Benbrook Public Library

Encourages toddlers and preschoolers to express themselves using helpful, not hurtful, words. Includes a note for parents and caregivers on language development.

Raising teenagers can be challenging. When discussing an issue with my teens, I realized that face-to-face conversations weren't always the best. Their eye rolling, heavy sighing and sarcastic tone took their toll after a while. I found myself being distracted by the behaviour in front of me. So much so, that I no longer focused on the issue I want.

When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, Faith Herbert is volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. And there's the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. Then the fictional world of The Grove relocates...

Moving from Mexico to America when their daughter suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras confront cultural barriers, their daughter's difficult recovery and her developing relationship with a Panamanian boy.

An unknown hacker with personal motives targets Asa and Riven, costing them their latest job and turning everyone in Requiem against them, so the two enter a deadly trial for control of one of the city's crime sectors in order to protect their crew.

She was almost fifteen on the night she dared for the first time to think of what life might be like away from home. Pa again had come home drunk and mean; the trauma of the subsequent scene had been repeated as long as Damaris could remember. The idea that she no longer needs to tolerate this, that maybe she's old enough to manage on her own, is planted in her mind and begins to grow. She must plan her escape carefully, but she must get away from...

Out in the world for the first time since escaping horrifying goverment experiments, six children make their way toward the Lake House in the hope of being reunited with Kit and Frannie, a couple who once saved their lives.

"When the old prospector who raised Red is gunned down in Baker's Gap and the sheriff is wounded, fourteen- year-old Red tracks down the shooters and kills them. Sheriff Tom Harrison takes Red under his wing and teaches him all he knows about law enforcement until Red finishes school and joins the Texas Rangers"--

In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.

Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.