The newly crowned princesses of tween pop, will release their second album Road Trip on March 13, 2007. The collection of five original songs and 14 classic covers celebrating the joy of girl-power, crosses every genre from rock, pop and R&B to country, dance and world beat. As with their self-titled debut CD, Girl Authority offers family-friendly musical fare aimed toward and performed by tweens. Road Trip is themed as a triptych across the USA, with each group member representing a different city. SRP $14.98.

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In junior high, she ate her lunch in bathroom stalls. By high school, Lizzie Vishnevsky spent lunchtime calling depression hotlines. Vishnevsky was bullied. She was the butt of jokes. And she wasn’t laughing.

“On the very first day of junior high, a boy put a dead bug in my hair,” Vishnevsky remembers, “and I was nicknamed ‘bugs’ from that first day until the very end of junior high. I remember being scared of everything and having vivid, frightening nightmares every night.” It got so bad, she thought about suicide. And she came close. And she thought about getting even. She considered hurting the kids who made her life a living hell.

She thought about taking a gun to school or a knife and doing something. But she never did. Something stopped her.“It’s not okay to do whatever you feel just because you’re hurting,” Vishnevsky says. Vishnevsky is all grown up now, with four children of her own. And she’s on a mission to prevent school violence.

The Power To Be is about hope. It’s a book about how to overcome life’s struggles. It’s for teens and young adults–and even grown-ups–who feel hopeless and helpless–to let them know that there is a way out.

Ms. Vishnevsky will make a donation out of some of the book proceeds to help children in need. SRP $13.95.

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