Books of Adolescence

  • A Kiss for Good Luck
    By Carol Ellis

    The romance between Tess, a serious runner, and Charlie, the class clown and only boy who could stop her in her tracks, is told from both points of view.

  • Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development
    Reaching Teens: Strength-Based Communication Strategies to Build Resilience and Support Healthy Adolescent Development
    By Kenneth R. Ginsburg, Sara B. Kinsman

    This work synthesizes three foundational frameworks, positive youth development, resilience building, and trauma-informed practices into APPLIED strategies professionals can use with young people. 400+ video clips!

  • Changing Body: A Young Person's Guide to Puberty
    By Felicia Law, Kenneth R. Fox, Josephine Paker

    This book discusses the basic principles of good nutrition and how to achieve it (and the consequences of not maintaining a balanced diet = nutritionally related disorders).

  • Looking for Alibrandi
    Looking for Alibrandi
    By Melina Marchetta

    Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen, and in her final year of school.

  • Looking for Alibrandi
    Looking for Alibrandi
    By Melina Marchetta

    During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets, and must contend with, the father she has never known. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

  • The Catcher in the Rye
    The Catcher in the Rye
    By Jerome David Salinger

    Story of an alienated, disillusioned youth who drops out of school, and spends three days and nights in New York City on a quest for self-discovery.

  • My First Love & Other Disasters
    By Francine Pascal

    My First Love & Other Disasters

  • Growing Pains: Astrology in Adolescence
    Growing Pains: Astrology in Adolescence
    By Alex Trenoweth

    Alex draws on her experience as a teacher and astrologer to show how the cycles of Jupiter and Saturn can be used to grasp and get the best of critical developmental cycles in children and young adults, and presents them in a way that ...

  • A Kiss for Tomorrow
    A Kiss for Tomorrow
    By Maud Johnson

    While visiting her father, a newspaper publisher in a small North Carolina town, Edie Townsend falls in love with Nick Hunter--a college journalism major who already has a girlfriend.

  • Exploring Child and Adolescent Development, Books a la Carte Edition
    Exploring Child and Adolescent Development, Books a la Carte Edition
    By Laura E. Berk

    This ISBN is for a loose-leaf print reference (delivered by mail) to complement your Revel experience.

  • Bless the Beasts & Children
    By Glendon Fred Swarthout

    At summer camp a group of misfits prove they have the right stuff.

  • Ghost of a Chance
    By Janet Quin-Harkin

    While spending the summer in Maine, Meredith Markham is torn between her attraction to a handsome boy and her love for her boyfriend back home.

  • The Night of the Comet: A Novel
    The Night of the Comet: A Novel
    By George Bishop

    Fourteen-year-old Alan Broussard is swept up in his science teacher father's community-wide comet-watching activities, which illuminate for the young teen his father's inadequacies, his mother's unhappiness, and his own loss of innocence.

  • But Everyone Else Looks So Sure of Themselves: A Guide to Surviving the Teen Years
    But Everyone Else Looks So Sure of Themselves: A Guide to Surviving the Teen Years
    By Denise V. Lang

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  • Exploring Child and Adolescent Development
    By Laura E. Berk

    Chronologically organized, the text offers a complete introduction to the field, highlighting the most important concepts and research findings.

  • Child and Adolescent Development
    By D. A. Louw, Anet Elizabeth Louw

    Child and Adolescent Development

  • Child Development
    Child Development
    By Robert S. Feldman

    Also available with MyPsychLab® This title is also available with MyPsychLab - an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results.

  • Infants, Children, and Adolescents
    Infants, Children, and Adolescents
    By Laura E. Berk

    The integration of research findings and "plain language" explanations allows the students to interact seamlessly with the text... This is a wonderfully comprehensive andintelligent resource.

  • The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You
    The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up You
    By Kelli Dunham

    Discusses the physical and emotional transitions that boys undergo during puberty, including growth spurts, voice changes, sexual development, peer pressure, dating, and new relationships within the family.

  • Childhood and Adolescence: Voyages in Development
    By Spencer A. Rathus

    Childhood and Adolescence: Voyages in Development