When you're the target of snubbing or teasing at school, it's easy to feel like everyone else has a group of friends and you're the only odd one out. The reality is that gossip and rumors hurt everyone, and often, even the most popular girls feel alone. Making your way through junior high and high school isn't easy, and it definitely requires more than the right shoes and lip gloss. You'll need a cool head and the confidence to be yourself in the

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Discusses cliques, what they are and their negative aspects, and gives advice on forming healthier relationships and friendships.

"Teens deserve clear, accurate information about sex and consent. Real Talk About Sex and Consent is a complete guide for teen readers with essential information about setting boundaries, coercion, reciprocity, how the body and brain respond to trauma, and communication. With this comprehensive road map, teen readers will learn how to make sexual decisions that honor their sense of values and cultivate happy, healthy, and emotionally supportive relationships...

¡Presente a los estudiantes las fuentes primarias y la importancia de la justicia con este libro atractivo! Las imágenes de la fuente principal y las oraciones simples involucrarán a los estudiantes en la lectura y desarrollarán su conocimiento del contenido de estudios sociales. Para usar en el aula o en casa, este libro en español incluye un glosario e índice sencillos para presentar las características del texto informativo a los lectores...

Introduce students to primary sources and what it takes to be a good leader with this engaging book! The primary source images and simple sentences will engage students in reading and build their social studies content knowledge. For use in the classroom or at home, this Spanish book includes a simple glossary and index to introduce informational text features to young readers and provide additional reading support.

This book explores how everyone has problems and how most problems have solutions. Students learn the importance of stopping and thinking and getting all the facts so they can be better prepared to solve a problem they may encounter.

The right to be paid for work, to have time off, and to work in a safe environment might seem to us as guaranteed, but throughout history people worldwide have had to campaign and fight for these rights. This book looks at actions such as the matchgirls' strike in 1888 and the campaigns for an end to child labor and for equal pay for women. The struggle by activists continues today with workers being affected by an increasingly global economy, climate...

Bo and Zop have been living together for a long time on their small spaceship. They have started to annoy each other. What can they learn from Earthlings about getting along?

We are paying new attention to the old idea that we should treat animals better. Eating a meatless diet is more popular than ever. People from philosophers to musicians work to end laboratory testing on animals. Yet animals provide us with food and clothing. Medical treatments tested on rats and chimpanzees save lives every day. Is it impossible for humans to live without using animals? Or should we stop making animals serve us? Should We Treat Animals...

Reaching all the way back to Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic Party has been in existence almost as long as there has been a United States of America. It was born as a party of the people, according to Jefferson, a political party designed to appeal to the average American citizen. Throughout the years the party has risen and fallen with the political fortunes of the United States. Yet, as the twenty-first century enters its second decade, the

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