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Eleven-year-old Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener is a junior high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Dawn develops an improbable plan to seduce the star of a high-school garage band.

Raised by a single mother, a bullied seventeen-year-old girl seeks guidance from her best friend and the girl's older sister.

A young witch named Kiki and her chatty black cat Jiji befriend a bakery owner. Kiki is an enterprising young girl, but she must follow tradition in order to become a full-fledged witch. Landing in a far-off city, and with the help of her new friend, she sets up a high-flying delivery service and begins a wonderful experience of independence and responsibility as she finds her place in the world.

Girls are taught all about the changes that happen to their bodies as they transition from child to adult. What is puberty? What are the physical changes associated with puberty? What is menstruation? What are the social and emotional changes associated with puberty? The answers to all of these questions are appropriately discussed along with detailed graphics, diagrams and on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment to reinforce...

Everyone deserves a great love story, but for seventeen year old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying and life changing.

A stray horse helps a teenage girl cope with the loss of her mother to cancer.

"It's the mystery of mysteries - especially to parents. Now the experts are exploring the recesses of the brain and finding explanations for why adolescents behave the way they do and how the new discoveries can change the way we teach, or perhaps even understand, our teenagers"--Container.

A story of an extraordinary teenager on a journey to the universal power of family, friendship and love. After the death of his popular brother Chaz, Nick who suffers from Aspergers syndrome, struggles to carry on. Nick's parents have their own problems coping with the loss, but Chaz's best friend Randy takes Nick under his wing. As Chaz's family comes to understand his secret life, they will be forced to reconcile the boy they thought they knew with...

In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...

The birdcage: The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down. The world to come: Somewhere along the mid-nineteenth century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship...