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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.
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Publisher
A TarcherPerigee Book
Pub. Date
[2016]
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"Popular parenting blogger Rebecca Eanes believes that parenting advice should be about more than just getting kids to behave. Struggling to maintain a meaningful connection with her two little ones and frustrated by the lack of emotionally aware books for parents, she began to share her own insights with readers online. Her following has grown into a thriving community--hundreds of thousands strong. In this eagerly anticipated guide, Eanes shares...
4) 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.
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Children of exile volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
8) Hold tight
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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.
9) Dear child
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2020.
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"A windowless shack in the woods. A dash to safety. But when a woman finally escapes her captor, the end of the story is only the beginning of her nightmare. She says her name is Lena. Lena, who disappeared without a trace 14 years prior. She fits the profile. She has the distinctive scar. But her family swears that she isn't their Lena. The little girl who escaped the woods with her knows things she isn't sharing, and Lena's devastated father is...
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HarperOne
Pub. Date
2011
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"Blessed with an extraordinary gift, James Van Praagh has the rare ability to bridge the gap between this world and the next. Based on nearly thirty years of spirit communication, this world-famous medium takes us on a powerful, emotional and ultimately inspiring journey to life on the other side. In Growing Up In Heaven, he provides solace and insight by offering us a remarkably detailed portrayal of a child's soul on its journey from this world...
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Avery
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Explains how making small shifts in one's parenting style can yield big results by uncovering a child's strengths, rather than focusing on his or her weaknesses.
"Once in a while, a simple idea comes along that radically changes how we raise our kids. Carol Dweck introduced us to the potential of the growth mindset. Angela Duckworth showed us the value of grit. And now, Lea Waters demonstrates the power of the strength switch. We all want to raise...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
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"...John Kenney is back with a brand new collection of poems, this time taking on the greatest "joy" in life: children. Kenney covers it all, from newborns, toddlers, and sleep deprivation, to the terrible twos, terrible tweens, and terrible teens. A parent's love is unconditional, but sometimes that button can't help but be pushed. Between back to school shopping, summer vacations that never end, the awkwardness of puberty, the inevitable post-college...
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Pub. Date
2010
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In this heartfelt and incisive new novel, Danielle Steel celebrates the virtues of unconventional beauty while exploring deeply resonant issues of weight, self-image, sisterhood, and family
Landing her dream job as a high school teacher, Victoria Dawson loves working with her students and wages war on her weight at the gym. Despite tension with her parents, Victoria remains close to her sister, Gracie, and when Grace announces her engagement to a...
17) How to Handle a Hard-To-Handle Kid: a parent's guide understanding and changing problem behaviors
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Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Karen Kingsbury delivers a powerful new novel about two parents' love for their child and the surprising lengths they will go to keep their family together when a judge rules that their adopted son must be returned to his biological father.
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Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1990
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The Companion Volume to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk In this honest, illuminating book, internationally acclaimed parenting experts Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish bring to life the principles of famed child psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott, and show how his theories inspired the changes they made in their relationships with their own children. By sharing their experiences, as well as those of other parents, Faber and Mazlish...
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