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"One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out--in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships--is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them. In an age of scheduling demands and digital distractions, this might sound like a tall order. But as bestselling authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson reassuringly explain, showing up doesn't take a lot...
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When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents. Chihiro and her parents accidentally wander into another world ruled by witches and monsters. When her parents are captured by the ruler of the world, she tricks the witch into hiring her so she can figure out how to free them.
3) Owen
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Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.
4) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Just how far parents will go to protect their kids? When their son Adam is implicated in the death of his classmate, Tia and Mike Baye install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent.
6) Descendants
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the trouble making offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos), Maleficent (Mal), the Evil Queen (Evie) and Jafar (Jay).
7) Hug
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Description
Bobo the chimp seeks hugs among various jungle animals and their young, but he does not get what he wants until he is reunited with his own parent.
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Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Drawing on nearly twenty years' experience, a developmental psychologist, providing expert advice and strategies, helps parents chart a manageable course for raising good humans that's aligned to their own values and their children's unique temperaments.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a 'French parent.' French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren't doing anything special. Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old while those of her American friends...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
With a combination of storytelling, cartoons, and fly-on-the-wall discussions from their workshops, Faber and King provide concrete tools and tips that will transform your relationship with the young kids in your life. What do you do with a little kid who... won't brush her teeth... screams in his car seat... pinches the baby... refuses to eat vegetables... throws books in the library... runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized according to common...
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Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder.
14) Weird parenting wins: bathtub dining, family screams, and other hacks from the parenting trenches
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Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Unconventional--yet effective--parenting strategies, carefully curated by the creator of the popular podcast The Longest Shortest Time. Some of the best parenting advice that Hillary Frank ever received did not come from parenting experts, but from friends and podcast listeners who acted on a whim, often in moments of desperation. These "weird parenting wins" were born of moments when the expert advice wasn't working, and instead of freaking out,...
15) Hand in hand
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"This sweet and heartfelt picture book celebrates all that parents do with and for their children from the very beginning"--
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Description
Pete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, a stranger who breaks the devastating news that Pete's son, Theo, isn't actually his son; he is the Lamberts', switched at birth by an understaffed hospital, while their real son was sent home with Miles and his wife Lucy. For Pete and his family, life will never be the same again. The two families, reeling from the shock, take comfort...
17) Karen's big job
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Karen thinks going to work with her step-mother and dad is fun until she has to sit in on a meeting.
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Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Powerful kids don't just happen. They're created. Whether loud and temperamental, quiet and sensitive, or stubborn and manipulative, powerful children can make living with them a challenge. But it doesn't have to be that way. All children need to face the realities of life, and the best place for them to do so is in the safe place of their home.
19) When I'm big
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Little Nutbrown Hare loves playing in spring, when everything is growing and changing, but can he guess what a little brown hare will turn into?
20) The yearling
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
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