The Parent / Teen Book Club will be held on the second Saturday of each month. If you are the parent or special friend of a teenager, you know how difficult it can be to talk to your teen about the issues facing young people today.

 Using young adult books as a catalyst to discussion can help break down barriers and help transmit your values in a non-confrontational manner.

 Each month we'll focus on a book that features a young teen facing situations that could severly impact his or her future.

Today's book is Imani All Mine by Connie Rose Porter.

  "Tasha is a good girl, an extremely smart 15-year-old who was not quite smart enough to avoid having her own child, Imani, whose name, Tasha has been told, means faith in an African language. In Tasha's life, though, faith is not enough. Connie Porter's beautifully realized novel, ''Imani All Mine,'' told in Tasha's voice, is the story of great promise shining through monstrous obstacles: an ignorant mother, an absent father, teachers who don't want her to succeed, a Buffalo neighborhood crippled by drugs and crime, her own poor self-image."

Read more about it here!