New Teen Non-Fiction to Check Out

Want to learn something new? Need advice? Check out these new(er) non-fiction releases.

1. Civic Minded : what everyone should know about the US government by Jeff Fleischer; How do student loans work? What do sanctions do? Where does federal spending go, and who decides on the budget? Author and established journalist Jeff Fleischer digs into these and other relevant civics topics to explain the history behind different processes and programs, what they look like today, and why it’s important to understand them.
2. How to Survive Your Parents : a teen's guide to thriving in a difficult family by Shawn Goodman: This book is for you, not your parents. Step-by-step, using approaches that are relatively easy but bring big results, you’ll be guided in how to improve the important and super-challenging relationship between you and your parents. This doesn’t mean you’re going to become best friends, but you will learn the skills needed to change how you see one another and how you interact. And ultimately, you will gain control over your own life.
3. Shift Happens : the history of labor in the United States by J Albert Mann: This eye-opening and engaging history of the worker actions that brought us weekends, pay equality, desegregation, an end to child labor and more documents how the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.
4. The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equality by Hana Bajramovic: The Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, known as the “equality amendment,” was passed in the years after the Civil War to help protect the rights and freedoms of Black Americans. In the centuries that followed, the amendment grew to protect the rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people as well. But in recent years, the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment has shifted dramatically. A series of landmark Supreme Court cases—ranging from abortion to affirmative action—have rolled back the amendment’s guarantees and called into question its usefulness as a tool in the fight for equality. What does the future hold for the Fourteenth?
5. The Gender Binary is a Big Lie : infinite identities around the world by Lee Wind: Author Lee Wind takes readers across the globe to examine gender identity and representation throughout history. Learn how cultures both past and present debunk the idea of a gender binary.