The Disappearance of Childhood
 The Attacks on this Book are as Weak as the Arguments of the Book are Strong: It is simply untrue to write, as Amazon Reviewer Aaron Swartz writes, that Neil Postman praised the Children's Letters "because they agreed with him". Rather, Postman [... more]
$13.95
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Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers: The premise of this book seemed very appealing to me. I have always been very opinionated about "Branding" teenagers, and while in high school I refused to wear well known brand-name clothes. [... more]
$25.00
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The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon (3rd ...
Good book; a little too easy on us parents!: In The Hurried Child, Dr. Elkind does a competent job of describing a seriously problematic trend- the increasing inability and even unwillingness to appropriately "cushion" children from the modern [... more]
$16.95
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From Darkness to Light: Teens Write about How They ...
Inner-City Teen Ointment: I'm a teacher at a Chicago alternative high-school for kickouts and dropouts. I haven't used this book of stories by teens for teens about overcomeing hardships to teach an entire unit yet, but I keep buying more for my [... more]
$8.95
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Weeping in the Playtime of Others: America's ...
One of the most important books you will read all year.: This book is a masterpiece of investigative reporting and heart rending storytelling. At a time when we are actually considering doing away with juvenile justice and sending children to adult court [... more]
$21.95
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Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America
Should be Required Reading for All Americans: There are some people in our country who probably would refuse to believe that the stories Schwartz-Noble tells are real and even if they did believe they were real, they'd find a way to blame the poor [... more]
$24.95
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The Lost Daughters of China
Amazon.com Review: The Lost Daughters of China is that rare book that can be many things to different people. Part memoir, part travelogue, part East-West cultural commentary, and part adoption how-to, Karin Evans's book is greater than the sum of its [... more]
$14.95
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The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life
Powerfully persuasive or totally histrionic? You be the judge.: With this book, Marie Winn has written an arch (though lengthy) indictment of television's pervasive and largely detrimental impact on childhood culture. With sixty years' worth of data, [... more]
$15.00
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Cyberkids : Youth Identities and Communities in an ...
Children in the Information Age: A Review: In this book, Holloway and Valentine discuss some of the important ramifications of the newly coined "information age." They delve into pertinent topics such as the development of an " [... more]
$49.95
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The Privilege of Youth: A Teenager's Story of Longing ...
Unecessary and not very good: This book covers a time that was already written about in The Lost Boy. Despite my love for Dave's other books I think this was an attempt to milk out more money from his already established fans. This book does not give [... more]
$21.95
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Children of Immigration (The Developing Child)
pretty good account of immigrant children: Children of immigrants covers the experiences of children of immigrants and their families through the past few decades when the United States has been receiving immigration from non-European countries and many [... more]
$22.00
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School of Dreams: Making the Grade at a Top American ...
Amazon.com Review: Journalist Edward Humes shows us a little-seen side of our nation's educational system: the side that works. Humes spent a year (2001-02) at Whitney High School in Cerritos, California, a small, middle-class suburb of Los Angeles, [... more]
$25.00
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