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Divorce

Coping ... When Your Family Falls Apart
by Dianna Daniels Booher
A guide for young people whose parents are divorcing, emphasizing a positive attitude and growth toward a new life. Paperback

Difficult Questions Kids Ask and Are Too Afraid to Ask-About Divorce
by Meg F. Schneider, Joan Zuckerberg, Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg
This invaluable book explores the apparent and hidden fears that haunt children as they weather the painful confusion of a divorce. It shows parents how to tell the truth without frightening children, how to strengthen the parent-child relationship, and how to build trust. Paperback

Families Apart : Ten Keys to Successful Co-Parenting
by Melinda Blau
Based on interviews with divorced parents, children, family therapists, and psychologists, this book by award-winning journalist Melinda Blau offers ten solid principles designed to enable parents and children to function as a family even though they no longer live together. Paperback

The Good Divorce : Keeping Your Family Together When Your Marriage Comes Apart
by Constance Ahrons
A practical guide to responsible divorce examines the complex problems that arise as spouses separate while remaining linked by parenthood and offers advice on coping with potential crises and the transition to a ""binuclear"" family. Paperback

Teens Are Nondivorceable : A Workbook for Divorced Parents and Their Children : Ages 12-18
by Sara Bonkowski
Helping your teen through this tough time. Paperback

When Your Parents Pull Apart : Keeping Your Life Together...
by Angela Elwell Hunt 
This book combines fiction and nonfiction to tell the story of 14-year-old twins Kelsey and Kenyon, whose parents divorce. Each chapter begins with a fictional section that introduces a particular issue common to families who are divorced and follows with a nonfiction section that addresses the issue in detail. Paperback

Driving

Teenage Roadhogs
by Michael Schein
Teenage Roadhogs is written to help teenagers learn how to avoid the common mistakes that new drivers make that cause accidents. It's the perfect gift to hand to every new teen driver with the keys to a first car. Along with basic driving rules and instructions, this humorous guide addresses the real fears and misconceptions teenage drivers have.

Safe Young Drivers : A Guide for Parents and Teens
by Phil Berardelli
Safe Young Drivers: A Guide For Parents And Teens offers a complete course for beginning drivers. Safe Young Drivers helps teens develop the attitude to behave responsibly behind the wheel. Along with a parent's time and dedication, it can be the most important gift a beginning driver can receive.

Drugs

A Bridge to Recovery : An Introduction to 12-Step Programs
by Robert L. DuPont, John P. McGovern
Written in a clear, easy-to-understand style, this book explores these programs and provides a guide on how to integrate them into ongoing human services.

Addiction : The 'High' That Brings You Down (Teen Issues)
by Miriam Smith McLaughlin, Sandy Peyser Hazouri
Discusses the problems associated with a family member, parent or child, who suffers from addiction.

Parenting for Prevention : How to Raise a Child to Say No to Alcohol Drugs : For Parents, Teachers, and Other Concerned Adults
by David J. Wilmes, Cyril A. Reilly
Parents and other concerned adults who read this book thoughtfully and follow its recommendations will have new insights into a whole host of everyday parenting problems as well as practical skills for handling them.

How to Tell If Your Kids Are Using Drugs
by Timothy Dimoff, Steve Carper
A clearly-written, no-nonsense guide. The book offers step-by-step advice on how to confront the problem and promote a drug-free home environment.

Grief

Bereaved Children and Teens : A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals
by Earl A. Grollman (Editor)
A guide to help children and adolescents cope with the emotional, religious, social, and physical aspects of a loved one's death.

The Grieving Child : A Parent's Guide
by Helen Fitzgerald
The Grieving Child now provides much-needed guidance, covering such areas as visiting the seriously ill or dying, especially difficult situations, including suicide and murder, attending a funeral, and the role religion can play.

How Do We Tell the Children? : A Step-By-Step Guide for Helping Children Two to Teen Cope When Someone Dies
by Dan Schaefer, Christine Lyons
Excellent book that contains a straight forward approach to helping your child grieve.

Learning Disabilities

Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook : Ready-To-Use Techniques for Teaching Learning-Handicapped Students
by Joan M. Harwell
'Offers diagnostic tools, remedial techniques, sample lessons and worksheets to quickly identify students with learning deficits, improve their academic performance, and bolster their self-esteem.'

Help! My Child Isn't Learning : Turning Frustration into Understanding and Hope
by Grant Martin

Helping Children Overcome Learning Difficulties
by Jerome Rosner
Rosner's classic handbook has sold over 80,000 copies.

Puberty, Teen Sexuality

The Sex Education Dictionary for Today's Teens & Pre-Teens
by Dr. Dean Hoch, Nancy Hoch
Straight forward dictionary, very worthwhile.

Sexual Harassment : What Teens Should Know (Issues in Focus)
by Carol Rust Nash
Defines sexual harassment, discusses who is guilty and what characterises the victim, and examines the consequences and what can be done about the situation.

Enjoy Your Middle Schooler : A Guide to Understanding the Physical, Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Changes of Your 11-14 Year Old
by Wayne Rice
Today's parents tend to fear the middle-school years--when their children begin making the transition from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. Rice provides an understanding of what to expect during this important stage of life, covering such crucial topics as peer pressure, sexuality, self-image, discipline, rebellion, and more.

What's Happening to My Body? : Book for Girls a Growing Up Guide for Parents and Daughters
by Lynda Madaras
This bestselling classic, intended for adults and youngsters to share together, has been translated into five languages.

The What's Happening to My Body? Book for Boys : A Growing Up Guide for Parents and Sons
by Lynda Madaras
This bestselling classic, intended for adults and youngsters to share together, has been translated into five languages.

Miscellenous

What Your Kids Are Up To and In For
by by Bill Sanders
Through his survey, which is the basis for this book, Bill Sanders gives parents enormous insight to the lives our teens live at school. Paperback
Book Review by Denise, your guide for Parenting of Adolescents.

Parents Teens and Boundaries :
How to Draw the Line
by by Jane Bluestein, Ph.D.
Not only does this book teach a parent how to accept and love their teen, it shows them what to do with their acceptance and love. Paperback
Book Review by Denise, your guide for Parenting of Adolescents.

Tough Love : How Parents Can Deal With Drug Abuse
by by Pauline Neff
Tough Love again meets the needs of families in turmoil. Neff gathers real-life accounts of young drug users who needed to receive help, and of the parents' role in seeing that they received it. Paperback

Parenting Teens With Love & Logic : Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood
by W. Foster, M.D. Cline, Jim Fay
A unique approach to dealing with the turmoil of adolescence that recognizes that teens learn best when they're allowed to make choices and learn from the consequences. The trick is in setting up choices so the consequences are constructive. Paperback

Turbulent Teens of Panicking Parents
by Jeenie Gordon
In these pages, Jeenie Gordon urges parents to take heart: Good parenting techniques can be learned, and even the most beleaguered moms and dads can feel confident about the future.

Pulling Together : Crisis Prevention for Teens and Their Parents
by Harold D. Jester
A crisis-prevention manual intended to help teenagers get along with their parents and solve family difficulties without professional help.

Life Is Like Driver's Ed...Ya Gotta Buckle Up, Stay to the Right and Watch Those Curves : Devotions for Teens and Their Parents
by Greg Johnson
This devotional may be used privately by teens or parents may use it to stimulate open conversations with their teens.

Teen Pregnancy/Parenting

Everything You Need to Know About Teen Pregnancy (Need to Know Library)
by Tracy Hughes

Kids Having Kids : Economic Costs and Social Consequences of Teen Pregnancy
by Rebecca A. Maynard (Editor)

Reality Check : Teenage Fathers Speak Out (The Teen Pregnancy Prevention Library)
by Margi Trapani