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Contends that the media has become a convenient target for people looking to place blame for problems experienced by American youth, and argues that complex economic, social, and political changes in American society are the real culprits.

Explains how teachers and librarians can steer students to the literature they love by focusing on three key areas: knowing the readers, knowing the books, and knowing the strategies to motivate students to read.

Philip Chase moves back home with his mother who is still grieving over the death of Ronnie, her younger son five years previous, but life makes an unusual turn when Ronnie's high school girlfriend shows up nine months pregnant with Ronnie's child.

Two boys, best friends in a small midwestern town, finally come to understand that of all the terrors threatening them from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show the greatest menance exists within themselves.

Details the story of Jude Fawley, a poor stonemason who longs to be a minister, and how the brutal deaths of his children and his inability to please the two women in his life hinder his dreams and threaten his existence.

Presents more than twenty short, illustrated poems about children not quite like the rest.

Describes the foster care systems of the U.S. and Canada and the history of foster care around the world, and features a short story about a sister and brother moved from an abusive home to a safe one.

The changing social climate in England, spurred by the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, is reflected in the lives of Maude Coleman and Lavinia Waterhouse, two young girls of different classes who meet and become fast friends while their families are visiting adjoining funeral plots.

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

Offers teens practical advice on how they can take control of their weight, change their diet for the better, and create an exercise program that's both fun and rewarding.

Describes the medical uses of the prescription drug Ritalin, the problems presented by overprescribing it, its potential for abuse, and ways to prevent such abuse.

A reprint of a 1954 thriller that tells the story of little Rhoda Penmark, a child serial killer.

Presents F. Scott Fitzgerald's bildungsroman about a handsome, wealthy Princeton student named Amory Blaine, whose experiences with love, war, and poverty lead him to self-realization; and includes a contextual introduction, critical excerpts spanning 1919 through 1988, and commentary on the novel by Fitzgerald himself.

Examines attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and the drug most commonly prescribed to treat it: Ritalin.

Matthew Shepard was murdered because he was gay. His mother shares the story behind the headlines, interweaving her memories of Matthew and the challenges she faced, with her family, confronting his death.