"Cart returns with a sweeping update of his classic text. His book surveys the landscape of YA lit; closely examines teen demographics, literacy, audiobooks, and the future of print; provides updated coverage of perennially popular genre fiction, including horror, sci fi, and dys...
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Presents twelve stories by contemporary, award-winning young adult authors, some presented in graphic or letter format, which explore themes of gender identity, love, and sexuality.
Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. Every morning, he sells coffee and donuts to a city he cannot call his own. One day the pattern of this harsh existence is broken by a glimmer ...
Paddington the bear loses his shopping cart and has his immigration status questioned before receiving a surprise visit from his Uncle Pastuzu.
A collection of ten stories about the future, by such authors as Lois Lowry, Katherine Paterson, and Jon Scieszka.
A summary of the 250 best books for LGBTQ teens, written by experts on the subject and addressed to teen book buyers. Identifying titles that address the sensitive and important topics of coming out, being out, and the search for community, this catalog spotlights the best gay, l...
Presents a collection of short stories, essays, cartoons, and poems for about the masks worn by people in their public and private lives.
Is evolution fact or fancy? Is natural selection an unsupported hypothesis or a confirmed mechanism of evolutionary change? These were the courageous questions that professor of law Phillip Johnson originally took up in 1991. His relentless pursuit to follow the evidence wherever...
"Jeff Walker's Launch has been called "the most important book ever written on online marketing" (Brendon Burchard). It"s been described as practically" a license to print money" (Michael Hyatt). When it first hit the shelves in 2014, it quickly become the road map for every entr...
"This revised and expanded second edition updates a provocative collection of 14 expert contributions to the debate inaugurated in 2013 addressing LIS's historic avoidance in defining and envisioning its young adult users by offering readers a diverse set of possible responses to...
"This anthology of stories from acclaimed young adult authors examines the thought-provoking issues of gun violence, gun control, and gun ownership"-- Provided by publisher.
"Meet the Cabbage Merchant. A humble farmer, this hardworking man dreams of selling his harvest in the big city of Omashu. But his dreams -- and his cabbages -- are crushed when the long-lost Avatar returns ... and upends his cart! Determined to succeed, the Cabbage Merchant hits...
On Sept. 16, 1920, a cart packed with dynamite exploded in front of Morgan Bank, leaving 38 dead and hundreds more seriously injured in the nation's financial center. The Bombing of Wall Street tells the story of an early act of terror that remains unsolved today and sparked a bi...
Contains ten short fiction stories for young adults that look at different types of families, both traditional and non-traditional, including selections by Nikki Grimes, Lois Lowry, Walter Dean Myers, and others.
A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present takes a bittersweet journey into the past when a man revisits the summer schoo...