Mikael Coenen

This book tells teens ways to handle the stressful life of a teenager. He gives tips on how to self-improve yourself and how to be an effective teen. He really goes in depth about things like a Personal Bank Account (PBA) and how everytime you keep a promise to yourself, or exercise; you make a deposit. And how if you don’t read or you don’t study you make a withdrawal of your PBA. Another good one is a Relationship Bank Account (RBA). You make a deposit if you keep a promise or apologize, but you make a withdrawal if you don’t do such things. This book is really fascinating as it really illuminates the strategies needed to be an effective teen. I would say this counts as one book due to complexity and size (which is not too much). I would recommend this to teens and pre-teens to better understand how you can better manage the stressful years that are teen years. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars! This book is really good for kids my age and everyone my age should read it!

Summary: This book puts out an idea that when deciding your occupation you should not follow your passion but rather get good at something; develop rare and valuable skills so that you’ll be so good they can’t ignore you. He goes into depth about this theory for instance: how you have to develop career capital which are these rare and valuable skills. How following your passion is looking at what the world can offer you based on pre-existing interests. But developing rare and valuable skills, or career capital, is what you can offer the world. This mindset introduced by him is the craftsman mindset. Reflection: This book is astonishing and gives good claims that he can back up with evidence (something you taught us). He gives real life experiences and studies to back up his claims. He also gives a vocabulary in which to follow when pursuing a career that you love. I love this book because I want to gain knowledge about lots of things and this is a great thing to learn. I would recommend this to 13+ because of hard concepts to grasp. And I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

Summary: Climate Justice combines data and statistics with personal stories to better understand the impact of climate change. It gives examples of the effect it has on people's day-to-day lives while talking about numbers that need to stop growing and why. It tells you who and where is getting affected the most and what countries have done to try to stop climate change from destroying the planet. This book gives a really good glimpse of what it is like to live in the midst of climate change and how climate change will leave a very bad long-term effect on the plant as a whole. Reflection: This book has given me some insight by understanding people's suffrage with compelling numbers and data to show the overall effect climate change has had on the whole world. Of course the book has shown me the climate justice movement and what has happened to try to stop the devastating change that is climate change. I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars and would recommend this to people 11+ because of some difficult concepts to grasp.