Books by Denise
Recent Publications
Living With Cancer: The Ulitmate Teen Guide
Wisconsin Garden Journal 2012
Physical Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide
Denise is a freelance journalist, writing for a variety of publications. Denise has written two books for the It Happened to Me series published by The Scarecrow Press. Check back to see Denise's most recent books.
Living With Cancer: The Ulitmate Teen Guide
Cancer hits hard at any age, but it is especially challenging for teens who must battle their disease while negotiating the tricky terrain of adolescence.This book explores the range of challenges cancer places on both teens who have cancer and teens who have friends or family members with cancer. Thornton follows cancer's devastating path through a teen's life from diagnosis to treatment and survivorship, with special attention to how cancer can affect relations with friends and family, and its impact on school life.
Living with Cancer explores the toll cancer can take on self image and looks at how teens facing cancer have found a sense of balance and control. Each chapter takes advantage of expert knowledge and new information that is continually coming to light, but the bulk of the book is made up of narratives shared by teens whose lives have been changed by cancer. This book offers useful information and support for teens who are facing cancer, as well as friends and family members who want to understand and support them.
Order a copy of Living with Cancer: The Ultimate Teen Guide today!
Check out more resources for teens with cancer here.
Wisconsin Garden Journal 2012
Celebrating our Past, Cultivating our Future
This is a power-packed weekly engagement calendar aimed at gardeners includes monthly task lists, weekly tips, a planting guide, and extensive reference material for gardening in Zones 3, 4 and 5.
The funds raised by this all-volunteer effort support area community garden projects. It becomes a case of gardeners helping gardeners helping gardeners, and on and on.
The 2011 edition focuses on plants that are both ornamental and edible. Talk about win-win!
I am co-editing the 2012 edition, “Celebrating Our Past, Cultivating Our Future!”
The 2012 edition will highlight wisdom from the past that can take us into a sustainable future. It has been an education as I mine gardening wisdom from the almanacs and garden memoirs at the Wisconsin State Historical Society. And it is an inspiration to edit tips for a sustainable future contributed by Master Gardener Volunteers from throughout the state.
If you can’t wait till 2012 and want to organize your garden and your life with the 2011 version, you can order one here.
Physical Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide
It is difficult enough for teens growing up today to deal with the regular issues arising from family, school, and relationships, regardless of whether they have physical disabilities or not. Add to those problems the extra obstacles that visual, hearing, and physical impairments present some teens, and the road to adulthood just got exponentially more complex.
Physical Disabilities: The Ultimate Teen Guide provides a roadmap through these additional tribulations teens with disabilities face by showing the methods, mechanisms, and resources other teens are using to cope with their disabilities. Discussing everything from going away to college to living independently to traveling internationally, this book is filled with stories from active teens who have vision, hearing, and other physical disabilities.
Interviews with teens who are meeting the challenges of living with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, Osteosarcoma, amputations, visual impairment, Rellex Sympathetic Dystrophy, paralysis, hearing impairment, and deafness are included along with more than 40 photos of these teens participating in various activities. Author Denise Thornton has organized the book into eight categories: School, Tools and Technology, Transportation and Access, Sports, the Arts, Relationships, Independence, and Advocacy. Each chapter combines the experiences of teens and young adults in all these spheres with up-to-date information on the resources that readers can call on as they follow their own dreams. Teens, parents, teachers, and medical professionals will find this to be a valuable resource.
REVIEWS:
"Physical Disabilities includes a fascinating exploration of the tools and technology related to disabilities, including the TTY telephone, sign language gloves, and cochlear implants. Many personal stories are included, and teens will learn about traveling with disabilities, asserting independence, and self advocacy. As in other series titles, links and contacts for further information are included and extensive notes detail the sources used in the creation of these texts. Although many of the titles included in the series, such as Cystic Fybrosis, Apprenticeship, and Organ Transplant, will not immediately jump off the shelves, the information presented here is solid, interesting, and will likely satisfy curious readers." -- Ria Newhouse
VOYA October 2007 p. 372
VOYA -- Voice of Youth Advocates, the library magazine serving those who serve young adults.
Order a copy of Physical Disabilities: The Ultimate Guide today!
Check out more resources for teens with physical disabilities here
Contact Denise Thornton at thornton.denise@gmail.com