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Contact (The Phoenix Files #2)
by Chris MorphewPeter's life in the town of Phoenix had seemed pretty normal. Or it was until he found out the world was ending. Now he knows why Phoenix is in lockdown: the powerful Shackleton Co-operative is planning to exterminate humanity. Peter and his friends have only one plan for saving the world--get a warning to the outside before it's too late. But the Shackleton Co-operative will do whatever it takes to keep them quiet. And the clock is still ticking. There are 88 days until the end of the world.
Contagion (Contagion #1)
by Erin BowmanPerfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy. <P><P>After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. <P><P>When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project—including its members’ dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried—and some monsters are only too ready to awaken.
Contagion: Some Things Can't Be Cured (Dark Matter Ser. #1)
by Teri TerryThe first book in the spine-tingling Dark Matter trilogy about the frightening effects of a biological experiment gone wrong.An epidemic is sweeping the country. It spreads fast, mercilessly. Everyone will be infected. . . . It is only a matter of time. You are now under quarantine.Young teen Callie might have been one of the first to survive the disease, but unfortunately she didn't survive the so-called treatment. She was kidnapped and experimented upon at a secret lab, one that works with antimatter. When she breaks free of her prison, she unleashes a wave of destruction. Meanwhile her older brother Kai is looking for her, along with his smart new friend Shay, who was the last to see Callie alive.Amid the chaos of the spreading epidemic, the teens must find the source of disease. Could Callie have been part of an experiment in biological warfare? Who is behind the research? And more importantly, is there a cure?
Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children’s Literature (Children's Literature Association Series)
by Danielle RussellContributions by Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Kathleen Kellett, Andrew McInnes, Joyce McPherson, Rebecca Mills, Cristina Rivera, Wendy Rountree, Danielle Russell, Anah-Jayne Samuelson, Sonya Sawyer Fritz, Andrew Trevarrow, and Richardine Woodall Home. School. Nature. The spaces children occupy, both physically and imaginatively, are never neutral. Instead, they carry social, cultural, and political histories that impose—or attempt to impose—behavioral expectations. Moreover, the spaces identified with childhood reflect and reveal adult expectations of where children “belong.” The essays in Containing Childhood: Space and Identity in Children’s Literature explore the multifaceted and dynamic nature of space, as well as the relationship between space and identity in children’s literature. Contributors to the volume address such questions as: What is the nature of that relationship? What happens to the spaces associated with childhood over time? How do children conceptualize and lay claim to their own spaces? The book features essays on popular and lesser-known children’s fiction from North America and Great Britain, including works like The Hate U Give, His Dark Materials, The Giver quartet, and Shadowshaper. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach in their analysis, contributors draw upon varied scholarly areas such as philosophy, race, class, and gender studies, among others. Without reducing the issues to any singular theory or perspective, each piece provides insight into specific treatments of space in specific periods of time, thereby affording scholars a greater appreciation of the diverse spatial patterns in children’s literature.
Containment (A Sanctuary Novel)
by Caryn LixIn the thrilling second book in a series best described as Alien meets The Darkest Minds, Kenzie and her friends find themselves on the run and up against another alien invasion headed towards Earth.They may have escaped Sanctuary, but Kenzie and her friends are far from safe. Ex-Omnistellar prison guard Kenzie and her superpowered friends barely made it off Sanctuary alive. Now they&’re stuck in a stolen alien ship with nowhere to go and no one to help them. Kenzie is desperate for a plan, but she doesn&’t know who to trust anymore. Everyone has their own dark secrets: Omnistellar, her parents, even Cage. Worse still, she&’s haunted by memories of the aliens who nearly tore her to shreds—and forced her to accidentally kill one of the Sanctuary prisoners, Matt. When Kenzie intercepts a radio communication suggesting that more aliens are on their way, she knows there&’s only one choice: They must destroy the ship before the aliens follow the signal straight to them. Because if the monstrous creatures who attacked Sanctuary reach Earth, then it&’s game over for humanity. What Kenzie doesn&’t know is that the aliens aren&’t the only ones on the hunt. Omnistellar has put a bounty on Kenzie&’s head—and the question is whether the aliens or Omnistellar get to her first.
Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture: The Emergent Adult (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)
by Mary Hilton Maria NikolajevaOffering a wide range of critical perspectives, this volume explores the moral, ideological and literary landscapes in fiction and other cultural productions aimed at young adults. Topics examined are adolescence and the natural world, nationhood and identity, the mapping of sexual awakening onto postcolonial awareness, hybridity and trans-racial romance, transgressive sexuality, the sexually abused adolescent body, music as a code for identity formation, representations of adolescent emotion, and what neuroscience research tells us about young adult readers, writers, and young artists. Throughout, the volume explores the ways writers configure their adolescent protagonists as awkward, alienated, rebellious and unhappy, so that the figure of the young adult becomes a symbol of wider political and societal concerns. Examining in depth significant contemporary novels, including those by Julia Alvarez, Stephenie Meyer, Tamora Pierce, Malorie Blackman and Meg Rosoff, among others, Contemporary Adolescent Literature and Culture illuminates the ways in which the cultural constructions 'adolescent' and 'young adult fiction' share some of society's most painful anxieties and contradictions.
Contemporary British Children's Fiction and Cosmopolitanism (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Fiona McCullochThis book visits contemporary British children’s and young adult (YA) fiction alongside cosmopolitanism, exploring the notion of the nation within the context of globalization, transnationalism and citizenship. By resisting globalization’s dehumanizing conflation, cosmopolitanism offers an ethical, humanitarian, and political outlook of convivial planetary community. In its pedagogical responsibility towards readers who will become future citizens, contemporary children’s and YA fiction seeks to interrogate and dismantle modes of difference and instead provide aspirational models of empathetic world citizenship. McCulloch discusses texts such as J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Jackie Kay’s Strawgirl, Theresa Breslin’s Divided City, Gillian Cross’s Where I Belong, Kerry Drewery’s A Brighter Fear, Saci Lloyd’s Momentum, and Julie Bertagna’s Exodus trilogy. This book addresses ways in which children’s and YA fiction imagines not only the nation but the world beyond, seeking to disrupt binary divisions through a cosmopolitical outlook. The writers discussed envision British society’s position and role within a global arena of wide-ranging topical issues, including global conflicts, gender, racial politics, ecology, and climate change. Contemporary children’s fiction has matured by depicting characters who face uncertainty just as the world itself experiences an uncertain future of global risks, such as environmental threats and terrorism. The volume will be of significant interest to the fields of children’s literature, YA fiction, contemporary fiction, cosmopolitanism, ecofeminism, gender theory, and British and Scottish literature.
Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Carrie Hintz Balaka Basu Katherine R. BroadWinner of the Children’s Literature Association Edited Book Award From the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebels of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy, the protagonists of Young Adult dystopias are introducing a new generation of readers to the pleasures and challenges of dystopian imaginings. As the dark universes of YA dystopias continue to flood the market,Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers offers a critical evaluation of the literary and political potentials of this widespread publishing phenomenon. With its capacity to frighten and warn, dystopian writing powerfully engages with our pressing global concerns: liberty and self-determination, environmental destruction and looming catastrophe, questions of identity and justice, and the increasingly fragile boundaries between technology and the self. When directed at young readers, these dystopian warnings are distilled into exciting adventures with gripping plots and accessible messages that may have the potential to motivate a generation on the cusp of adulthood. This collection enacts a lively debate about the goals and efficacy of YA dystopias, with three major areas of contention: do these texts reinscribe an old didacticism or offer an exciting new frontier in children's literature? Do their political critiques represent conservative or radical ideologies? And finally, are these novels high-minded attempts to educate the young or simply bids to cash in on a formula for commercial success? This collection represents a prismatic and evolving understanding of the genre, illuminating its relevance to children's literature and our wider culture.
Contemporary English-Language Indian Children's Literature: Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Michelle SuperleConcurrent with increasing scholarly attention toward national children’s literatures, Contemporary English-language Indian Children’s Literature explores an emerging body of work that has thus far garnered little serious critical attention. Superle critically examines the ways Indian children’s writers have represented childhood in relation to the Indian nation, Indian cultural identity, and Indian girlhood. From a framework of postcolonial and feminist theories, children’s novels published between 1988 and 2008 in India are compared with those from the United Kingdom and North America from the same period, considering the differing ideologies and the current textual constructions of childhood at play in each. Broadly, Superle contends that over the past twenty years an aspirational view of childhood has developed in this literature—a view that positions children as powerful participants in the project of enabling positive social transformation. Her main argument, formed after recognizing several overarching thematic and structural patterns in more than one hundred texts, is that the novels comprise an aspirational literature with a transformative agenda: they imagine apparently empowered child characters who perform in diverse ways in the process of successfully creating and shaping the ideal Indian nation, their own well-adjusted bicultural identities in the diaspora, and/or their own empowered girlhoods. Michelle Superle is a Professor in the department of Communications at Okanagan College. She has taught children’s literature, composition, and creative writing courses at various Canadian universities and has published articles in Papers and IRCL.
Contemporary Living
by Marjorie B. Harter Verdene Ryder- Added content on early brain development, SIDS, and child guidance techniques. - New topics include using the management process; making a career plan; teamwork skills; strategies for job success; and life span development.
Contigo siempre
by Sarah DessenTan burbujeante como una copa de champán, la novela más reciente de la exitosa escritora Sarah Dessen es romántica, divertida y llena de puro placer! Louna ha pasado sus años de escuela secundaria trabajando en el exitoso negocio de planificación de bodas de su madre. Ha visto todo tipo de bodas: grandes y lujosas, pequeñas e íntimas, en el campo o en la playa. Ella se ha enfrentado a todas las crisis que pueden afectar a una boda, así como a las damas de honor que le roban el protagonismo a las novias, los novios controladores, madres de novias mandonas e incluso la ocasional novia que se escapa sin casarse. Su visión del amor, que no es algo eterno, se ha visto influenciada también por el cinismo de su madre, quedisfruta apostando por cuánto durará cada matrimonio. Y la propia experiencia de Louna la ha hecho desconfiar del amor: su feliz primer amor, visto ahora desde flashbacks intermitentes, terminó en un trágicoevento. Cuando Ambrose, un chico guapo, encantador y despistado llega a trabajar para su madre, Louna se indigna por la cantidad de mujeres con las que él tiene amoríos; él a su vez está consternado por la negación de ella a socializar en lo absoluto. Hacen una apuesta: Louna tendrá una serie de citas con varios hombres, mientras que Ambrose intentará una relación a largo plazo con una mujer. Pero al final, es del propio Ambrose de quien Louna se enamora, ¡exactamente lo que él pretendía que pasara!
Contigo, siempre
by Sarah DessenDe la autora bestseller del New York Times, una preciosa novela sobre una que decide creer, pese a todo, en el amor. Louna es hija de una reconocida organizadora de bodas, y ha visto celebraciones de todo tipo: en la playa, en mansiones, en hoteles, en clubs de campo... Pero ella ya no cree en los finales felices, quizá porque su primer amor terminó en tragedia. Cuando conoce a un chico nuevo, acostumbrado a resultar irresistible a las chicas, no quiere saber nada de él. Él está dispuesto a darlo todo por una oportunidad, ahora que ha encontrado a alguien a quien quiere de verdad. ¿Estará Louna preparada para volver a creer en el amor?
Contigo, una y otra vez (Colección #BlackBirds)
by César PoetryCésar Poetry presenta una novela sensible y elegante sobre el amor, la soledad y la felicidad, acompañada de las bellas ilustraciones de Ana Santos. La vida da muchas vueltas, pero, a veces, no nos damos cuenta de que la Tierra es redonda y siempre hay una oportunidad para volver a empezar. <P><P>Y quien realmente merece la pena está dispuesto a darlas contigo, sujetando todos y cada uno de tus miedos. Eso es lo que encontrarás en estas páginas. Aquí dentro podría contarse tu historia, la historia de cómo las pequeñas cosas hacen que el corazón nos lata un poquito más deprisa. Antes de comenzar a leer este libro, deberías preguntarte lo siguiente: Si mañana todo acabara, ¿repetirías lo que estás haciendo hoy con esa persona? Yo lo tengo claro: «Contigo, una y otra vez.» <P>#BlackBirds un refugio íntimo de papel. Libros irresistibles para leer, guardar y compartir. Es una nueva colección de espíritu indie y juvenil con contenido de no-ficción moderno: poesía, microcuentos, reflexiones, diarios... Su diseño rompedor y la colaboración de conocidos ilustradores, bloggers e instagrammers dan vida a estos libros que son pequeñas obras de arte, caprichos, que todos querremos tener, leer y atesorar.
Continuum (Pocket Change Collective)
by Chella ManPocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us."Chella chronicles the value in creating your own mold in order to reclaim your space and to feel represented in this always ever-evolving world, and he inspires others to stretch what it means to be human--and there's no right way."--Nyle DiMarco (model, actor, and Deaf activist)"Full of heart, grace and precision, Chella Man charts his path toward himself in a world not yet equipped for all he encompasses. An affirming, artistic and accessible primer for anyone searching for themselves or yearning to learn about others."--Janet Mock (Bestselling author of Redefining Realness and Surpassing Certainty)"Chella is the future. A total visionary and a wonderful example of a human being in every way. A master of empathy, courage, and growth."--Jameela Jamil (actress, model, writer, and activist)"Navigating social norms can be so damn confusing and traumatic as a kid, but Chella shows that there is always a degree of dignity behind each step as we venture closer to the self."--Christine Sun Kim (sound artist and composer)"Chella Man's journey is as compelling as it is brave and candid. I can't even imagine all the boxes people wanted to put him into and yet, he has emerged triumphant. His story will resonate with anyone who has a desire to be their true self. I can't wait to see the next chapter of his extraordinary life." --Marlee Matlin (Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actress, author, and activist)In Continuum, fine artist, activist, and Titans actor Chella Man uses his own experiences as a deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish person of color to talk about cultivating self-acceptance and acting as one's own representation. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. "What constructs in your life must you unlearn to support inclusivity and respect for all?" This is a question that artist, actor, and activist Chella Man wrestles with in this powerful and honest essay. A story of coping and resilience, Chella journeys through his experiences as a deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish person of color, and shows us that identity lies on a continuum -- a beautiful, messy, and ever-evolving road of exploration.
Contracorriente
by Gaby ArizaUn amor único e inolvidable, una cuenta regresiva y un destino que desafía todas las probabilidades. Maju debe dejar atrás todo lo que conoce y viajar a otro país para terminar sus estudios. Al llegar a su nuevo hogar se encuentra con una ciudad llena de vida, amigos nuevos y... el enigmático cantante y guitarrista de la banda Indie Gentes, que además es su compañero de curso. Santi es distante y reservado. No parece encajar en ningún lado. La música es su único refugio. Pero la conexión con Maju es instantánea y entre ellos nace un amor apasionado que empieza a desarmar los muros que lo protegían. Solo hay un problema: Maju tiene planeado continuar su viaje cuando termine el colegio y Santi va a quedarse en su ciudad para intentar triunfar con la música. ¿Serán capaces de amar a contracorriente? Los lectores dicen:«Esta historia es ese lugar feliz al que me gusta volver una y otra vez. Santi y Maju tienen un lugar muy especial en mi corazón». «La amé, sentí todos y cada uno de los momentos como si fuesen míos». «Maravillosamente real».«Este libro me hizo sentir que pertenezco a algún lugar». «Es uno de los libros más lindos que he leído, lo amo».
Contracts, Patronage and Mediation: The Articulation of Global and Local in the South African Recording Industry (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)
by Tuulikki PietiläThis book studies the long-term developments in the South African recording industry and adds to the existing literature an understanding of the prevalence of informal negotiations over rights, rewards and power in the recording industry. It argues that patronage features often infiltrate the contractual relationships in the industry.
Contradicciones (El negocio #Volumen 1)
by Darlis Stefany¡El primer thriller universitario de Darlis Stefany, autora de la saga Inspírame! NI LOS BUENOS SON TAN BUENOS, NI LOS MALOS SON TAN MALOS. Dakota Monroe no es la chica mala ni la extraña de clase. Entonces, ¿quién es? Respuesta fácil: Dakota es una universitaria en apuros que busca salvar a su hermana mayor del aprieto en el que se ha metido. Con una complicación, la única solución a todos sus problemas es aliarse con el popular, misterioso e inalcanzable Jagger Castleraigh. Pero Jagger no es el chico malo que ella espera: odia las motos, es el mejor de su clase y trata a las chicas como princesas. Entonces, y volviendo a la pregunta del principio, ¿quién diablos es Dakota Monroe? Dakotaes ni más ni menos que la chica que pasa de ayudar a su hermana a querer descifrar el enigma que es Jagger Castleraigh. De repente, toda su historia con Jagger comienza a girar en torno a una palabra: "contradicciones". Darlis Stefany (Venezuela, 1995) es una de las últimas sensaciones de Wattpad. Con veintisiete historias publicadas, Darlis se ha convertido en una de las escritoras de mayor éxito entre los muchos seguidores de la plataforma, acumulando millones de lecturas entre todos sus relatos.
Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog
by Leslie McdevittThis book is for anybody who wants to teach her dog to focus in difficult situations. It's also especially for people whose dogs are easily distracted, stressed, or reactive.
Controlled (The Alternative)
by Patrick JonesRachel's junior year is going to be perfect—she's taking AP classes, is first-chair viola, and is busy planning her college visits. Then Misty, Rachel's wild and unpredictable cousin, lands on her parents' doorstep and turns Rachel's orderly world upside-down. Rachel's family hopes enrolling Misty in Rondo Alternative High School will help with her behavior issues, but her rough past and reckless choices make her a force to be reckoned with. As Rachel gets pulled deeper into Misty's dark secrets, she’ll have to figure out if can she transform the uncontrollable Misty—or will it be Misty who transforms her?
Conversations with J. K. Rowling
by Lindsey FraserFrom the Book Jacket: Do you think your teachers thought you would become a writer? I think Miss Shepherd might have believed I could be a writer but I don't think she expected it of me. I always, always wanted to be a writer but I never shared my burning ambition with anyone. When I was about six I wrote a book-just a little story-and when I finished it I remember thinking, well now we can publish this. I wanted the complete experience, even then. I was a lot less arrogant by the time I was twenty-six. By then, I didn't think I had any chance whatsoever. Before 1997 few people knew the brilliant woman behind J. K. Rowling and her phenomenally successful Harry Potter books. Four books into the series, few yet know the real story of Ms. Rowling's childhood and career as a writer. Conversations with J. K. Rowling is the first and only true telling of Ms. Rowling's history because it is in her own words: From her birth in Chipping Sodbury near Bristol, England; to the stories about her favorite (and least favorite) teachers in school growing up; and to the funny misunderstanding in her first fan letter. Reading her story is like a visit with a friend, a friend who has brought you to tears with laughter and told the most enchanting stories you've ever been told.
Conversations with Madeleine L'Engle (Literary Conversations Series)
by Jackie C. HorneConversations with Madeleine L’Engle is the first collection of interviews with the beloved children’s book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award–winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. However, Madeleine L’Engle's accomplishments as a writer spread far beyond children’s literature. Beginning her career as a literary novelist for adults, L’Engle (1918–2007) continued to write fiction for both young and old long after A Wrinkle in Time. In her sixties, she published personal memoirs and devotional texts that explored her relationship with religion. At the time of her death, L’Engle was mourned by fans of her children’s books and the larger Christian community.L’Engle’s books, as well as her life, were often marked by contradictions. A consummate storyteller, L’Engle carefully crafted and performed a public self-image via her interviews. Weaving through the documentable facts in these interviews are partial lies, misdirections, and wish-fulfillment fantasies. But, when read against her fictions, these “truths” can help us see L’Engle more deeply—what she wanted for herself and for her children, what she believed about good and evil, and what she thought was the right way and the wrong way to be a family—than if she had been able to articulate the truth more directly.The thirteen interviews collected here reveal an amazing feat of authorial self-fashioning, as L’Engle transformed from novelist to children’s author to Christian writer and attempted to craft a public persona that would speak to each of these different audiences in meaningful, yet not painfully revealing, ways.
Conversations with Maurice Sendak (Literary Conversations Series)
by Peter C. KunzeMaurice Sendak (1928–2012) stands out as one of the most respected, influential authors of the twentieth century. Though primarily known as a children’s book writer and illustrator, he did not limit himself to these areas. He saw himself first and foremost as an artist. In this collection of interviews, Sendak presents himself as a writer, illustrator, set designer, and librettist. From his early work with Randall Jarrell and Ruth Krauss through his later work with Tony Kushner and Spike Jonze, Sendak worked as a collaborator with a passion for the arts.The interviews here, many of which are hard to find or previously unpublished, span from 1966 through 2011. They show not only Sendak’s shifting artistic interests, but also changes in how he understood himself and his craft. What emerges is a portrait of an author and an artist who was alternately solemn and playful, congenial and irascible, sophisticated and populist. The man who showed millions of children and adults alike what’s cooking in the night kitchen and where the wild things are, Sendak remains an American original who redefined the picture book and changed children’s literature—and its readers—forever.
Conversion
by Katherine HoweFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane comes a chilling mystery—Prep meets The Crucible. It’s senior year at St. Joan’s Academy, and school is a pressure cooker. College applications, the battle for valedictorian, deciphering boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends are expected to keep it together. Until they can’t. First it’s the school’s queen bee, Clara Rutherford, who suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. Her mystery illness quickly spreads to her closest clique of friends, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor blossoms into full-blown panic. Soon the media descends on Danvers, Massachusetts, as everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Or are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion casts a spell. With her signature wit and passion, New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe delivers an exciting and suspenseful novel, a chilling mystery that raises the question, what’s really happening to the girls at St. Joan’s?
Conviction
by Kelly Loy GilbertTen years ago, Braden was given a sign, a promise that his family wouldn't fall apart the way he feared.<P><P> But Braden got it wrong: his older brother, Trey, has been estranged from the family for almost as long, and his father, the only parent Braden has ever known, has been accused of murder. The arrest of Braden's father, a well-known Christian radio host has sparked national media attention. His fate lies in his son's hands; Braden is the key witness in his father's upcoming trial. <P> Braden has always measured himself through baseball. He is the star pitcher in his small town of Ornette, and his ninety-four mile per hour pitch already has minor league scouts buzzing in his junior year. Now the rules of the sport that has always been Braden's saving grace are blurred in ways he never realized, and the prospect of playing against Alex Reyes, the nephew of the police officer his father is accused of killing, is haunting his every pitch. <P> Braden faces an impossible choice, one that will define him for the rest of his life, in this brutally honest debut novel about family, faith, and the ultimate test of conviction.
Cook with Amber: Fun, Fresh Recipes to Get You in the Kitchen
by Jamie Oliver Amber Kelley"Amber's beautiful book is bursting with great ideas that make healthy eating a joy-and she's done a great job covering all the bases that, in my experience, teens and kids really want." -Jamie OliverFifteen-year-old Amber Kelley is inspiring a whole new generation of eaters to get in the kitchen and have fun. She is the first winner of Food Network Star Kids, a member of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's Food Tube family, and the host of her own web series on Foodnetwork.com and YouTube. Her work has been recognized by First Lady Michelle Obama, and Amber has been featured on national TV networks such as the Disney Channel, E!, and NBC's Today.Now, Amber's 80 most popular and delicious recipes have been hand-picked for her cookbook to empower teens to get in the kitchen. From nourishing breakfasts to start the day right, to school lunches to impress your friends, party ideas for every occasion, and even recipes for the best homemade facial scrubs to fight that dreaded teen acne, Amber shares her secrets for using the power of food to get the best out of her teen years. Includes 45 full-color photographs throughout.