psychological aspects

Provides preparatory advice and tactical lessons for champions-in-training, outlines winning games of chess champions, and includes profiles of individual players.

Contains sixteen essays by author Jane Yolen about the importance of fantasy, faerie, and folklore in children's literature.

Eighteen young people ranging in age from seven to sixteen discuss the questions, fears, and bereavement they experienced when one of their parents died.

Dispels myths about dyslexia and presents an overview of the disorder, addressing its signs and symptoms, difficulties, and treatment.

Explains how modern digital technology has altered how young people's brains develop, function, and interpret information. Discusses the implications and challenges of this phenomenon, and provides strategies for preserving one's humanity while keeping up with the latest technology. Draws on research from the areas of health, psychology, pediatrics, education, business, and technology. Includes exercises for developing face-to-face communication skills along with mastering electronic games.

Uses the author's own experiences as a child, parent and teacher to discuss the "power of story" and how people learn to read.

Provides information for young people about divorce, discussing some of the emotions and situations kids experience when their parents split up, and includes a list of organizations to call for help.

A step-by-step recovery guide for teenagers who are being sexually abused. Presents practical advice on critical issues, including knowing whom to tell, going to court, and surviving the trauma of sexual abuse.

Explores the feelings of teenagers when someone close to them dies. Describes the various emotions of shock, guilt, and pain that they have to deal and come to terms with.

Explores how myth, history, and culture have influenced the lives of the people who live with and around them.