Zailckas, Koren. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood. Viking Adult, 2005.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Levithan, David. Boy Meets Boy. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2003.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Sheen, Anitra. Things Unspoken. Chronicle Books, 2001.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Thompson, Michael. Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children. Ballantine Books, 2002.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Hine, Thomas. TheRise & Fall of the American Teenager. Perennial, 2000.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Pollack, William. Real Boys:Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. Random House, 1998.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes:Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques. Crown, 2002.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Hallowell, Edward M. and Ratey, John. Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood. Touchstone Books, 1995.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Hallowell, Edward M. and Ratey, John. Answers to Distraction. Bantam Books, 1996.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Kelly, Kate, Peggy Ramundo and Larry Silver. You Mean I'm not Lazy, Study or Crazy!? A Self-Help Book for Adults With Attention Deficit Disorder. Fireside, 1996.
Seeamazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Levine, Melvin D. Educational Care, 2nd Ed., Cambridge, MA: Educators Publishing Service, 2002.
An excellent resource that covers Dr. Levine's key constructs that are essential in academic performance. It is written with educators in mind, but is easily accessible to the non-educator. The appendix includes several worksheets that can be extremely helpful in the understanding of what a student is experiencing and how parents and teachers can help them to cope.

Levine, Melvin D. A Mind at at Time. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002.
Familiarizes the general public with the author's eight constructs while providing real-life stories of children, adolescents, and adults who have struggled with their neurodevelomental profiles. Includes many ideas for how parents and teachers can work together to improve a child's educational experience.

Lewis, Erica-Lee. Help Yourself: Advice for College Bound Students with Learning Disabilities. Princeton: Princeton Review, 1996.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Pauk, Walter. How to Study in College, 6th Ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.
Written as a guide to college students, this is an excellent resource for Shipley students who wish to learn to improve their study skills. Many of the lessons in the 9th grade "Strategies for Academic Success" course come directly from this text.

Silver, Larry B. The Misunderstood Child: Understanding and Coping With Your Child's Learning Disabilities. Times Books, 1998.
See amazon.com for several excellent reviews of this book.

Links To Internet Resources

www.LDOnLine.org 
A comprehensive website regarding learning differences. The monthly newsletter includes interesting and valuable articles.

www.LDInfo.org 
This locally produced website (out of Strafford, PA) includes a lot of information about learning disabilities, as well as an excellent directory of professional resources.

www.allkindsofminds.org
The All Kinds of Minds Institute, run by Dr. Mel Levine, hosts this excellent website whose purpose is to provide programs and resources to parents, educators, and clinicians to help children and adolescents with differences in learning to achieve success in school and life. The free monthly newsletter is available by subscription on the site.

www.hellofriend.org
Ennis William Cosby foundation's website offers resources for people with learning disabilities, their families, and educators.

www.interdys.org
The website of the International Dyslexia Association provides information on assistive technology, medical and educational research, conferences and seminars, and teaching methods; publishes the scholarly research journal Annals of Dyslexia.

www.schwablearning.org
Offers families information for identifying and managing differences in learning and resources for connecting with others.

www.inspiration.com
Provides information about Inspiration, a software program that gives students and teachers tools and techniques to learn and think in a visual format. The site provides demonstration of the program as well as an explantion of how visual learning can help students to think and learn more effectively.