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The Body Book for Boys. Jonathan Mar & Grace Norwich, $11.99
Everything you need to know about growing up.
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The Body
Scoop for Girls: a Straight-Talk Guide to a Healthy, Beautiful You. Jennifer Ashton, $20.99
A no-holds-barred guidebook that speaks directly to young women. |
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CHILL:
Stress-Reducing Techniques for a More Balanced, Peaceful You.
Deborah Reber, $11.50
Today’s teens are part of the most
overscheduled, over-programmed, and overwhelmed generation on the
planet. CHILL can help you manage it all:
- explains what happens to your body
and mind when you're stressed
- shows you how to de-stress through
a variety of techniques including time management, visualization,
exercise, and creative outlets
- offers organizational tips to make
every part of your life run more smoothly
- helps you deal with some of the side
effects of stress
- … and much more.
You can do it all. It's just a matter
of having the right frame of mind. So relax, take a deep breath...and
chill. |
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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. |
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Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost One Byte at a Time. Taylor LeBaron, $15.95
The teen years can be agonizing for those who struggle with serious weight issues, with typical teenage stress multiplied by low self-esteem and social anxiety. Fourteen-year-old Taylor Le Baron was one of those teens: he had trouble finding clothes that fit, became winded after just a few minutes of walking, and was the target of fat jokes. He was over the weight limit for amusement park rides and bunk beds, and knew he was facing a lifetime of health-related issues like high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, and type II diabetes if he didn’t make some drastic changes. Taylor decided he had to change both his sedentary lifestyle and his eating habits. Now, he shares his personal story in a way that is honest and transparent, and will inspire millions of overweight and obese children and teens to get fit. |
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Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs. Rozanne
Gold, $22.50
Here is a just-for-teens guide (that everyone will
love) to experiencing the joys of cooking and eating fresh food.
Chef Rozanne Gold and her team of sous-chefs (aged 9 to 19) create
over 80 of the most delicious, healthful, fresh recipes you could
ever want to make. |
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Fueling the Teen Machine: What It takes to Make Good Choices for Yourself Every Day. Ellen Shanley & Colleen Thompson, $18.95
Nutrients, exercise and eating healthy. Weight management, sports nutrition and eating disorders. Vegetarianism, fast foods and fads. Parents, friends, teachers, websites and doctors. How do you navigate the world of nutrition and keep your body healthy strong and happy without getting overwhelmed?
Fueling the Teen Machine will give you the information you need to make good personal choices about your nutrition and finding healthy — and tasty — foods. From the basics of nutritional information to recipes to enjoy and impress, this book is a great resource for teens, college students and families. |
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Girl in the Know: Your Inside-and-Out Guide to Growing Up. Anne Katz, $18.95 
Get the lowdown on how to take care of your body inside and out and take care of your self, so you’ll be set to handle all sorts of life’s challenges. |
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Gotcha Covered! Everything You Need to Know about Your
Period. Lisa McGuinness & Chris Boral, $16.95
Handy tips, good advice, a calendar
for charting and a case for supplies — everything a young girl needs
when she gets her period. |
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Healthy
Eating for Preteens and Teens: the Ultimate Guide to Diet, Nutrition
and Food. Leslie Beck, $28.00 
Healthy Eating for Preteens and Teens
is a practical family guide that covers every aspect of essential
nutrition to help raise healthy teens. In a super-size-me world,
Leslie Beck provides strategies for making healthy food choices
and establishing good eating habits for life. |
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Let's
Clear the Air: 10 Reasons Not to Start Smoking. Alison
Fripp & Meghan Nolan, editors, $16.95
Who better to deliver the anti-smoking
message to kids ... than kids? This collection of interviews and
stories is the result of a simple question: “Why won't you start
smoking?” Kids share their passionate & compelling reasons for
not “lighting up,” in an effort to encourage others to stay tobacco-free.
The stories, based on life experiences and observations, are diverse,
personal, and intelligent. |
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My Big
Fat Secret: How Jenna Takes Control of Her Emotions and Eating. Lynn Schechter, illustrated
by Jason Chin, $11.95 (ages 8-12)
Jenna is having a tough time in middle school. She just turned
12, she hates gym, and she's overweight. Jenna has good friends
and cool hobbies, but when some of her classmates make fun of her,
she just feels so bad! And to make things worse, when Jenna feels
sad or mad or stressed out, she starts to eat and she just can't
stop!
Through Jenna's story, kids will learn how to say goodbye to
emotional eating and hello to a healthy lifestyle. They'll see
how to create an action plan to stop overeating before it starts,
identify emotional triggers that push them to food, and get healthier
by taking better care of their bodies and minds. |
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The Real Deal Series
This series explores the facts behind the tough health and lifestyle choices that young people must make. Each book serves as a guide for readers and provides them with ways to address and cope with problems surrounding issues like drugs and keeping fit.
Adolescence. Barbara Sheen, $9.99
Alcohol. Rachel Lynette, $8.95
Bullying. Joanne Mattern, $9.99
Divorce. Joanne Mattern, $9.99
Drugs. Rachel Lynette, $9.99
Eating Right. Barbara Sheen, $8.95
Keeping Fit. Barbara Sheen, $8.95
Illness. Terri DeGezelle, $9.95
Moving. Terri DeGezelle, $9.99
Tobacco. Rachel Lynette, $9.99 |
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New Medicine
Complete Family Health Guide. David Peters, $29.95
Integrating complementary, alternative
and conventional medicine, this is a comprehensive and balanced
guide to the best treatments for you and your family. |
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The Omnivore’s
Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You Eat, Young Reader’s
Edition. Michael Pollan, $12.50
Based on the bestseller “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: a Natural History
of Four Meals”, author Michael Pollan takes young readers behind the scenes
of the food industry to learn the realities and the politics of how our food
gets to the table. |
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Safe
Road Home: Stop Your Teen from Drinking & Driving.
Karen Goodman & Kirk Simon, $16.50 (includes DVD, HBO documentary Smashed)
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.
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Taking
Care of Your ‘Girls’: a Breast Health Guide for Girls, Teens and
In-Betweens. Marisa Weiss & Isabel Friedman, $16.75
A groundbreaking book for both mothers
and daughters, Taking Care of Your ‘Girls’ is a practical
guide to breast care as well as a girl-to-girl conversation about
the feelings and emotions that come with the territory. |
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Too Fat? Too Thin? The Healthy Eating
Handbook. Melissa Sayer, $10.95 (ages 10 and up)
Not happy with your body? Worried that a
friend has an eating disorder? Can't find the motivation to exercise? THE
HEALTHY EATING HANDBOOK is here to help with useful advice, facts, tips and
quizzes on these issues and more. |
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Why
Should I Bother to Keep Fit? Kate
Knighton & Susan Meredith, $10.95 (ages 10 -14)
You don’t like exercise? You
can’t decide what to do? You’d never stay motivated?
This book will change your ideas and your attitude to getting
fit! |
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Yoga Exercises for Teens: Developing a Calmer Mind and a Stronger Body. Helen Purperhart, $19.50
111 exercises that help raise energy levels, increase muscle tone and reduce anxiety. No equipment, DVDs or gym membership necessary! |
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YOU the Owner's Manual for Teens: a
Guide to a Healthy Body and Happy Life. Michael
Roizen & Mehmet Oz, $19.99
There's a big difference between an
adult's body and your body, between adults' health mysteries and your health
mysteries, between their questions and your questions. So, teens, this book is
for YOU. It's about the biological changes that are happening in your brain and
your body. It's about how to get more energy, improve your grades, protect your
skin, salvage more sleep, get fit, eat well, maximize your relationships, make
decisions about sex, and so much more. In fact, these pages answer hundreds of
your most pressing health-related questions. The book doesn't preach. It just
gives you straight-up information that you can use to make smart choices about
how to live the good life — and enjoy every second of it. |
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Complete
Booklist
Books for Teens
The Body Book for Boys. Jonathan Mar & Grace Norwich, $11.99
The Body Scoop for
Girls: a Straight-Talk Guide to a Healthy, Beautiful You. Jennifer Ashton,
$20.99
Changing Bodies, Changing Lives. Ruth Bell et al, $28.50
CHILL: Stress-Reducing Techniques for a More
Balanced, Peaceful You. Deborah Reber, $11.50
College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends.
Megan & Jill Carle, $24.95
Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost One Byte at a Time. Taylor LeBaron, $15.95
Depression is the Pits, But I’m Getting Better: a Guide
for Adolescents. Jane Garland, $13.50
Easy for You to Say: Q & A’s for Teens
Living with Chronic Illness or Disability. Miriam Kaufman, $22.95
Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen
Chefs. Rozanne Gold, $22.50
Fueling the Teen Machine: What It takes to Make Good Choices for Yourself Every Day. Ellen Shanley & Colleen Thompson, $18.95
Girl in the Know: Your Inside-and-Out Guide to Growing Up. Anne Katz, $18.95
Gotcha Covered! Everything You Need to Know
about Your Period. Lisa McGuinness & Chris Boral, $16.95
Highs! Over 150 Ways to Feel Really, REALLY
Good … Without Alcohol or Other Drugs. Alex Packer, $26.95
It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex
& Sexual Health, Revised Editon 2009. Robie Harris & Michael Emberley,
$15.00
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Let's Clear the Air: 10 Reasons Not to Start
Smoking. Alison Fripp & Meghan Nolan, editors, $16.95
My Big Fat Secret: How Jenna Takes Control
of Her Emotions and Eating. Lynn
Schechter, illustrated by Jason Chin, $11.95 (ages 8-12)
No B.O.! The Head-to-Toe Book of Hygiene for
Preteens. Marguerite Crump, $16.95
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: the Secrets
Behind What You Eat, Young Reader’s Edition. Michael Pollan,
$12.50
The Real Deal Series:
- Adolescence. Barbara Sheen $9.99
- Alcohol. Rachel Lynette $8.95
- Bullying. Joanne Mattern $9.99
- Divorce. Joanne Mattern $9.99
- Drugs. Rachel Lynette $9.99
- Eating Right. Barbara Sheen $8.95
- Keeping Fit. Barbara Sheen $8.95
- Illness. Terri DeGezelle $9.99
- Moving. Terri DeGezelle $9.99
- Tobacco. Rachel Lynette $9.99
Stress Relief: Ultimate Teen Guide. Mark Powell,
$19.75
Taking Care of Your ‘Girls’: a Breast Health
Guide for Girls, Teens and In-Betweens. Marisa Weiss & Isabel Friedman,
$16.75
The Teenage Body Book. Kathy McCoy & Charles
Wibbelsman, $21.00
Teens Cook: How to Cook What You Want to Eat.
Megan & Jill Carle, with Judi Carle. $27.95
Too Fat? Too Thin? The Healthy Eating
Handbook. Melissa Sayer, $10.95 (ages 10 and up)
The Underground Guide to Teenage Sexuality:
an Essential Guide for Today’s Teens and Parents. Michael Basso, $18.95
Why Should I Bother to Keep Fit? Kate
Knighton & Susan Meredith, $10.95 (ages 10 -14)
Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get
Away from It All Without Alcohol or Other Drugs. Alex J. Packer, $20.95
Yoga Exercises for Teens: Developing a Calmer Mind and a Stronger Body. Helen Purperhart, $19.50
YOU the Owner's Manual for Teens: a
Guide to a Healthy Body and Happy Life. Michael
Roizen & Mehmet Oz, $19.99
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Books for Parents
Crashproof Your Kids: Make Your Teen a Safer,
Smarter Driver. Timothy Smith, $27.00
Drugs & Your Kid: How to Tell if Your Child
Has a Drug/Alcohol Problem & What to Do about It. Peter Rogers &
Lea Goldstein, $16.95
Healthy Eating for Preteens and Teens: the
Ultimate Guide to Diet, Nutrition and Food. Leslie Beck, $28.00
Healthy Teens, Body and Soul: a Parent’s Complete
Guide. Andrea Marks & Betty Rothbart, $22.00
If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder:
an Essential Resource for Parents. Edna Foa, $10.95
If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder:
an Essential Resource for Parents. Timothy Walsh, $10.95
New Medicine Complete Family Health Guide.
David Peters, $29.95
Safe Road Home: Stop Your Teen from Drinking
& Driving. Karen Goodman & Kirk Simon, $16.50 (includes DVD, HBO
documentary Smashed)
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Other booklists of interest
may include Parenting Teens and Life
Skills for Teens

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