Essays Teens

“Masterful. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a beautiful, timely book about the human condition—and a timeless reminder to pay attention to your attention.” —Adam Grant, #1 bestselling author of Think Again and host of the podcast Re:Thinking The instant #1 bestseller from John Green, author...

Warren Buffett’s Partnership Letters: Translated for Teens reveals the strategies that Buffett used to make billions. The book takes important lessons from Buffett’s early years and translates them in a practical way for teenagers. Warren Buffett ran his investment partnership from 1956 to 1969. During that time Buffett achieved the best results of his investing career. The book is organized into five chapters. Chapter One: The Wisdom of Warren Chapter Two: The Mindset of an Investor Chapter Three: The Philosophy of an Investor Chapter Four: The Power of Compounding Chapter Five: How to...

Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination with this New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive. You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate...

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s Life Skills For Teens features 20 lessons for teens based on the writings and speeches of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. Each chapter gives teenagers practical guidance on how to develop these important life skills. Learning the skills in this book will help teenagers to be successful in investing and in life. Here are some of the chapters featured in this book: The Power of Inversion Wait for the Fat Pitch Develop an Inner Scorecard

An audio tour of the structures and patterns we call "math" This is an audiobook about math, but it contains no numbers. Math Without Numbers is a vivid, conversational, and wholly original guide to the three main branches of abstract math—topology, analysis, and algebra—which turn out to be...

These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, taking listeners through the seasons. In Paulsen’s north country, every expedition is a major one, and often hilarious. Once again Gary Paulsen demonstrates why he is one of America’s most beloved writers, for he shows us fishing and hunting as pleasure, as art, as companionship, and as source of life’s deepest lessons.

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less a...

The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked...

The candid, poignant, unforgettable writing of the young girl whose own life story has become an everlasting source of courage and inspiration. Hiding from the Nazis in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus...

The National Book Award–winning novel by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald” Joe Chapin led a storybook life. A successful small-town lawyer with a beautiful wife, two over-achieving children, and aspirations to be president, he seemed to have it all. But as...

An entertaining and educational experience for adults, teens and tweens. Maincrest Media Book Award for Pre-teen Fiction in 2024 Selected by Amazon Editors in the UK and US for Prime Reading in 2024 and 2025 Finalist in the 2024 Wishing Shelf Awards (Teens) and the Book Excellence Awards (SF) Silver medal for Teen and Young Adult Sci-Fi Action & Adventure in the 2023 Global Book Awards A tale of two kitties: a sooty kitten; a brain computer interface kit. The building of the hadron collider was once big news, but now it is just part of the scenery for most of the community, until Airlie and...

NEW EDITION with Heroine's Foreword +educational links: An entertaining educational experience for adults, teens and tweens An entertaining and educational experience for adults, teens and tweens. Maincrest Media Book Award for Pre-teen Fiction in 2024 Selected by Amazon Editors in the UK and US for Prime Reading in 2024 and 2025 Finalist in the 2024 Wishing Shelf Awards (Teens) and the Book Excellence Awards (SF) Silver medal for Teen and Young Adult Sci-Fi Action & Adventure in the 2023 Global Book Awards A tale of two kitties: a sooty kitten; a brain computer interface kit. The building ...

“We count on our best young fiction writers to bring us news from the digital nervous system. Honor Levy . . . does so with special bite and élan.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times The magnetic debut collection from author Honor Levy, now with an additional story for the paperback...

These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women -- and imagine a more liberated world. Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless," "Sassy," "Ambitious,"...

AI is reshaping college admissions—quietly, powerfully, and long before most families realize it. From the moment a student clicks “learn more,” opens an email, or watches a virtual tour, colleges begin collecting signals that feed AI‑powered systems. These systems help admissions offices decide who to notice, who to contact, and where to invest limited time and scholarship dollars. For students and parents, this can feel like a hidden game with invisible rules. AI’s Impact on College Recruitment: What Every Student and Parent Should Know pulls back the curtain on how modern ...

At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including “Unworthy” and “The Other...

This program includes an introduction read by Lady Gaga For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kindness can change the way we view one another, our communities, and even ourselves. She embodies this mission, and through her work...

Mom’s Choice Awards Gold Award Recipient. The Write Way to Get a Girlfriend has been named among the best in family-friendly media, products and services. When Juan entered the essay contest, it wasn’t for the prize money. He wanted to prove to Tao, to his friends, and to himself that he wasn’t stupid; however, learning to write a college level essay wasn’t going to be easy. With the help of his new girlfriend and tutor, Kirsten, he not only learns how to write, but how to study, search for employment, handle a job interview, prepare for the SAT, plan for college, and who his ...

An enlightening and entertaining collection of the most esteemed love poems in the English canon, retold in contemporary language everyone can understand James Anthony has long enjoyed poetry with a strict adherence to beat, rhythm, and rhyming patterns, which he likens to the very best pop...