Washoe County Library System

If you're a girl, you should strive to look like the model on the cover of a magazine. If you're a boy, you should play sports "and" be good at them. If you're smart, you should immediately go to college after high school, and get a job that makes you rich. Above all, be normal. Right? "Wrong," say 35 leading middle grade and young adult authors.

The Tumblr Dear My Blank--created by 16-year-old Emily Trunko and followed by over 35,000 people--is now a carefully curated book with more than 160 anonymous letters covering a range of topics from heartbreak, unrequited love, and loss, to inspiration, self-awareness, and gratitude. Featuring exclusive content not available on Tumblr, these unsent letters are addressed to secret crushes, lost loved ones, boyfriends, siblings, parents, grandparents,...

Explores the adolescent years and draws on extensive research to offer teens practical ways to cope with such important issues as peers, parents, relationships, school choices, and the future.

A collection of fifty insightful monologs for teenage guys and girls that explore the values of today's youth. Each monolog expresses an opinion of a situation, issue or problem. The two minute length makes memorization easy.

Presents true stories by teens about anger.

Presents the author's parable about change framed in a story about a group of high school friends trying to handle change in their lives.