High School Relationships

In total, Coach Ken Purcell and Chris Doelle have been involved in Texas high school football for over 87 years!..with a unique insight into what make Texas high school football coaches so effective in positively affecting the lives of these kids. The impact they have, instills in their students a self-worth that makes all the difference in their adult lives. The knowledge included in this audiobook is applicable to any parent regardless of a child's interest in sports. These are life lessons - not football lessons.

Sixteen-year-old Mafi Shahin is well-aware that life is not always fair. If it was fair, her parents might allow her to hang out with a member of the male species, other than her cat Mr. Meowgi. If it was fair, her crush and basketball hottie Jalen Thomas might see her as more than just her brother's kid sister. And if it was fair, her baba’s brother and wife would be able to leave Afghanistan and come to America.

Football, Stalkers and Family Secrets One month after his eighteenth birthday, Billy Ray Suggs receives an ultimatum; get married, or find a new place to live. Billy Ray discovers living accommodations are hard to find, in a small Texas town, when you're the illegitimate son of a disreputable woman. Milton, Texas is in turmoil. When a prostitute is murdered two blocks from the high school restless citizens worry about a murderous stalker lurking within their town. As Billy Ray and his teammates play their last football game of the season the Milton Police Chief uncovers a dark secret which ...

This audiobook focuses on issues specific to high school age kids, ages 14-18. Teens in high school have mainly moved past worrying about puberty and cliques, so stories in this book cover topics of interest to older teens such as sports and clubs, religion and faith, driving, curfews, growing up, self-image and self-acceptance, dating and sex, family relationships, friends, divorce, illness, death, pregnancy, drinking, failure, and preparing for life after high school.

> Ownership Road calls Christian parents to the ole of the chief discipliners and gives them a vision for how to raise their children with the post-high school transition challenges in mind. This journey of discipleship involves leading kids down the road from followship to ownership: the path that all believers must tread to develop a real, authentic walk with Christ. This is your deepest desire for your children and what you will find along Ownership Road.

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I'll never let a boy distract me. I promised myself that. But that was before Tate. Before the biggest pop star on the planet took an interest in me. Before private planes and secret dates and lyrics meant for me alone. There's so much I don't know. Like why he left music. Where he goes when we're not together. What dark past he's hiding. But when we kiss, the future feels far away. And now I'm not sure what I want.

What does life look like after divorce from your high school sweetheart? Uncoupling from your high school sweetheart is more complex than most situations. If you are looking for community, guidance, and for someone who knows exactly what you are going through, author Karinne Piat will guide you through this highly emotional and pivotal transition from your marriage and into the next chapter of your life. As a deeply spiritual and open-hearted healer and mother, she has traveled this path and will show you how to get through it, too.

Here are 34 stories of self-esteem, dating and doing the right thing for older teens, including "Happy to Be Me", "Dating, Crushes, and Just Friends", "Doing the Right Thing" and "Love Gone Bad".

Marisa never planned to be a snoop for hire. It wasn't like she wanted to catch her best friend's boyfriend making out with another girl. But as her reputation for sniffing out cheaters spreads all over school, Marisa finds herself the reluctant queen of busting two-timing boys. And her next case? It's for ex-frenemy Kendall. She's convinced that her boyfriend, TJ, has feelings for someone else and persuades Marissa to start spying on him. But the more Marisa gets to know sincere and artistic TJ, the more she starts to fall for him. Worse yet, the feelings seem to be mutual.

Aside from the stitches and the head wound, Tom Henderson is the same old King Dork. He's still trying to work out who to blame for the new scar on his forehead, the memory loss, and his father's mysterious death. But illicit female hospital visitations, The Catcher in the Rye, and the Hillmont High sex-pocalypse have made him a new man. What doesn't make you stronger can kill you, though, and 10th grade, act two, promises to be a killer. Tom's down one bloodstained army coat, one Little Big Tom, and two secret semi-imaginary girlfriends.

Addison has had a difficult year. Recovering from a serious car injury isn’t for the weak. Now that she’s better, her mother continues to use the experience as a push for Addison to find a husband. A brush with death will put your priorities in order – at least that’s what her mom says. Sam is just now starting to get what feels like back to normal now that his friend is doing well after a near fatal car accident. He’s the loving and supportive friend he’s always been. He’d do anything for Addison and now he may be able to help her step into the next phase of her life. As fake...

Claire has been crazy about Stephen since high school. She knows he feels the same about her, but she can’t bring herself to risk heartbreak. Based on what she knows, relationships always end in heartbreak. Stephen had been in love with Claire since high school. Now he counts her as one of his best friends. She’s the kind of friend he can count on, but he can’t ever date her—because she won’t go out with him. When they work together on his pet Christmas project, they get closer. Claire starts to change her mind about falling in love. And then she’s reminded of exactly what made ...

Elijah Thomas knows one thing better than anyone around him: basketball. But when a sinister street gang, Blood Street Nation, wants him and his team members to wear the Nation’s colors in the next big tournament, Elijah’s love of the game is soon thrown into jeopardy. The boys gather their courage and take a stand against the gang, but at a terrible cost. Now Elijah must struggle to balance hope and fear, revenge and forgiveness, to save his neighborhood. For help, he turns to the most unlikely of friends: Banks, a gruff ex–military man, and his beautiful and ambitious daughter.

Camryn Roth has it all planned out: a perfect senior year with her friends and then it's off to Columbia with her boyfriend, Marc. But the first week of school, everything falls apart. Not only does she not have enough extracurriculars for her dream school, her relationship falls to pieces when Marc publically dumps her! With the help of her two best friends, Camryn is determined to pull her life back together. Step one, more extracurriculars. Step two, get over Marc and find someone better.

Jo used to be the perfect high-school girl – class president, popular, bright and successful. But when nude photos of her were leaked to the entire school, her grades plummeted, her friends fell away and now she's a reckless, difficult social outcast. The girl who 'deserved' it. Then her former best friend Maddie disappears. To discover the truth, Jo needs to get back in with the group of classmates who have shut her out: the boys who betrayed her and the clique of girls who whisper behind her back. And she has to make it look as if she wants to be there.

Not good enough.... The words echo in Madison Baron's mind as the darkness presses her to be thinner, more beautiful - somehow more attractive to her peers. A junior in high school, she is facing life without her childhood love, Luke Johnson, who is off to college in the Midwest. Alone with her insecurities, Madison yearns for acceptance - until Miles, that is. Will a relationship with this new student on campus be the answer she seeks? And how will his resistance to her Christian faith affect her future?

Jessie Returning to Pine Ridge was supposed to be easy—sell my father’s ranch and get back to my life. But seeing Harrison Phillips again complicates everything. He’s still the rugged, quiet cowboy I remember, but now he has the crazy idea to turn my little family ranch into a dude ranch. Against all odds, he convinced me to try. It felt good to have someone from my past believe in me. Working with him every day has made the ranch feel like home again, and I’m falling for him. But when doubts creep in, I wonder if leaving Pine Ridge might still be my best option—even if it means ...

In Lost and Found, I use my expertise to provide a behind-the-scenes experience and a firsthand account of the vulnerabilities presented for caregivers raising an intellectually disabled child when information is not readily accessible. In this book you will learn how to determine the level of intellectual disability for your child and understand what this may mean for your family.

Fourteen-year-old Nephele used to have friends. Well, she had a friend. That friend made the adjustment to high school easily, leaving Nephele behind in the process. And as Nephele looks ahead, all she can see is three very lonely years. Nephele is also a whip-smart lover of math and science, so she makes a plan. Step one: invent time travel. Step two: go back in time, have a do-over of ninth grade, crack the code on making friends, and become beloved and popular. Does it work? Sort of. Nephele does travel through time, but not the way she planned - she’s created a time loop.