Editorial Advisory Board: Sarah Park Dahlen, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Marianne Martens, Associate Professor, School of Information, Kent State University; Amy Pattee, Associate Professor and Co-coordinator of Dual-Degree MS LIS/MA Children’s Literature, School of Library and Information Science, Children’s Literature, Simmons University“Comprehensive and ...

Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans of Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and Give a Boy a Gun, and with an array of YA talent like the late great Walter Dean Myers, the poetic Joyce Carol Oates, the prophetic Elizabeth Wein, and the gritty Chris Crutcher, these are evocative voices that each has a different perspe...

This collection of enlightening and stimulating articles, written by some of the most important figures in school librarianship, demonstrates how teacher-librarians, classroom teachers, and administrators can work together to create a 21st century school library media program. With topics that emphasize student success, leadership, partnerships, curriculum design, collaborative planning and teaching, literacy, 21st century skills, emerging technologies, and so much more, this compendium br...

Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young homosexuals to find positive role models in fiction either written or published expressly for them or-if published for adults-relevant to them and their lives.The Heart Has Its Reasons examines these issues and critically evaluates the body of literature published for young adults ...

Discussions of gender and sexuality have become part of mainstream conversations and are being reflected in the work of more and more writers of fiction, particularly in literature aimed at young adult audiences. But young readers, regardless of their sexual orientation, don’t always know what books offer well-rounded portrayals of queer characters and situations. Fortunately, finding positive role models in fiction that features LGBTQ+ themes has become less problematic, though not withou...

What does a shopping cart in a parking lot have to do with trust, leadership, and business success?More than you think.In The Shopping Cart Test, Michael Wilson reveals a powerful truth: small everyday behaviors expose a person's real standards. Long before a missed deadline, broken promise, toxic hire, or failed partnership creates damage, the warning signs are already there. They show up in the little things, how people handle inconvenience, follow through on simple tasks...

The preeminent historians of the founding era speak their mind on the anniversary of the United States’ birthIn these powerful and personal essays, some of the most celebrated historians of the American Revolutionary era reflect on the meaning of 1776 to the nation in 2026, offering fresh insights and food for thought on every page. They tackle the most pressing topics that Americans debated in 1776 and continue to debate today: the meaning of democracy; the nature...

Sharp, searching poems that find the extraordinary hiding in everyday life.You've felt it, that restless sense that beneath the ordinary rhythms of modern existence, something deeper is stirring. The squeaky cart rolling down a sweltering hospital ward at midnight. The quiet majesty of Gregorian chant echoing off monastery walls. The absurd tragedy of New Jersey's mountains disappearing beneath parking lots. You've glimpsed these moments, but they slipped away befo...

Les Mayas se sont trompés! Ils avaient prévu la date du 21/12/12, mais vous et moi, nous savons bien que ce n'est que partie remise.Tant mieux, ce répit va vous permettre de découvrir Pause-nouvelle, une grande anthologie d'histoires courtes. Dans ce recueil, 10 auteurs vous présentent leur vision de l’Apocalypse. Interventions divines, guerres nucléaires et autres cataclysmes sont au rendez-vous. Et la plupart ne laissent pas beaucoup de place à l’espoir. Alors que faire lorsque l’on est...

A businessman who sells and rents golf carts for a living explains how to operate them safely, make them last, and enjoy them to the fullest.

Michael Kuzilny is a high profile criminal defense lawyer. Twenty-five years ago, Michael learned what proved, literally, to be a life-saving skill. Michael learned to practice meditation; and traded his religion for a simple yet powerful Buddhist philosophy. Not as a religion, but as a lifestyle choice to find ultimate happiness! Michael says: "Western society has created a crazy world, and it's getting crazier! Over 40 million adults in the USA are diagnosed with some sort of anxiety dis...