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1. How we grow up: understanding adolescence

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Author:
Richtel, Matt
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Pub. Date:
[2025]
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English
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"Essential reading. " - Dr. Vivek Murthy "This book should be at the bedside of every parent. " - Kirkus Reviews. Greatly expanding his award-winning New York Times series on the contemporary teen mental-health crisis, Pulitzer Prize-winning science reporter Matt Richtel delivers a groundbreaking investigation into adolescence, the pivotal life stage undergoing profound-and often confounding-transformation. The transition from childhood to adulthood...

2. Growing up; how we become alive, are born, and grow

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Author:
De Schweinitz, Karl, 1887-1975
Publisher:
Macmillan
Pub. Date:
[1965]
Language:
English
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3. Dear Dad: growing up with a parent in prison - and how we stayed connected: a graphic memoir

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Author:
Patton, Jay Jay
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GN: Graphic Novel 560L
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English
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"...Your dad is coming back home." As far back as nine-year-old Jay Jay Patton can remember, her dad, Antoine has been in prison. Growing up in Buffalo, New York with her mom and younger brother, she's only been to visit him twice. Instead, the two have sent each other numerous letters -- Jay Jay's letters can take weeks or months to reach her dad, and some never even get delivered. What's it going to be like having Dad home? This powerful coming-of-age...

4. Rethinking How We Think: Integrative Meta-Perspective and the Cognitive "Growing Up" on Which Our Fu

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Author:
Johnston, Charles
Publisher:
ICD Press
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Rethinking How We Think addresses the new ways of thinking and acting that legitimate hope for the future necessarily depends on. From the book's back cover: "Look closely at any of the most critical questions ahead for the species and we find an easily unsettling shared theme. Not only do usual answers fail us, usual ways of thinking fail us. Essential challenges of every sort are requiring not just fresh insights, but whole new, more mature and...

5. Dear Dad: Growing up with a Parent in Prison and How We Stayed Connected

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Author:
Patton, Jay Jay
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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A stunning graphic novel memoir about growing up with an incarcerated parent. " ...Your dad is coming back home." As far back as nine-year-old Jay Jay Patton can remember, her dad, Antoine has been in prison. Growing up in Buffalo, New York with her mom and younger brother, she's only been to visit him twice. Instead, the two have sent each other numerous letters -- Jay Jay's letters can take weeks or months to reach her dad, and some never even get...

6. Dear heartbreak: YA authors and teens on the dark side of love

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Author:
Demetrios, Heather
Pub. Date:
2018
Lexile measure:
850L
Language:
English
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In this powerful collection, such YA authors as Gayle Forman, Adi Alsaid, and Mike Curato answer real letters from teens about the dark side of love: dating violence, break-ups, cheating, betrayals, and loneliness. Their responses are autobiographical, unflinching, and filled with love and hope for the anonymous teen writers.

7. Little women

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Author:
Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888
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Penguin classics deluxe edition
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Lexile measure:
1230L
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English
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4 stars
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...

8. Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Vance, J. D.
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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...

9. North woods: a novel

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Author:
Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)
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English
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"When two young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to growing apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths an ancient mass grave -- only to discover...

10. Normal people: a novel

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Rooney, Sally
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"At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well-adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers--one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they're both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her...

11. We begin at the end

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Author:
Whitaker, Chris
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Thorndike Press large print core
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English
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"Thirty years ago, a teenage Vincent King was sent to prison. But now, he's served his sentence and is returning to his hometown. The hometown where his childhood best friend, Walk, is now the chief of police. The town where his childhood sweetheart, Star Radley, still lives. The same Star Radley whose sister he killed. Duchess, Star's daughter, is a self-proclaimed outlaw. She needs to be. Who else is going to take care of her and her five-year-old...

12. Wuthering Heights

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Author:
Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
Series:
Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
880L
Language:
English
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3.7 stars
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"Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through...

13. Educated: a memoir

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Author:
Westover, Tara
Lexile measure:
870L
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English
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...

14. Early connections: an integrated nonfiction balanced literacy program

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Early connections
Publisher:
Benchmark Education Company
Pub. Date:
[1999]
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English
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15. Alice's adventures in wonderland & Through the looking-glass

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Author:
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
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Puffin chalk
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Alice in Wonderland
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Lexile measure:
950L
Language:
English
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4.5 stars
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...

16. The mill on the Floss

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Author:
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
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Broadview editions
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Lexile measure:
1240L
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English
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A woman ahead of her time faces a choice between loyalty and love in marrying a childhood friend or her true passion, her cousin's fiance.

17. The light eaters: how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth

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Author:
Schlanger, Zoë
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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"A book exploring the emerging science on plant intelligence, uncovering plants' complex and unimaginable capabilities and calling into question what we consider to be conscious agents in the natural world"--

18. Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old: thoughts on aging as a woman

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Author:
Shields, Brooke, 1965-
Series:
Thorndike Press large print biographies and memoirs
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English
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"From Brooke Shields, the icon who has inspired generations of women, comes a thoughtful, intimate, and candid exploration of the humility and power of aging"--

19. Us against you: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Series:
Beartown volume 2
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown returns with an unforgettable novel about people--about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men (Jojo Moyes). Have you everseen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to...

20. Like mother, like daughter

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Author:
McCreight, Kimberly
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English
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of Reconstructing Amelia, a gripping, moving novel about a daughter racing to uncover the truth about her mother in the wake of her disappearance. When Cleo, a student at NYU, arrives late for dinner at her childhood home in Brooklyn, she finds food burning in the oven and no sign of her mother, Kat. Then Cleo discovers her mom's bloody shoe under the sofa. Something terrible has happened. But what? The...
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