Overwhelmed teens can find validation in this faith-based guide.
A guide for teens trying to make sense out of intense feelings through a Christian lens.
Part workbook, part self-help guide, part Bible study, this handbook is geared toward those who experience big feelings and could use some support navigating the challenges that come with this territory. The author explains how the Bible can be a helpful guide to understanding and taking charge of one’s emotions: God and Jesus are framed as compassionate and encompassing big love themselves, an approach illuminated by carefully selected Scripture, such as poignant passages from the Bible. Each chapter tackles a different topic that can affect a sensitive teen, from relationships with family members to making friends and dating. Sections close with prompts for journaling, prayer suggestions, and additional Bible verses to explore on these things. Several quizzes help readers discover what type of feeler they are (big, steady, or reluctant) and how drama prone they may be, among other topics. While the book is labeled as being geared toward teens in general, gendered language and exclusively heterosexual relationship examples implicitly target a straight female audience. Concrete examples of turbulent emotional experiences given in the book are fairly light, and the author encourages readers to seek additional help if they are experiencing depression, abuse, or otherwise need more support.
Overwhelmed teens can find validation in this faith-based guide. (discussion guide) (Nonfiction. 12-18)Pub Date: Oct. 5, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4964-5107-1
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Wander
Review Posted Online: Aug. 15, 2021
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 2021
An optimistic introduction for those who want to “take a bite out of climate change.” (source notes, glossary, bibliography,...
Providing sobering facts about our challenged planet, this book encourages young readers to rethink their food sources.
Warming temperatures, rising seas, vanishing species crowded out by invasive ones—these are just some of the challenges of climate change. With earnest enthusiasm this book invites young readers to educate themselves and believe they can make a difference—through a “focus on food.” Reviewing the link between human food production and climate change, the authors note that eating invasive plants and animals (like dandelions, kudzu, and iguanas) might help us limit use of damaging chemicals and fertilizers and rebalance the ecosystem. Similarly, consuming protein-rich, low carbon-impact bugs such as crickets and grubs reduces the harmful effects of raising livestock—and may soon be “cool” (after all, eating lobsters 200 years ago provoked the “ew” that sampling crickets gets today). In 10 chapters with plentiful color photographs and illustrations, the authors educate and encourage, offering observations, often posed as chapter title directives: “Exotic Pests Can Be Delicious” or “Expand Your Aquatic Menu.” Persuasive explanations and concrete actions readers can take are accompanied by recipes, apps for plant identification, instructions for growing your own edible mealworms, and a list of restaurants around the world that serve bugs.
An optimistic introduction for those who want to “take a bite out of climate change.” (source notes, glossary, bibliography, further information, index) (Nonfiction. 12-18)Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5124-8121-1
Page Count: 132
Publisher: Twenty-First Century/Lerner
Review Posted Online: July 16, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 2018
A fine escapade related with proper drama and likely to be news even to well-read young historians.
Allied prisoners of war stage a series of intrepid escapes from German captors in this young readers’ version of a true story from World War I.
Established to hold captured Allied officers with histories of escape attempts, the camp at Holzminden, a “land-locked Alcatraz,” was 150 miles from the Dutch border and bristling with guards. Many of the inmates, though, were stimulated rather than discouraged by these obstacles and, from its foundation, made tries at freedom—most notably on the night of July 23, 1918, when 29 men crawled out through a narrow tunnel dug over the previous months. Only 10 eluded the ensuing manhunt, but the exploit made headlines in Great Britain and was, Bascomb (The Escape Artists, 2018, etc.) claims, “the greatest escape of the Great War.” Along with introducing a cast of colorful characters like RAF Lt. Harold Medlicott, “Britain’s answer to Harry Houdini,” who had already broken out of nine other camps, the author presents a picture of camp life as an oddly civilized affair in which the prisoners were so well-supplied from home that in the war’s immediate aftermath local residents came to them for food. The tales of the digging of the cramped tunnel and of the escape itself make suspenseful reading, enhanced by diagrams and photographs.
A fine escapade related with proper drama and likely to be news even to well-read young historians. (maps, sources, bibliography, index) (Nonfiction. 12-15)Pub Date: Sept. 18, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-338-14034-7
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Levine/Scholastic Focus
Review Posted Online: June 17, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2018
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