Teens: Start of 2018 with some good reading material from the Abington Community Library.
• “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Victor Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it and move forward with renewed purpose.
• “The Student’s Cookbook: An Illustrated Guide to Everyday Essentials” by Keda Black
Provides step-by-step instructions for over 30 recipes and offers advice for beginners, from breaking an egg to building a sandwich.
• “Money Is Everything: Personal Finance for the Brave New Economy” by Amanda Reaume
Like your own personal trainer, “Money Is Everything” will intuitively walk you through the four stages of money and show you the best ways to make, spend, borrow and save it.
• “Be A Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters” by Laurie Ann Thompson
Do you wish you could make a difference in your community or even the world? Are you one of the millions of high school teens with a service-learning requirement? Either way, “Be a Changemaker” will empower you with the confidence and knowledge you need to affect real change.
• “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” by Daniel H. Pink
Pink argues that the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things and to do better by ourselves and our world.
