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Sporting the Right Attitude: Lessons Learned in a Troubled Family    by Walter Jackson
Price: $7.99 USD. 34130 words. Published on September 7, 2010. .

Sporting the Right Attitude: Lessons Learned in a Troubled Family, a USA Book News Award finalist, is an inspirational memoir and guide for young adults, or anyone struggling to overcome challenges. This story is how sports principles helped the author overcome a violent childhood, intertwined with insights from superstar athletes who used these same principles to conquer challenges---and win.
Reform Juvenile Justice Now: A Judge’s Timely Advice for Drastic System Change    by Steven C. Teske
Price: $4.99 USD. 29200 words. Published by Center for Sustainable Journalism  on February 22, 2012. .

Judge Steven Teske, a juvenile court judge and national thought leader on juvenile justice reform,lays out an impressive plan for change, including (1) Developing Alternatives to Incarceration (2) Ending Zero Tolerance in Schools (3) Being Smart about Bullying (4) Ending the Jailing of Kids Who Make Us Mad (5)Taking a Stand Against the Politics of Fear and (6) Demanding Parental Involvement.
A Tale of Three Gunmen    by J. Richard Singleton
Price: $0.99 USD. 1200 words. Published on August 9, 2012. .

On a late April day in 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Kleiborn walked into Columbine High School and killed 12 of their classmates. On a late April day in 2007, college student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 of his classmates. In 2009, two radically different books addressing these mass-killings were released, David Cullen's "Columbine" and Lucinda Roy's "No Right to Remain Silent."