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Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers. Students read each book, individually take the test on the computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant increase in reading among their students.

This collection of high/low titles serves as a rich resource for your at-risk teens. With the test disk, it also provides an opportunity to reinforce your students' understanding of the material.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 6-8‘Young people looking for help will be well served by these easy-to-read titles. Kreiner describes the reasons for the increased violence in schools, and the ways that students can protect themselves and work for positive changes. Brief case scenarios give a personal touch to the information and enliven the text. This book supplements Maryann Miller's more thorough Coping with Weapons and Violence in School and on Your Streets (1993) as well as Donna Chaiet's easy-to-read Staying Safe at School (1995, both Rosen), which focuses more on young women. There has been little written about male victims of sexual assault for the YA audience. Beginning with short descriptions of young teens who have been victimized, La Valle attempts to put a human face on an under-reported and frequently misunderstood crime. He describes the different forms that sexual abuse takes, such as forcible rape or an adult taking advantage of a child's trust or vulnerability. The author stresses that the victim is never at fault, and suggests ways to stay safe and get help. The format and numerous black-and-white photographs will appeal to reluctant readers.æSusan R. Farber, Chappaqua Library, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 9^-12. The language is straightforward, and the examples (including descriptions of male rape) are graphic in this entry in the Need to Know Library, but La Valle's "true accounts" present a clear view of how victimizers manipulate children's emotions to achieve their own ends. Forms of abuse are the focus, but also included is information about abusers, aftereffects, pornography, and personal safety. Integration of general information and material specifically for boys is not always smooth, with La Valle sometimes awkwardly switching from third to second person, and there's a good deal of oversimplification. Sixty-four pages is not adequate to give the subject the consideration it deserves. Still, the concise, forthright approach has some advantages: the easy-to-read format, characteristic of the series, makes the material accessible, and the explicitness of the text will fill in blanks for teens who may not really understand male abuse despite protests that they already "know it all." Helen Benedict's Safe, Strong, and Streetwise (1987), addressed to both young men and women, is a less explicit, more encompassing alternative. --Stephanie Zvirin