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Smart But Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential by Guare Richard
$47.00 NZD
Category: School Guidance
Many tens of thousands of parents have used the bestselling Smart but Scattered to teach young kids vital skills for living up to their potential. Now Drs. Richard Guare and Peg Dawson apply their groundbreaking approach to the unique challenges of adolescence. Despite high intelligence, teens with exec ...Show more
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning "Stamped from the Beginning") by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to cre ...Show more
All of Us with Wings by Michelle Ruiz Keil
$21.00 NZD
Category: LBGTQ
Michelle Ruiz Keil's YA fantasy debut about love, found family, and healing is an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican-American girl. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then ...Show more
Stop Surviving, Start Fighting by Jazz Thornton
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies
Jazz Thornton first attempted to take her own life at the age of 12. Multiple attempts followed and she spent time in psychiatric wards and under medical supervision as she rode the rollercoaster of depression and anxiety through her teenage years - yet the attempts continued. Find out what Jazz learned ...Show more
The Book of Overthinking by Gwendoline Smith (Dr Know)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Depression, Anxiety & Stress
Overthinking is also known as worrying or ruminating and it's a form of anxiety that many people suffer from. Psychologist and bestselling author Gwendoline Smith explains in clear and simple language the concepts of positive and negative overthinking, the truth about worry and how to deal with the 'tho ...Show more
Healing a Teens Grieving Heart: : 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends & Caregivers by Alan D Wolfelt PhD
$35.00 NZD
Category: Grief & Loss
Healing a Teen’s Grieving Heart is for adults who want practical, day-to-day “how-tos” for helping the grieving teens in their lives. Some of the ideas teach about teenagers’ unique mourning styles and needs. Other ideas suggest simple activities and tips for relating to and spending time with the griev ...Show more
Burn by Patrick Ness
$23.00 NZD
Category: LBGTQ
An all-consuming story of revenge, redemption and dragons from the twice Carnegie Medal-winner Patrick Ness. “On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron Gas Station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm.” This dragon, Kazimir ...Show more
I Had a Black Dog by Matthew Johnstone
$25.00 NZD
Category: Depression, Anxiety & Stress
Ever since Winston Churchill popularised the phrase Black Dog to describe the bouts of depression he experienced for much of his life, it has become the shorthand for the disease that millions of people suffer from, often in shame and silence.Artist and writer Matthew Johnstone, a sufferer himself, has ...Show more
Here the Whole Time by Vítor Martins
$20.00 NZD
Category: LBGTQ
What would you do if you had to spend the next 15 days with your lifelong crush? If you love Rainbow Rowell and Heartstopper, you'll fall for this body-positive love story. Felipe is fat. And he doesn't need anyone to remind him, which is, of course, what everyone does. That's why he's been waiting for ...Show more
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
$23.00 NZD
Category: Popular Psychology
Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live.From the author of How To Stop Time, coming February 2018 from Viking. "Destined to become a modern classic." --Entertainment Weekly Like nearly one in five peopl ...Show more
Music from Another World by Robin Talley
$23.00 NZD
Category: LBGTQ
It’s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organises anti-gay political campaigns. Tammy’s only outlet is writing ...Show more
Stars Like Us by Frances Chapman
$23.00 NZD
Category: LBGTQ
From the winner of the Ampersand Prize comes this smart, swoony LGBTQ YA novel about a teenage band on the way to the top - so long as they can hold it together. Liliana's hitting all the wrong notes. She's a sixteen-year-old exchange student with a secret crush on Carter, her new band's smoking hot g ...Show more
