Summary: This hard-hitting documentary uses interviews with several girls, their boyfriends, parents, counselors, teachers, and other professionals to examine one of the most critical issues facing young Americans today. Exploring the reasons why so many teenagers get pregnant, the video looks at the facts on adolescent sexual behavior and attitudes toward birth control. Although the emphasis is focused...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Young mothers need to be aware of the benefits and problems associated with the options of marriage or single parenting. This program stresses the importance of developing a positive and responsible attitude in order to make the best of the situation. The video provides information on finding a doctor, prenatal care, and the benefits of a practical diet, exercise, and childbirth classes, as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this engrossing documentary, filmmaker and author Joanna Lipper follows six teen mothers and several young fathers through their last months of high school. This film goes beyond explaining the difficulties of early parenthood to reveal the compassionate strength, resilience, self-awareness, and insight of these adolescents as they look back on past decisions with enhanced understanding of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Elkind, David
Summary: Charts the baby-boom generation's obsession with raising successful children and the adverse results experienced by youngsters asked to do too much too soon, and offers advice on avoiding this syndrome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 ELKSummary: Franklin is very afraid of places that are dark and small, even his own shell! When Mrs. Turtle finds out about his fear, she tells him the story of another little turtle just like him that was afraid of the very same thing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KaBOOM! Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FRAGarner, James.
Summary: The revered actor and quintessential self-made man recalls "trying to decipher" William Wyler with Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine, breaking Doris Day's ribs, having a "heart-to-heart and eyeball-to-eyeball" with Steve McQueen, being "a card-carrying liberal--and proud of it," and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARNER, JAMES GARSummary: With the birth of his first child, Independent filmmaker Darren Doane picked up his camera and began documenting the process of becoming a family. Ten years in the making, the result is a profound and entertaining documentary for the entire family. From mud puddles and family road trips, to backyard parties and the birth of their third child in the front seat of their truck, Doane captures all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THEStabler, David
Summary: "In his first NFL season, wide receiver Ja'Marr Chase helped lead the Cincinnati Bengals to the Super Bowl. Learn about the life and career of this rising football superstar"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publication 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHAStabler, David
Summary: "Edmonton Oilers center Connor McDavid became team captain at the age of 19, setting an NHL record. Hockey fans will love learning about this star athlete's greatest moments, life off the ice, and more"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MCDMaurer, Gretchen
Summary: Looks into the lives, challenges, and successes of Filipino immigrants.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MAUPatterson, Dave
Summary: A young altar boy questions his impoverished family's hard-line Catholic beliefs in the face of his father's weapons-plant job, his mother's diagnosis with cancer, and a peer's struggles against the pressures of growing up too fast.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PATKingsbury, Karen
Summary: When Kari Baxter is assigned an essay about what she wants to be when she grows up, her mind goes blank. She doesn't want to grow up; she wants everything to stay just like it is. But Kari comes to realize that while making time stand still isn't possible, she can enjoy every moment with her best family ever. Meanwhile, Ashley Baxter feels the same way. She is worried her siblings are growing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction KingsburyTilton, Adelle Jameson.
Summary: Provides practical advice, expert reassurance, and real-life tips to help your family cope with an autistic child.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2010
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 618.92 TILLevit, Joseph
Summary: "Deinonychus used blade-like teeth and deadly sickle claws to take down large dinosaurs. Readers learn about these feathered predators from engaging text and bold illustrations reviewed by Smithsonian experts."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 567.912 LEVCussler, Clive.
Summary: After a former NUMA colleague disappears while researching the icebergs of Antartica, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala head to the freezing edge of the world to investigate. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also up against a terrifying man-made weapon, a fast growing ice that could usher in a new ice age.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part Gale, a Cengage Comapany 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CUSDodd, Christina
Summary: Kellen Adams has three deadly problems: She seriously offended a maniacal killer ; she just had a bullet removed from her brain; and, her new daughter is growing up too fast-- and she's in the line of fire. Living on an obscure, technology-free island off California should mean safety from the murderer who hunts Kellen and her new family. But as family time becomes terror-time, Kellen faces a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DODCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DODLavigne, Avril
Contents: Rock n roll -- Here's to never growing up -- 17 -- Bitchin' summer -- Let me go (feat. Chad Kroeger) -- Give you what you like -- Bad girl (feat. Marilyn Manson) -- Hello kitty -- You ain't seen nothin' yet -- Sippin' on sunshine -- Hello heartache -- Falling fast -- Hush hush.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Bmg Music 2013