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Adventures in Raceland One of the things Keegan and Kyle McKay like best about their town is that it's home to the world famous Sunnyvale International Speedway where the world's best race car drivers come to race the coolest cars ever made! In fact right now, two blazing fast race cars are coming around the last turn and heading straight at the McKay boys at over 200 mph! These racers are locked in an epic seesaw battle for the worldwide championship. They're both running flat out and are screaming toward the finish line. It's going to go right down to the wire! The McKay boys really love cars, especially racecars, and they dream of racing someday. The one day, while they were messing around in the hallway at Hot Rod High. Keegan bumped into a wall in just the right place, and a door they didn't even know was there swung slowly open and everything changed... Welcome to Raceland...
This is a book for adolescents who have contemplated suicide, or who may be at risk of doing so. As a teenager, author DeQuincy Lezine was one of the many young people each year who attempted suicide. This text discusses his struggles with suicidal thoughts and provides valuable information that young people need.
Seeking Peace: A Peace Series Novella
Casebook & video on the use of assessment as an ongoing activity in the classroom to help teachers reshape their instructional practice.
Kyle Keegan was like many teenagers: eager to fit in at school, he experimented with alcohol and drugs. Soon, his abuse of these substances surpassed experimentation and became a ruthless addiction to heroin that nearly destroyed his life. Now in recovery, Keegan tells his remarkable story in Chasing the High. Starting with the early days of alcohol and drug use, Keegan charts his decline into crime and homelessness as his need for heroin surpassed all thoughts of family and friends, of right and wrong. He then goes on to use these experiences to offer guidance and practical advice to other young people who may be struggling with substance abuse. In straightforward, easy-to-understand langua...
More than simple cases of dieting gone awry, eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia are among the most fatal of mental illnesses, responsible for more deaths each year than any other psychiatric disorder. These illnesses afflict millions of young people, especially women, all over the world. Carrie Arnold developed anorexia as an adolescent and nearly lost her life to the disease. In Next to Nothing, she tells the story of her descent into anorexia, how and why she fell victim to this mysterious illness, and how she was able to seek help and recover after years of therapy and hard work. Now an adult, Arnold uses her own experiences to offer practical advice and guidance to young adult...
We've all felt occasional pangs of shyness and self-consciousness, but for the 15 million Americans with social anxiety disorder, the fear of being scrutinized and criticized can reach disabling proportions. Such was the case for Emily Ford, who shares her firsthand experiences in these pages. Emily's true story of fear, struggle, and ultimate triumph is sure to resonate with other socially anxious teenagers and young adults. Emily's frank, often witty, sometimes poignant account of how she negotiated all the obstacles of social anxiety--and eventually overcame them with the help of therapy and hard work--makes for compelling reading. Yet this book is more than just a memoir. Emily's story i...
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars were following him, or that strangers wanted to harm him. Kurt's mind had been hijacked by schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder that typically strikes during the late teen or young adult years. In Me, Myself, and Them, Kurt, now an adult, looks back from the vantage point of recovery and eloquently describes the debilitating changes in thoughts and perceptions that took hold of his life during his...
Jared Douglas Kant, who was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) at age 11, describes the inner world of a young person living with the condition.
As a teenager, DeQuincy Lezine nearly ended his own life, believing it was the only way to escape the emotional pain that was overwhelming him. Instead, Lezine found was able to find expert psychiatric care, and went on to found the first university campus-based chapter of the SuicidePrevention Action Network USA. Now a researcher at the University of Rochester's Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Lezine has devoted his life to preventing suicide in adolescents, and he brings the wealth of his personal and professional experience to bear in Eight Stories Up. He starts by describing hisdeteriorating state of mind in college, using his own email archive to reconstruct retell the e...