Self Image

Viveca North has always done her best to be perfect. She runs three miles every morning before arriving early to school where she volunteers as a peer tutor. After school, she prioritizes studying. On weekend mornings, she reads classic literature and the newspaper—a habit she developed to help prep for the SATs and then never dropped. Her classmates consider her a bit of a know it all. So it’s no surprise doesn’t have many friends, but she feels she’s earned her spot as valedictorian. Too bad Jamison Clifton is trying to take it from her. . .Jamison doesn’t need to try to be perfect.

In the real world, Bugz is a shy and self-conscious Indigenous teen who faces the stresses of teenage angst and life on the Rez. But in the virtual world, her alter ego is not just confident but dominant in a massively multiplayer video game universe.

There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C K-BEAUTY, their school’s most successful student-run enterprise. With each sale, Valerie gets closer to taking her beloved and adventurous halmeoni to her dream city, Paris. Enter the new kid in class, Wes Jung, who is determined to pursue music after graduation despite his parents’ major disapproval.

Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other Schools. At Hamilton High, it’s a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight or haze a freshman. And on three separate occasions Randy’s car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend’s attention. Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: She and the other players’ girlfriends go on a hookup strike.

Jeff Lyons can’t stand Ellen de Luca, the fat girl in his ceramics class. She’s huge, clumsy, can’t throw a pot to save her life, and stares at Jeff all the time. But he’s a "nice guy" and feels terrible when Ellen overhears his hurtful remarks about her. The "crumbs of kindness" he tosses her way soon turn into advice on weight loss, college, clothes, hair...and, to everyone’s surprise, good-looking Jeff actually dumps his pretty girlfriend to be with the fat girl. But as her pounds melt away, Jeff resents the happy, independent young woman he has unleashed.

Les méthodes secrets d'atteindre le succès et harmony de John Kehoe ! Le best-seller mondiale a été vendu à plus d'un million d'exemplaires et a été traduit dans 15 langues. Tout ce que vous désirez est à votre portée ! Si vous savez utiliser les pouvoir de votre pensée, une vie exceptionnelle vous attend: elle repose déjà en vie.

Use affirmations to unleash your inner warrior with this ultimate teen girl's guide to conquering mental battles and radiating confidence! Mental toughness isn’t about always being confident, hiding your emotions, or enduring pain silently – and it certainly isn’t something you’re born with!

Are you ready to LEVEL UP? Not just on the field, court, or track, but in every aspect of your life? This isn't your typical sports book. This is your blueprint for unlocking peak performance and achieving greatness – in everything you do. True champions know that greatness is built, not born. Inside, you'll discover the proven mental toughness strategies used by legendary athletes like Simone Biles, Kobe Bryant, Lionel Messi, Shaun White, and more!

What if you could transform your life, your health, your relationships, your finances, and your self-image in just five minutes a day? Dive into the most transformative year in the lives of Kelvin, Christy, Darnell, and Jarod as they manifest the seemingly impossible and prove that an activated mind is capable of making dreams of any size a reality. The Size of Your Dreams is not just a story, it’s a book that teaches you the tools to manifest your own dreams.

When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly), her birth family would not have been her first pick. And no matter how many times Annie tries to write them out of her life, she always gets sucked back into their drama. Love is like that. But when a family argument breaks out at Annie’s swim meet and her nephew goes missing, Annie might be the only one who can get him back. With help from her friends, her foster brother, and her social service worker, Annie puts the pieces of the puzzle together, determined to find her nephew.

From author McCall Hoyle comes a new young adult novel, Meet the Sky, a story of love, letting go, and the unstoppable power of nature. It all started with the accident. The one that caused Sophie’s dad to walk out of her life. With nothing but pain in her past, all Sophie wants is to plan for the future - keep the family business running and protect her mom and sister from another disaster. But when a hurricane threatens her home on the Outer Banks, Sophie winds up trapped on the island with Finn Sanders, the one person who could show her how to love and live life again.

Deja de sentirte roto y vive completo, dispuesto a encontrar a otros seres completos. Tú sabes que hay verdades incómodas, incluso imprudentes pero... necesarias. Te revelan lo que necesitas oír y no lo que tu fantasía te dicta.

A sexy, funny, surprising tale of female friendship, bedrooms and marriage.

Jessamy is the crux of a revolution forged by the Commoner class hoping to overthrow their longtime Patron overlords. But enemies from foreign lands have attacked the kingdom, and Jes must find a way to unite the Commoners and Patrons to defend their home and all the people she loves. Will her status as a prominent champion athlete be enough to bring together those who have despised one another since long before her birth? Will she be able to keep her family out of the clutches of the evil Lord Gargaron?

¿Estás luchando con silencios incómodos, palmas sudorosas y fines de semana solitarios? ¡Aquí tienes tu guía para convertirte en el adolescente seguro y sociable que todos quieren tener como amigo! Entras en una habitación llena del bullicio de adolescentes que parecen ser mejores amigos. Das ese primer paso valiente, y de repente, la atmósfera cambia. La charla animada se desvanece, los susurros reemplazan las risas, y un silencio incómodo cuelga en el aire.

Become your best self. Figuring out how to make friends, develop relationships, and be confident is a step-by-step process. Now help is available in Embracing the Awkward, written by the popular teen-advice YouTuber, The Josh Speaks. This isn't another dry instructional book written by a boring adult disconnected from the millennial reality; it's a guide, a workbook, an empowering step towards trying things out, discovering who you are, and becoming your best self.

Este es un libro que revela los secretos de un estilo de vida que nos hará sentir a gusto en todo momento. No sólo es un manual de buenas costumbres, sino que también es un espejo en el que podemos proyectar lo mejor de nosotros mismos, reflexionar y modificar aquellas actitudes con las que nos sentimos insatisfechos, sin perder nunca el sentido del humor.

A self-healer`s guide to solution-focused self-management: emotional regulation, and cognitive restructuring to manage triggers during self-parenting following a trigger. When you are triggered, you become the parent you need to; hear you, see you, acknowledge you, soothe you, and provide solutions for your challenges that accompany the trigger. Here is the tool you have been waiting for. It contains guidance to assess a trigger, root cause analysis, how to match trigger with unmet need, how to create goals and solutions to meet unmet needs and minimise the recurrence of triggers, or impact...

From coming out to friends and family, staying safe in relationships and practicing safe sex, through to self-care and coping with bullying, being out and about in the LGBTQIA+ community, and undergoing gender transition, this book is filled with essential information, advice, support, and resources to help you on your journey, and also works as a primer on all things LGBTQIA+ for non-autistic teens who are just figuring it all out.

In the moving and compelling debut novel from Benjamin Zephaniah, a young man's life is completely changed when his face is badly scarred in a car accident. Martin seems to have it all. He's cool, funny and he's the undisputed leader of the Gang of Three, who roam their East London estate during the holidays looking for fun. But one night after the Gang leave a late-night rap club, Martin accepts a ride from Pete, a Raider's Posse gang member. Too late, he realises that the car is stolen and that the police are after them.