Tag Archives: Self-Esteem & Self-Respect

Milton’s Secret: An Adventure of Discovery through Then, When, and the Power of Now

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Eckhart Tolle, Robert S. Friedman
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing

Product Description
For the first time ever, bestselling author Eckhart Tolle brings the core of his teachings to children, ages 7 to 100. Beautifully illustrated and artfully expressed, this charming story will bring joy to children and their parents for decades to [...]

Impulse

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Product Description
Sometimes you don’t wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act — suicide.Vanessa is beautiful and [...]

Where’s My Stuff?: The Ultimate Teen Organizing Guide

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Samantha Moss, Lesley Schwartz
Publisher: Orange Avenue Publishing

Product Description
Free time is great. Unless you spend all of it searching for your homework, your mobile phone, or a clean pair of shorts. Then free time is not so great. In fact, it’s non-existent. If chaos and disorganisation are swallowing all [...]

I Am the Messenger

Rating: (64 reviews)
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Meet Ed Kennedy—underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and he’s hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until [...]

How to Steal a Dog

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara O’Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out [...]

Listen!

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Stephanie S. Tolan
Publisher: HarperTrophy

Product Description
Learning to walk again is the easy part.
For twelve-year-old Charley, recovering from the accident that shattered her leg is nowhere near as difficult as facing the solitude of a summer without her best friend and with a father who does nothing, now, but work. [...]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Workbook

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Sean Covey
Publisher: Franklin Covey

Product Description
This hands-on personal workbook companion to the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens provides engaging activities to help teens understand and apply the power of the 7 Habits. Sean Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has sold more than 2 [...]

Ish

Rating: (21 reviews)
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Publisher: Candlewick

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A creative spirit learns that thinking “ish-ly” is far more wonderful than “getting it right” in this gentle new fable from the creator of the award-winning picture book THE DOT.
Ramon loved to draw. Anytime. Anything. Anywhere.
Drawing is what Ramon does. It¹s what makes him happy. But [...]

Oliver Button Is a Sissy

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Tomie dePaola
Publisher: Voyager Books

Product Description
A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he’d rather read books, paint pictures, and tap-dance than participate in sports. “There is a good balance between the simple text . . . and the expressive pictures . . . [...]

Roxie and the Hooligans

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Publisher: Aladdin

Product Description
Do not panic.Lord Thistlebottom’s Book of Pitfalls and How to Survive Them has taught Roxie Warbler how to handle all sorts of situations. If Roxie’s ever lost in the desert, or buried in an avalanche, or caught in a dust storm, she knows just [...]

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Wendy Mass
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

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Jeremy Fink has been obsessed with the meaning of life ever since a box from his father arrived at his house five years after his father was killed in a car accident. Jeremy is determined to find the missing keys that [...]

I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More! (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Younger Readers (Awards))

Rating: (45 reviews)
Author: Karen Beaumont
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books

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A dab of blue here, a splash of red there, a goopy smear of green . . . everywhere. To the tune of “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More,” one creative kid floods his world with color, painting first the walls, then the [...]

You Are Special

Rating: (169 reviews)
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Crossway Books

Product Description
Every day the small wooden people called Wemmicks do the same thing: stick either gold stars or gray dots on one another. The pretty ones–those with smooth wood and fine paint–always get stars. The talented ones do, too. Others, though, who can do little [...]

Yay, You! : Moving Out, Moving Up, Moving On

Rating: (12 reviews)
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Publisher: Little Simon

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On the occasion of her son’s graduation from high school, Sandra Boynton, the well-loved creator of books and cards featuring hippos, dinosaurs, and sheep, has written a celebratory book for “onwardly mobile” readers. Everyone on the planet will compare this title to Dr. [...]

Miss Rumphius

Rating: (56 reviews)
Author: Barbara Cooney
Publisher: Puffin

Burned

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
Raised in a religious — yet abusive — family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions — about God, a woman’s role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of [...]

The Big Book Of Help (American Girl Library)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Nancy Holyoke
Publisher: American Girl

Learning To Slow Down & Pay Attention: A Book for Kids About Adhd

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Kathleen G. Nadeau, Ellen B. Dixon, Charles Beyl
Publisher: Magination Press

Book Description
Parents, teachers and kids will love the checklists found in this book to help children organize their time and daily tasks. New edition includes more explanations about medication and how it works. Also, increased emphasis [...]

Indigo Dreams: Relaxation and Stress Management Bedtime Stories for Children, Improve Sleep, Manage Stress and Anxiety (Indigo Dreams)

Rating: (61 reviews)
Author: Lori Lite
Publisher: Lori Lite

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Indigo Dreams is a 60 minute CD/audio book designed to entertain your child while introducing them to relaxation and stress-management techniques. Four unique bedtime stories incorporate breathing, visualizations, muscular relaxation and affirmations. These are the same techniques recommended for adults but presented in a [...]

Hattie Big Sky

Rating: (30 reviews)
Author: Kirby Larson
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle’s homesteading claim.
For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie’s been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim [...]

Ella Takes The Cake

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Carmela D’Amico
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books

Book Description
Ella the elephant is too little to slice the cake in her mother’s bakery, and the oven is absolutely off-limits. It feels like she can’t do ANYTHING important - until Ella’s mother needs help with an emergency cake delivery. Then Ella peddles [...]

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