Product Description: Atticus Hobart couldn’t feel lower. He’s in love with a girl who doesn’t know he exists, he is the class bully’s personal punching bag, and to top it all off, his dad has just left the family. Into this drama steps Mr. Looney, a 77-year-old substitute English teacher with a most unconventional approach to teaching...read more

Product Description: In this hilarious guide full of honest, real-life experiences, veteran teacher Luke Reynolds skillfully and humorously shows kids how to not only survive, but thrive and even enjoy the wild adventure that is middle school.Middle grade series like The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries bring an authentic voice and vision to fiction about middle schoolers...read more

Product Description: Middle grade and young adult authors speak candidly on the unspoken "rules" of adolescence in this collection of moving, inspiring, and often funny essays. This unique volume encourages readers to break with conformity and defy age-old, and typically inaccurate, orthodoxy--including such conventions as Boys can't be gentle, kind, or caring; One must wear Abercrombie & Fitch in order to fit in; Girls should act like girls; and One must go to college after finishing high school...read more

Product Description: Almost half of new teachers leave the profession within their first year. New teachers need support, mentoring, encouragement, and, most importantly, hope in order to survive the challenges of their first years of teaching. Burned In features essays from today s most visionary educators, including Jim Burke, Peter Elbow, James Loewen, Gregory Michie, Sonia Nieto, Kirsten Olson, and Parker Palmer...read more

Product Description: A NEW MAN is both the vulnerable exploration of one man's masculinity as well as a rallying cry towards authentic love. In contemporary society, the creation and consumption of pornography is assumed to be a natural part of a "boys will be boys" mentality...read more

Product Description: When I first collected their essays, I laughed, I sighed and I took pause to think about my own life. And more importantly, I truly-perhaps for the first time-saw theirs. I learned that teenagers have much to teach the rest of us in many avenues of our own lives, and they have much to say...read more