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YA Non Fiction (78 series)

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Combining practical content with visual appeal, the Life Skills Handbooks read more like magazines than books. These 120-page handbooks are designed to teach life skills to today’s teens in an approachable and non-threatening way. Realistic scenarios help teens grasp the relevance of the information in these books, along with graphs, and charts add to students’ understanding. Essential vocabulary is featured to help students build real-world literacy.

Lifeskills in Action (Soft Skills)

Develop students’ soft skills with these five books. Critical elements of soft skills in the workplace and everyday life are explored in these flip books. Topics include: communication, emotional intelligence, adaptability, problem-solving, and work ethic. Each book is actually two books in one, with a nonfiction side and a fiction side. The nonfiction side teaches students about an important soft skills topic with full-color content, and the fiction side is a text story that helps to generalize

Media Bias: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?

Media bias can take many different forms. It can be seen in stories that favour one side over another. It can be seen in story placement. It can even be seen in whether a story gets covered at all. This book examines what media bias looks like, the damage it can do, and the efforts of news organizations to both ensure fairness and counter sometimes-exaggerated claims of bias by politicians.

Media Literacy (BrightPoint Press)

Media Literacy explores how people get their news and whether they can trust it. Readers will learn key media literacy skills to help them become insightful consumers of news media. Each book includes a graphic that presents key information visually, source notes, and resources to aid in further research.

Mental Health Crisis

Health and medical experts have sounded the alarm about a troubling rise in anxiety and depression, eating disorders, drug overdoses, and teen suicide. This series examines what has been happening and why, how teens in particular have been affected, and ways to get help. In addition to real-world accounts, facts and commentary from knowledgeable sources add depth to every volume in this series.

Mythology Around the World

Cultures the world over differ in myriad ways, but frequently their mythologies demonstrate universal human themes. Volumes in this series explore stories of creation, death, love, nature, and war that have been told and retold in cultures spanning the globe.

Our Solar System (BrightPoint Press)

Our Solar System takes readers on a tour of the planets, moons, and other objects found in Earth’s neighbourhood in space. The series explains where these bodies are, what they look like, and how scientists study and explore them. Each book includes a graphic that presents key information visually, source notes, and resources to aid in further research.

Pandemic Aftereffects: The Surge in Teen Eating Disorders

The Covid-19 pandemic led to a surge in teen eating disorders. Faced with school shutdowns, isolation, and other stressors, many young people felt a loss of control over their lives. For some, food was the only thing they could control. This book explores eating disorders and exactly why this surge in eating disorders occurred. The text is filled with personal stories of how eating disorders develop, what it is like to struggle with an eating disorder during the pandemic, and what it takes to co

Pandemic Report Card: Successes and Failures

Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have ranged from helpful to harmful. Using personal stories and research studies, this book examines pandemic successes and failures in public health, the economy, and science. The lessons COVID-19 has taught can help Americans prepare for future pandemics, which experts say are inevitable.

Power of Social Media, The

Social media has been used to turn average teens into celebrities, shake financial markets, and drive the masses into the streets in protest. It has also been blamed for increasing addictive behaviour, spreading lies, and lowering the self-esteem of users. This book brings together academic research, personal stories, and current events to explore the power of social media in today’s world.