Student Resources: 

Recommended Internet Websites
  
Do You Need Study and Homework Help?
• Study Skills Topic Pages http://www.how-to-study.com/
• How to make homework less work http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/school_jobs/
• Coping with stress http://www.geocities.com/beyond_stretched/academic.htm

Are You Being Bullied Or Teased?
• Bullying/Teasing Victim Manual http://bullies2buddies.com/manual/kids/index.html
• http://www.nobully.org.nz/kids.htm
• http://www.kidpower.org
• http://hometown.aol.com/kthynoll
• http://www.nldline.com/bullyres.htm

Do You Need Information On Eating Disorders?
• Kids and Eating Disorders 
    http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/learning_problem/eatdisorder.html
• http://eatingdisorders.about.com/health/eatingdisorders/msubbulimia.htm
• http://mirror-mirror.org/eatdis.htm
• http://mentalhealth.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2F
www.something-fishy.org

Do you need Information on Mental Health?
• http://mentalhealth.about.com/health/mentalhealth/index.htm
• www.apa.org

Do you Need Information about Learning Disabilities?
• http://www.ldteens.org

Do you need Information about Smoking?
• http://www.notobacco.org/

Do you need Information about Internet safety?
• http://www.wiredkids.org/

Great sites with tons of links to drug prevention, alcohol use, sexuality and many more :
• http://www.sadd.org/links.htm
• http://www.teenhelp.com/
• http://www.teencentral.net/
• http://www.teenhelp.org/index.php?categoryid=4

Recommended Books

Academic Success
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, by Sean Covey. New York: Fireside
• Rats Saw God, by Rob Thomas. New York: Simon & Schuster
• Stay Strong: Simple Life Lessons for Teens, by Terrie Williams. New York: Scholastic

AIDS
• At Risk, by Alice Hoffman
• Unicorn Mountain, by Michael Bishop
• Night Kites, by M.E. Kerr
• What You Don’t Know Can Kill You, by Fran Arrick

Abuse
• The Only Alien on the Planet, by Kristen Randall
• Promise Not to Tell, by Jane Frutcher
• Chinese Handcuffs, by Chris Crutcher

Alcohol
• Imitate the Tiger, by Jen Cheripko
• The Boy Who Drank Too Much, by Sheppard Greene

Changes
* Who Moved my Cheese for teens, by Spencer Johnson

Cliques
• Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Lockers, Lunch Lines, Chemestry, and Cliques, by Susie Shellenberger
• Girls under pressure, by Jacqueline Wilson

Depression
• When Nothing Matters Anymore: A survival Guide for Depressed Teens, by Bev Cobain. Free Spirit Publishing
• Living When a Friend Commits Suicide or Even Starts Talking About It, by Earl Grollman. Boston: Beacon Press
• The Language of Goldfish, by Zibby Oneal. New York: Viking

Divorce
• Jack, by A.M. Homes
• Even Now, by Michelle Latiolais
• Why me? A teen guide to Divorce and your Feelings, by Rachael Aydt
• No Easy Answers. A Teen Guide to Why Divorce Happens, by Florence Calhoun
• Caught in the Middle. A Teen Guide to Custody, by Carlienne Frisch
• Finding your Place: A Teen Guide to Live in a Blended Family, by Julie Leibowitz

Drugs
• Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
• Breaking the Ring, by Donna Inglehart

Eating Disorders
• Kim: Empty Inside. Anonymous. New York: Harper Collins
• Body Talk: Teens Talk About Their Bodies, Eating Disorders, and Activism. Video. Produced by: The Body Positive
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Cruther
• I am an Artichoke, by Lucy Frank

Friendship
• The Girls, by Amy Goldman Koss
• Gossip Girl, by Cecily Von Ziegesar

Grieving
• A grieving teen: A guide for teenagers and their friends, by H. Fitzgerald. New york: Simon & Schuster
• Straight talk about death for teenagers: How to cope with losing someone you love, by E. Grollman. Beacon press
• Everything you Need to Know about Grieving, by K. Spies. Rosen Publishing
• After Elaine, by A. Dreyer. Cricket Books

Peer Pressure
• Keeping Christina, By Sue Ellen Bridgers
• Fool’s Hills, by Barbara Hall
• Peer Pressure: How can I say no? by Kate Havelin

Stress
• Stress: Just Chill Out! By Joe Anne Adlre
• Teen Stress: Stories to Guide You, by William Coleman