How to Train a Boy for Prom

How to Train a Boy for Prom
Author: Nikki Chartier
Publisher: Nicole Chartier
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2018-12-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

Eden Payne wants nothing to do with prom decorations, the popular girls, or the school's resident outcast Harvey Burke. Too bad her next semester is going to be consumed by the three. After bad luck lands her on the prom committee, alongside the cheerleaders and pageant queens, she's assigned the most impossible task on the list: booking a deejay. It wouldn't be so bad if the popular girls weren't hellbent on having retired local radio legend, Burke Berserk. Eden enlists help from Harvey, hoping he can convince his dad to come out of retirement for one night. Harvey agrees... for a price. If Eden trains him to be the perfect prom date so he can ask his longtime crush to the dance, he'll prevent her from a senior year of social hell. He sweetens the deal by throwing in tickets to an upcoming, sold out music festival where Eden's favorite band just filled a last minute slot. Eden is more than willing to transform Harvey from school misfit to prom dream date. But between their shared love for lyrics and practice dinner dates, her desire shifts from concert tickets to turning her trainee into the perfect prom date... for herself. **Note: This book can be read as a stand alone novel.**

Grown and Flown

Grown and Flown
Author: Lisa Heffernan
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1250188954

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.

Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America

Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America
Author: Benjamin René Jordan
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469627663

In this illuminating look at gender and Scouting in the United States, Benjamin Rene Jordan examines how in its founding and early rise, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) integrated traditional Victorian manhood with modern, corporate-industrial values and skills. While showing how the BSA Americanized the original British Scouting program, Jordan finds that the organization's community-based activities signaled a shift in men's social norms, away from rugged agricultural individualism or martial primitivism and toward productive employment in offices and factories, stressing scientific cooperation and a pragmatic approach to the responsibilities of citizenship. By examining the BSA's national reach and influence, Jordan demonstrates surprising ethnic diversity and religious inclusiveness in the organization's founding decades. For example, Scouting officials' preferred urban Catholic and Jewish working-class immigrants and "modernizable" African Americans and Native Americans over rural whites and other traditional farmers, who were seen as too "backward" to lead an increasingly urban-industrial society. In looking at the revered organization's past, Jordan finds that Scouting helped to broaden mainstream American manhood by modernizing traditional Victorian values to better suit a changing nation.

From Thomas to Train Conductor

From Thomas to Train Conductor
Author: Suzanne Jacobsen
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2013-07-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1460208838

In 2010 Kirin Jacobsen walks across the auditorium stage to receive his Bachelor's Degree. For his parents, Suzanne and John Jacobsen, this moment is more than a milestone - it is a celebration of Kirin's courage to overcome enormous obstacles. Follow the Jacobsen family as Kirin grows from a boy who passionately loves Thomas the Tank Engine into a wise and wonderful young man who becomes a train conductor. The Jacobsen family faces many challenges with medical professionals and educators, demonstrating the extent of the advocacy required to support Kirin into adulthood. Individuals with developmental differences and their families are constantly faced with ignorance, complacency, disrespect and misunderstanding. The Jacobsens' story is shared to encourage parents to advocate for their loved ones, and inspire changes that will make a difference in the lives of these individuals.

The Erie Train Boy

The Erie Train Boy
Author: Horatio Alger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1891
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

Relates the adventures of a young boy who supports his family by working on the Erie trains selling cards, newspapers, and novels.

The Outlook

The Outlook
Author: Lyman Abbott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 986
Release: 1913
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Outlook

Outlook
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1034
Release: 1913
Genre:
ISBN: