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Urban Fiction Collection

Street lit readers place a high premium on authenticity. These titles keep it real. From teen pregnancy to drugs to rape, these stories focus on the issues that urban teens live with everyday.

Urban Underground (audi)

Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies, and self-esteem to name a few. More than entertainment, these books can be a powerful learning and coping tool when a struggling reader connects with credible characters and a compelling storyline. The highly readable style and mature topics will appeal to young adult readers of both sexes and encourage them to fin

Urban Underground Ë (cd)

Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies, and self-esteem to name a few. More than entertainment, these books can be a powerful learning and coping tool when a struggling reader connects with credible characters and a compelling storyline. The highly readable style and mature topics will appeal to young adult readers of both sexes and encourage them to fin

Urban Underground Ë Audiobooks

Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies, and self-esteem to name a few. More than entertainment, these books can be a powerful learning and coping tool when a struggling reader connects with credible characters and a compelling storyline. The highly readable style and mature topics will appeal to young adult readers of both sexes and encourage them to fin

Using Makerspaces for School Projects

ThereÎs a trend emerging in makerspaces, or community tech labs where people build gadgets from robots to an array of products with 3D printers, and more. This collection shows readers how makerspaces can help them innovate their school projects. Each book serves as a primer, providing readers with a general introduction to these tech labs and showing them where and how they can get involved with the maker community to create cutting-edge and innovative projects tailored to school assignments an

Vaccine Wars: When Science and Politics Collide

Vaccines have been one of the most important public health breakthroughs of the last century. Yet despite their ability to save lives, vaccines have become the objects of fear-mongering and fake science. From the groundbreaking polio vaccine to the COVID-19 vaccines produced in record time, Vaccine Wars: When Science and Politics Collide examines why these remarkably successful drugs remain so controversial.

Valiant

When Saville's father falls ill, Saville must don boys' clothes and take her place as tailor of Reggen just to keep them fed. Soon after Saville assumes her new identity, the people of the kingdom are set on edge when stories spread of an army of giants led by a man who cannot be killed. And they're marching toward Reggen to seize the throne. Then Saville meets two giant scouts and tricks them into leaving the city gates. Tales of the daring tailor's triumph quickly spin into impossible feats of

Vampirita

Vaping: Considering the Risks

Vaping has been promoted as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes, yet e-cigarettes are far from safe. This book explores the addictive nature of vaping and the health dangers e-cigarettes pose to teens. It examines the evolution of vaping and the tactics used to circumvent regulations and keep vapes on the market. It provides information for teens who need to think critically about these products and how they impact their health.

Velveteen Rabbit, The

A collection of 14 poetic verses surveys the life and art of Marc Chagall, the Jewish-Russian painter who gained renown throughout the 1900s with his modernist...