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This story creates a variety of pickle and olive characters, like Gert and Mertin Gherkin, Olive Pitt and Karl Kalamata, whose names are certain to elicit laughter from young children.  It’s a funny story replete with tongue twisters to challenge the kids (and the adult readers) and to encourage...

As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nation and thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the use...

What are the current issues facing our digital world? How do digital communities and the problems they face change and expand? Discover the challenges and opportunities our digital world provides in this topical guide.

In this touching narrative, young children ask, "Where do people go when they die?" Each child asks an adult that they trust--a father, a mother, a grandfather, an aunt, a teacher--and, although the reassuring answers they receive are all different, each leads back to the same simple truth: when people...

Georgie's dad, George Smith is a highly controversial politician whose message is to get rid of non-white people from London's East End. Everyone assumes Georgie shares his father's views, even his father. But while he loves his dad, he's really not sure what he thinks. And then he begins to hear...

“There’s a hurricane smashing, trashing, bashing through our house. CRASH! BANG! WALLOP!” The hurricane is Wills, Chris’s thirteen-year-old brother. He has ADHD. Having a brother who causes so much chaos around the house is hard on eleven-year-old Chris. Sometimes Wills acts like he’s six...

In this debut YA friendship story set in Saudi Arabia, two girls navigate typical teen issues—crushes, college, family expectations, future hopes, and dreams. Sixteen-year-olds Leena and Mishie are best friends. They delight in small rebellions against the Saudi cultural police—secret Western...

Hi! My name is "Charlie." This is my story about starting school. I was very excited and couldn't wait to go. When we got there, I saw lots of people I didn't know and wanted them all to like me.But wait 'till you hear what happened! One boy didn't like my name. A girl couldn't tell what I drew in...

Discrimination in the gamer community is rampant, as evidenced by the recent GamerGate controversy. Though females make up 45 percent of all gamers, nearly 90 percent of all game designers are male. This has resulted in troubling portrayals of women in the games, which can leave lasting impressions...

It’s Hard Not to Stare is the second book unpacking StreetLevel’s children’s Compassion Series. The material encourages children to look at their world through the lens of compassion and understanding, rather than assumption, judgment or fear. Tim believes this approach will impact the way we care...

Not all love triangles end with choosing just one side … For seventeen-year-old Miho, the long war with her own mind is becoming too much to bear. Between the unending nightmares, PTSD, depression, and isolation, the mental skirmishes never end. Those sweet whispers of the dark wisps promise...

Henris Great Adventure was written for use by parents, therapists, teachers, special-education teachers, and all individuals who work or interact with gifted or twice exceptional children. The intent is for the book to be used as a tool to teach interventions to assist such children with emotional...

Ideas have legs, legs that can build but cannot walk, legs that can grow but cannot stroll. All great things start in the mind of thinkers as ideas of one thing or the other. Ideas may lead to build a new thing; to improve upon something already existing or to destroy it. Most inventions or discoveries...

The saga of four friends - love, teenage angst, breakups, marriage.Spans 20 years of the teens' lives.Each teen goes through a variety of coming-of-age-issues including, love, love lost, teen angst, jealousy.