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Money is a powerful tool—but only when you know how to use it like a pro. This is your chance to get ahead of the game! Money is always going to play a role in your life… and you have a choice. You can either let it rule you, or you can take charge and make sure that you’re always the one in control. If you’re thinking, “But how? I only have a part-time job. Why would I need to start thinking about this now?”, you’re in good company. Many teens think like this… but little do they know, they’re missing a trick.

As a young adult, you feel anxious every time the bills arrive, wondering how you’ll make ends meet. Each month blends into the next, resulting in a constant struggle to keep your budget in check. As a teenager, you probably get the whole budgeting idea, right? But it can be tough when you want to hang out with your friends while saving for your future goals. And just when you hit your savings target, those spontaneous nights out sneak in and ruin your budget!

In this unsparing exploration of one of the most powerful Americans of the 20th century, accomplished historian Marc Aronson unmasks the man behind the Bureau: his tangled family history and personal relationships; his own need for secrecy, deceit, and control; and the broad trends in American society that shaped his world. Hoover may have given America the security it wanted, but the secrets he knew gave him—and the Bureau—all the power he wanted.

In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, bestselling and award-winning authors as well as up-and-coming voices interrogate the different myths and stereotypes about the Latinx diaspora. These fifteen original pieces delve into everything from ghost stories and superheroes, to memories in the kitchen and travels around the world, to addiction and grief, to identity and anti-Blackness, to finding love and speaking your truth. Full of both sorrow and joy, Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed is an essential celebration of this rich and diverse community.

In the early 2000s, Judge Mark Ciavarella and Judge Michael Conahan of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania were known as no-nonsense judges. Juveniles who showed up in their courtrooms faced harsh words and even harsher sentencing. In the post-Columbine era, many people believed that was just what the county needed to ensure its children and teens stayed on the straight and narrow path. But as more and more children faced shocking sentences for seemingly benign crimes, and a newly built for-profit detention center filled up further and further, a sinister pattern of abuses and bribery emerged.

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the white beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture.