Henrietta M. Lily – författare

An alarming number of teens have experienced abusive and even physically violent behavior in dating relationships. Important for teens starting to date, this book helps readers learn to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy relationship behavior. Readers will learn the warning signs that are precursors to violence and how to keep themselves and others safe.

Alcohol is the most commonly used and abused drug among teens in the U.S. Young people who binge drink are more likely to experience academic and social problems, physical illnesses, risky sexual activity, car crashes, and accidental injuries. Alcohol poisoning, which can cause unconsciousness or even death, brings many underage drinkers to the emergency room each year. This book explains the health problem clearly and arms teens to make smart choices about alcohol.

The diagnosis of cancer was once equated with a death sentence, but advances in research, prevention methods, treatment, therapies, and holistic health strategies have greatly improved patients'' survival rates. This book doesn''t shy away from discussing the difficulty of a cancer diagnosis, the dread and fear surrounding the disease, or the challenges of treatment. An invaluable resource for anyone whose family or friends have been touched by the cancers, this book shows readers how to move forward from the diagnosis and take care of the important business of living, loving, and healing. Ushering forth the latest statistics and cutting-edge research and treatments, readers gain insight into improved diagnostic tools, treatment strategies and techniques including gene therapies, and survival rates. Includes "10 Great Questions to Ask Your Doctor" and "Myths and Facts about Cancer and its Treatment" sidebars and explanatory illustrations. Also includes psychologist Dr. Jan Hittleman''s answers to actual teen questions.

Nearly 55.6 million students are enrolled in grades pre-K through twelve in the school year. Almost 8 percent of those students reported being threatened or injured with a weapon while on school property. School violence has made news headlines all too often in recent years. In this accessible narrative, readers learn about the causes of school violence, including gangs, drugs, abuse at home, and accessibility to guns. Readers will examine the effects of how violence is portrayed in the entertainment industry. Examples of various conflicts and the skills needed to resolve them are studied as well. Strategies that schools are now using to prevent incidents of violence on school property, methods for staying safe, and programs involving anger management are also explored.

This helpful instructional title goes far beyond the simplistic directive “Just look online!” that many young researchers may be given when they are assigned school research. With so many resources online, ranging from academically rigorous to sloppy and suspect, the modern young researcher needs to be armed with strategies and tools that will yield the best information and help him or her organize and present that information effectively. In a modern school environment, the digital tools discussed in this book go a long way toward insuring success and excellence.

This descriptive text provides emerging readers with opportunities to learn about a season and an associated vegetable. Art and life science come together when talking about making a face on a Halloween pumpkin.

This life science title provides kids with a front-row seat to see the sequence of events in the growth of a potato, from seed to vegetable.

This vivid narrative nonfiction title explores students’ use of their classroom library. Readers experience students choosing texts and reading alone and together, as well as participating with their teacher in small-group instruction.

This descriptive nonfiction title provides scenarios for early readers to see these prepositions in action and to gain mastery of their correct usage.

This nonfiction text provides basic life science information about gardening. Close text-photo correlation helps emerging readers navigate a first-person narrative account of how a garden is planted.

This first-person account of caring for a garden and growing a tomato plant provides strong cause-and-effect evidence using a sequential text structure.

This important life science title provides domain-specific vocabulary with which children can make inferences and establish cause-and-effect relationships.

This descriptive title emphasizes how art and science go hand in hand and provides cross-curricular opportunities for instruction in both Earth science and art.

This first book of waterfalls provides an age-appropriate description of how waterfalls work, where water comes from, and where it goes. This text provides many opportunities for comparing and contrasting while demonstrating key earth science content.

Science, technology, engineering, and math come into play when engineers build dams. This nonfiction sequential text shows students how the work is conceived and completed.

As the number of first-hand witnesses shrinks, there is an urgent need to educate new generations of readers on the tragedy of the Holocaust. Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, this biography presents the harrowing details of one of the concentration camp''s most infamous figures. Known as Auschwitz''s Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele was the doctor responsible for some of the most unsettling Nazi human experiments. This biography uncovers the details of his early life, his rise within the Nazi Party, his atrocious deeds at the concentration camp, and his life in hiding.