The Hero Project: How We Met Our Greatest Heroes and What We Learned From Them

 Other Items from High School/Teens

  Respect: A Girl's Guide to Getting Respect and Dealing When Your Line is Crossed - This smart, savvy book helps teen girls get respect and hold on to it no matter what, and confronts tough issues such as sexual harassment, date rape, sex, drugs, and alcohol.
  Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the Internet Safely and Responsibly - Provides the practical parenting strategies necessary to help children and teens learn to use the Internet safely and responsibly.
  Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age - This top-rated book explains the nature and prevalence of this epidemic, and provides educators, parents, psychologists and policy-makers with critical prevention techniques and strategies for effectively addressing electronic bullying.
  Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, and Get Away from It All Without Alcohol or Other Drugs - The updated edition of this book describes more than 150 ways to feel really, really good - naturally, safely, and creatively.
  Improved Writing and Communication Skills Kit - Make sure your resource center includes this outstanding collection of books for improving key writing and related communication skills.
  Connecting With Others: Lessons for Teaching Social and Emotional Competence (4-vol. set) - Shows, at four different grade levels, Shows how to teach social and emotional competence while taking into consideration students' cultural, ethnic, and gender diversity.
  Transforming Anger to Personal Power: An Anger Management Curriculum for Grades 6-12 - The goal of this program is to help students realize that they have the power to take control of their lives and emotions and choose healthy responses to anger.
  What Do You Stand For? A Guide to Building Character - Children and teens need guidance from caring adults to build strong, positive character traits - but they can also build their own. These books and poster show them how.
  Kids Guide to Climate Change and Global Warming: How to Take Action! - Kids explore what others in the world have done and are doing to address the problem, find out what their own community needs, and develop a service project.
  ASSET: A Social Skills Program for Adolescents (DVD program) - This program combines on-screen modeling scenes, group discussions, role plays, and homework assignments to teach adolescents the skills they need for successful social interactions.
  Power to Prevent Suicide: A Guide for Teens Helping Teens (Rev.Ed.) - Describes the warning signs, guides teens through the steps of reaching out to a friend, and explains when and how to seek help. Also suggests ways for teens to help themselves when they're feeling stressed or depressed.