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Illus. in color. Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham. "Limited vocabulary but unlimited exuberance of illustration."--School Library Journal.

The Power of a Positive Mom: Gift Edition

The Power of a Positive Mom: Gift Edition

by Karol Ladd

If you are a mother, you may not look in the mirror everyday and see yourself as having a great influence on the world, but you do! No one has a greater impact on the home than a mother, and that impact can be defeatingly negative or powerfully positive . This book will help ensure that your impact is positive. In the pages of this insightful and inspiring book, you will learn seven, simple principles for shaping... (more)

To My Child: We May No Longer Live in the Same House, but You're Always in My Heart : A Collection of Poems from Blue Mountain Arts (Teens & Young Adults)

To My Child: We May No Longer Live in the Same House, but You're Always in My Heart : A Collection of Poems from Blue Mountain Arts (Teens & Young Adults)

by Gary Morris

Show your child your unconditional love with this Blue Mountain ArtsÂ® collection. This beautiful book is filled with expressions to bring parents and children of all ages closer together. It features timeless poetry and sentiments from such notable Blue Mountain ArtsÂ® authors as: Donna Fargo Barbara Cage Susan Polis Schutz Jacqueline Schiff Joy Barnett Beth Fagan Quinn And many others Whether... (more)

Read To Your Bunny

by Rosemary Wells

From best-selling author/illustrator Rosemary Wells comes a charming, rhyming story that children will want to hear again and again. An invitation for parents and children to read together every day, this picture book promises: Read to your bunny often, and your bunny will read to you.

Freshman Focus: Carter G. Woodson High School

Freshman Focus: Carter G. Woodson High School

by Carla R Sarratt

Welcome Class of 2006 to your freshman year! Freshman Focus Book Summary The first bell has just rung to start the freshman year for Kendra Hayes, Lamar Adams, Destiny Jameson, and Steven Phillips. The four of them share feelings of excitement and uncertainty, but they walk the hallways of Carter G. Woodson High School with a different focus, or perspective, in mind. An excellent student, Kendra is focused... (more)

Growing Pains

by Rhonda Allen

Growing Pains is linked to Through The Eyes Of My Hazel Eyes written by Nicole M. Scott(due to release in 2008) These two novels are merged for a double sequel entitled Confessions Of Karma (09). Tonia, a teenage girl, raised by her grandmother, lacks emotional, nurturing, and spiritual balance needed in facing a domino effect of life's circumstances, a true-to-life story that women, young and old, should... (more)

My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones

My Mother, Your Mother: Embracing "Slow Medicine," the Compassionate Approach to Caring for Your Aging Loved Ones

by Dennis M. McCullough

What's the right thing to do for mom and dad as they get older? Thanks to advances in science and medicine, more of our parents are living longer than ever before. And though we are rewarded with more time with the people we love, we are also faced with new sets of complications—more diseases, more disability, more need for support and careful judgments. Yet while our health care system may help people live to... (more)

Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope

by Don Van Ryn

Meet Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one buried under the wrong name, one in a coma and being cared for by the wrong family. This shocking case of mistaken identity stunned the country and made national news. Would it destroy a family? Shatter their faith? Push two families into bitterness, resentment, and guilt? Read this unprecedented story of two traumatized families who describe their ordeal and explore the... (more)

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Crystal Meth Addiction

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Crystal Meth Addiction

by David Sheff

Sheff s story is a first: a teenager s addiction from the parent s point of view a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff s son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor,... (more)

What's in it for me?

by Christopher Beckwith

Ronald Davis, a promising Atlanta Architect, has grown content with the coveted life that he has accepted as his destiny. Although there's no questioning the fact that he's been dealt a desirable hand, the lack of true love proves to be the underlying attribute missing from his otherwise fulfilling existence. At the adamant request of a favorable yet unyielding boss, Ron finds himself compelled to travel to... (more)

The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad

The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad

by Joel Schwartzberg

"The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad" is a funny and personal look at how divorce reinvents relationships with kids and one's own evolving sense of Dadhood. The 40 short "humoirs" represent heroic, hysterical, and heartbreaking reflections on being a part-time Dad in a full-time life. This is a perfect book for any parent, particularly the millions who've made it through divorce with their senses of... (more)

The N.D.D. Book: How Nutrition Deficit Disorder Affects Your Child's Learning, Behavior, and Health, and What You Can Do About It--Without Drugs (Sears Parenting Library)

The N.D.D. Book: How Nutrition Deficit Disorder Affects Your Child's Learning, Behavior, and Health, and What You Can Do About It--Without Drugs (Sears Parenting Library)

by William Sears M. D.

The Sears Parenting Library's latest addition is an exploration of how nutrition affects the brains and behavior of youngsters. N.D.D., or Nutrition Deficit Disorder, as coined by Dr. Bill Sears, is based on the idea that if "you put junk food into a child's brain, you get back junk behavior and learning." Dr. Sears will explore the latest scientific research on the effects of nutrition on the brain. He will... (more)

Broken Family TiesPC Marks

Broken Family Ties

by PC Marks

Broken Family Ties relates the story of three children being reared by grandparents after the disappearance of their parents. The Grandmother reaks havoc on there lives. The grandfather is the saving grace. But there is no happy ending.

White Oleander

by Janet Fitch

Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man and is sentenced to life in prison.White Oleander... (more)

The Giving Tree

by Shel Silverstein

"Once there was a tree ... and she loved a little boy." So begins a story Of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk ... and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and... (more)

Goodnight Moon

by Margaret Wise Brown

In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room--to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one--he says goodnight. In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners,... (more)

Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children

Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children

by Sarah Napthali

Addressing the often-overlooked spiritual needs of mothers, this book discusses Buddhist teachings as applied to the everyday challenges and stresses of raising children. Offered are ways for mothers to reconnect with their inner selves and become calmer and happier-with the recognition that a happier mother will be a better parent. This realistic look at motherhood acknowledges the sorrows as well as the joys of... (more)

"Mom, I Hate My Life!": Becoming Your Daughter's Ally Through the Emotional Ups and Downs of Adolescence (A Hand-in-Hand Book)

"Mom, I Hate My Life!": Becoming Your Daughter's Ally Through the Emotional Ups and Downs of Adolescence (A Hand-in-Hand Book)

by Sharon A. Hersh

“I don’t know why my daughter is so angry. She yells at me all the time!” “Our daughter comes home, goes straight to her room, turns on her CD player and won’t talk to anyone–especially me .” “The emotional ups and downs of our daughter’s life make us all feel like we’re on a roller coaster.” Navigating an adolescent daughter’s emotional life is one of a mom’s toughest challenges. A teenage girl’s... (more)

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

by Gabor Mate?, Gordon Neufeld

A psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting issues joins forces with a physician and bestselling author to tackle one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time -- peers replacing parents in the lives of our children. Dr. Neufeld has dubbed this phenomenon peer orientation, which refers to the tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for... (more)

Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change (Bradford Books)

Brain and Culture: Neurobiology, Ideology, and Social Change (Bradford Books)

by Bruce E. Wexler

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2007. Research shows that between birth and early adulthood the brain requires sensory stimulation to develop physically. The nature of the stimulation shapes the connections among neurons that create the neuronal networks necessary for thought and behavior. By changing the cultural environment, each generation shapes the brains of the next. By early adulthood, the... (more)

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