Arcadia Public Library

At an exclusive East Coast boarding school, when seventeen-year-old sophisticated troublemaker Zoey Spalding plays a game with the class list--if you lose your virginity you get a star by your name--it sets in motion a chain of shocking events that leads to murder.

Helps teens deal with a variety of school-related issues, including exam stress and peer pressure.

Describes how peer pressure can be both beneficial and harmful, and provides methods to think independently of others and avoid being affected by peer pressure.

This short documentary depicts an Aboriginal Winnipeg teen’s struggle to stay in school and away from local gangs. Filmed over 2 years, the film is a moving portrait of one family trying to break the cycle of addiction, violence and poverty in an environment filled with anger and despair.

Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.

A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.

"Ashley is an All-American girl. She is successful in school and in life. But is she also a snitch? A group of cheaters in her math class thinks so. Ashley decides it's better to ignore the haters." --

Learning to say "no" to cigarettes, drugs, and other dangers is one of the most important tools a child can have. In this new book by Slim Goodbody, children are taught to understand when and why they need to say "no", and how to refuse and still keep their friends.

Justin spends time with Jinsen, the unusual and artistic new student whom the school bullies torment and call Buddha Boy, and ends up making choices that impact Jinsen, himself, and the entire school.

With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. These stories reflect a diversity of experiences, demonstrating how gender role expectations and homophobia are interwoven, and illustrating the different ways these expectations connect with culture, race and class. From girls confronting media messages about body image to boys who are sexually active just...