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by Lonely Planet Kids, Anna Claybourne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Here's a book about Tokyo that's seriously streetwise. Lonely Planet Kids' City Trails: Tokyo features colourful themed trails, from history and culture to food and nature, that reveal amazing facts and intriguing tales that kids won't find on the tourist routes or inside the average guidebook. We'll...
by Monika Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Today's female athletes are taking sports to new heights. Carli Lloyd, Michelle Kwan, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Diana Taurasi, Billie Jean King, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams have turned the old saying to play like a girl on its head. This math reader introduces these amazing female athletes to...
Graduate Admissions Essays, Fourth Edition
Write Your Way into the Graduate School of Your Choice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The fully updated fourth edition of the go-to guide for crafting winning essays for any type of graduate program or scholarship, including PhD, master’s, MBA, MD, JD, postdocs, DDS, DVM, Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright--you name it.
Based on thousands of interviews with successful grad students...
Uncle Dan's Report Card
From Toddlers to Teenagers, Helping Our Children Build Strength of Character wit h Healthy Habits and Values Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A Unique Approach to Teaching Children Timeless Values
The worth of the child cannot be measured in terms of "Per Cent" alone. The home life of the child is an important part of the whole life. The teacher's judgment will be a much better one if the home will kindly co-operate. Parents...
by Dr. Mama Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Be afraid; be very afraid your lovable, agreeable child has become a teen. It's a parent's worst nightmare. As a parent of a teenager you will find that there are certain rules that we as parents must abide by in order to survive. Most of us will learn the hard way. I have compiled 1,000 tips that...
Your Seven-Year-Old
Life in a Minor Key
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Your Seven-Year-Old is devoted to the delightful but often anxious and withdrawn child of Seven. Although any seven-year-old will have moments of exuberance, security, and happiness, in general this is an age of introspection. As it begins, parents and teachers may welcome the quiet after the tussles...
by Gayle Lain
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
I didn't want to forget Dad. The day he died, in all my clenched anguish, I swore I would remember him. I would remember how he looked, how he smelled when he came in from the oil rig, how he drawled when he told a story. I'd remember his grin and his laughter. I'd remember the bright...
Untying Parent Anxiety (Years 5–8)
18 Myths that Have You in Knots—And How to Get Free
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Raising the perfect child . . . it’s our dream as parents.
But the reality is: the perfect child doesn’t exist. Yet parents everywhere are putting the full-court press on their kids to be perfect, fixating on raising them to be smarter, faster, more successful, and more popular than their...
Hannah Chan
A Young Girl and her Adopted Brother on a Tiny Island in the Japan Inland Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
Hannah Chan
Hannah, an eight year old Canadian girl, is powerless in the decision that has been made by her parents to move to a tiny island in the Japan Inland Sea. Once on the island she and her brother Taro are enrolled in the local elementary school. Iwagijima, like most of Japan’s rural...
by Trina Licavoli Gunzel
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This book is inspired by loving memories and teachings from grandmothers. Reflecting on positive childhood experiences allows application of knowledge to help us in our future. Special snacks, tender moments, traditions, and encouragement are heart-warming, shared, and illustrated in vivid colors....
by Justin Coulson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The author of 21 Days to a Happier Family, Dr Justin Coulson, on raising kids who'll bounce back from adversity and challenging times.
'How can I help my child be more resilient?' is a question Dr Justin Coulson often hears from worried mums and dads.
9 Ways to a Resilient Child gives...
Tuttle Tagalog for Kids Flash Cards Kit Ebook
(Includes 64 Flash Cards, Downloadable Audio, Wall Chart & Learning Guide)
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
A fun and kid-friendly introduction to Tagalog!
The Tuttle Tagalog for Kids Flash Cards kit is an introductory Tagalog language learning tool specially designed to help children from preschool through early elementary level acquire basic words, phrases, and sentences in Tagalog—the official...
Genocide
A Groundwork Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
"[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and Mail
Some view the systematic killing, rape and destruction...
by Malorie Blackman
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Despite his Mum's insistence, Sam doesn't want to be friends with Davey, he thinks Davey's a first class, grade A, top of the dung heap moron. But one day Davey saves Sam's life and a bond is formed between them. Sam is still embarrassed to be seen with Davey, but little by little he has to admit,...