Edition: Board
Publication date: 1997-11
Price: $3.95
Review Bibs and Boots (Little Ark Book (Sydney, N.S.W.).) / Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia):'Put on your bib for nibbles and dribbles. Put on your old clothes to dig and to play. ' From the breakfast table, to a party, to the beach, and finally into the bath and bed, Alison Lester's board books are about everything a little person does in a day.
Creator: Ronald J. Brogan
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-11-30
Dewey code: 615.78
List Price: $30.00
Price: $28.44
Review Diet Pills (Junior Drug Awareness) / Chelsea House Publications:Many Americans are concerned about their weight. While an alarming percentage of adults, teens, and even children are considered overweight, researchers have found that preoccupation with body shape and size is most common among people of normal weight. Such skewed body image can lead to unhealthy choices, like trying diet pills. "Diet Pills" explores various types of diet pills, their makers' claims, and the potential dangers associated with use. Along with information about the various pills, readers will learn how to manage their weight in safe, effective ways - and to feel better about their bodies and themselves.
Creator: Dino Marnika
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-08-30
List Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00
Review Came Back To Show You I Could Fly: Library Edition / Bolinda Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 362.29
List Price: $32.95
Price: $32.32
Review Drugs and Sports (Point/Counterpoint) / Chelsea House Publications:The use of drugs by American athletes has come under increasing scrutiny. As steroids, stimulants, and supplements have become more easily available and salaries and endorsement deals have become more lucrative, it seems that more athletes are availing themselves of substances designed to improve their performance - whether legal or illegal. But what kinds of restrictions and punishments should athletes face? Should the federal government get involved, or should it be up to professional sports associations to police their members? And is the problem of drugs in sports really just an example of overblown media coverage? "Drugs and Sports" considers these and other issues from different viewpoints in a balanced account of this controversial topic.
Creator: Renee Raudman
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-06-13
List Price: $39.00
Price: $37.32
Review Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie / Listening Library (Audio):When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she’s trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. Impulsive Lolli talks of monsters in the subway tunnels they call home and shoots up a shimmery amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. Severe Luis claims he can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there’s Luis’s brother, timid and sensitive Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet. When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
Publication date: 2007-06-30
Dewey code: 615.78
List Price: $27.95
Price: $27.95
Review Diet Drugs (Danger Zone: Dieting and Eating Disorders) / Rosen Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2002-09-03
List Price: $24.95
Price: $55.34
Review I Might Be Just a Freshman, But... / PublishAmerica:'My thoughts were in turmoil as we drove back to Rockwell. Was our season over before it really started?' Had the obstacles placed in their path finally derailed Rollins girls? varsity soccer team?s chances of winning the state championship? Had Maggie and her senior friends succeeded in persuading the school administrators to keep the program mediocre? At the time, the answers to these questions seemed the most important, indeed, the only concern in Bobbi?s life. High school freshman Bobbi Martin had already conquered her fears about acceptance at her new school. She had cleared her boyfriend Alan of starting the fight in the cafe. She had no idea the exposed culprit would seek revenge by intentionally causing an automobile accident. A broken leg would cut Alan?s football season short. And before her freshman year ended, Bobbi?s best friend?s involvement with alcohol and drugs would almost take her life.
Publication date: 2001-10
List Price: $28.30
Price: $28.30
Review Hold On, Jessica, Don't Let Go / Topeka Bindery:"This insightful middle-grade novel is an honest portrayal of a child struggling to survive life in an alcoholic family, but it also offers realistic hope as the child makes important discoveries. ".
Authors
- Daniel Cortes
- Nancy Farmer
Publication date: 2003-06
List Price: $20.95
Price: $49.95
Review La Marca Del Escorpion (La Isla Del Tiempo, 3) / Destino Ediciones:
Publication date: 1999-07-01
Price: $7.50
Review Catch an Attitude with Halfahead of CommonSense Using Word Recipes to Stay Drug Free / SanSay Press:How to teach your children to stay drug-free and have fun doing it! Parents, Teachers and youth leaders can help the kids learn the downside of drug use in a fun and familiar way. Word recipes get will get the whole family talking as the recipes need to be read aloud and repeated in order to understand what Kipp Klyde is really saying. Each child may come up with a different meaning which opens up a dialog with their parents or teachers. Halfahead of CommonSense, HC, encourages kids to use something they have with them all the time-their own common sense.
Publication date: 1990-12
Price: $10.00
Review Anything to Win / Demco Media:To increase his chances of winning a college scholarship, a talented high school quarterback risks his health by taking anabolic steroids to gain weight.
Edition: Rebound
Publication date: 2001-03
Price: $15.30
Review Smack / Rebound by Sagebrush:Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space. Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. The young, British couple runs away to Bristol in search of freedom, and finds it in the form of a "squat. " This vacant building is also occupied by two slightly older teens who share everything with Tar and Gemma (including their heroin habits). For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on the drug-whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled. As Gemma says, "You take more and more, and more often. [+]Then you get sick of it and give up for a few days. And that's the really nasty thing because then, when you're clean, that's when it works so well. " With Smack, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, Melvin Burgess brilliantly sketches a gradual descent into drug addiction. There is no preaching here, just the artful revelation of cold, hard facts. Burgess's use of the first-person voice-for not only the main characters but those in the background as well-brings you into the mind of every character in this homeless, hooked culture, offering a (sometimes terrible) glimpse of the motivations and transitions of each person. (Tar's personality changes dramatically over the course of the book, from sweet-natured, lonely boy to hard-edged, hit-seeking addict. ) More subtle and less graphic than Beauty Queen, Linda Glovach's tale of a girl's downward spiral into heroin addiction, Smack will linger in the your mind long after its haunting conclusion has been reached. (Ages 13 and older) -Brangien Davis.
Authors
- Barbara C. Bigelow
- Kathleen J. Edgar
Publication date: 2005-12-16
Dewey code: 615.103
List Price: $260.00
Price: $260.00
Review UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances Edition 1.(5 vol. set) / U·X·L:This set provides detailed information on 52 drugs and other addictive substances, defined as illegal drugs, legal addictive drugs and other substances as well as commonly abused classes of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Arranged alphabetically by official name, each entry follows the same format, allowing students to easily compare and contrast different drugs. Similar in scope to Thomson Gale's Drugs and Controlled Substances for Students, this set provides information in an objective manner that is appropriate for middle school students. Statistics highlight each entry and sidebars provide information on the legal, historical or social aspects of the particular drug. Difficult words are defined within the text and are included in the "Words to Know" section. Each entry includes: Official and street name Classification Historical background and current impact Chemical/organic composition Ingestion methods Therapeutic uses Usage trends Effects Treatment and rehabilitation And more Also included in this work are: An Alternative Table of Contents (cross-referencing street names of drugs with the official entry name) Chronology of Events For More Information (which includes books, periodicals, Web sites, and organization names/contact information) Highlights of the Controlled Substances Act Master Index.
Creator: Marsha Rosenbaum
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 362.295
Price: $17.95
Review It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana / Magic Propaganda Mill:It's Just A Plant is a beautifully illustrated children's book that tells the tale of how a young girl learns about marijuana, the most widely-used illegal drug in the world. It is a tool for parents to use in creating conversation that educates, rather than merely frightens, their young children about cannabis use. It's Just A Plant provides honest and helpful information about the plant that puts the safety of children before politics.
Publication date: 1990-03
Price: $6.00
Review I'll Make It Happen Without Drugs / Rosalee Martin Wingate:
Publication date: 1996-06
Review Rats Saw God / Demco Media:
Publication date: 2003-07
Price: $16.99
Review Bottled Up / Dial Books for Young Readers:Pip’s desperate to escape his life—he’s been skipping classes, drinking, getting high. Anything and everything to avoid his smug teachers, his sweet but needy little brother, his difficult home life. Now he’s been busted by Principal Giraldi and given an ultimatum: either he shows up for all his classes and sees a counselor after school, or he’s expelled. Pip’s freaked out; not because he might get kicked out of school, but by the thought that Giraldi might call his father. Because Pip will do anything to avoid his father.
Publication date: 1981-03
Price: $2.95
Review Angel Dust Blues / Delta:Feeling increasingly alienated from his successful and affluent parents, a 17-year-old boy becomes involved in drug dealing.
Publication date: 2007-11-05
Dewey code: 362
List Price: $9.99
Price: $192.40
Review Narcotics Anonymous: White Booklet / www.bnpublishing.com:Narcotics Anonymous: White Booklet One of NA's earliest publications became the heart of N. A. meetings and the basis for all subsequent N. A. literature. This booklet contains the twelve steps or principles to recovery, the twelve traditions of NA, and an inspiring selection of personal stories written by men and women who are recovering from an addiction to drugs. Recommended for anyone embarking on the road to recovery, and for all who want to help themselves or someone else stay clean.
Creator: Pierre-André Derome
Publication date: 1998-01-01
Review Mikey Mite's Best Present (First Novel Series) / Formac:Mikey is the class clown, but sometimes things are tricky at home. With Christmas coming, Mikey hopes that his dad will be able to play his part in the holiday celebrations. Here's a touching - and surprising - story about life at home and at school.
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Bibs and Boots (Little Ark Book (Sydney, N.S.W.).), Diet Pills (Junior Drug Awareness), Came Back To Show You I Could Fly: Library Edition, Drugs and Sports (Point/Counterpoint), Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, Diet Drugs (Danger Zone: Dieting and Eating Disorders), I Might Be Just a Freshman, But..., Hold On, Jessica, Don't Let Go, La Marca Del Escorpion (La Isla Del Tiempo, 3), Catch an Attitude with Halfahead of CommonSense Using Word Recipes to Stay Drug Free, Anything to Win, Smack, UXL Encyclopedia of Drugs and Addictive Substances Edition 1.(5 vol. set), It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana, I'll Make It Happen Without Drugs, Rats Saw God, Bottled Up, Angel Dust Blues, Narcotics Anonymous: White Booklet, Mikey Mite's Best Present (First Novel Series)Top headlines: Interview: Susan Faludi on 9/11 Myths: In her new book, Susan Faludi examines the cultural impact of the 9/11 terror attacks. 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