A young boy suffering from epilepsy in Nepal seeks treatment from traditional healers and western medicine. A young girl in a Tijuana slum observes the role pollution plays in the health of her community. A teenager in Atlanta is the only member of his family not infected with HIV and is learning to deal with the stigma of the disease.

This collection of unique narratives told from the perspectives of young people from around the world serves as a valuable educational tool, providing youth with a context for understanding global health, not just in a physiological sense, but from psychological and sociological perspectives as well. Representing six geographical regions and twenty-three countries, these stories address chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and epilepsy; infectious diseases like HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and typhoid; and mental and behavioral health issues such as depression, eating disorders, and smoking cessation.

These stories, along with ones that illustrate the environmental, political, and socio-cultural health factors that affect young people and their communities every day, are sure to spark debate and stimulate discussions in classrooms, community centers, and at dinner tables around the world. To assist in leading the conversations, Mendenhall has established a website: www.ghn4c.org/, to which she invites all teachers and parents.

Ages 12 and up.

Our children are in trouble. Of course, not all of them, but enough to consider that African American youth are in a "crisis of values." Many of the problems that our youth experience regardless of socioeconomic status, have their roots in the inculcation of values that are the antithesis of their true cultural values. This book is intended to be a guide for African American adults, parents, family members, neighbors, teachers all those who care about our children and desire to help them reclaim and reconnect with their true identity and true culture. We hope to provide concrete ways that adults can both model and talk to our children about the traditional beliefs and values that will enrich and in many cases save their lives. This book was introduced at the National Black Child Development Institute Conference held in October 2007 in Chicago.

Oxford successful social sciences is an exciting new course developed for the National Curriculum Statement. The course examines the relationship between people, and between people and their environment, promoting enquiry, interaction and independent reasoning. Features: the teacher's books provide clear guidelines on the Revised National Curriculum Statement, with new terminology and concepts explained; present a time-saving, comprehensive list covering the learning outcomes and assessment standards for the social sciences learning area; provide answers to the activities in the learner's book, and ideas for continuous assessment and extension activities; suggest a practical workplan for the year; offer photocopiable assessment pages for each chapter; include resource pages which give background information to the teacher.

Jade is a young girl with a big problem. She has run into her first trouble at school, and is struggling with the uncertainties we all face when we try to solve a problem alone. Fortunately for Jade, her wise grandfather from Hawaii is visiting and in his special way presents to Jade five simple rules for happy living. In the first and second rules Jade learns the value of creating a safe space and the emotions connected to withholding the truth and telling the truth. With the remaining rules, honoring all agreements, being supportive and keeping exchanges in balance and her grandfather's guidance, love and support, Jade experiences how each applies to her life in many important ways. As Jade grows, so in turn does her understanding, and our understanding, of how five rules shape and define lives and how they support ethical behavior in marriages, family and relationships.

1925. The lessons in this book are actual problems that other boys and girls of your age have faced. Some of them have decided to meet them the wrong way and others the right way. The author has written down for you these problems and the way the boys and girls have decided about them. The author hopes that by the end of this course of lessons the reader will have turned away from impulsiveness and learned to be a thinker.

Study & Master Life Skills has been especially developed by an experienced author team for the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). This new and easy-to-use course helps learners to master essential content and skills to build their life skills knowledge. The innovative Teacher's File includes: * expanded contents pages that provide a detailed work schedule for the whole year * guidance on the teaching of each lesson and an assessment for the whole year * step-by-step support in the teaching of Creative Arts and Physical Education activities * photocopiable record sheets and templates as well as additional songs and rhymes.

Study & Master Life Skills has been especially developed by an experienced author team for the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). This new and easy-to-use course helps learners to master essential content and skills to build their life skills knowledge. The innovative Teacher's File includes: * expanded contents pages that provide a detailed work schedule for the whole year * guidance on the teaching of each lesson and an assessment for the whole year * step-by-step support in the teaching of Creative Arts and Physical Education activities * photocopiable record sheets and templates as well as additional songs and rhymes

- Hip, new series targeting teen readers and today's topics filled with fun tips, exciting stories, bulleted lists, and more!
- From the creators of the bestselling little black book series that has sold over 200,000 copies!
- Stylish format that appeals to teen girls and makes reading fun!
- Cathy Bartel has been the support behind one of the largest youth ministries in America, Oneighty with over 450 affiliates nationwide!

Do you have problems with: losing your temper?, friends who quarrel?, being bullied?, helping children who are unpopular?, understanding your feelings? family arguments?, not knowing how to relax?, getting into trouble?, standing up against unfairness? This book, written for young people of, ten and upwards, may help you with new ideas and suggestions. Adults gain a lot, from it too

This delightful book teaches the lessons of life through illustration. Ms. Hitch presents wise proverbs, with a little explanatory note for each, and illustrates each with full page drawings that will enchant and charm readers of all ages.

What constitutes a just war? How does race matter in America? Are the interests of corporations the same as those of the public when it comes to the environment or public health? Middle and high school history, literature, and science classes abound with important moral, social, and political questions. But under pressure to cover required materials and out of fear of raising controversy, teachers often avoid classroom discussions of questions of profound importance to students and to society. This book investigates how schools can responsibly take an active role in moral education while honoring their academic mission. Using extensive observations in public, Catholic, and Jewish high schools, Katherine Simon analyzes the ways in which teachers avoid or address moral questions raised by students and implicit in course materials. She examines how morally charged issues may be taught responsibly in a diverse democracy. And in an afterword that teachers and teacher educators will find particularly useful, Simon provides practical tools and strategies for structuring discussion and designing units to help teachers explore moral issues more deeply with their middle and high school students.

It doesn't matter sends a message. The message is that no matter what you look like, beauty comes from within.

Etan Boritzer's 5th book in his best selling What is? series of children's titles dealing with life concepts asks children to consider the various contradictions in laughing at others, as well as the possibility of laughing at oneself. Gently suggesting a thoughtful approach to tolerance through humor, Boritzer (b. 1950) presents a subject we take for granted and looks at the various subtleties of what laughter is really about. Illustrated by Jeff Day to reflect the diversity of today's children and adults, the images and message here is one of positive values, compassion and acceptance.

A book written for Teens and Pre-teens. Mom Dad It will help you to bridge the communication gap with your teenagers. It is ideal for counseling sessions, family discussions and individual reading. Get it you will be glad you did.