The demands of school, sports, exams, and relationships can be so stressful. This toolkit of simple mindfulness techniques can help! Designed to be used any time you are stressed or upset—or need to boost your energy and confidence—these short practices can help you feel calmer, happier, more focused, and more able to get the most out of life.

Do you want to feel happier in your life? Are you attacked by doubts? Do nerves sometimes prevent you from doing things you might enjoy? Do you wish you could concentrate better? If so, this book is for you! From as little as three minutes a day, you can learn how to feel calmer, happier, more focused and ready to achieve your goals … whether that’s nailing your exams, playing well in your netball match, improving your times in the pool or simply asking out the girl next door! And the good...

It's1942 . . . and Pearlie is all alone in Darwin. Not only has she been separated from her family, but now Beake, the spy, is back and he's on the loose. He's out to get Pearlie – but she has a plan . . . Can she pull it off? And when bombs fall on Darwin, will Pearlie survive?Follow Pearlie on her adventure in the third of four exciting stories about a courageous girl in a world at war.

"That's where I should have started the story. I sat for ages in the dark, with my head in a swirl. My thoughts were spinning round and round, like clothes in a washing machine. Bruising, I thought. Alcoholic. Social worker. Foster care. Scum. School. Measles. Cow. Mobile phone. Danielle. That was the beginning. But I'd forgotten that until now. I mean, it's amazing what you can forget ..."It all started when Gramma died. And then Jonathan and Julie had only apples for din...

A darkly compulsive tale of friendship and obsession.Frances Bird has been a loner for so long that she's given up on ever finding real friendship. But then she's asked to show a new girl around school, and she begins to think her luck could finally be changing.Eccentric, talkative and just a little bit posh, Alberta is not at all how Frances imagined a best friend could be. But the two girls click immediately, and it's not long before they are inseparable. Frances could not...

Learning new things can be a challenge. Roby learns to keep on trying and practicing until he finally makes it.Visit our website for more eBooks and videos: www.icharacter.org

Ready to take your business to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about delivering and receiving constructive feedback with this practical guide.Most of us find it difficult to deliver feedback: no matter how constructive we intend our comments to be, there is always a risk that the other person will feel attacked and react with defensiveness or even outright hostility. Similarly, when it is our turn to listen to feedback, many of us struggle to a...

Marie has just moved to a new forest and searches for new friends.

Would you rather be a stereotypically beautiful class-A moron or a Nobel Prize winner with a gimp arm?Your best friend's significant other hits on you -- and not in a cute, in-front-of-your-best-friend sort of way. What to do? Blow them off? Flirt back? Play it cool, then fill your friend in?Would you rather marry the love of your life and have no friends, or never marry and have friends for life?Whether you're hanging out with your besties or getting closer to your...

if you think your friend is a lesbian, can you ask her?how do people become gay?is it a sin? is it a choice?No question goes unanswered in this important book about being gay. All the basics -- and not-so-basics -- are covered in more than one hundred questions asked by real teens just like you. So the answers contain all the info you want to know. And just in case you feel like sharing, there's a new "parents only" chapter to clue them in too.Exper...

For many teenagers writing poetry can be an expression of emotion that rarely sees the light of day.This collection of poetry by J. E. Lindsay details her deepest feelings as a teenager during her first experiences with love and heartbreak.Written throughout her teens and released 10 years later, Rhythms Of My Young Heart charts the teenage emotional rollercoaster that most people can relate to.From love and heartbreak to anticipation for the future and self-accepta...

What steps can you take to help the environment? Discover how this responsible kid makes green choices to help our planet.