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

September 6, 2008 – 12:46 pm

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

Book Description
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 [...]

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What to Expect When the New Baby Comes Home (What to Expect Kids)

July 30, 2008 – 7:11 am

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Heidi Murkoff
Publisher: HarperFestival

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Angus the Answer Dog is back! This time the ever-helpful pooch is here to help kids learn all about their new baby siblings. As in the other popular titles in Heidi Murkoff’s What to Expect Kids series, including What to Expect When Mommy’s [...]

By admin | Posted in Baby-3 | Also tagged Ages 4-8, All 4-for-3 Deals, Baby-3, Binding (binding), Custom Stores, Family Life, Hardcover, HarperFestival, Heidi Murkoff, Marriage & Family, New Baby, New Experiences, Nonfiction, People & Places, Printed Books, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Social Groups, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Specialty Stores | Comments (5)

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

June 13, 2008 – 9:32 am

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Leonard Sax
Publisher: Basic Books

Product Description
Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to Launch is not far from the truth. [...]

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged Adolescent Psychology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Archive, Basic Books, Being a Teen, Binding (binding), Child Care, Child Psychology, Children's Studies, College & University, Communication, Custom Stores, Customs & Traditions, Dating & Intimacy, Demography, Development, Discrimination & Racism, Drug Use & Abuse, Education, Emigration & Immigration, Ethics, Family, Family Health, Folklore & Mythology, Gender Studies, Gerontology, Hardcover, Health, Mind & Body, Health, Mind & Body: General, Homosexuality, Human Geography, Leonard Sax, Library & Information Science, Linguistics, Media Studies, Methodology, Museum Studies & Museology, Nonfiction, Nonfiction: Social Sciences: General, Parenting, Parenting & Families, Parenting & Families: General, Parenting & Families: Parenting: General, Philanthropy & Charity, Philosophy, Political Science, Popular Culture, Pornography, Poverty, Pregnancy, Prejudice, Printed Books, Psychology & Counseling, Reference, Research, School-Age Children, Sexual Abuse, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Social Work, Special Groups, Specialty Stores, Statistics, Student Life, Suicide, Teens, Teens: Social Issues: General, Violence, Violence in Society | Comments (5)

What’s Happening to Me?: Boys Edition (What’s Happening to Me?)

May 21, 2008 – 2:09 pm

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Alex Firth
Publisher: Usborne Books

By admin | Posted in Ages 9-12 | Also tagged Abuse, Ages 9-12, Alex Firth, All 4-for-3 Deals, Archive, Binding (feature_browse-bin), Boys & Men, Children's Books: Ages 9-12: General, Classics, Custom Stores, Format (binding), Health, Mass Market, Maturing, Nonfiction, Paperback, People & Places, Printed Books, Promotion (special_merchandising_browse-bin), Science, Nature & How It Works, Series, Social Issues, Social Science, Specialty Stores, Staff Favorites, Trade, Usborne Books | Comments (3)

What to Do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems With Anger (What to Do Guides for Kids)

April 12, 2008 – 1:05 pm

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Dawn Huebner
Publisher: Magination Press

Book Description
Did you know that anger is like fire? It starts with a spark, igniting us with energy and purpose. But it can also blaze out of control, causing lots of problems. If you’re a kid whose temper quickly flares, a [...]

By admin | Posted in Ages 9-12 | Also tagged Action & Adventure, Ages 9-12, Archaeology, Archive, Children's Books: Ages 9-12: General, Children's Books: Literature: General, Children's Books: People & Places: Social Science: , Children's Literature Guides, Classics, Custom Stores, Customs, Traditions, Anthropology, Dawn Huebner, Emotions & Feelings, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths, Folklore & Mythology, Format (binding), Health, Mind & Body, Health, Mind & Body: General, Humorous, Literary Criticism & Collections, Magination Press, Mass Market, Mental Health, Nonfiction, Paperback, People & Places, Poetry, Popular Culture, Read-Aloud, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery & Horror, Series, Short Story Collections, Social Science, Social Situations, Specialty Stores, Staff Favorites, Teens, Trade | Comments (5)

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

January 25, 2008 – 1:25 pm

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Publisher: Vintage

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Adolescent girls today face the issues girls have always faced: “Who am I?” and “Who do I want to be?” Unfortunately their answers, now more than ever before, revolve around the body rather than the mind, heart, or soul. “The body is at the heart [...]

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Christmas Is

December 3, 2007 – 10:31 pm

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House

Book Description
Christmas is many things to many people. It celebrates the birth of the Christ child. It is also Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus, angels, lights, Christmas trees, cards, carols, presents, and prayers. Christmas is . . . peace, love, and joy.

By admin | Posted in Ages 9-12 | Also tagged Ages 9-12, All 4-for-3 Deals, Christmas, Gail Gibbons, Gibbons, Gail, Holiday House, Holidays & Festivals, jp-unknown2, Nonfiction, People & Places, Social Science, Specialty Stores, Stores | Comments (1)

Organizing from the Inside Out for Teenagers: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Room, Your Time, and Your Life

November 23, 2007 – 2:08 am

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Julie Morgenstern, Jessi Morgenstern-Colon
Publisher: Owl Books

Book Description
In an increasingly busy world, its not just adults who need help getting their lives in order. As teenagers face unprecedented pressures, they find themselves struggling to balance schoolwork, friends, extracurricular activies, and time. Jessi Morgenstern-Colnknows about the organizational challenges facing her [...]

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged Health, House & Home, Jessi Morgenstern-Colon, Julie Morgenstern, Marriage & Family, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Owl Books, People & Places, Self-Help, Social Sciences, Stress Management, Teens, Time Management, Where We Live | Comments (5)

Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars (Smart Pop series)

November 14, 2007 – 6:56 pm

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: Benbella Books

Book Description
Neptune Noir is a collection of essays on the hit drama Veronica Mars, and is not authorized by CW, the creators or producers of Veronica Mars, or any entity associated with the show.

More than just a high school drama, Veronica Mars is a smart [...]

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged Culture, Entertainment, General Broadcasting, History & Criticism, Nonfiction, Popular Culture, Radio, Rob, Shows, Social Sciences, Teens, Television, Thomas | Comments (5)

God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America

November 14, 2007 – 1:21 pm

Author: Hanna Rosin
Publisher: Harcourt

Book Description

Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation’s capital. Most of them are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. And God’s Harvard grooms these students to be [...]

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged By Level, College, College & University, College Guides, Education, Hanna Rosin, Harcourt, Nonfiction, Popular Culture, Professional & Technical, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Studies, Social Sciences | Comments (0)

Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks: A Real Girl’s Guide to Getting Through the Day with Smarts and Style

November 14, 2007 – 2:59 am

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Erika V. Shearin Karres
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged Abuse, Adams Media Corporation, All 4-for-3 Deals, Friendship, Issues, Nonfiction, Parenting, Parenting & Families, People & Places, Self-Esteem & Self-Respect, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Social Situations, Social Skills, Stores, Teenagers, Teens | Comments (5)

Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation

November 13, 2007 – 4:31 pm

Rating: (70 reviews)
Author: Neil Howe, William Strauss
Publisher: Vintage
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Building on the concepts they first developed in Generations and 13th Gen, Neil Howe and William Strauss now take on Generation Y, or, as they call them, the Millennials. Unlike their rather distressing portrait of the more reactive Generation X (the 13th Gen), or [...]

By admin | Posted in Teens | Also tagged Children's Studies, Demography, Neil Howe, Nonfiction, Politics, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Teens, Vintage, William Strauss | Comments (5)

Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior

November 13, 2007 – 3:14 pm

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Russell A. Barkley, Christine M. Benton
Publisher: The Guilford Press

Book Description
Every child has “ornery” moments, but more than 1 in 20 American children exhibit behavioral problems that are out of control. For readers struggling with an unyielding or combative child, YOUR DEFIANT CHILD: EIGHT STEPS TO BETTER BEHAVIOR offers [...]

By | Posted in Teens | Also tagged All Amazon Upgrade, Amazon Upgrade, Child Psychology, Children, Christine M. Benton, Development, Discipline, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Parenting, Parenting & Families, Psychology, Psychology & Counseling, Russell A. Barkley, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Stores, Teens, The Guilford Press | Comments (5)

Mama, Do You Love Me? Board Book

November 13, 2007 – 3:29 am

Rating: (35 reviews)
Author: Barbara Joosse
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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This exceptional board-book tells a beautiful and timeless story about a daughter’s attempt to find the limit of her mother’s love. Barbara Lavallee’s exquisite illustrations of Alaska, with their exaggeratedly foreshortened perspective and rich tones of violet, blue-gray, and gray-green, tell of an easy declaration [...]

By | Posted in Baby-3 | Also tagged All 4-for-3 Deals, Baby-3, Barbara Joosse, Board Books, Chronicle Books, Emotions & Feelings, Family Life, Fiction, Multicultural Stories, Native North & South Americans, Nonfiction, Parents, People & Places, Pop-Up & Movable, Social Sciences, Social Situations, Stores | Comments (5)

The Sorcerer’s Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter

November 12, 2007 – 9:20 pm

Rating: (75 reviews)
Author: Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth Kronzek
Publisher: Broadway
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Harry Potter aficionados: remember when Buckbeak, Hagrid’s pet Hippogriff, was put on trial by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures? This crazy idea was not invented by Harry Potter’s creator, J.K. Rowling. In fact, from medieval times all [...]

By | Posted in Ages 9-12 | Also tagged Allan Zola Kronzek, Broadway, Elizabeth Kronzek, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Fantasy & Adventure, Folklore, Folklore & Mythology, Genre Fiction, Harry Potter Books, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Mythology, Nonfiction, Paperback, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Series, Social Sciences, World Literature | Comments (5)

The Story of Thanksgiving

November 12, 2007 – 4:06 pm

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Nancy J. Skarmeas
Publisher: Ideals Publications

Book Description
This book tells the story of the first Thanksgiving-how the pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom, how they landed at Plymouth Rock, and how the Native Americans taught them to plant and then joined them in a [...]

By | Posted in Ages 4-8 | Also tagged Ages 4-8, All 4-for-3 Deals, Baby-3, Culture, Education, Elementary School, Holidays & Festivals, Ideals Publications, Nancy J. Skarmeas, Nonfiction, People & Places, Reading, Social Sciences, Stores, Thanksgiving | Comments (4)

Go Ask Alice

November 12, 2007 – 2:07 pm

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
January 24thAfter you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs….It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and [...]

By | Posted in Teens | Also tagged All 4-for-3 Deals, Anonymous, Being a Teen, Drug Use & Abuse, Drugs, Fiction, Issues, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Simon Pulse, Social Issues, Social Sciences, Stores, Teens | Comments (5)

Growing Up: It’s a Girl Thing

November 9, 2007 – 11:53 pm

Rating: (32 reviews)
Author: Mavis Jukes
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

By | Posted in Ages 9-12 | Also tagged Abuse, Ages 9-12, Girls & Women, Health, Knopf Books for Young Readers, Maturing, Mavis Jukes, Nature & How It Works, Nonfiction, People & Places, Science, Social Issues, Social Sciences | Comments (5)