At its heart Beautiful Boy is an amazingly honest and exquisitely written account of a family’s torturous journey through addiction. It raises questions that reflect the fears of every parent: Where does one’s responsibility to a loved one end? How—and when—should a parent know whether his or her child is substance abusing? And how does a family recover from the wounds afflicted by addiction and get on with their lives? David Sheff has written a powerful and moving family portrait that will resonate soundly with all readers and is sure to become a classic.

But Nobody Told Me I'd Ever Have to Leave Home: from Toddlers to Teens — How Parents Can Raise Children to Become Capable Adults. Kathy Lynn, $19.95

Letting go is an often difficult aspect of parenting. But Nobody Told Me I'd Ever Have to Leave Home examines a parent's influence over a child's playtime, temperament, friendships, and disappointments, and offers suggestions on when to let children make their own decisions. Covering all stages in a child's life — from toddlers to teenagers and on to the post-secondary years — Lynn offers practical advice to parents that will help their children develop into capable adults.

The Canadian Student Financial Survival Guide: a Comprehensive Handbook on Financing Your Education, Managing Your Expenses & Planning for a Debt-Free Future. Graham McWaters & Winthrop Sheldon, $21.95

Students today are faced with ever-rising costs of tuition, and the decisions made as to how to pay for school can be some of the most important a young person makes. The costs for college or university are prohibitive to some and very intimidating to others. It is critical for students to have a handle on their finances, have a plan to eliminate these fears and embark on a life of financial freedom. The Canadian Student Financial Survival Guide will show them how to do this. Includes valuable information on:

• student loan applications and other means of financing post-secondary education
• credit-card issues
• car leasing vs. car buying
• accommodation
• budgeting for school and beyond
• and many other issues for students faced with their first major financial decisions

The Connected Father: Understanding Your Unique Role and Responsibilities During Your Child’s Adolescence. Carl Pickhardt, $16.95

Psychologist Carl Pickhardt believes that fathers need to become informed about the changes and challenges that come with their child’s adolescence. To help caring fathers navigate the often perplexing stages of adolescence, The Connected Father describes:

• how fathers can learn to be better listeners
• different emotional changes between mid- and late-adolescence
• how to encourage independence while setting limits
• how fathers can talk to teens about drugs, sex, the internet and relationships

Connected Parenting: Transform Your Challenging Child and Build Loving Bonds for Life. Jennifer Kolari, $32.00

Connected Parenting offers a unique form of therapeutic parenting based on Kolari's groundbreaking application of the concept of "mirroring," an instinctive process that helps parents bond with their children and promotes optimum growth and development. Kolari's strategy is highly effective for kids of all ages, and has been proven to reduce a child's anxiety, increase self-esteem, and allow children to become more resilient and flexible. With step-by-step advice and examples from Kolari's years of experience, this is an easy-to-follow guide to strengthening the bond between you and your children.

Crashproof Your Kids: Make Your Teen a Safer, Smarter Driver. Timothy Smith, $27.00

In Crashproof Your Kids, certified driving instructor and dad Timothy Smith has combined the collective wisdom of numerous experts to develop the Crashproof Plan: a series of behind-the-wheel exercises designed to improve your teen's driving awareness, behavior, and skills. Written in a highly accessible, informal, and often humorous style, this comprehensive plan begins where drivers' education programs end.

Reassuring, warm, compassionate, funny and poignant, The Empty Nest is written by parents who have made the adjustment to an empty house. It’s the perfect book for any parent who is wondering what comes next.

Escaping the Endless Adolescence: How We Can Help Our Teenagers Grow Up Before They Grow Old. Joseph Allen & Claudia Worrell Allen, $29.95

Today’s teens are starved for the lost fundamentals they need to really grow: adult connections and the adult rewards of autonomy, competence, and mastery. Restoring these will help them unlearn their adolescent helplessness and grow into adults who can make you–and themselves–proud. With compelling examples and practical and profound suggestions, Escaping the Endless Adolescence outlines a novel approach for producing dramatic leaps forward in teen maturity.

From Binge to Blackout: a Mother and Son Struggle with Teen Drinking. Chris Volkmann & Toren Volkmann, $19.50

Throughout his college years, Toren Volkmann partied like there was no tomorrow, having what was supposed to be the time of his life. Like so many parents, his mother, Chris, overlooked Toren’s growing alcohol problem. But when he graduated, Toren realized he’d become a full-blown alcoholic. And he was not alone.

Considered a rite of passage, teenage drinking has skyrocketed to epidemic proportions, fostering a generation of young adults whose lives are already beginning to come apart under the strain. This book, written from the viewpoints of both mother and son, is a riveting, enlightening, and heartbreakingly true story of a family that was able to confront the fear, pain, and denial that threatened to destroy them—and survive the epidemic of teenage drinking that’s putting America’s future at risk.

The Gap-Year Advantage: Helping Your Child Benefit from Time Off Before or During College. Karl Haigler & Rae Nelson, $17.95

Taking time off before or during college or university can offer some students the opportunity to gain focus and discipline, learn to set goals, get real-world experience and ultimately get the most out of a college education. The Gap-Year Advantage provides parents with all the advice, tips and information they need to help students develop and implement a strategy for themselves.

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled and More Miserable Than Ever Before. Jean Twenge, $16.99

They are today's young people, a new generation with sky-high expectations and a need for constant praise and fulfillment. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge documents the self-focus of what she calls Generation Me - people born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Dr. Twenge explores why her generation is tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical, depressed, lonely, and anxious … Engaging, controversial, prescriptive, and often funny, Generation Me will give Boomers new insight into their offspring, and help GenMe'ers in their teens, 20s, and 30s finally make sense of themselves and their goals and find their road to happiness.

Getting to Calm: Cool-headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens & Teens.  Laura Kastner & Jennifer Wyatt, $21.95

Getting to Calm is a practical, realistic and ultimately reassuring guide to navigating one of the most challenging aspects of parenting today: staying calm and clear-headed during some of the most common hot-button situations that arise during the teen years. With humor, wisdom and a deep understanding of the teenaged brain, Drs. Kastner and Wyatt provide clear and useful tools for parents, giving them effective new ways to manage their own emotions in the heat of the moment  with their teen while maintaining — and even gaining — closeness.

Good to Go: a Practical Guide to Adulthood. Kim Zarzour & Sharon McKay, $24.00

From acclaimed author Sharon McKay and long-time Star journalist Kim Zarzour—both mothers of teens—comes the indispensable guide for teens and young adults leaving home for the first time. Whether you’ve locked yourself out of your apartment, clogged the drain, need to attend a wedding or funeral, there is no question or concern too trivial for Good to Go to tackle with competence, humour, and respect. It’s Mom in a book!

From a leading authority on adolescent self-injury, this reassuring parent guide explains what motivates cutting and how various treatments can provide effective routes to wellness. The book gives parents crucial information on how self-injury differs from suicidal behavior, ways to talk to teens about cutting without making it worse, and practical steps they can take to help teens cope with extreme emotions. Mental health professionals and students also will appreciate the book as an accessible overview of state-of-the-science treatment principles.

How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk. Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, $17.95

The renowned #1 New York Times bestselling authors share their advice and expertise with parents and teens in this accessible, indispensable guide to surviving adolescence. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish transformed parenting with their breakthrough, bestselling books Siblings Without Rivalry and How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. Now, they return with this essential guide that tackles the tough issues teens and parents face today. Filled with straightforward advice and written in their trademark, down-to-earth style sure to appeal to both parents and teens, this all-new volume offers both innovative, easy-to-implement suggestions and proven techniques to build the foundation for lasting relationships. From curfews and cliques to sex and drugs, it gives parents the tools to help their children safely navigate the often stormy years of adolescence.

Also available: How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk. Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, CD, $29.50. (3.5 hours)

How to Talk with Teens about Love, Relationships, & S-E-X: a Guide for Parents. Amy Miron & Charles Miron, $21.95

There’s no “right” way to teach teens about love, relationships, and sex. That’s why the Mirons encourage you to personalize your home education program to your child’s needs, your family values, and your comfort level. With this book close at hand, you’ll always have a place to turn, strategies to try, ideas for what to say, and guidance for meeting one of the biggest challenges parents face: communicating openly, honestly, and appropriately about these life-shaping, life-changing topics.

If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: an Essential Resource for Parents. Edna Foa & Linda Wasmer Andrews, $10.95

Growing up can be stressful for any teenager, but it is considerably harder for the many adolescents who develop an anxiety disorder. If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder provides adult readers with the clinical information and practical advice they need to understand and help the teen. Knowing the right information about anxiety disorders is the first step towards helping adolescents who are dealing with them grow to become healthy, happy adults.

I'm, Like, So Fat! Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World. Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, $17.95

In Love and In Danger: a Teen’s Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationships. Barrie Levy, $15.95

This book is for teenagers and parents of teens who have questions about abusive dating relationships. In Love and In Danger helps teens understand abusive dating situations, decide how to deal with them and learn how to get help. Providing useful information, practical advice and revealing interviews with teens, this newly revised edition includes a new afterword for parents and a resource sections with information on books, websites and organizations teens can turn to for help.

LAID. Young People’s Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture. Shannon Boodram, $19.95

LAID offers more than 40 personal narratives—from young women and men—about everything involving sex and being sexual. Need-to-know facts and Q&A’s accompany each chapter, providing food for thought on the many important and often maligned or misunderstood topics this book addresses.

The Lesbian Parenting Book: a Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children, 2nd Edition. D. Merilee Clunis and G. Dorsey Green, $24.50

Written by two experienced lesbian therapists and parents, this completely revised edition of The Lesbian Parenting Book has been updated to reflect the contemporary cultural and political landscape, as well as current trends in parenting.

The Little Black Book for Girlz: a Book on Healthy Sexuality. By Youth, for Youth (St. Stephen’s Community House), $9.95

The Little Black Book for Girlz is a book on healthy sexuality written by girls for girls. A diverse group of urban teens went looking for information about sexuality. They collected stories, poetry, interviews, art and more from other youth and health care workers. The result is an honest, factual look at the physical and emotional issues young women face — a powerful presentation of real-life examples and life-saving info.

The Little Black Book for Guys: Guys Talk about Sex. By Youth for Youth (St. Stephen’s Community House), $9.95

A survival guide to being a guy. Lots of guys talk the big talk, but what’s really going on with sex? That’s what a group of young men sat down to figure out for The Little Black Book for Guys. To get behind the hype, they talked to other teens and collected stories, poems, essays, and art about personal experiences. They also interviewed health professionals to get the facts they need to make healthy choices. The result is a revealing collection of personal thoughts and need-to-know information. Topics include:

• Puberty • Wet dreams • Masturbation • Penis size • Dating • Safer sex and birth control
• Sexually Transmitted Infections / AIDS

Written, illustrated, and designed by youth, and carefully vetted by doctors, The Little Black Book for Guys is more than a book about sex. It’s a snapshot of being a guy at the beginning of the 21st century.

Contains frank descriptions of sexuality and coarse language.

A Moment’s Peace for Parents of Teens offers a brief, daily time-out to recharge your batteries and meet the challenges of parenting teens.

More than Moody: Recognizing and Treating Adolescent Depression. Harold S. Koplowicz, $24.00

With solid advice and compelling real-life stories, More Than Moody is an invaluable resource for parents and teens, practical and reassuring. Koplowicz, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, shows parents the warning signs, risk factors and key symptoms that distinguish typical teenage behaviour from clinical depression.

My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training. Karen Stabiner, $32.95

Girls have gotten a bad rap. A wave of books over the last several years has given the impression that most girls lose their self-esteem during puberty, develop eating disorders, become bullies and lose respect for their parents. As a result, many parents dread the onset of adolescence and the teenage years that lie ahead. According to acclaimed journalist Karen Stabiner, girls have become marginalized by a caricature that only fits a small minority of genuinely troubled girls. In her engaging new book, My Girl, Stabiner documents her life with her adolescent daughter; digs deeper into the research on girls, and interviews many mothers and daughters. The result is a refreshing and honest account of what adolescent girls are really like and how parents can cope with the inevitable difficulties while also enjoying this remarkable time with their daughters. A winning combination of poignant — and often funny — memoir and first-rate journalism, My Girl reclaims our daughters and empowers mothers to create a better relationship with them.

A parent's guide to the baffling no-man's land between child and teen.

Parenting at the Speed of Teens: Positive Tips on Everyday Issues. Ruth Tasswel, editor. $16.50

“Parenting at the Speed of Teens is a practical, easy-to-use guide that offers positive, commonsense strategies for dealing with both the everyday issues of parenting teenagers—junk food, the Internet, stress, jobs, friends, and other serious issues teens may encounter—depression, divorce, racism, substance abuse. It illustrates how the daily "little things" such as talking one-on-one, setting boundaries, offering guidance, and modeling positive behavior make a big difference in helping a teenager be successful during these challenging, exciting years of adolescence.”

Parenting the Teenage Brain: Understanding a Work in Progress. Sheryl Feinstein, $23.95

New and exciting light is being shed on these mysterious young people who have replaced the sweet children you knew. What was once thought to be hormones run amuck can now be explained with the help of modern medical technology, such as MRI and PET scans. To no one's surprise, it seems the teenage brain is still under construction. Understanding the neuroscience behind a teen’s development can help parents adjust to the highs and lows of adolescent behavior.

The Path to Purpose: How Young People Find Their Calling in Life. William Damon, $19.99

The Path to Purpose looks at youth who are thriving — highly engaged in activities they love and developing a clear sense of what they want to do with their lives — and youth who are still rudderless, at serious risk of never fulfilling their potential. What makes the difference? Based on in-depth interviews, Damon offers compelling portraits of the young people who are thriving.  He identifies the nine key factors that have made the difference for them, presenting simple but powerful methods that parents can employ in order to cultivate that energized sense of purpose in young people that will launch them on the path to a deeply satisfying and productive life.

Ready or Not, Here Life Comes. Mel Levine, $19.00
"Dr. Mel Levine, pediatrician and author, addresses the question of why some youngsters make a successful transition into adulthood while others do not. In recent years, we have experienced an epidemic of career un-readiness as too many young people begin what he calls "the startup years" unprepared for the challenge of initiating a productive life. Parents and schools often raise children in a highly structured world of overscheduled activities, meeting kids' demands for immediate gratification but leaving them unable to cope on their own. Instead of making a smooth transition into adulthood, many youngsters find themselves trapped in their teenage years, traveling down the wrong career road, unable to function in the world of work. These young people have failed, says Dr. Levine, to properly assess their strengths and weaknesses and have never learned the basics of choosing and advancing through the stages of a career … Insightful, wise, and compassionate, Ready or Not, Here Life Comes is a powerful commentary on our times and a book that can help adolescents and startup adults — with an assist from parents and educators — to spring from the starting gate of adulthood.

From 'hooking up' to 'friends with benefits' — The Real Truth About Teens & Sex gives parents and teachers an inside look what teens are thinking, doing and talking about when it comes to sex and sexuality.

Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child. Mary Gordon, $29.95

With violence, anti-social behaviour, bullying, and aggression among young children escalating at a frightening rate, it is clear that we need to develop a new understanding of childhood. Mary Gordon, an educator who has worked for more than two decades with children from all kinds of backgrounds, has discovered that the solution to bullying and other anti-social behaviour lies within each child's innate sense of caring and compassion. She believes that infusing children with empathy constitutes nothing less than a new paradigm in our approach to child-raising.

Through the Roots of Empathy, her highly successful organization, Mary Gordon creates a rich, rewarding classroom experience that fosters empathy within children. The program brings babies and students together in a symbiotic loving environment that has been proven to reduce aggression and increase tolerance and emotional understanding in children. Currently, the Roots of Empathy has more than 1,100 programs in Canada and is reaching more than 28,000 students in eight Canadian provinces. It is also piloted for programs in Japan and Australia.

In Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child, the innovative and inspired book based on her groundbreaking research and successful classroom program, Mary Gordon shares her vision of a nation of compassionate and caring children who will pass on their legacy of empathy to their own children.

All of the royalties from this book go back into the Roots of Empathy program.

The Secret Lives of Teen Girls: What Your Mother Wouldn’t Talk about But Your Daughter Needs to Know. Evelyn Resh, $18.95

In The Secret Lives of Teen Girls, Evelyn Resh — a certified nurse-midwife, sexuality counselor, and mother to a teenage daughter — explores the provocative world of female adolescent sexuality. Resh explains how developing a sexual identity — often without adult guidance or a basic knowledge of what is happening physically and emotionally — can have lifelong effects on a girl’s well-being.

In this insightful book, Resh confronts serious issues of adolescence, including sex, eating disorders, and substance abuse; as well as less serious but still troubling issues like battles with parents over clothing and curfews, the importance of being “cool,” and the complexity of friendships. Drawing from both her professional and personal experiences, Resh shares with us revealing, humorous, and occasionally surprising anecdotes that parents of teenage daughters everywhere will relate to.

Success without College: Why Your Child May Not Have to Go to College Right Now — and May Not Have to Go at All. Linda Lee, $17.95

Success without College is a groundbreaking book that reveals the surprising facts of why many bright kids are not suited for college (or at least not right after high school). This accessible, knowledgeable book looks at the many positive, creative solutions to the college dilemma.

Surviving Your Adolescents: How to Manage and Let Go of Your 13-18 Year Olds. Thomas Phelan, DVD $46.95; book $16.95

"Living with a teenager is no picnic. There are times when you must bite your tongue as they push towards independence. Or, if you sense there is trouble, there are times when you must take charge. This book gives parents a step-by-step approach that will help end the hassles and offer concrete solutions. In Surviving Your Adolescents, you will learn:

• What is normal adolescent behavior
• How to manage teenage risk-taking
• Exactly what problems require you to "let go"
• What not to do
• The relationship between parent/teen communication and safety
• The five ways to improve your relationship
• And more…"

Teen Brain, Teen Mind: What Parents Need to Know to Survive the Adolescent Years. Ron Clavier, $24.95

"Written by renowned psychologist Dr. Ron Clavier, Teen Brain, Teen Mind examines the neurological changes in the brain that underlie many of the emotions of young people. Clavier argues that a clear understanding of the teenage brain is the key we need to unlock the age-old mysteries of why our kids act the way they act and think the way they think. From drug use and early sexual activity to fashion and music, Clavier covers topics of relevance to both teens and their parents. Along the way, he offers numerous coping tips and strategies designed to ease tensions and improve communications."

The Teen Whisperer: How to Break Through the Silence and Secrecy of Teenage Life. Mike Linderman & Gary Brozek, $16.25

Mike Linderman is a star in the making. He wrestles cattle at the crack of dawn, then spends his days working with the country's most troubled teens before coming home at night to three healthy teens of his own. Where so many other therapists can only offer futile advice to struggling parents, Linderman has mastered a blend of down home honesty and military–like discipline––not to mention a layer of trust and love very rarely found in the therapist's office.

Most of the teens Linderman treats are angry, abused, violent, and dangerous–they are children without hope. Yet despite their difficult pasts, Linderman has achieved an extraordinary success rate with these teens, helping them turn their lives around and earning him the nickname "The Teen Whisperer." Interacting with teens on their terms and in their language, Linderman allows parents to see that in order to help kids you must meet them at their level and treat them as peers not subordinates. With powerful and effective words, he calls on readers to understand that our teenagers deserve our love––not our fear––and ultimately it is this unique and straightforward perspective that sets him apart. It is this methodology, grounded in honesty and integrity, that has led to his unparalleled success record with some our country's most difficult youths. This is the story of that success and how parents can use the lessons he's learned to heal the troubled hearts of their own families.

13 is the New 18 and Other Things My Children Taught Me While I Was Having a Nervous Breakdown Being Their Mother. Beth Harpaz, $17.99

A book for any parent of teens, this is a comical foray into today’s increasingly widening generation gap and one mom’s attempt to figure it all out with little guidance and a whole lot of misplaced guilt.

Too Safe for Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive. Michael Ungar, $22.99

Internationally respected social worker and family therapist Michael Ungar tells us why our mania to keep our kids safe is causing us to do the opposite - put them in harm’s way. By continuing to protect them from failure and disappointment, many of our kids are missing out on the “risk-taker’s advantage,” the benefits that come from experiencing manageable amounts of danger. In Too Safe for Their Own Good, Ungar inspires parents to recall their own childhoods and the lessons they learned from being risk-takers and responsibility-seekers, much to the annoyance of their own parents. He offers the support parents need in setting appropriate limits and provides concrete suggestions for allowing children the opportunity to experience the rites of passage that will help them become competent, happy, thriving adults.

In our mania to provide emotional life jackets around our kids, helmets and seatbelts, approved playground equipment, after-school supervision, an endless stream of evening programming, and no place to hang out but the tiled flooring of our local mall, we parents are accidentally creating a generation of youth who are not ready for life. Our children are too safe for their own good.

—From Too Safe for Their Own Good

Understanding Your Teenager's Depression: Issues, Insights and Practical Guidance for Parents, Revised 2005. Kathleen McCoy, $22.50

Understanding Your Teenager's Depression has been newly updated to provide an impressive overview of what it is like to be a teenager today-and what options are now available to make things better. Including up-to-date information on the multiple causes and manifestations of depression-anger, rebellion, eating disorders, sexual promiscuity, truancy, and suicide-this indispensable book also explores the role of learning disabilities in depression, gender and cultural factors, and family relationships and dysfunction.

What It Takes to Pull Me Through. David Marcus, $28.95

The Academy at Swift River specializes in one of the toughest tasks a school can undertake: helping teenagers in crisis regain their bearings. During a fourteen-month academic term at the school, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David L. Marcus witnesses the intense process that turns these kids around. In his time on campus, Marcus gets to know a diverse and remarkable group of teenagers: a former straight-A student reeling from the death of her mother; a teachers' son grappling with anger over being adopted; a southern girl immersed in drug abuse and unsafe sex and a boy from Queens overwhelmed by depression. Granted full access to the Swift River proceedings, Marcus is given the rare chance to observe the students' struggles and see their transformations from the inside. In What It Takes to Pull Me Through, he charts a path to redemption that any teen, any parent, can follow.

When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School. John McNally, editor, $18.99

Candid, funny and painfully true, these essays conjure up memories of those formative years. When I Was a Loser is a wonderful reminder for parents and others who work with teens, of the emotional highs and lows of adolescence.

When No One Understands: Letters to a Teenager on Life, Loss and the Hard Road to Adulthood. Brad Sachs, $18.00

In this unique book, a therapist shares his moving letters to a troubled, sometimes suicidal teen. The anguish, loneliness and concerns shared by many teens – including relationships, drugs and alcohol, parents, school, stress – are all addressed with compassion and humility. Written for teens, parents and therapists, this respectful volume inspires growth and healing during the sometimes tumultuous days of adolescence.

When Things Get Crazy with Your Teen: the Why, the How and What to Do Now. Michael Bradley, $28.95

Offering practical “first response” advice, When Things Get Crazy with Your Teen tells you exactly what to do and what NOT to do in just about every scenario you’ll ever face with your kid - from messy rooms and monstrous moods to drug abuse and depression.

Why Boys Don't Talk and Why It Matters: a Parent's Survival Guide to Connecting with Your Teen. Susan Morris Shaffer & Linda Perlman Gordon, $18.95

Adolescent boys are notoriously uncommunicative. Unfortunately, too many parents equate not talking with not feeling and, as authors Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon explain in this groundbreaking guide, parents who make that assumption end up validating only the most superficial aspects of their sons ... Gives parents proven techniques for communicating with their adolescent sons and reestablishing strong emotional bonds with them.

Why Girls Talk and What They're Really Saying: a Parent's Survival Guide to Connecting with Your Teen. Susan Morris Shaffer & Linda Perlman Gordon, $21.95

Because adolescent girls tend to talk so much, parents often assume that girls are easier to communicate with than boys. In reality, much of what teenage girls say is the opposite of a healthy expression of emotion, often taking the form of fighting, brooding hostility, or, at times, over involvement. Why Girls Talk and What They're Really Saying is a valuable guide that deconstructs the ways girls communicate with their parents, especially mothers and arms parents with tools for cutting through the chatter and drama and getting at what their daughters are really saying.

Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol or Other Drugs. Alex Packer, $22.95

The best-selling author of How Rude!™ describes more than 150 ways to feel really, really good-naturally, safely, and creatively. From breathing and meditation to exercise and sports, gardening, music, and games, these are "highs" that can change teens' lives without leaving them dull, burned out, or hung over.

Young Misery: a Guide for Parents and Professionals. David Palframan, $21.95

A child and family psychiatrist discusses child and youth depression—how to identify it, and how to cope. A guide for parents and professionals.

Young People in Love and in Hate. Nick Luxmoore, $20.95

Using dozens of recognizable vignettes, psychotherapist and school counselor Luxmoore movingly explores the dramatic conflict between young people's loving and hating as they move from the intimacy of relationships with parents to relationships with boyfriends and girlfriends, frantically negotiating sex and sexuality, the meaning of love, faithfulness and unfaithfulness and many other issues vital to the adults these young people will become.

The book will be essential reading for professionals and parents struggling with the ferocity of young people's feelings where 'I love you!' and 'I hate you!' are never far apart.

Your Defiant Teen: 10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship. Russell Barkley & Arthur Robin, $18.95

Russell Barkley and Arthur Robin-award-winning researchers and coauthors of a leading book on defiant teens for therapists have created a clinically proven self-help program that parents can use to restore order and rebuild trust. Your Defiant Teen demonstrates how to establish common ground, encourage mutual respect, and introduce cooperative problem solving - all without escalating the struggle for control. Much more than just a way to keep the peace, Drs. Barkley and Robin offer parents a means to teach their teenagers skills that will serve them well for a lifetime.