Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Nonfiction >> Family - General (see also headings under Social Topics)

From the perspective of the young adult he once was, Francisco Jimenez describes the challenges he faces when continuing his education. During his college years, the very family solidarity that allows Francisco to survive as a child is tested. Not only must he leave his family when his goes to Santa Clara University, but while Francisco is there, his father abandons the family and returns to Mexico. This is the story of how Francisco copes with poverty, with his guilt over leaving his family financially strapped, with his self-doubt about succeeding academically, and with separation. Once...

Do you know:

• A good reason to be phobic about oysters and olives?
• How shutting your mouth can help you avoid brain surgery?
• How to survive in the winter wilderness with only a fishing pole and a sausage?

Following his father's advice to "treat all people-even the most unsightly beetles-as though they were angels sent from heaven," Mawi overcomes the challenges of language barriers, cultural differences, racial prejudice, and financial disadvantage to build a fulfilling, successful life for himself in his new home.

Of Beetles and...

Birthed with the intentions of helping black men and women discover their purpose and take ownership of their lives, new book "Cultivating Minds To Own Thyself" is a book that encourages readers to define, identify, and to accept thyself without using society's standards. It teaches readers how to examine themselves in attempt to modify their thoughts and in turn become their best self as well as make a difference in the lives of others. Published by ElevatedWaves Publishing, Davis' tale outlines what it takes to overcome having a false identity, being miseducated and conditioned by...

Fans of Go Ask Alice will devour Dear Nobody, a real teen's diary, so raw and so edgy that it's authenticity rings off every page.

They say that high school is supposed to be the best time of your life. But what if that's just not true?

More than anything, Mary Rose wants to fit in. To be loved. And she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Even if it costs her her life.

Told through the raw and unflinching diary entries of a real teen, Mary Rose struggles with addiction, bullying, and a deadly secret. Her compelling story will...

As a young adult in wartime Vienna, Georg Rauch helped his mother hide dozens of Jews from the Gestapo behind false walls in their top-floor apartment and arrange for their safe transport out of the country. His family was among the few who worked underground to resist Nazi rule. Then came the day he was drafted into Hitler's army and shipped out to fight on the Eastern front as part of the German infantry--in spite of his having confessed his own Jewish ancestry. Thus begins the incredible journey of a nineteen year old thrust unwillingly into an unjust war, who must use his smarts,...

In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and teenagers do not identify themselves as being just one race or another.

Here is a book that allows these young people to speak in their own voices about their own lives.

What Are You? is based on the interviews the author has made over the past two years with mixed-race young people around the country. These fresh voices explore issues and topics such as dating, families, and the double prejudice and double insight...

-What Daddy Didn't Know- (Letters of a Fatherless Child) is an autobiography by Lance Brazelton, a twenty one-year-old African American with a passion for expression through art. The story shows how he overcame the challenges of growing up without his father actively in his life, and how he overcome his childhood trauma while on the verge of becoming a statistic. His childhood challenges are told through letters written during different stages of his life, and they're addressed to the one person who never knew his struggle; his father.
These letters reveal...