Dollars and Sense: How to be Smart About Money
Did you know the national student debt recently rose above the national credit card debt? Get students smart about money before it's too late with LifeBound's newest addition Dollars and Sense: How to Be Smart About Money. This book is mapped directly to the National Standards for Financial Literacy, established by the Jump$tart Coalition to improve the financial literacy of youth from kindergarten through college, to teach teens about what they need to know about money today and in the future. Dollars and Sense approaches the important topic of financial literacy in a colorful, creative, and fun way with many real stories, online activities, and opportunities to engage with peers and family over money dos and don'ts.
- Addressing common financial issues, like budgeting, balancing debt, and making investments.
- Introducing financial concepts from the perspective of real professionals.
- Characterizing common financial foul-ups.
- Engaging online and end-of-chapter activities.
Critical and Creative Thinking for Teenagers
With today's focus on test scores and graduation rates, many students leave school without ever learning how to think critically or creatively. In order to solve today's biggest problems, students must develop an inquisitive mind, strong investigation skills, the ability to ask powerful questions, and the skills to imagine, dream and create.
Critical and Creative Thinking for Teenagers helps students:
- Understand the importance of critical and creative thinking
- Effectively observe the world around them
- Learn to ask powerful questions
- Utilize their imagination
- Create new solutions to problems
Gifts and Talents for Teenagers: Discovering Your Unique Strengths
It's important for middle and high school students to recognize their gifts and talents. By following the strategies in Gifts and Talents for Teenagers, students identify their strengths, learn to manage their weaknesses, and see how both of these relate to their learning styles. Students can even start to connect their gifts and talents to possible careers and opportunities in the world. This book will help middle and high school students:
- Identify what makes them unique
- Find out what they are passionate about
- Discover more about their interests, abilities, and their future
- Think about the role education plays in career success
Junior Guide to Senior Year Success: Becoming a Global Citizen
Junior Guide to Senior Year Success teaches students how to combat senioritis, avoid standardized test anxieties, and deal with the stress of applying to college. This book helps students make the most of their senior year of high school and introduces them to global perspectives with essays from inspiring leaders. A special chapter helps high school students learn about financial aid to help fund their college education. This book will help high school students:
- Make the most of senior year of high school
- Prepare for standardized tests
- Walk through each step of the college application process
- Become a global citizen
Leadership for Teenagers
Through the study of both historical and modern day leaders, Leadership for Teenagers, helps students develop 21st century leadership skills. In each chapter, students evaluate their own leadership strengths and weaknesses while assessing examples of leaders from all walks of life. This book is a perfect companion to Critical and Creative Thinking, and compliments core curricula presented in high school classrooms. This book helps students hone their leadership abilities by:
- Analyzing Cyrus the Great and comparing his accomplishments with leaders today.
- Connecting historical leaders from across disciplines to contemporary, relevant leaders.
- Observing pioneering young leaders on the local, national, and international fronts.
- Engaging them in end-of-chapter activities that allow them to create action plans for making a difference in their families, schools and communities.
Majoring in the Rest of Your Life
College students who truly want to succeed after graduation must start preparing even before they graduate from high school. Majoring in the Rest of Your Life's chapters deal with defining interests and goals, balancing academic and personal lives, aiming for useful extracurricular activities and part-time jobs, finding an internship, and, eventually, sending out resumes and going on interviews. This book will help you:
- Learn why EQ (Emotional Quotient or Emotional Intelligence) matters more than IQ
- Discover your gifts, talents, and abilities
- Develop academically, socially, and emotionally
- Live on your own without falling into debt
- Set healthy boundaries
- Network effectively
- Be creative about your job search
- Develop an indomitable spirit
- Learn what employers expect from graduates
- Get quality internships that lead to employment
Making the Most of High School: Success Secrets for Freshmen
This book offers advice and practical strategies for middle school and freshmen in high school students. The book infuses anecdotes from real students about how to navigate the choppy waters of adolescence. Using humor and real-world instruction, these stories help readers discover how to get the most out of high school, whether they are at risk, average or high achieving students. This book is a fantastic resource for freshman seminar or advisory classes and will help students make a successful transition with tips and strategies for:
- Understanding gifts and talents
- Discovering strengths
- Managing weaknesses
- Making wise peer choices
- Relating to people who are different
- Learning to learn
- Managing time and priorities
- Managing stress in a healthy way
- Avoiding behaviors that limit future options
- Planning for success in college, career, and life
People Smarts for Teenagers: Becoming Emotionally Intelligent
For many middle school students, the years are fraught with emotional ups and downs. Students often don't know why they feel the way they do and many wonder if their feelings are normal. Some teens report the gnawing perception that no one understands them. People Smarts for Teenagers: Becoming Emotionally Intelligent helps students develop emotional intelligence, improve their emotional quotient, learn stress management, and become successful students during the difficult middle school years. This book will help middle school students:
- Develop specific skills for learning about themselves
- Understand why their peers act the way they do
- Strengthen their ability to make friends
- Develop coping strategies for life's twists and turns
- Manage stress and prepare for their life
Sophomore Guide to College and Career: Preparing for Life After High School
This title helps high school students prepare for college and career by inspiring them to dream, conduct self-analysis, learn critical thinking skills, manage resources, match abilities and interests to career fields, understand the global landscape, rebound from setbacks, and prepare for the real world of work. This book will help high school sophomores:
- Know themselves and their abilities
- Match interests and abilities to career fields
- Discover what makes them extraordinary
- Understand how the global landscape impacts college and career success
Stop Parenting and Start Coaching
Stop Parenting, Start Coaching is a practical, easy to read tool to help parents build healthy relationships with their teenagers. The narrative format shows parents how to coach their teen through difficult decisions and helps them connect with their teenagers in a more effective way. Unlike traditional parenting books that read like an instructional manual, Stop Parenting and Start Coaching reads like a novella by using a fresh, anecdotal approach.
This book will help you:
- See yourself through your teen's eyes
- Raise your child in a positive, conscious way
- Design and set limits that work for both you and your child
- Learn to see the good of your whole child
- Champion your child's gifts, dreams, and goals
Study Skills for High School Students
This book equips students with the keys for effective study skills: goal setting, learning styles, active note taking, preparing for tests, and critical thinking skills. This book will help students:
- Discover their learning style-so they can study smarter, not harder.
- Learn test-taking and study techniques that can result in higher test scores.
- Improve memory to make learning easier.
- Develop critical thinking skills that can be used in school and in life.
- Set goals and accomplish them too!
Success in Middle School
When students transition from elementary school to middle school, they often face a new building with more students, different teachers for each subject, a locker, and the opportunity to choose course electives. This journey can be intimidating, but not if they are prepared.
This book will help students:
- Adjust to multiple teachers and classrooms
- Handle increasing academic demands
- Learn to be compassionate
- Develop healthy personal boundaries
- Negotiate challenging social situations
