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Traveling in the Scottish Highlands, Mandy rescues a Dales pony named Jewel who's been caught in a farmer's pumpkin patch.

Thirteen-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, fourteen-year-old Garrison, and ten-year-old new "contestant" Hyacinth, must face their phobias and join forces to learn who is stealing wigs and pageant trophies from the School of Fear.

Contains fifteen essays that argue various perspectives on phobias--including social phobias, mental disorders, and other specific phobias--and cover causes, influences, and treatments; and includes a glossary, a chronology, and an annotated list of organizations to contact.

Describes the nature and types of phobias as well as their treatments.

Presents ten short stories by well-known authors featuring teenagers with phobias, including fear of gaining weight, fear of clowns, and fear of cats.

Twelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, and thirteen-year-old Garrison, are sent to a remote Massachusetts school to overcome their phobias, but tragedy strikes and the quartet must work together--with no adult assistance--to face their fears.

Provides an overview of anxiety disorders, discussing their causes, symptoms, effects, and treatments.

The text explains multiple theories about the cause of phobias. It also explains what recent brain research has revealed about the neurobiological processes underlying fear and phobia.

Through objective interviews, primary sources and full-color illustrations this title examines panic disorder.

When a reporter plans an expos?? that could shut down the School of Fear, Garrison, Lulu, Madeleine, Theo and Hyacinth seek help from Bishop Basmati, head of the nearby Contrary Conservatory, whose hyperactive, fearless, and extremely impulsive students soon overrun the School of Fearians.

Describes phobias both common and uncommon through examples and personal stories.

Presents explanations of fears, phobias, and anxieties, with information on how to recognize them and a three-step process for relief; and features over five hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on specific phobias and anxieties, and a list of resources and recommended reading.

Researches phobias, the causes, how phobias affect people and how people can overcome their phobias.

Asher Machnik is a teenage boy cursed with a beautiful androgynous face who has developed an intense fear of being touched because of the abuse he receives from others.

Examines what phobias are and how they differ from ordinary fears, how to cope with normal anxiety, and how to identify when and from whom to seek help.