"What is it like to have a food allergy? For a person with food allergies, the most common foods--such as milk, eggs, or peanut butter--can cause a life-threatening reaction. Find out what it is like to have a food allergy, ways to cope with food allergies, the causes of food allergies and what scientists are doing to combat them."--Publisher's web site.

Teasing, name-calling, showing and hitting, excluding people and spreading rumors about them are all examples of bullying and happens to thousands of teens every day. Advances in social media, email, instant messaging, and cell phones, have moved bullying from a schoolyard fear to a constant threat. Readers learn how people are working together to put an end to bullying and cyberbullying and make the world safer.

Author Sherri Mabry Gordon explains how peer-to-peer file sharing works, what is legal and what is not, and she explores new ways of using technology that can benefit everyone.

Help your students understand what plagiarism is and why it is wrong. While plagiarism has been a problem since the invention of the printing press, today the Internet had made copying and cheating easier than ever. Author Barbara Francis describes ways that students can avoid plagiarism in their own work and ways that teachers and communities can combat it.

In the era of social media and viral videos, public shaming is a serious threat to teens. Public shaming is more than just feeling a little embarrassment. It can be dangerous and even deadly. Through firsthand accounts by teens who have experienced it and insights from experts, readers can learn how best to recognize and rise above public shaming.

This timely book addresses the issue of racial profiling head on-what it is, why it happens, who it happens to, and what someone who is at risk of racial profiling can do about it. Interviews with teens directly affected by racial profiling and advice from professionals make this text excellent for research or personal use.

For a teen, it can be especially difficult to lose a family member or friend through death. Explore the emotions involved and learn ways to get through this experience as well as how to support someone living through a loss.

Most American teens know that when they turn eighteen they can vote, or that they have the right to free speech or to a twelfth-grade education. But what about other rights? Through expert advice and interviews with teens, readers will learn about their rights as consumers and employees, rights to health care and access to information, and their rights when they are in abusive situations or when they break the law.