Discusses the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty in boys and suggests ways to ease the adjustment to these changes.

Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your eighteen-year-old son. He’s past curfew. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t alone: he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed. You can’t believe it when you see him do it: your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody,...

A pair of ten-year-olds find an abandoned cop car in a field. When they take it for a joyride, it seems like they could kill themselves at any moment. But things only get worse when the small town sheriff goes looking for his missing car. The kids find themselves in the center of a deadly game of cat and mouse they don't understand and the only way out is to go as fast as their cop car will take them.

"If you have a teenage boy, there is a 50 percent chance that he's already sexually active, and a 33 percent chance that he's been solicited by an online predator in the past year. How prepared is he for the risks and realities of sex? With real-world stats and tips for both parents and their sons, this is not the typical, "what is happening down there?" book with a blue cover instead of a pink one. It is a comprehensive crash course for boys into...

A boy coming of age in a part of the country that's being left behind is at the heart of this dazzling novel the first by an award-winning author of short stories that evoke the American West. August reads like early Hemingway, retooled for the present. William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Barbarian Days Callan Wink has been compared to masters like Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane. His short stories have been published in The New Yorker...

Four-year-old Daniel Tiger invites young viewers directly into his world; giving them a kid's eye view of his life and making them feel like one of his neighbors.

In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis faces taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden...

An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter, and leader of the Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost. "A deeply satisfying pop biopic whose subject's bifurcated creative life lends itself to an unconventional structure."--Hollywood Reporter "Love & Mercy...

In this story without words, a boy explores the woods after dark with a flashlight.