Tanya Lloyd Kyi

An introduction to the science behind stereotypes. From the time we’re babies, our brains sort and label the world around us — a necessary skill for survival. But there’s a downside: we also do it to groups of people in ways that can be harmful. With loads of examples, here’s a scientific overview of stereotyping, covering the history of identifying stereotypes, secret biases in our brains, how stereotypes affect our sense of self, and current research into the ways that science can help us overcome them. Adolescents are all too familiar with stereotypes. Here’s why our brains create stereotypes, and how science can help us do it less.

How Science Is Tackling Unconscious Bias

This Is Your Brain on Stereotypes

A Banksy-style protest against cameras in classrooms brings a group of middle-grade students together. For fans of Rebecca Stead, Susin Nielsen and Gordon Korman. Dominica's private school is covered in cameras, and someone is hacking into them and posting embarrassing moments for the whole school to see. Like Ana picking her nose. When Dominica quickly changes her shirt from inside out in what she thinks is the privacy of a quiet corner in the library, she's shocked -- and embarrassed -- to discover a video has captured this and is currently circulating amongst her schoolmates. So mortifying, especially since over the past three years, they've had a half-dozen school talks about social media safety. Who has access to the school security cameras and why are they doing this? Dominica and her best friends, Holden and Saanvi, are determined to find out, and in the process start an art-based student campaign against cameras in the classroom.

Me and Banksy

How You're Tracked and Why You Should Know

Eyes and Spies

The Story Behind the Seams

The Blue Jean Book

Lil Crump

It'll take a genetics genius to solve this crime...

DNA Detective

Twelve-year-old Mya Parsons could save the world and organize her family, if only she had her own cell phone. A Dork Diaries for today's socially conscious young readers. Mya Parsons runs her school's social justice club with her best friend, Cleo. Her lifelong desire is to work for the United Nations and change the world, and then bask in all the ensuing adulation. Her more immediate desire is to get a phone, preferably one like Cleo's, with a leopard-print case to match. When her distracted dad and her long-distance mom (temporarily in Myanmar taking care of Mya's grandmother) both say no, no way, and possibly never, Mya launches a campaign to prove herself reliable and deserving. She advertises her babysitting services, takes on more responsibility around the house, and attempts to supervise her sister's skateboarding lessons. Her efforts leave her ego bruised and the kitchen slightly scorched. She's no closer to touch-screen victory, let alone the Nobel Peace Prize she deserves. But all that changes after an accident leaves Mya to take charge--an experience which helps her realize how much she's grown, with or without access to proper communications.

Mya's Strategy to Save the World

Living on an illegal grow-op means life-as-usual for Isaac -- until he meets the beautiful and mercurial Samantha.

Prince of Pot

A Bare-All History

50 Underwear Questions

Details the history of denim jeans, from the earliest forms in the Wild West to their representation in American popular culture of the succeeding centuries.

The Lowdown on Denim

Ross Kinnaird

Looks at how the human body works, answering fifty questions on such topics as digestion, blood, bones and muscles, the immune system, senses, the brain, and the nervous system.

A Book That Spills Its Guts

50 Body Questions

A scientific exploration of stress. Adolescents are no strangers to stress. Now they can learn the science behind that sweaty, heart-racing, under-pressure feeling. This book covers the fight-or-flight reaction to danger, how people cope with chronic stress, how trauma can affect the brain, the ways athletes put pressure to work and the surprising treatments scientists have found to manage stress in everyday life. It’s a perfect primer for young people on what normal stress is and isn’t — and how to deal with it either way. Dealing with stress can be tough. Learning the facts about it can make it manageable.

The Science of Stress

Under Pressure

Based on the true story of a fearless ninja and her network of female spies.

SHADOW WARRIOR

After Caz moves to a new school she finds her life in turmoil after she is diagnosed with dyslexia, her parents separate, and she makes friends with Amanda, who introduces Caz to shoplifting and skipping school.

My Time as Caz Hazard

When a prominent local adult is killed at a teen house party, the whole school seems to know who is to blame, but no one will go to the police.

Truth

Feeling trapped in his small town after the death of his mother, Cole breaks up with his girlfriend and avoids his father and best friend before discovering a secret that could keep him home forever. A first novel. Simultaneous.

Anywhere But Here

Blends stories of surivival with information on the keys to survival, breaking down each story to highlight the different stages and challenges people face after traumatic events.

Extraordinary Stories of Survival

When the Worst Happens

The third book in the 50 Questions series uncovers the bare facts about everything from loincloths and T-shirts to bloomers and lingerie, showing how throughout history, one's underwear revealed a lot about who one was. Simultaneous.

Surveys the history of human interactions with fire, from prehistoric times when controlling it made the difference between being predator or prey, to the present, and discusses its use in industry, communications, war, and other fields.

A Sizzling History of Fire

50 Burning Questions

Steve Rolston

Explores the function and uses of blood, including the history of humanity's fascination with the substance.

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