Reading Well: Shelf Help for young people

Are there practical things you can do to stop being bullied - at home, at school and online? What are frenemies and how can you deal with them? How can you learn to make friends and respect yourself? This guide will tell you what bullying is, where it happens, and what you can do about it.

Build confidence and self-esteem with this fun and effective workbook for young people. Packed with activities and real-life stories, this imaginative workbook will show you what self-esteem is, how it develops, the impact it can have and how all this applies to your own self-esteem.

In his debut novel, poet Benjamin Zephaniah tackles the moving story of a young man, Martin, whose life is completely changed when his face is badly scarred in a joyriding accident.

Meet Julie - a women who suffers from periods of depression. Julie and her family help readers to understand what depression is, what it is like to feel depressed and how it can affect their family life. She explains how coping with depression can sometimes be very difficult but there is support and help available that can relieve the feelings of depression.

Everyone knows how difficult it can be to keep overwhelming feelings like anxiety, anger, and fear under control, but many forget that these emotions are amplified even more during the teenage years, when healthy coping mechanisms have not fully developed and tumultuous relationships with family and friends are of primary importance.

OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, is a potentially life-long debilitating disorder, which often emerges during teenage years. This step-by-step guide uses the principles of cognitive behavioural therapy and is written for adolescents with OCD and their families, to be used in home treatment or as a self-help book.

Nicola Morgan is something of an authority on the teenage brain and is often invited to schools and colleges to speak on the subject. She came up with the idea of 'The Teenage Guide to Stress' because so many parents and teenagers contacted her for advice and help. The book is divided into three sections: Section one explains what stress is and looks at the ways teenage stress is different. Section two deals with a number of issues that affect teenagers...

We all have a mind, so we all need to take care of our mental health as much as we need to take care of our physical health. And the first step is being able to talk about our mental health. James Dawson leads the way with this frank, factual and funny book, with added information and support from clinical psychologist Dr Olivia Hewitt. Covering topics from anxiety and depression to addiction, self-harm and personality disorders, James and Olivia...