Beautiful Boy: a Father’s Journey through His Son’s Addiction. David Sheff, $26.95

At its heart Beautiful Boy is an amazingly honest and exquisitely written account of a family’s torturous journey through addiction. It raises questions that reflect the fears of every parent: Where does one’s responsibility to a loved one end? How—and when—should a parent know whether his or her child is substance abusing? And how does a family recover from the wounds afflicted by addiction and get on with their lives? David Sheff has written a powerful and moving family portrait that will resonate soundly with all readers and is sure to become a classic.

The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers. Wendy Mogel, $17.00

With her warmth, wit, and signature combination of Jewish teachings and psychological research, Wendy Mogel helps parents to ably navigate the often rough journey through the teenage years and guide children to becoming confident, resilient young adults. By viewing the frustrating and worrisome elements of adolescence as "blessings," Mogel reveals that they are in fact necessary steps in psychological growth and character development to be met with faith, detachment, and a sense of humor rather than over-involvement and anxiety. Mogel gives parents the tools to do so and offers reassuring spiritual and ethical advice.

But Nobody Told Me I'd Ever Have to Leave Home: from Toddlers to Teens — How Parents Can Raise Children to Become Capable Adults. Kathy Lynn, $18.95

Letting go is an often difficult aspect of parenting. But Nobody Told Me I'd Ever Have to Leave Home examines a parent's influence over a child's playtime, temperament, friendships, and disappointments, and offers suggestions on when to let children make their own decisions. Covering all stages in a child's life — from toddlers to teenagers and on to the post-secondary years — Lynn offers practical advice to parents that will help their children develop into capable adults.

The Canadian Student Financial Survival Guide: a Comprehensive Handbook on Financing Your Education, Managing Your Expenses & Planning for a Debt-Free Future. Graham McWaters & Winthrop Sheldon, $21.95

Students today are faced with ever-rising costs of tuition, and the decisions made as to how to pay for school can be some of the most important a young person makes. The costs for college or university are prohibitive to some and very intimidating to others. It is critical for students to have a handle on their finances, have a plan to eliminate these fears and embark on a life of financial freedom. The Canadian Student Financial Survival Guide will show them how to do this. Includes valuable information on:

• student loan applications and other means of financing post-secondary education
• credit-card issues
• car leasing vs. car buying
• accommodation
• budgeting for school and beyond
• and many other issues for students faced with their first major financial decisions

The Connected Father: Understanding Your Unique Role and Responsibilities During Your Child’s Adolescence. Carl Pickhardt, $16.95

Psychologist Carl Pickhardt believes that fathers need to become informed about the changes and challenges that come with their child’s adolescence. To help caring fathers navigate the often perplexing stages of adolescence, The Connected Father describes:

• how fathers can learn to be better listeners
• different emotional changes between mid- and late-adolescence
• how to encourage independence while setting limits
• how fathers can talk to teens about drugs, sex, the internet and relationships

Connected Parenting: How to Raise a Great Kid. Jennifer Kolari, $19.00

Connected Parenting offers a unique form of therapeutic parenting based on Kolari's groundbreaking application of the concept of "mirroring," an instinctive process that helps parents bond with their children and promotes optimum growth and development. Kolari's strategy is highly effective for kids of all ages, and has been proven to reduce a child's anxiety, increase self-esteem, and allow children to become more resilient and flexible. With step-by-step advice and examples from Kolari's years of experience, this is an easy-to-follow guide to strengthening the bond between you and your children.

Crashproof Your Kids: Make Your Teen a Safer, Smarter Driver. Timothy Smith, $27.00

In Crashproof Your Kids, certified driving instructor and dad Timothy Smith has combined the collective wisdom of numerous experts to develop the Crashproof Plan: a series of behind-the-wheel exercises designed to improve your teen's driving awareness, behavior, and skills. Written in a highly accessible, informal, and often humorous style, this comprehensive plan begins where drivers' education programs end.

Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I'm Grounded? Vanessa van Petten, $17.50

Stop fighting, start talking and get to know your teen.

Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old. Joseph Allen & Claudia Worrell Allen, $29.95

Today’s teens are starved for the lost fundamentals they need to really grow: adult connections and the adult rewards of autonomy, competence, and mastery. Restoring these will help them unlearn their adolescent helplessness and grow into adults who can make you–and themselves–proud. With compelling examples and practical and profound suggestions, Escaping the Endless Adolescence outlines a novel approach for producing dramatic leaps forward in teen maturity.

From Binge to Blackout: a Mother and Son Struggle with Teen Drinking. Chris Volkmann & Toren Volkmann, $19.50

Throughout his college years, Toren Volkmann partied like there was no tomorrow, having what was supposed to be the time of his life. Like so many parents, his mother, Chris, overlooked Toren’s growing alcohol problem. But when he graduated, Toren realized he’d become a full-blown alcoholic. And he was not alone.

Considered a rite of passage, teenage drinking has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions, fostering a generation of young adults whose lives are already beginning to come apart under the strain. This book, written from the viewpoints of both mother and son, is a riveting, enlightening, and heartbreakingly true story of a family that was able to confront the fear, pain, and denial that threatened to destroy them—and survive the epidemic of teenage drinking that’s putting America’s future at risk.

The Gap-Year Advantage: Helping Your Child Benefit from Time Off Before or During College. Karl Haigler & Rae Nelson, $17.95

Taking time off before or during college or university can offer some students the opportunity to gain focus and discipline, learn to set goals, get real-world experience and ultimately get the most out of a college education. The Gap-Year Advantage provides parents with all the advice, tips and information they need to help students develop and implement a strategy for themselves.

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled and More Miserable Than Ever Before. Jean Twenge, $16.99

They are today's young people, a new generation with sky-high expectations and a need for constant praise and fulfillment. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what she calls Generation Me - people born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Dr. Twenge explores why her generation is tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious … Engaging, controversial, prescriptive, and often funny, Generation Me will give Boomers new insight into their offspring, and help GenMe'ers in their teens, 20s, and 30s finally make sense of themselves and their goals and find their road to happiness.

Getting to Calm: Cool-headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens & Teens.  Laura Kastner & Jennifer Wyatt, $20.95

Getting to Calm is a practical, realistic and ultimately reassuring guide to navigating one of the most challenging aspects of parenting today: staying calm and clear-headed during some of the most common hot-button situations that arise during the teen years. With humor, wisdom and a deep understanding of the teenaged brain, Drs. Kastner and Wyatt provide clear and useful tools for parents, giving them effective new ways to manage their own emotions in the heat of the moment  with their teen while maintaining — and even gaining — closeness.

Good to Go: a Practical Guide to Adulthood. Kim Zarzour & Sharon McKay, $24.00

From acclaimed author Sharon McKay and long-time Star journalist Kim Zarzour—both mothers of teens—comes the indispensable guide for teens and young adults leaving home for the first time. Whether you’ve locked yourself out of your apartment, clogged the drain, need to attend a wedding or funeral, there is no question or concern too trivial for Good to Go to tackle with competence, humour, and respect. It’s Mom in a book!

From a leading authority on adolescent self-injury, this reassuring parent guide explains what motivates cutting and how various treatments can provide effective routes to wellness. The book gives parents crucial information on how self-injury differs from suicidal behavior, ways to talk to teens about cutting without making it worse, and practical steps they can take to help teens cope with extreme emotions. Mental health professionals and students also will appreciate the book as an accessible overview of state-of-the-science treatment principles.

Helping Your Transgender Teen: a Guide for Parents. Irwin Krieger, $14.50

HELPING YOUR TRANSGENDER TEEN begins with the basic information you and your family need. The central chapters of the book address the fears and concerns most parents of transgender teens share. The final chapters guide you through the steps you can take to discover what is best for your child. Although written for parents, this book is also useful for pediatricians, therapists, educators and others who work with teenagers and young adults. HELPING YOUR TRANSGENDER TEEN provides answers to many of your questions about adolescent gender identity.

How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk. Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, $16.50

The renowned #1 New York Times bestselling authors share their advice and expertise with parents and teens in this accessible, indispensable guide to surviving adolescence. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish transformed parenting with their breakthrough, bestselling books Siblings Without Rivalry and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. Now, they return with this essential guide that tackles the tough issues teens and parents face today. Filled with straightforward advice and written in their trademark, down-to-earth style sure to appeal to both parents and teens, this all-new volume offers both innovative, easy-to-implement suggestions and proven techniques to build the foundation for lasting relationships. From curfews and cliques to sex and drugs, it gives parents the tools to help their children safely navigate the often stormy years of adolescence.

I'd Listen to My Parents If They'd Just Shut Up: What to Say and Not Say When Parenting Teens. Anthony Wolf, $16.99

Is there any aspect of parenting more frustrating than when even the simplest conversation with your teenager quickly deteriorates into a take-no-prisoners war? Psychologist Anthony Wolf sympathizes, and in his new book he provides hope, humor, and practical tips for dealing with the everyday challenges of raising teens in the twenty-first century.

I'D LISTEN TO MY PARENTS IF THEY'D JUST SHUT UP will help you understand who your teenagers really are under all the attitude, and what new rules apply to successfully communicating with them in today's constantly evolving world of the Internet, electronics, and social media. Designed to make life with your teenage child a significantly more enjoyable experience, the book offers specific scenarios to illustrate which responses will work and which ones are doomed to failure the next time your 13-to-19-year-old refuses to listen or won't take "no" for an answer.

If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: an Essential Resource for Parents. Edna Foa & Linda Wasmer Andrews, $10.95

Growing up can be stressful for any teenager, but it is considerably harder for the many adolescents who develop an anxiety disorder. If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder provides adult readers with the clinical information and practical advice they need to understand and help the teen. Knowing the right information about anxiety disorders is the first step towards helping adolescents who are dealing with them grow to become healthy, happy adults.

I'm, Like, So Fat! Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, $18.50

In Love and In Danger: a Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships. Barrie Levy, $16.95

This book is for teenagers and parents of teens who have questions about abusive dating relationships. In Love and In Danger helps teens understand abusive dating situations, decide how to deal with them and learn how to get help. Providing useful information, practical advice and revealing interviews with teens, this newly revised edition includes a new afterword for parents and a resource sections with information on books, websites and organizations teens can turn to for help.

Inside the Teenage Brain: Parenting a Work in Progress. Sheryl Feinstein, $27.95

Teenagers are perplexing, intriguing, and spirited creatures. In an attempt to discover the secrets to their thoughts and actions, parents have tried talking, cajoling, and begging them for answers. What was once thought to be hormones run amuck can now be explained with modern medical technology.

MRI and PET scans view the human brain while it is alive and functioning. To no one's surprise, the teenage brain is under heavy construction! These discoveries are helping parents understand the (until now) unexplainable teenager. Inside the Teenage Brain explains the neuroscience that can help parents adjust to the highs and lows of teenage behavior and the trials and tribulations of adolescence that give teenagers a chance to develop and create the brain they will take into adulthood.

Letting Go with Love and Confidence. Kenneth Ginsburg, $21.00

Raising responsible, resilient, self-sufficient teens in the 21^st century — with expert advice on parenting through cell phones, the Internet, peer pressure, dating, driving and more.

A Moment’s Peace for Parents of Teens: 365 Rejuvenating Reflections. Patricia Hoolihan, $12.95

A Moment’s Peace for Parents of Teens offers a brief, daily time-out to recharge your batteries and meet the challenges of parenting teens.

My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training. Karen Stabiner, $32.95

Girls have gotten a bad rap. A wave of books over the last several years has given the impression that most girls lose their self-esteem during puberty, develop eating disorders, become bullies and lose respect for their parents. As a result, many parents dread the onset of adolescence and the teenage years that lie ahead. According to acclaimed journalist Karen Stabiner, girls have become marginalized by a caricature that only fits a small minority of genuinely troubled girls. In her engaging new book, My Girl, Stabiner documents her life with her adolescent daughter; digs deeper into the research on girls, and interviews many mothers and daughters. The result is a refreshing and honest account of what adolescent girls are really like and how parents can cope with the inevitable difficulties while also enjoying this remarkable time with their daughters. A winning combination of poignant — and often funny — memoir and first-rate journalism, My Girl reclaims our daughters and empowers mothers to create a better relationship with them.

My Teenage Werewolf: a Mother, a Daughter, a Journey through the Thicket of Adolescence. Lauren Kessler, $17.50

With the eye of a reporter, the curiosity of an anthropologist, and the open (and sometimes wounded) heart of a mother, award-winning author Lauren Kessler embeds herself in her about-to-be-teenage daughter's life. In seventh- and eighth-grade classrooms, at home, online, at the mall, and at summer camp, Kessler observes, investigates, chronicles — and participates in — the life of a 21st century teen. Funny, poignant, and insightful, MY TEENAGE WEREWOLF explores the fascinating and scary world of today's teenage girls.

A parent's guide to the baffling no-man's land between child and teen.

Parenting at the Speed of Teens: Positive Tips on Everyday Issues. Ruth Tasswel, editor. $16.50

Parenting at the Speed of Teens is a practical, easy-to-use guide that offers positive, commonsense strategies for dealing with both the everyday issues of parenting teenagers—junk food, the Internet, stress, jobs, friends, and other serious issues teens may encounter—depression, divorce, racism, substance abuse. It illustrates how the daily "little things" such as talking one-on-one, setting boundaries, offering guidance, and modeling positive behavior make a big difference in helping a teenager be successful during these challenging, exciting years of adolescence.

Parenting the Teenage Brain: Understanding a Work in Progress. Sheryl Feinstein, $23.95

New and exciting light is being shed on these mysterious young people who have replaced the sweet children you knew. What was once thought to be hormones run amuck can now be explained with the help of modern medical technology, such as MRI and PET scans. To no one's surprise, it seems the teenage brain is still under construction. Understanding the neuroscience behind a teen’s development can help parents adjust to the highs and lows of adolescent behavior.

The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life. William Damon, $19.99

The Path to Purpose looks at youth who are thriving — highly engaged in activities they love and developing a clear sense of what they want to do with their lives — and youth who are still rudderless, at serious risk of never fulfilling their potential. What makes the difference? Based on in-depth interviews, Damon offers compelling portraits of the young people who are thriving.  He identifies the nine key factors that have made the difference for them, presenting simple but powerful methods that parents can employ in order to cultivate that energized sense of purpose in young people that will launch them on the path to a deeply satisfying and productive life.

A brutally honest look at a crucial subject — this book and the accompanying award-winning HBO documentary Smashed could save your teen’s life. Drinking and driving tragedies are not accidents — they can be prevented. Read this book, watch the film and start talking with your teen now.

The Secret Lives of Teen Girls: What Your Mother Wouldn’t Talk about But Your Daughter Needs to Know. Evelyn Resh, $18.95

In The Secret Lives of Teen Girls, Evelyn Resh — a certified nurse-midwife, sexuality counselor, and mother to a teenage daughter — explores the provocative world of female adolescent sexuality. Resh explains how developing a sexual identity — often without adult guidance or a basic knowledge of what is happening physically and emotionally — can have lifelong effects on a girl’s well-being.

In this insightful book, Resh confronts serious issues of adolescence, including sex, eating disorders, and substance abuse; as well as less serious but still troubling issues like battles with parents over clothing and curfews, the importance of being “cool,” and the complexity of friendships. Drawing from both her professional and personal experiences, Resh shares with us revealing, humorous, and occasionally surprising anecdotes that parents of teenage daughters everywhere will relate to.

Side by Side: the Revolutionary Mother-Daughter Program for Conflict-Free Communication. Charles Sophy, $16.99

Learn how to navigate and resolve even the most volatile conflicts and take your relationship to a whole new level. Side by Side offers a means to developing a strong and rewarding connection with your daughter for years to come.

Success without College: Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now — and May Not Have to Go at All. Linda Lee, $17.95

Success without College is a groundbreaking book that reveals the surprising facts of why many bright kids are not suited for college (or at least not right after high school). This accessible, knowledgeable book looks at the many positive, creative solutions to the college dilemma.

Surviving Your Adolescents: How to Manage and Let Go of Your 13-18 Year Olds. Thomas Phelan, DVD $44.95; book $16.95

Living with a teenager is no picnic. There are times when you must bite your tongue as they push towards independence. Or, if you sense there is trouble, there are times when you must take charge. This book gives parents a step-by-step approach that will help end the hassles and offer concrete solutions. In Surviving Your Adolescents, you will learn:

• What is normal adolescent behavior
• How to manage teenage risk-taking
• Exactly what problems require you to "let go"
• What not to do
• The relationship between parent/teen communication and safety
• The five ways to improve your relationship
• And more

Teen Brain, Teen Mind: What Parents Need to Know to Survive the Adolescent Years. Ron Clavier, $21.95

Written by renowned psychologist Dr. Ron Clavier, Teen Brain, Teen Mind examines the neurological changes in the brain that underlie many of the emotions of young people. Clavier argues that a clear understanding of the teenage brain is the key we need to unlock the age-old mysteries of why our kids act the way they act and think the way they think. From drug use and early sexual activity to fashion and music, Clavier covers topics of relevance to both teens and their parents. Along the way, he offers numerous coping tips and strategies designed to ease tensions and improve communications.

The Teen Whisperer: How to Break Through the Silence and Secrecy of Teenage Life. Mike Linderman & Gary Brozek, $16.25

Mike Linderman is a star in the making. He wrestles cattle at the crack of dawn, then spends his days working with the country's most troubled teens before coming home at night to three healthy teens of his own. Where so many other therapists can only offer futile advice to struggling parents, Linderman has mastered a blend of down home honesty and military–like discipline––not to mention a layer of trust and love very rarely found in the therapist's office.

Most of the teens Linderman treats are angry, abused, violent, and dangerous–they are children without hope. Yet despite their difficult pasts, Linderman has achieved an extraordinary success rate with these teens, helping them turn their lives around and earning him the nickname "The Teen Whisperer." Interacting with teens on their terms and in their language, Linderman allows parents to see that in order to help kids you must meet them at their level and treat them as peers not subordinates. With powerful and effective words, he calls on readers to understand that our teenagers deserve our love––not our fear––and ultimately it is this unique and straightforward perspective that sets him apart. It is this methodology, grounded in honesty and integrity, that has led to his unparalleled success record with some our country's most difficult youths. This is the story of that success and how parents can use the lessons he's learned to heal the troubled hearts of their own families.

Teenage as a Second Language: a Parent’s Guide to Becoming Bilingual. Barbara Greenberg & Jennifer Powell-Lunder, $16.99

With these proven strategies, you can maintain good communication, healthy interaction and strong connections with your teen, no matter how rocky the road through adolescence is.

13 is the New 18 and Other Things My Children Taught Me While I Was Having a Nervous Breakdown Being Their Mother. Beth Harpaz, $17.99

A book for any parent of teens, this is a comical foray into today’s increasingly widening generation gap and one mom’s attempt to figure it all out with little guidance and a whole lot of misplaced guilt.

Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive. Michael Ungar, $22.99

Internationally respected social worker and family therapist Michael Ungar tells us why our mania to keep our kids safe is causing us to do the opposite - put them in harm’s way. By continuing to protect them from failure and disappointment, many of our kids are missing out on the “risk-taker’s advantage,” the benefits that come from experiencing manageable amounts of danger. In Too Safe for Their Own Good, Ungar inspires parents to recall their own childhoods and the lessons they learned from being risk-takers and responsibility-seekers, much to the annoyance of their own parents. He offers the support parents need in setting appropriate limits and provides concrete suggestions for allowing children the opportunity to experience the rites of passage that will help them become competent, happy, thriving adults.

In our mania to provide emotional life jackets around our kids, helmets and seatbelts, approved playground equipment, after-school supervision, an endless stream of evening programming, and no place to hang out but the tiled flooring of our local mall, we parents are accidentally creating a generation of youth who are not ready for life. Our children are too safe for their own good.

—From Too Safe for Their Own Good

What Do You Expect? She's a Teenager! Arden Greenspan-Goldberg, $16.99

A hope and happiness guide for moms with daughters ages 11 to 19.

What It Takes to Pull Me Through. David Marcus, $18.95

The Academy at Swift River specializes in one of the toughest tasks a school can undertake: helping teenagers in crisis regain their bearings. During a fourteen-month academic term at the school, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David L. Marcus witnesses the intense process that turns these kids around. In his time on campus, Marcus gets to know a diverse and remarkable group of teenagers: a former straight-A student reeling from the death of her mother; a teachers' son grappling with anger over being adopted; a southern girl immersed in drug abuse and unsafe sex and a boy from Queens overwhelmed by depression. Granted full access to the Swift River proceedings, Marcus is given the rare chance to observe the students' struggles and see their transformations from the inside. In What It Takes to Pull Me Through, he charts a path to redemption that any teen, any parent, can follow.

When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School. John McNally, editor, $18.99

Candid, funny and painfully true, these essays conjure up memories of those formative years. When I Was a Loser is a wonderful reminder for parents and others who work with teens, of the emotional highs and lows of adolescence.

When No One Understands: Letters to a Teenager on Life, Loss and the Hard Road to Adulthood. Brad Sachs, $18.00

In this unique book, a therapist shares his moving letters to a troubled, sometimes suicidal teen. The anguish, loneliness and concerns shared by many teens – including relationships, drugs and alcohol, parents, school, stress – are all addressed with compassion and humility. Written for teens, parents and therapists, this respectful volume inspires growth and healing during the sometimes tumultuous days of adolescence.

When Things Get Crazy with Your Teen: the Why, the How and What to Do Now. Michael Bradley, $28.95

Offering practical “first response” advice, When Things Get Crazy with Your Teen tells you exactly what to do and what NOT to do in just about every scenario you’ll ever face with your kid - from messy rooms and monstrous moods to drug abuse and depression.

Young People in Love and in Hate. Nick Luxmoore, $20.95

Using dozens of recognizable vignettes, psychotherapist and school counselor Luxmoore movingly explores the dramatic conflict between young people's loving and hating as they move from the intimacy of relationships with parents to relationships with boyfriends and girlfriends, frantically negotiating sex and sexuality, the meaning of love, faithfulness and unfaithfulness and many other issues vital to the adults these young people will become.

The book will be essential reading for professionals and parents struggling with the ferocity of young people's feelings where 'I love you!' and 'I hate you!' are never far apart.

Your Defiant Teen: 10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship. Russell Barkley & Arthur Robin, $19.95

Russell Barkley and Arthur Robin-award-winning researchers and coauthors of a leading book on defiant teens for therapists have created a clinically proven self-help program that parents can use to restore order and rebuild trust. Your Defiant Teen demonstrates how to establish common ground, encourage mutual respect, and introduce cooperative problem solving — all without escalating the struggle for control. Much more than just a way to keep the peace, Drs. Barkley and Robin offer parents a means to teach their teenagers skills that will serve them well for a lifetime.

You're Ruining My Life! Surviving the Teenage Years with Connected Parenting. Jennifer Kolari, $32.00

In her new book, Jennifer Kolari applies her empathic approach to parenting to what may be the most difficult time for parents — adolescence. Combining her own experience as a therapist with the most recent scientific information about mental processes, she explains what's going on inside the teenage brain as well as what's going on in their world. This understanding allows parents to de-escalate confrontations by applying techniques such as CALM (Connect, Affect, Listen, Mirror) that bypass language and go directly to the part of the brain that regulates emotion. By understanding how teens think (or don't think) parents come to see why it's so important to create and maintain a strong emotional bond that will allow their almost grown-up children to correct and contain unacceptable behaviours.