This brief resource list of books and articles on early adolescent physical, social, and intellectual development mentions materials relating to psychology, religion, employment, and parent participation. (BJD)

A sample of more than 1,000 fourth- through twelfth-grade students was administered a questionnaire designed to determine smokeless tobacco usage of respondents and their friends. Results are presented. (MT)

Osteochondritis dissecans, a lesion found most often on the femur at the knee joint, occurs most frequently in active adolescents. This article describes treatment for preadolescents, adolescents, and adults. Osteochondritus dissecans of the patella is also presented. (MT)

Recent studies have stimulated greater support for prepubescent weight training. There seems to be general agreement that strength and weight training, when practiced under properly controlled conditions, is safe and efficacious for prepubescents. Weight lifting is not supported. Recommendations for weight training are made, and reservations are…

Books for preteens that deal with the issues of peer acceptance and the feeling of belonging are listed. (DF)

Investigated responses of menarcheal age females to menarche. Results from 95 girls indicated that premenarcheal girls thought menses was more debilitating than did postmenarcheal girls. Subjects who had been menstruating longer considered menses natural event but denied its effects. Found no significant difference in overall self-esteem and…

Examined the effect of service dogs on the social acknowledgment of 5 disabled children of 10-17 years in shopping malls and school playgrounds. Social acknowledgments were more frequent when a service dog was present and more pronounced in shopping malls. (RJC)

Recalls the author's wandering, drifting years growing up in the Hawaiian Islands. Discusses where fiction fits into the lives of adolescents. (RS)

Demonstrates value of pooled time series by analyzing behavior of youths in specialized foster care treatment setting in response to changes in number of youths living together in setting. Suggests that method exceeds clinical analyses by statistically controlling for within-subject effects with clinically useful measure of effect size.…

Examined subtests scatter on Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised by analyzing Verbal-Performance Intelligence Quotient (IQ) discrepancies, subtest scaled-score ranges, and subtests scaled-score standard deviations of 290 psychoeducationally normal 9 year olds whose IQs ranged from 100 to 140+. Found substantial differences on measures…

Examined growth of externalizing behavior and negativity in parent-child relationships during early adolescence. Used assessments from multiple methods/informants to illustrate method for approximating longitudinal data analysis by combining information from overlapping age groups to form single developmental growth curve. Found significant…

Focuses on business and market research as areas that increasingly affect students and education. Notes that the children's market is big business; that the potential for marketing a wide range of children's products is increasing; and that the types of research being conducted by marketing firms include using schools. (DLH)

Aggressive and nonaggressive African American early adolescent males were primed or not primed to perceive intentionally or nonintentionally caused negative outcomes in a hypothetical peer provocation, and then made inferences about the peer's intent. In the unintentional primed condition, aggressive males made more extreme judgments than…

Tweens everywhere know Louis Sachar. Even if they haven't read about the quirky children and teachers of Wayside School, or blushed along with Bradley Chalkers after he was discovered in the girls' bathroom, they couldn't miss Sachar's 18th book, Holes. Published in 1998, the book earned a Newbery Medal in 1999 and landed on the silver screen in…

The current paper reports of language production in 15 Hebrew-speaking boys, aged 9;0-13;0, with fully methylated, non-mosaic fragile X syndrome and no concomitant diagnosis of autism. Contrary to expectations, seven children were non-verbal. Language production in the verbal children was studied in free conversations and in context-bound speech.…