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Cyberbullying damages reputation, social status, and emotional wellbeing. This research examines how cyberbullying affects Black adolescent females in urban settings. One of the most authoritative and current qualitative studies ever done on cyberbullying, it weaves observations, interviews, data collection, and literature review together to help teachers, administrators, and parents manage teen conflict.
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Harriet is facing her second Christmas on her own since her husband walked out. With little child support, she's struggling to manage financially, not helped when daughter Sara is invited to a posh birthday party and needs a new outfit.
When Owen, a passionate environmentalist and popular blogger, overhears Harriet bemoaning her situation, he challenges her to only buy second-hand until Christmas, and Harriet accepts. What she doesn't know is that...
1283) Dork on the Run
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Can geeky Jerry Flack win the election for class president, running against the most popular boy around? For the first time in his life, Jerry Flack is OK with being a dork. He has fun new friends, he's on the school science team, and he even has a girlfriend. Everything is going great-until his friends convince him to run for class president against Gabe Marshall, the most popular guy in school. How can Jerry compete, especially when Gabe is doing...
1284) Brilliant Hues
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Sketching A Whole New Life Won't Be Easy
Life comes full circle for Sadie as she heads back to Menlo Park, California. But Sadie finds she no longer fits in, especially when one of her dad's cases thrusts her into the spotlight and puts her in danger. She turns to her faith, but the youth group just isn't the same, and Sadie has a lot to think about when she hears what some kids believe. She returns to Owl Creek for a reprieve, but everything feels...
1285) Lola Levine is not mean!
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Second-grader Lola has a wonderful family, a great teacher, and the best friend ever, Josh, and they all help her feel better after she is teased and forbidden to play team sports at recess for having accidentally hurt classmate Juan during a soccer game.
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"The concept of a full bucket is an effective metaphor for a child's healthy self-concept and happiness, most often the result of the encouraging words and actions of parents and others who help a child know they are loved, valued, and capable"--Provided by publisher.
1287) Rebel Girls
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When it comes to being social, Athena Graves is far more comfortable creating a mixtape playlist than she is talking to cute boys-or anyone, for that matter. Plus her staunchly feminist views and love of punk rock aren't exactly mainstream at St. Ann's, her conservative Catholic high school.
Then a malicious rumor starts spreading through the halls...a rumor that her popular, pretty, pro-life sister had an abortion over the summer. A rumor that has...
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When Emily Lindin was eleven years old, she was branded a "slut" by the rest of her classmates. For the next few years of her life, she was bullied incessantly at school, after school, and online. At the time, Emily didn't feel comfortable confiding in her parents or in the other adults in her life. But she did keep a diary... UnSlut presents that diary, word for word, with split-page commentary to provide context and perspective. This unique diary...
1289) Paul, Big, and Small
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A trio of high school outcasts-Paul, Big, and Small-face the complicated world of predators and prey in high school and come to realize that overcoming life's challenges will take more than perseverance. Paul Adams is the shortest kid at his high school, and the school bullies relentlessly pick on him. He's become an expert at avoiding the predatory students and spends the entire day wishing school would end so he can escape to his favorite sport...
1290) 10 Hours to Go
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Lily wants to get home. Her friends want to get even.
Lily needs a ride-a fire warning in Oregon has cancelled her train home to California. Her ex-best friend, Natasha, has offered to pick Lily up on her way back from Portland, though they're barely on speaking terms. As it turns out, Natasha's also giving a ride to Elke Azizi, the girl Lily got expelled from their school four years ago. Elke hasn't forgotten, and neither has Natasha.
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1291) Zara Hossain is here
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"Ever since her family moved to Texas from Pakistan when she was a baby, seventeen-year-old Zara Hossain has only ever called Corpus Christi home. Being the only Muslim girl at her conservative Catholic school, blending in isn't really an option, especially with people like Tyler Benson always tormenting her. But one day Tyler takes thing too far by defacing Zara's locker with a racist message, which gets him suspended. As an act of revenge, Tyler...
1292) Miss Impossible
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Malia, Dot, and Bree get a much older--and scarier--client than they expected, but looks can be deceiving.
1293) Faceless
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Growing up in 1943 war-torn England, thirteen-year-old Alice and her older sister Louise are members of a centuries-old spy clan, but when Louise decides to spy for the enemy, their bond is changed forever.
1294) Taste the Bright Lights
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"...one of the most authentic teenage voices you'll ever read" "Outstanding. Breathtaking. By god it deserves a hearing." When running from the cops is just the start of your problems... Northern Ireland, 1999. A boot in the face. A broken nose. Blood on the classroom floor. And Lisa O'Neill and her best friend Nicola are fleeing from the police.Lisa thinks she's finally free from her crappy home life. But sometimes the worst things are those on the...
1295) A blind guide to normal
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After spending his last year at Addison School for the Blind, Ryder will need his sense of humor to help him make the transition to eighth grade at Papuaville Middle School where he is now enrolled to accommodate his parents' new jobs.
1296) Dear Life, You Suck
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"The shrinkadinks think I have a screw loose. Ain't playing with a full deck. Whacked-out wiring. Missing marbles." Irreverent, foulmouthed seventeen-year-old Cricket is the oldest ward in a Catholic boys' home in Maine—and his life sucks. With prospects for the future that range from professional fighter to professional drug dealer, he seems doomed to a life of "criminal rapscallinity." In fact, things look so bleak that Cricket can't help...
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Are You Worried That Your Children Could Be Victims of Bullying? And Do You Want to Help Them Prevent and Overcome the Negative Effects of Bullying?
Here is the solution…
Bullying is a very real problem for many kids (and adults), which can have lifelong consequences.
As a result of more awareness on the topic, we are all aware of the issues of bullying and actions have been taken to stop and prevent this damaging behavior.
However, this hasn't...
1298) The Chandler legacies
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"At Chandler, the elite boarding school, these five teens are brought together in the Circle, a coveted writing group where life-changing friendships are born--and secrets are revealed. Their professor tells them to write their truths. But is the truth enough to change the long-standing culture of abuse at Chandler? And can their friendship survive the fallout?"--
1299) Cold Calls
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Three high school students-Eric, Shelly, and Fatima-have one thing in common: "I know your secret."
Each one is blackmailed into bullying specifically targeted schoolmates by a mysterious caller who whispers from their cell phones and holds carefully guarded secrets over their heads. But how could anyone have obtained that photo, read those hidden pages, uncovered this buried past? Thrown together, the three teens join forces to find the stranger...
1300) Just a Drop of Water
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Ever since he was little, Jake Green has longed to be a soldier and a hero like his grandpa, who died serving his country. Right now, though, he just wants to outsmart-and outrun-the rival cross country team, the Palmetto Bugs. But then the tragedy of September 11 happens. It's quickly discovered that one of the hijackers lived nearby, making Jake's Florida town an FBI hot spot. Two days later, the tragedy becomes even more personal when Jake's best...
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