Books with title { RITES OF PASSAGE

Pregnancy continues to be a social problem confronting adolescents and remains a greater risk among African-American youth than Whites. Adolescent rites of passage programs that focus on pregnancy prevention have been proven effective in assisting adolescents with the transition into young adulthood through mentorship, support and education with a focus on restoring traditional African values. Given opportunity and attention, adolescents can make significant positive contributions to the community.This book examines rites of passage programs, provides an account for how such programs combat high pregnancy rates, and presents an outline of one effective rites of passage program focusing on pregnancy prevention.

Harlem. The late 1940s. Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs loves his parents, respects his teachers, and is a model student. Suddenly, his familiar world falls apart. Johnny learns he is really a foster child who the welfare authorities have decreed now must go and live with another family. Stunned by the revelation, Johnny runs away. The startling events that follow, during Johnny's nightlong confrontation with alienation and loneliness, will inexorably push him past the frontiers of childhood and into an unknown, violent world beyond. Rite of Passage, Richard Wright's never-before-published story of Johnny Gibbs's fall from grace, is as pertinent to the fate of many young people today as it was when it was first conceived nearly fifty years ago.

This text takes children around the world to see how different cultures have devised and developed ways of marking the important events in their lives. They can see how people welcome a new-born baby, choose its name and try to determine its future. They can also see how different peoples mark the transition from childhood to adulthood with coming-of-age celebrations. and learn about the varied marriage customs, including arranged marriages. Lastly, they can see how different beliefs and rituals have helped to deal with the final rite of passage, death. This is part of a series which paints a picture of the age-old traditions that govern our lives. Life's turning points, such as naming, coming of age, getting married and dying are celebrated in different ways around the world. It should help children to form a better understanding of other cultures and their practices, see the underlying likenesses in different customs, and learn a tolerance of others so necessary in a multicultural society.

Brynja Wisting thought her life couldn't get any worse: she had just broken up with Jared, still wasn't over being dumped by Vic, butchered her hair in a depressed fit, and had to go back to school for all to judge, including the two boys at the center of her turmoil. That is, she thought it couldn't get any worse until she found herself caught between two warring factions of elves.

[Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12 - 17)]In this fastpaced, highstakes debut novel, sixteenyearold Sam McKenna discovers that becoming one of the first girls to attend a revered military academy means living with a target on her back.Sam McKenna has never turned down a dare. And she's not going to start with the last one her brother gave her before he died. So Sam joins the firstever class of girls at the prestigious Denmark Military Academy. As a military brat, she knows it will be hard, but nothing could have prepared her for the brutal treatment she receives from cadets who are unhappy about having girls at DMA . . . or her fiery attraction to her strictly offlimits drill sergeant.As Sam struggles to prove herself, she discovers that some of the boys who won't rest until she gives up aren't acting alone. A decadesold secret society is alive and active and determined to force her out.Perfect for fans of Simone Elkeles, Jennifer Echols, and Trish Doller, Rites of Passage blends sizzling romance and edgeofyourseat suspense to create a story that will keep readers guessing who Sam can trust until the very last page.