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Teen Education Books and Counseling

The Freedom Writers Diary : How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Chang...
by Freedom Writers, Zlata Filipovic
Amazon Price: $11.16
Customer Reviews:
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The book I choose to read was, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. This book is a compilation of diary entries s...

» The Freedom Writers Diary is a powerful story of how one person changed 150 lives in their high school career. Mrs. Gruwell, a new teacher at Wilson High School, gets a class full of freshman misfit...

» We have a lot to learn from these kids and their teacher. Great book!

» I saw the movie which I enjoyed, and now am in the process of reading the book which I purchased on Amazon.....all good so far

» An excellent read. It really opens your eyes to the world around us. Lots of laughs many tears and would love for a teacher like that around here for my children (England) that is! FAB!!!!! If fact ha...

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
by Sean Covey
Amazon Price: $10.87
Customer Reviews:
» The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens was written by Sean Covey in order to improve the overall quality of a teenager's life. Sean Covey not only introduces the importance of including these seve...

» i am not a teenager any more, it was displayed at my local library. I love to read new books, so i checked it out, i am glad that i did. I didn't want to read his dad's book which were published at le...

» Well, I'm 14 and perfectly authorized to write a review for this book since it IS for teenagers. The entire freshman class is being required to read this book as a part of our 48 Books Program and som...

» This book helps to answer the question- What must I
do to be successful? The author discusses good habits of
highly effective teens, as well as planning and win-win
scenarios. Abov...

» This is a very good book for middle and high school age kids. It gives them a direction and a way to plan how they live and interact with other teens and adults. I'd also recommend getting the compani...

Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Amazon Price: $8.00
Customer Reviews:
» Speak is another book that I dove into knowing virtually nothing about it from the start. I knew it was in the "adolescent lit" category and that the narrator spent some time doing some artwork trying...

» Speak
By: Laura Halse Anderson

Speak is a clever and an ironic title for a story in which the main character chooses not to speak a whole lot. This book is written in first person....

» This is one of the best books to describe females. Everyone knows that girls are the most confusing objects in this world. Actually, I don't think there is a word to describe female, but after reading...

» I read this book a few years ago in High School English. This was one of the first books I've ever read, and I was really touched by the difficulties that some girls have to face. Many of the women in...

» SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson is a riveting, compassionate book about a teenage outcast.

Melinda Sordino destroyed her reputation before even setting foot in the dangerous halls of Mer...

It's Not Easy Being Mean (Clique Series)
by Lisi Harrison
Amazon Price: $9.99
Customer Reviews:
» Skye Hamilton gives Massie and the pretty committee a DVD about the contest for the key. The key unlocks OCD's secret room and Massie is physched. It's just what she needs to kick off the beggining ...

» These kind of stories unfortunately are real and happening in schools. Kids need to know that they are not alone and that bullying of this kind is unacceptable.I think this series is great for teens. ...

» The characters in this book are spiteful, manipulative, and shallow. But even worse than that, I feel sorry for them, and sorry for any girl who feels like she has to be fake in order to have friends...

» A brilliant analysis of the deepest evils of our society. This is where it is born: not in the boardrooms of big corporations, but in the bedrooms of the slumber parties of nine year old girls. I lo...

» It's a new year at Octavian Country Day Middle School,and this year brings up whole new drama. A new character Skye Hamilton (the eighth grade alpha), is in charge of who gets the key to the "forgotte...

The Anxiety Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal With Anxiety & Worry
by Lisa M. Schab
Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Reviews:
» Excellent resource for teens and adults. Practical hands on activities for personal use, school, or treatment settings. Highly recommended!

Boundaries with Teens: When to Say Yes, How to Say No
by John Townsend
Amazon Price: $10.19
Customer Reviews:
» This is the most insighful book I've read yet on raising a teen. I found myself encouraged and underlining passages on almost every page. Most of this review is simply excerpts of what I have found ...

» This is a very good resource for parenting and any relationship. Very good & worthwhile, easy to impliment, gives you hope & change!

» When I read this book, it was like someone peeking into our lives. We are Grandparents raising a teen-ager for the past 4 years who has turned 16, is over 6 ft tall,wears size 13 shoes, and sees himse...

» I originally did a search for a book on teen behavior. I didn't realized that this book was in the religous section, otherwise I would not have purchased it, as I am not religous. The author uses a ...

» Boundaries with Teens has been very helpful for us. We were given the book but since we both have so little time to read, we purchased the book on CD and listen to it in the car. The advice is solid...

Battlefield of the Mind for Teens: Winning the Battle in Your Mind
by Joyce Meyer
Amazon Price: $8.79
Customer Reviews:
» I teach a Christian Studies class and purchased this book as a possible recommended reading for my students. It's a book that is worth every penny. It's both captivating and inspiring. My students wil...

» I have had many problems with anxiety through out my life. I can honestly say that no amount of therapy helped more than this book! I would recommend this book to everyone! I loved this book and it br...

» This is a wonderful book. I discovered Joyce Meyer recently. I found this book to be helpful and encouraging. Changing your thoughts is very important for anyone who is self critical, discouraged, ...

» This book helped me to get to a better place in my life, and I would reccommend it to any teenager trying to get close to God but feels conflicted about how they should conduct thier life. The languag...

» I received a teaching once that basicly said that when you get right down to it the Devil really only has two methods for tempting us: 1. Pressure 2. Pleasure. The Devil has three maxims which allows ...

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger
Amazon Price: $9.99
Customer Reviews:
» Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul Volume 2 is an inspirational and enlightening book. Being a teenager myself I can relate to a lot of the stories told in this bestseller. The first time I read this...

» Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul ll is a great book written by teenagers and some adults about life. It teaches us about life and how to deal with it. It shows us that no matter where you came form,...

» This is a great book for every teenager. Every teen goes througha tough time at least once in their life and this book can really help. It has stories on things from teenage romance to suicide. This i...

» Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul 2 is a great book for teens because it is something we can relate to. It is filled with short anecdotes written by teenagers or once-teenagers about their adolescent ...

» I think that this book was a very good and fun book to read. Anyone who enjoys hearing about different teens telling their own stories would greatly enjoy this book. While I was reading it, there were...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School: 101 Stories of Life, Lov...
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Madeline Clapps, Valerie Howlett
Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Reviews:
» I may be biased as I have a story in here but there are some really great stories in here, especially those by Donald Verkow and Annmarie Tait (The first one), and of course, mine. What?

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» This is a very touching book, sometimes funny,sometimes sad and always moving. Unlike other books, the 101 stories have a different feel, more like a bunch of freinds laughing and talking with you the...

» Middle school is such a difficult time for nearly every child. Somehow, with patience and perseverence, we survive it. I wish I had a copy of this book 16 years ago. It would have been nice to relate ...

Private (Private, Book 1)
by Kate Brian
Amazon Price: $8.99
Customer Reviews:
» Private is much to my surprise, a quick easy read. it gets addicting and i liked it alot. although some points where not really believeable, like how Noelle is allow to chose who gets to living in the...

» In the Private series novels written by Kate Brian, a sense of teenage life is exaggerated and take to the next leve with murder, drugs, and betrayal . Brian does a successful job in portraying the li...

» Reed Brennan's scholarship to Easton Academy is her ticket out of Croton, Pennsylvania, where everything is ordinary and boring, and where her pill-popping mom resides. To outsider Reed, Easton Academ...

» When I first saw this book, I thought "Oh no, not another teen book". But then a couple of my friends convinced me to read it, and I'm glad I did.

Yes, Private is a teen book, but it isn'...

» was alright. a little boring. seemed to be copying the It Girl series only the girls are meaner. and what is with the skeletons? on the back of the book it said something about skeletons but in the bo...