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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Dime tiene quince años y siempre enfadada. Sus padres no la entienden, y su hermano estaba paralizado por un accidente. Cuando las peleas y acusaciones se vuelven demasiado, Dime va a vivir con su hermano. Pero sus problemas la siguen. Hasta que ella se de cuenta que tiene que empezar a tomar alguna responsabilidad, nada cambiará.
Dime is fifteen and always angry. Her parents don't understand her, and her brother was paralyzed in an accident. When...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Featuring basic concepts, this lovely Spanish-translated book uses vivid images, engaging vocabulary, and informational text to inspire beginning readers to recognize activities such as playing, digging, reading, running, swinging, and writing. With this engaging nonfiction title, children will be proud to share what they can do!
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Featuring TIME For Kids content, Lo que puede hacer el sol (What the Sun Can Do) teaches students about sunlight and its effects on living things. Used in the classroom or at home, this wordless picture book features full-color, engaging photographs that encourage students to describe what is happening using their own words. This Spanish resource is aligned to NGSS standards.
4) Jerkbait
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Even though they're identical, Tristan isn't close to his twin Robbie at all—until Robbie tries to kill himself. Forced to share a room to prevent Robbie from hurting himself, the brothers begin to feel the weight of each other's lives on the ice, and off. Tristan starts seeing his twin not as a hockey star whose shadow Tristan can't escape, but a struggling gay teen terrified about coming out in the professional sports world. Robbie's future in...
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Track and field season has arrived, and Mac is ready to report. Between last year’s returning stars and standout newcomer Aleesha Ramos, the Predators are poised for an even better year at the state championships. That is, until practice ends, and meets begin. When the bleachers fill, Aleesha’s sprinting is unremarkable. While the other sprinters warm up, Aleesha looks down. During races, she clips hurdles and loses speed. And afterward, she simply...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The promise that you can "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" is central to the story of the American Dream. It's the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will eventually succeed. However time and again we have seen how this foundational myth, with its emphasis on individual determination, brittle self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment, does not help us. Instead, as income inequality rises around us, we are left...
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
While the argument rages between strict and permissive parenting, both sides miss the point. If our goal as parents and educators is to help children become capable adults, then teaching them to make proper decisions and become self-reliant is paramount. With the bestselling classic Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World, authors and educational speakers H. Stephen Glenn and Jane Nelsen have created a book that no parent or teacher...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"If you're a parent, you've had a moment--maybe many of them--when you've thought, "How did that conversation go so badly?" At some point after the sixth grade, the same kid who asked "why" non-stop at age four suddenly stops talking to you. And the conversations that you wish you could have--ones fueled by your desire to see your kid not just safe and healthy, but passionately engaged--suddenly feel nearly impossible to execute. The good news is...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Sam Sheridan has traveled the world as an amateur boxer and mixed martial arts fighter; he has worked as an EMT, a wilderness firefighter, a sailor, a cowboy at the largest ranch in Montana, and in construction under brutal conditions at the South Pole. If he isn't ready for the apocalypse and the fractured world that will ensue, we are all in a lot of trouble. Despite an arsenal of skills that puts many to shame, when Sam became a father he was beset...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Scaffold Parenting, world-renowned child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz introduces the powerful and clinically tested idea that this deliberate build-up and then gradual loosening of parental support is the single most effective way to encourage kids to climb higher, try new things, grow from mistakes, and develop character and strength. Explaining the building blocks of an effective scaffold from infancy through young adulthood, he expertly guides...
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