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Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Yazidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of Iraq. Badeeah’s story takes her to Syria where she is sold to a high-ranking ISIS commander known as Al Amriki, the American, and kept as a house slave. Badeeah’s story is about the resilience of women, girls, and persecuted groups everywhere.

Bestseller mondial pour les adolescents avec plus de cinq millions d'exemplaires vendus à travers le monde ! Le passage de l'enfance à l'adolescence est une étape compliquée pour les ados ainsi que pour leurs parents surtout parce qu'on ne sait jamais à l'avance comment les choses se dérouleront. Imaginez que vous ayez un plan, un guide étape par étape pour vous aider à vous rendre d'où vous êtes maintenant, à l'endroit où vous voulez être dans l'avenir. Il vous manque des outils pour y arriver ? Ce livre audio est exactement ce dont vous avez besoin.

Das erste Aufklärungsbuch für wirklich alle! Die Entdeckung der eigenen Sexualität gehört zu den größten Herausforderungen im Leben. Doch wer heute heranwächst, hat es mit unerreichbaren Idealen und falscher Perfektion zu tun. Bin ich zu dick? Bin ich zu schüchtern? Zu prüde? Zu spät dran? Was ist eigentlich ein richtiger Mann und wie werde ich endlich diesen Liebeskummer los? Frei von Wertungen finden Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene in diesem Hörbuch einen leichten Zugang zu komplexen Themen wie Sex, Gender, gesellschaftlichen Normen und Selbstliebe.

An exploration in grief, suicide, spiritualism, and Inuit culture, Winter of the Wolf follows Bean, an empathic and spiritually evolved 15-year-old, who is determined to unravel the mystery of her brother Sam’s death. Though all evidence points to a suicide, her heart and intuition compel her to dig deeper. With help from her friend Julie, they retrace Sam’s steps, delve into his Inuit beliefs, and reconnect with their spiritual beliefs to uncover clues beyond material understanding.

Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra León takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon - and to recognize the privilege it is to dream at all.

Emiliano and his sister Sara have successfully fled organized crime in Mexico, illegally crossing into the United States. But now, Sara is in jail, and Emiliano's reunion with their father in Chicago is more awkward than celebratory. When Emiliano is falsely accused of a crime against a missing local girl, it sets off a tense and dangerous race to find her, before he can even "find himself" in this new place he must call home.

This fiery autobiographical novel captures a pivotal week or two in the life of 14-year-old Jack Gantos, as the author reveals the moment he began to slide off track as a kid who in just a few years would find himself locked up in a federal penitentiary for the crimes portrayed in the memoir Hole in My Life.

No longer did the Michtom's gather family and friends around the kitchen table to talk. No longer was Joseph at leisure to play stickball with the guys. No longer were Joseph and his book-loving sister free from watching their pesky two-year-old brother. Now - when it was summer vacation and more than anything Joseph wanted to experience the thrill, the grandeur, the electricity of Coney Island - Joseph worked.

Varios autores de primer nivel unen sus voces en esta serie de relatos contra el acoso escolar por medio de historias de aprendizaje y superación. Un volumen absolutamente necesario y clave en un tema tristemente candente como es el bullying. En él encontraremos desde empujones hasta insultos pasando por amenazas, persecuciones en internet y humillaciones. Desde el bully hasta la víctima pasando por el testigo que se niega a denunciar.

I denne guide til teenagere fortæller forfatteren Nicola Morgan om venskaber. Hvordan de fungerer - og hvad man skal gøre, når de ikke gør. Du finder gode råd om, hvordan du får nye venskaber og bevarer dem, og du får redskaber til at komme igennem de hårde stunder, så du bliver mere sikker på dig selv. Du finder ud af, hvordan folks personlighed, følelser og spændinger har betydning for deres adfærd - og for din egen!

Im Rahmen eines Schulprojekts entwickeln Kera, Leonard, Elodie und Max eine App, die den ökologischen Fußabdruck der Mitspieler überprüft, veröffentlicht und so zu einem umweltbewussten Verhalten animieren soll. Doch aus dem Spiel wird Ernst, das Experiment gerät mehr und mehr außer Kontrolle. "Umweltsünder" und "Foul Player" werden an der Schule plötzlich gemobbt. Natürlich gibt es Mitspieler, die zu schummeln versuchen oder die die Daten der App zu anderen Zwecken missbrauchen. Und auch die Absicht der Politiker ist nicht so, wie es scheint!

Become your best self. Figuring out how to make friends, develop relationships, and be confident is a step-by-step process. Now help is available in Embracing the Awkward, written by the popular teen-advice YouTuber, The Josh Speaks. This isn't another dry instructional book written by a boring adult disconnected from the millennial reality; it's a guide, a workbook, an empowering step towards trying things out, discovering who you are, and becoming your best self.

Teen life is hard enough, but for teens who are LGBTQ, it can be even harder. When do you decide to come out? Will your friends accept you? And how do you meet people to date? Queer is a humorous, engaging, and honest guide that helps LGBTQ teens come out to friends and family, navigate their social life, figure out if a crush is also queer, and challenge bigotry and homophobia.

The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices will help you navigate the digital world with 21 refreshingly honest and humorous tips that will not only inform, but that also just might change the way you think about your social media interaction.

What if your phone truly helped you connect with the people more than disconnect with those around you? Author and youth-culture expert, Jonathan McKee, and his daughter Alyssa McKee, uncover 40 random realizations they've discovered over the last five years. Screens provide fun platforms to connect with faraway friends; and sometimes the people we love the most are the people we ignore all day. Jonathan and Alyssa help young adults navigate face-to-face communication in a screen-to-screen world.

Seventeen-year-old Serendipity "Pity" Jones inherited two things from her mother: a pair of six shooters and perfect aim. She's been offered a life of fame and fortune in Cessation, a glittering city where lawlessness is a way of life. But the price she pays for her freedom may be too great....In this extraordinary debut from Lyndsay Ely, the West is once again wild after a Second Civil War fractures the U.S. into a broken, dangerous land. Pity's struggle against the dark and twisted underbelly of a corrupt city will haunt you long after the final bullet is shot.

Life's a constant hustle for Mo. Her mum's boyfriend, Lloyd, is just another man who likes to beat down women; the South Crong streets are fraught with hazards and nasty G's; and when it comes to matters of the heart...she's still hung up on Sam. No wonder she's vexed so much of the time. Thank god her sistrens, Elaine and Naomi, are on her side: if one of them falls then they all fall. But when badness goes down and a life is left hanging in the balance, Mo has to face her hot urge for revenge...and she might end up losing more than she wins.

On February 5, 1908, Kate Skinner, a 21-year-old unmarried barmaid in Brighton, England, gave birth to twin girls. Mary Hilton, Kate's employer and midwife, adopted Violet and Daisy and promptly began displaying the babies as "Brighton's United Twins". Exhibitions at street fairs, carnivals, and wax museums across England and Scotland followed. At eight years old, the girls came to the United States, eventually becoming the stars of sideshow, vaudeville, and burlesque circuits in the 1920s and 1930s.

Allyship is a journey, but it's not always easy to know where to start. See things from a different perspective with heartfelt real-life stories by writers from diverse backgrounds, abilities and circumstances. Wherever you are in your allyship journey, these stories about what it means to be an ally can empower you to help make the world a better place for everyone. Find out what you can do and take an active role with resources like self-reflective questions, journaling ideas, prompts and further learning. Be the reason someone feels seen, heard and supported.

Leigh é uma garota meio asiática, meio americana, e precisa lidar com um fato: no mesmo dia em que beijou Axel, seu melhor amigo (e paixão secreta há anos), sua mãe se suicidou. Além disso, Leigh tem plena certeza de que a mãe virou um pássaro. Ao viajar rumo a Taiwan para encontrar os avós maternos pela primeira vez, ela está determinada a também encontrar sua mãe, o pássaro. Nessa busca, a garota precisa enfrentar fantasmas antigos ao descobrir segredos da família e desenvolver uma nova relação com seus avós, ao mesmo tempo em que lida com o próprio luto.