Teen Kids

When storied delinquent Cullen Hickson enters the orbit of the O'Dell siblings, everything changes. Bri and Ray find an alluring, addictive outlet in Cullen, who opens their eyes to a world they didn't know existed. For Ray, that means experiencing the singular thrill of crime - from breaking and entering to grand theft auto - while Bri quickly dives into an all-consuming romance with the enigmatic upperclassman.

Warning: Doing this may cause your family to have fun and actually look forward to spending time together...Is your family in need of game night, or just some sort of quality-time activity everyone will get a kick out of? Do you feel like you need a challenge, something brain stimulating that will test your limits and allow you to become a better problem-solver and a creative thinker? Look no further - riddles and question and answer audiobooks are making a comeback!

Interesting Fun Facts for Adults: Surprising Tidbits and Stories for Curious Minds is not your average book—it's a collection of mind-blowing, laugh-out-loud, and totally true stories that will have you saying, "Wait, seriously?!" This is the ultimate antidote to boring trivia, filled with facts you'll want to share with friends, family, and anyone who will listen.

Zu fünft brechen sie auf: Miguel, Fernando, Emilio, Jaz und Ángel. Die Jugendlichen haben sich erst vor kurzem kennengelernt, aber sie haben ein gemeinsames Ziel: Sie wollen es über die Grenze in die USA schaffen. Vor ihnen liegen mehr als zweieinhalbtausend Kilometer durch ganz Mexiko, die sie als blinde Passagiere auf Güterzügen zurücklegen müssen. Nicht nur Hunger und Durst, Hitze und Kälte sind ihre Gegner - unterwegs lauern auch noch zahlreiche andere Gefahren: Unfälle, Banditen, korrupte Polizisten, Drogenhändler und Menschenschmuggler. Doch wenn sie zusammenhalten, haben sie eine Chance!

Thirteen-year-old October Schwartz is new in town, short on friends, and the child of a clinically depressed science teacher. Naturally, she spends most of her time in the Sticksville Cemetery, which just happens to border her backyard. And that backyard just happens to be the home of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. Soon, October befriends the five dead kids. Together they form The Dead Kid Detective Agency, committed to solving Sticksville’s most mysterious mysteries.

Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare’s Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she’ll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy’s senior musical, confessing without shame that she is charming and conniving and brutally ambitious, that we will watch and root for her even as she manipulates and endangers those around her. And we do. Perhaps it’s because we don’t want to believe that she’s as relentless as she claims. Rory is an underdog, after all, a scholarship kid teased for her weight. Surely there will be redemption?

It’s eighteen-year-old Gita Desai’s first year at Stanford, and the fact that she’s here and not already married off by her traditional Gujarati parents is a miracle. She’s determined to death-grip her good-girl, model student rep all the way to med school. Should be easy: If there’s one thing she’s learned from her family, it’s how to chup-re—to “shut up,” fade into the background. But when childhood memories of her aunt’s desertion and her then-uncle’s best friend resurface, Gita ends up ditching the books night after night in favor of partying and hooking up with strangers.

You need to work to live. That’s the truth for most people, and plenty of people in power have been abusing that truth for centuries. Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black people. It looked like generations of children dying in dangerous jobs. It looked like wealthy people hiring private militaries to attack their employees. But workers have always found a way to fight back.

Payal Mehta has had a crush on popular, athletic, all-around perfect Jonathan Slate ever since he smiled at her in freshman-year Spanish class. At a party during spring break of her junior year, Payal finally works up the courage to ask Jon to hang out. However, her romantic plans are derailed when he vomits on her Keds. Twice. But when Jon offers to take her out to lunch as an apology, Payal is convinced this is the start of their love story.

Empower your child or teen with essential skills for a financially secure future! This engaging guide simplifies budgeting, saving, and investing, teaching kids and young adults practical money management through real-life examples and exercises. They'll learn to navigate financial terms, use saving as a powerful tool to reach goals, and understand the basics of investing to make their money grow over time. Additionally, this book helps them spot scams, avoid common money mistakes, and build lifelong habits for financial security.

Brooke Hauser takes us deep inside a unique New York City high school over the course of a year as she follows diverse newcomers whose lives are at once ordinary and extraordinary, international headlines brought to life. No native English-speaking students attend the International High School, and more than twenty-eight languages fill the halls.

Jack is a teenager who knows how to survive, but he's also a boy who's born in the age of sail...and pirates! The Halifax waterfront bustles with these, and brutal British soldiers. Orphaned and independent, our teenage hero somehow manages to survive, only to come across privateer treasure, and a surprise future where he realizes he has power over the future, all in one explosive story!

Donner Lake is famous for its dazzling waters, dramatic mountains, and the travelers trapped there long ago who did unspeakable things to survive. But for lonely Nora Sharpe, Donner was where a girl named Grace glided into her life one night and exploded her world.

At the height of World War I, as battles raged in the trenches and in the air, another struggle for survival was being waged in the most notorious POW camp in all of Germany: Holzminden. A land-locked Alcatraz of sorts, it was home to the most troublesome Allied prisoners - and the most talented at escape. The Grand Escape tells the remarkable tale of a band of pilots who pulled off an ingenious plan and made it out of enemy territory in the biggest breakout of WWI, inspiring their countrymen in the darkest hours of the war.

What body parts can many lizards lose and grow back? Oddly enough, a lizard can grow back it’s tail after it has been completely lost or cut off! If you like interesting and interactive trivia questions like this, then keep reading...We know trivia is fun, especially for kids, but we also know that learning new things and gaining new knowledge on topics you love is one of the most enjoyable parts about it. We’ve made it our number one priority to create new, interesting, and intriguing questions in order to keep you interested and always wanting more.

Niya Moto is the only one-legged samurai kid in Japan, famous for falling flat on his face in the dirt. None of the samurai schools will teach crippled Niya, until an offer arrives from the legendary samurai warrior Ki-Yaga, sensei of the Cockroach Ryu. Niya and the other Cockroaches must defeat the fierce samurai students from the Dragon Ryu at the Samurai Trainee Games. Though they seem to be at a terrible disadvantage, it’s not long before they learn that if they stick together, there is no journey that they cannot complete, no fear that they cannot face....

Across the valley, a drumbeat echoes. For ten days, the drum will call the mountain ryus to war, including the samurai kids from the Cockroach Ryu. Only Japan’s feudal emperor can stop the war, so Niya and Sensei Ki-Yaga set off on a grueling journey with all the Cockroaches, whose firm friendship and unusual skills must be put to the test in order to beg the Emperor to maintain peace. Sensei Ki-Yaga is respected and wise, but unfortunately, the last time he encountered the Emperor, the Emperor threatened to cut off his head.

There's no one more blunt, more opinionated, or more outspoken than the average teen. Except, of course, Bill O'Reilly, veteran star journalist, anchor of the most watched cable news program on TV, New York Times best-selling author, husband, father of two, and former teacher.

Street Kids: The Lives of Runaway and Thrownaway Teens, Second Edition, by award-winning and best-selling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, is an audiobook that examines the pathway from home to homeless for runaways and thrownaways, including precursors to life on the street. Street Kids will be a useful source for child welfare advocates, academics, professionals, sociologists, criminologists, researchers, laypersons, and others with an interest in the plight and mistreatment of children living on the streets or away from a safe home environment.

Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, easy-to-understand chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before.