Tag Archives: Social Situations

Guess How Much I Love You

Rating: (293 reviews)
Author: Sam Mcbratney
Publisher: Candlewick

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“Guess how much I love you,” says Little Nutbrown Hare. Little Nutbrown Hare shows his daddy how much he loves him: as wide as he can reach and as far as he can hop. But Big Nutbrown Hare, who can reach farther and hop higher, [...]

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

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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

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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 [...]

Gingerbread Friends

Rating: (3 reviews)
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Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

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That popular little character is back looking for friends, in an adventure he’ll never forget.
Confident and cocky, the Gingerbread Baby happens upon a bakery, where he dances and prances in front of a sugar cookie girl, trying to make friends. But she just stares [...]

Love You Forever

Rating: (783 reviews)
Author: Robert N. Munsch
Publisher: Firefly Books

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A young woman holds her newborn sonAnd looks at him lovingly.
Softly she sings to him: “I’ll love you forever I’ll like you for always As long as I’m living My baby you’ll be.” [...]

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

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

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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 [...]

A Smart Girls Guide to Boys: Surviving Crushes, Staying True to Yourself & Other Stuff (American Girl Library)

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Nancy Holyoke
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Inc

The Tiger Rising

Rating: (78 reviews)
Author: Kate Dicamillo
Publisher: Candlewick

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The National Book Award finalist from the best-selling author of BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE - now in paperback
Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger - a real-life, very large tiger - pacing back and forth [...]

Bear Feels Scared

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Karma Wilson
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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In the deep, dark woods by the Strawberry Vale,a big bear lumbersdown a small, crooked trail….

Identical

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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Do twins begin in the womb?Or in a better place?Kaeleigh and Raeanne are identical down to the dimple. As daughters of a district-court judge father and a politician mother, they are an all-American family — on the surface. Behind the facade each sister [...]

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 [...]

The Giver

Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

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

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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. [...]

Big Words for Little People

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: Joanna Cotler

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I know some Big Words. I’ll teach them to you. Although you are small, you can use Big Words too.
Big Words aren’t scary. They’re big fun to learn. I was taught once and now it’s your turn.
The [...]

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Workbook

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

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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 [...]

Will I Have a Friend?

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher: Aladdin

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Library of Congress Children’s Book of the YearWhen Pa was taking Jim to school for the first time, Jim said, “Will I have a friend at school?” “I think you will,” said Pa.But even his father’s gentle reassurance doesn’t make Jim feel any better. The [...]

Miss Nelson Is Missing!

Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Harry Allard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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Where is Miss Nelson, and Who is Miss Viola Swamp. This delightful story answers the questions.

Teeth Are Not for Biting (Board Book) (Best Behavior Series)

Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Verdick
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

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TEETH ARE NOT FOR BITING Board Book by Elizabeth Verdick, illustrated by Marieka Heinlen. “Crunch crunch crunch. Teeth are strong and sharp. Crunch crunch crunch. Teeth can help you chew. But teeth are not for biting. Ouch! Biting hurts.” Sooner or later, almost [...]

First Day Jitters

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: Julie Danneberg
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing

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First Day Jitters

The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups

Rating: (23 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperTrophy

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“Don’t jump on your bed!” “Don’t bite your nails!” Parents sure seem to have a lot of rules. To make matters worse, the reasons behind the rules often don’t seem to make any sense. Could there be other, secret purposes behind these perpetual parental pleadings? Such is [...]

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 [...]

Sienna the Saturday Fairy (Fun Day Fairies)

Author: Daisy Meadows
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

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No fun in Fairyland?
The Fun Day Fairies are each responsible for adding spunk and sparkle to one day of the week! But when Jack Frost steals their magic, they need Rachel and Kirsty’s help. Without the fairies’ special flags, every day [...]

Oliver Button Is a Sissy

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

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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 . . . [...]

Birchbark House, The

Rating: (51 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

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Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s first novel for young readers, this