Teen Memoirs

When it comes to things that grip us with fear, the mind usually looks to the supernatural experiences that know no explanation. The truth is, yet again, stranger and more sinister than fiction. For the true monsters do not reside in the recesses of our minds, but in the shadows of dimly lit sidewalks, blind corners, and even - most menacingly - in the eyes of the seemingly innocent.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history. Contents: Gaius Julius Caesar, the powerful Roman leader; Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled England for 45 years; George Washington, the first president of the USA; King Louis XVI, the last king of France; Winston Churchill, who led Britain in the Second World War; Che Guevara, the Argentinian doctor who fought for revolution.

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history, including Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all; Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre; Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer; Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as 'the People's Poet'; Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas; and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour Camp.

In Nineteen: A Reflection of My Teenage Experience in an Extraordinary Life: What I Have Learned, and What I Have to Share, 19-year-old author, Chelsea Krost, authentically shares the simplicity and complexity of her coming of age experience. In Nineteen, she conjures the curiosity and flavor of a personal journal left open in a teenager¹s room.

This audiobook reveals the main facts about the magical childhood and teenage years of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, the youngest son of a humble farmer, born in a remote Tibetan village, who became the political and spiritual leader of his homeland when he was only a kid. Its surprising content sheds light on the main facts and events that shaped his amazing early life, including: the Tibetan prophecy that announced his reincarnation; the magic lake that described the place where he was born; how the high lamas found him in a small farming village when he was two; and more!

Il ne faut pas séparer les amoureux. Pour préserver son couple, Sylvain, 10 ans, prend une grande décision.

Auf jeden Fall ist das Leben geil! Alles, was sich Karla zu ihrem 16. Geburtstag wünscht, ist ein Freund! Sie kann sich nicht erklären, warum sie bisher noch ungeküsst ist und auch noch nie eine Beziehung hatte. Ihr Geburtstag rückt immer näher und sie zählt den Countdown bis dahin. Wird sie es schaffen, sich zum Geburtstag ihren größten Wunsch zu erfüllen und endlich einen Freund zu finden? Oder wird sie für immer ungeküsst und ungeliebt bleiben? Einzig und allein ihrem Tagebuch erzählt sie von ihren Ängsten und Gefühlen.

Battles happen because of a clash in opinions, beliefs, and political interests. Let's take a look at some of the most unforgettable battles in world history.

Before a great discovery, the Renaissance scientists had to endure long days of working in sometimes unhygienic places. You need to know these gross facts in order to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of the work these early scientists did for the sake of knowledge.

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk's life's passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and to bring to light the achievements of people of African descent throughout the ages. When Schomburg's collection became so big that it began to overflow his house, he turned to the New York Public Library, where he created and curated a collection that was the cornerstone of a new Negro Division.

Kære dagbog. Daniel lagde en arm om mig. Han svedte meget. Så bøjede han sit ansigt ind mod mit. Denne gang ramte han plet første gang. Det var så smukt. Jeg var lige ved at græde. Det var han også. Længe sad vi med vores pander sammen. Mie har været smaskforelsket i Daniel siden sidste sommer. Nu er det ferietid igen, og Mie finder mors dagbog.

The biggest hit show of 2010 for Nickelodeon now hits the comic page! Four friends from Minnesota started a pop-singing group on the show, and now you can learn the back story of these four young men and their co-stars. Find out where Kendall, Logan, Carlos, and James came from, and see what brought these four young men into the limelight for all the world to see. Be here as you join the phenomenon that is sweeping the nation.

What can you do, what can you say, when your child becomes discouraged? I said nothing. I wrote this letter to her instead. Tell your child you care. That she's wonderful and special. Because...she is.

Here is a tale that concerns the incredible power of friendship. The movie Tennessee's Partner (1955), starring John Payne and Ronald Reagan, was based on this story.

Three harrowing tales of three teenage girls who left behind a trail of murder and mayhem.

Adventures of John Wooten, World's Strongest Man, Master of Masters is a collection of ten short stories. I have also included my autobiography, which introduces the listener to my career and adventures. The collection begins with young John's introduction to kung fu; each story is a different adventure. In my stories, the World's Strongest Man is presented as a superhero figure who does whatever he can to help all of humankind, to prevent evil, and promote good works.

Nirvana exploded onto a music scene that had no mind, no depth and no substance. A young audience, sick to the teeth of formula pop and sugar-coated, safe rock was quickly seduced by the dark and dangerous charisma of this loud, angry band hailing from 'nowhere' USA. This band were different. They were multidimensional. The songs could be angry, ugly or beautiful as hell, Kurt Cobain's voice and the thrashing guitars a nightmare or the saddest lament for lost humanity.

Kristina Fetters was the youngest woman in the state of Iowa to get sentenced to life in prison without parole after she murdered her great-aunt. But 18 years later she would be re-sentenced after the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for minors was unconstitutional. Kristina would later be released to a hospice center as she developed breast cancer in prison. But what happened that fateful night in 1994? Kristina was only 14 years old, five feet tall, and barely 100 pounds. Yet she committed one of the most brutal assaults in the history of her Iowa town.

This is a summary and analysis, not the original book. For over 40 years, Kermit Gosnell was hiding the fact that he was America's most prolific serial killer. One day a pill mill task force landed on his doorstep and the impending investigation led Philadelphia detectives to the most gruesome house of horrors anyone had ever seen.