SJPL Picks: YA Identity, Health & Self-Help Nonfiction
Learn skills to help your mind, emotion, and body, as well as relationships, social-emotional learning, discovering gender identity, and sex education, with these nonfiction titles written specifically for teens. YA nonfiction and YA nonfiction graphic novels included.
In Do Not Disturb, Brad Marshall and Lindsay Hassock share cutting-edge insights on how young people can unplug from their phones. Readers will discover the effects that their phone has on their brain and body.
They’ll find out how to create a…
Being a teenager is hard – add in hormones, breakouts and an avalanche of dubious TikTok ‘hacks’, and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.
In Teen Skincare, world-renowned skincare expert Caroline Hirons cuts through the noise to deliver the…
Relationships matter. But they’re also hard. Conflict is a reality in life that can lead to isolation, anger, and broken relationships. With the proper tools, however, teenagers can learn to respond to conflict and experience meaningful community.…
When you're dyslexic, life at school can feel like a daily grind. In this book, around 40 dyslexic young people from across the globe, who have been where you are now, explain how they've made life beyond the school gates work for them. This is a…
Take Up Space, Y’all gives teen readers a joyful, can’t-put-this-down reading experience with advice and colorful anecdotes from body positivity activist, top plus-size model, and inclusivity consultant, Tess Holliday. Tess Holliday has been on a…
Am I really bisexual if I haven't kissed someone of the same gender?
How do I handle people sexualising my identity?
What does it mean if I like one gender more than others?
With advice from bi+ activists and influencers including Megan Jayne…
Thoughts and Feelings for Teens offers essential skills from cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help empower you to take control of your thoughts, feelings,…
Every wondered why it feels so awkward to talk about pornography? Here to guide you through those tricky topics is sexual health expert Jess, who will uncover common porn misconceptions and support you to becoming a porn literacy expert!
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Everything Anxiety Ever Told You Is a Lie is aimed at young people who are experiencing anxiety in their everyday lives, across the breadth of the anxiety spectrum. It emphasises that anxiety is completely normal, and something that can be managed…
Learn effective methods for coping with stress and improving your overall well-being. You’ll discover the four core skills of DBT—mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness—and find ways to put these skills…
While many people identify as men or women, that is not all there is. The idea that all humans fall into one of two gender categories is largely a construct created by those who benefit from that belief. The reality is that gender is naturally…
Also available as an eBook. Understand and face your eco-anxiety with ten accessible steps. A “tool kit” at the end of each step shows you ways to build on that knowledge and take action. You’ll finish this book feeling equipped with solutions and…
Graphic novel. For years, Lea Bordier has interviewed over 70 women and non-binary people from all walks of life about themselves and their bodies on her YouTube channel.
With the help of 12 female and non-binary cartoonists, Lea has adapted…
Also available as an eBook. Mother and teen duo Monica and Asha Mehta work together to answer your most pressing questions. Combining expert advice with the personal experiences of teens all over the world, prepare to plunge into the topics they…
Also available as an eBook. Written by an expert in teen mental health, this healing workbook offers powerful skills to help you overcome the effects of toxic stress, trauma, and adversity using mindfulness, neuroplasticity, and emotion regulation.…
Also available as an eBook. What does it mean to be yourself? To be born here or somewhere else? To be from one family instead of another? What does it mean to be human? Collected by Lori Carlson-Hijuelos, A Path to the World showcases essays by a…
Also available as an eBook. In this friendly guide, psychologist Melanie McNally offers proven-effective tools to help you cultivate emotional intelligence—the ability to identify and express your emotions in healthy ways. You’ll gain a greater…
Also available as an eBook. You’ll learn how to ease feelings of self-doubt, and quiet that pesky inner critic who says you aren’t good enough, smart enough, or attractive enough. Most importantly, you’ll find tools to help you cultivate an inner…
Packed with simple and easy-to-apply skills drawn from cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), this workbook will help you cultivate an action mindset, reduce worry, and take the steps needed to solve problems—rather than avoid them. You’ll also discover…
Also available as an eBook. You Know, Sex grounds sex education in social justice, covering not only the big three of puberty-hormones, reproduction, and development-but also power, pleasure, and how to be a decent human being. Centering young…
