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Writing Great Books for Young Adults
With an 87 percent increase in the number of titles published in the last two years, the YA market is one of the healthiest segments in the industry. Despite this, little has been written to help authors hone their craft to truly connect with this audience. Covering a wide range of topics including, listening to the voices of youth, meeting your young protagonist, developing a writing style, constructing plots and trying on points of view. Writing Great Books for Young Adults gives writers the advice they need to tap this incredible market.
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The Favorite Child
The Favorite Child: Ellen Weber Libby, PhD (Annapolis, MD), is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in private practice in Washington, DC, for over thirty years.
In The Favorite Child Libby shows us in fascinating case studies how parental favoritism hurts individuals and families alike. To be anointed as a favorite child may foster ambition, self-confidence, and a desire to serve but with those positive qualities can also come dispositions destructive in our leaders, particularly, a sense of entitlement and exemption from the rules governing everyone else. In the unacknowledged politics of our families, Libby counsels us, may lie a clue to the troubled politics of the nation. This book is a must read for all those interested in the growth of healthy, productive children.
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A Purse of Your Own
In A Purse of Your Own, wealth coach Deborah Owens draws from more than twenty years of experience in the financial services industry for a revolutionary and simple approach to investment literacy: Women can take control of their lives and purses by leveraging the feminine powers of intuition, creativity, and empathy to build personal wealth. Filled with quizzes (Pursercises), resource guides (Pursessentials), and examples of real women from housewives to executives who have drastically changed their lives (Purseonality Profi les), A Purse of Your Own will show you how to create and maintain wealth from understanding how your money works.
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The Working Woman's Pregnancy Book
The Working Woman's Pregnancy Book : Dr. Marjorie Greenfield draws from her experiences as an obstetrician and working mom in this up-to-date guide that addresses all the subjects you would expect to find in an authoritative book on pregnancy. Drawing from more than a hundred interviews with mothers, ranging from factory workers to high-powered attorneys, answers to questions from 60 to 80 percent of women who hold jobs during their pregnancies can be found in the pages of this practical and reassuring book.
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In The Black
In The Black: With economic uncertainty reaching unprecedented levels, Aaron W. Smith's accessible nine-step plan to take control of your financial future will resonate whether you're just starting out or finding yourself midlife with concerns about your retirement. In The Black will transform your retirement plans, regardless of income, by offering concrete advice on what opportunities are available and using real-life examples to illustrate how anyone can achieve their financial dreams be they middle- aged and facing debt or actively saving since their early twenties.
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Girligami
Girligami: Origami is fun. But there’s a limit on how many origami cranes anyone can use in a lifetime. Fortunately, Cindy Ng, founder of Finger Magic, an origami design boutique based in San Francisco, brought us Girligami! Twenty adorable, out of the box designs are perfect for anyone who loves fashion, friends, and folding. Oooh, look! Little shoes! Purses! Clothing! Purses! Adorable animals! Valentine hearts! Fortune-tellers! More! More! More! Each project comes with step-by-step directions plus multiple preprinted origami papers to tear out and fold. A separate chapter shows great ways to use the origami crafts, like turning them into earrings and necklaces or adding them to cards and gifts.
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The Other Half of My Heart
The Other Half of My Heart: The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award winner Sundee T. Frazier. When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black like Mama, but Minni is white like Daddy. Together the family might look like part of a chessboard row, but they are first and foremost the close-knit Kings. Then Grandmother Johnson calls, to invite the twins down South to compete for the title of Miss Black Pearl Preteen of America.
Minni dreads the spotlight, but Keira assures her that together they'll get through their stay with Grandmother Johnson. But when grandmother's bias against Keira reveals itself, Keira pulls away from her twin. Minni has always believed that no matter how different she and Keira are, they share a deep bond of the heart. Now she'll find out the truth.
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Put Your Dreams First
Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your Entertainment Business: There is a great mystique about the entertainment industry and a fervent desire in many to be part of it. But what many women don't realize is that most entertainment career guides are written from the point of view of the male executive, or are filled with industry and legal jargon-making them difficult to read and understand.
Now, in PUT YOUR DREAMS FIRST, Thembisa Mshaka uses her 15 years of experience in the music industry to expose the hidden truths that women need to know as they aspire toward entertainment careers, such as how to avoid compromising one's self-respect and the little-known fact that women run a large part of the business. This highly informative guide is for every woman wanting to know how to navigate the entertainment superhighway and find that job of a lifetime.
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Most Loved in All the World
Most Loved in All the World: With a poet's keen ear, Tonya Hegamin tells the account of a little girl whose mother is a secret agent on the Underground Railroad. Before sending her daughter north to freedom, the mother sews a quilt for her daughter, not only to guide her with its symbols of moss and the north star, but also to remind her always that the smiling girl in the center of the quilt is "most loved in all the world." An authentic and powerful account of slavery and how a handmade quilt helps a little girl leave home for freedom.
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Ruby and the Booker Boys
Ruby and the Booker Boys: Trivia Queen: Eight-year-old Ruby Booker is the baby sis of Marcellus (11), Roosevelt (10), and Tyner (9), the most popular boys on Chill Brook Ave. When Ruby isn't hanging with her friend, Theresa Petticoat, she's finding out what kind of mischief her brothers are getting into. She's sweet and sassy and every bit as tough as her older siblings. She sings like nobody's business; she has a pet iguana named Lady Love; her favorite color is grape-jelly purple; and she has BIG plans. She's going to be the most famous woman animal doctor on the planet. She's the fabulous, oh-so-spectacular Ruby Marigold Booker!
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Sweethearts of Rhythm
Sweethearts of Rhythm: In the 1940s, as the world was at war, a remarkable jazz band performed on the American home front. This all-female band, originating from a boarding school in the heart of Mississippi, found its way to the most famous ballrooms in the country, offering solace during the hard years of the war. They dared to be an interracial group despite the cruelties of Jim Crow laws, and they dared to assert their talents though they were women in a "man's" profession. Told in thought-provoking poems and arresting images, this unusual look at our nation's history is deep and inspiring.
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