discussion guides. A young man describes the Christmas...

Drop That Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories

Drop That Knowledge: Youth Radio StoriesElisabeth Soep and Vivian ChávezUniversity of California Press224 pages. Most National Public Radio (NPR) listeners have heard...

I Am J

I Am JCris BeamLittle, Brown and Company339 pages. When Jenifer Juana Silver was in sixth grade, she begged her parents to call...

DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher EducationAnya KamenetzChelsea Green Publishing208 pages American higher education operates with what author...