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Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, his "brothers".

With 2016 promising to be an interesting and hotly contested election year, Votes of Confidence offers young listeners an essential guide to the past, present, and future of American elections.

Jazz Jennings is one of the youngest and most prominent voices in the national discussion about gender identity. At the age of five, Jazz transitioned to life as a girl, with the support of her parents. A year later her parents allowed her to share her incredible journey in her first Barbara Walters interview, aired at a time when the public was much less knowledgeable about or accepting of the transgender community.

John Luke Robertson, the oldest son of Willie and Korie Robertson and brother of Dancing with the Stars sensation Sadie Robertson, shares his story of what it's like to grow up as a Robertson and all the fun and craziness that entails, as well as what he has learned as he has stepped out into his own unique experiences. He also shares what it's like to navigate the walk from boyhood to becoming a man. Topics in this book include friendship, kindness, dreaming big, embracing your God-given uniqueness, taking chances, and choosing mentors.

How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of 16th-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire? Here is the story of how sometimes the greatest leaps also posed the greatest threats to human advancement.

16歳の今しか、語れない言葉がある。
2016年3月11日、「東日本大震災」から5年。
津波で甚大な被害を受けた宮城県東松島市に、ある3人の高校生がいる。
彼らは、あの日を「ただのつらかった過去」にせず、
「学び」に変えるために立ち上がった若き震災の語り部だ。
彼らはこの5年間、何を思い、何に迷い、歩んできたのか。
なぜ、わざわざあのつらかった日のことを語り出さなければならなかったのか。
そこには、あの震災で生き残った、彼らなりの使命感と葛藤が存在する。
あの日、まだ小学5年生だった子どもたちが歩んできた3.11の記録であり、彼らが見据える未来を書き留めた「希望の書」をご本人達が朗読します。

教え子が犠牲となったにも係らず、避難所となった学校で住民の世話役も引き受けられました。震災当日から個人の自治を促す工夫を取り入れられたご経験は、避難所の運営を考える貴重な「語り部」の記録です。

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16歳の今しか、伝えられない言葉がある。当時小学5年生だった東日本大震災から5年。あの日を学びに変えるために立ち上がった三人の16歳の高校生の語り部。ポプラ社が発売する本書の一部朗読とご本人たちのインタビューを公開。監修を務めた”小さな命の意味を考える会”代表佐藤敏郎さんのインタビューも含め宮城県東松島市で収録。

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福島の海岸線の松を復活させるために、苗木を育て、植えて、きちんと育てていく活動を継続されているトチギ環境未来基地さんが思いを語ります。本コンテンツは、「サンプルを聴く」ボタンの再生で作品全編を聴くことができます。

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Whether it's getting better grades, creating better relationships with your friends, parents, or teachers, getting a car, getting into the college that's right for you, getting a date for the prom, or finding your dream job, the Law of Attraction works! Like attracts like - when we align our goals with our best intentions and highest purpose, we can more easily have a better, brighter life.

Être adolescent aujourd'hui est à la fois complexe et angoissant. Mais cette période de la vie pose les bases de la future vie d'adulte. Sean Covey, fils de Stephen Covey, auteur du best-seller mondial "Les 7 habitudes de ceux qui réalisent tout ce qu’ils entreprennent", montre comment appliquer ces principes fondamentaux dans la vie quotidienne d'un adolescent.

The Journey to Find Me is designed to show teenagers and young men and women how to tap into the greatness inside of them. The author uses his own experiences to pour knowledge into the listeners so they can find their purposes earlier and reach their goals and dreams.

This edition of The Secret Door to Success has a new, creative flair! Immediately following each chapter is a short, theatrical exercise. So teens, young adults, and thespians of all ages can act out an affirmation that embodies the positive message in each chapter. A fun way to practice the principles herein! The more we practice, the more it sticks. You do not have to have any prior acting experience in order to do these exercises. All you have to do is believe....

Irene Gut was just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.

In 1969, being gay in the United States was a criminal offense. It meant living a closeted life or surviving on the fringes of society. People went to jail, lost jobs, and were disowned by their families for being gay. Most doctors considered homosexuality a mental illness. There were few safe havens. The Stonewall Inn - a Mafia-run, filthy, overpriced bar in New York City's Greenwich Village - was one of them.

Any setback - a championship loss, a bad grade, a botched audition - can be seen as a step forward when teens possess the right tools to turn that loss into a gain of knowledge. Drawing on nearly 50 years of leadership experience, Dr. Maxwell provides a road map for becoming a true learner - someone who wins in the face of problems, failures, and losses.

In this dynamic account, award-winning author Paul Fleischman arms teens with the basic tools to uncover vested interests and falsehoods by vetting sources, following the money, and checking references so that they can make informed decisions about what actions to take in the worldwide battle against climate change, overconsumption, and dwindling resources.

This series aims to lift the veil off of these developments and shed light on how each could affect society in the years ahead. This audiobook - the first in the series - begins the tour with a look at many areas of the entertainment industry, including television, movies, music, printed media, and video games.

The prosecution of Leo Frank was front-page news for two years, and Frank's lynching is still one of the most controversial incidents of the twentieth century. It marks a turning point in the history of racial and religious hatred in America, leading directly to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League and to the rebirth of the modern Ku Klux Klan. Relying on primary source documents and painstaking research, award-winning novelist Elaine Alphin tells the true story of justice undone in America.

Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful or heartbreaking, is completely different from the other because of family dynamics, living situations, gender, and the transition these teens make in recognition of their true selves.