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Will you fill my bucket? : daily acts of love around the world / by McCloud, Carol.; Wells, Karen,children's author.; Weber, Penny.;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Parent and child; Families; Love;
© c2012., Nelson Pub.,
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Home truths : a novel / by Lewis, Susan,1956-author.;
"For readers of Diane Chamberlain, Jodi Picoult, and Susan Wiggs comes another emotionally gripping novel from internationally bestselling author Susan Lewis about a mother's will to survive and protect her children"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Families; Mother and child; Teenage boys; Dysfunctional families;
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Self-reg : how to help your child (and you) break the stress cycle and successfully engage with life / by Shanker, Stuart,author.; Barker, Teresa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From internationally celebrated psychologist Stuart Shanker, a revolutionary new understanding of stress as the key that unlocks kids'--and parents'--most troubling behaviour. There is no such thing as a bad kid. According to world-renowned psychologist Stuart Shanker, even the most frustrating, annoying or troubling behaviour has an explanation. That means there is a way to make things better. Shanker's research has shown that for every child and every adult the ability to thrive--to complete tasks, form friendships, learn, and even love--depends on being able to self-regulate. In the past twenty years neurological research has been showing us a lot about brain states, and what is clear now is that the ability to self-regulate your response to stress is central to all of them. There are dramatic consequences to looking at a child's behaviour through the lens of self-regulation. Above all it discards the knee-jerk reaction that a child who is having trouble paying attention, controlling his impulses, or who gives up easily on a difficult task, is somehow weak or lacks self-discipline or is not making a great enough effort to apply himself. According to Shanker, the ability to self-regulate is limited, though. Like a tank of gas, it eventually dwindles, leaving a kid--or an adult--simply unable to control his or her impulses. That is, misbehaving kids aren't choosing to be difficult. They literally can't help themselves. And what draws down our reserves of self-reg? Stress. Stress of all kinds, from social anxiety to an uncomfortable chair. Control the stress, and the kid can control himself."--
Subjects: Self-control in children.; Stress in children.; Child rearing.;
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Ordinary human failings : a novel / by Nolan, Megan,author.;
When a ten-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets. From the author of 'Acts of Desperation' (a Dewey Diva pick), which won the Betty Trask award and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. A Dewey Diva Pick.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Children; Family secrets; Immigrant families; Irish; Journalists; Reporters and reporting; Tabloid newspapers;
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Elijah of Buxton / by Curtis, Christopher Paul.; Willis, Mirron E.(Mirron Edward),1965-nrt;
Read by Mirron Willis.In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom."Includes an author's note read by the author" -- container.Scott O'Dell award, 2008.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Audiobooks.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.; Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Liberty; Slavery; Blacks; Freedom; Slavery; Blacks; Black Canadians; Black Canadians; Blacks.; Liberty.; Slavery.;
© ℗2008., Random House/Listening Library,
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One hour of fervor / by Barbery, Muriel,1969-author.; Anderson, Alison,translator.; translation of:Barbery, Muriel,1969-Une heure de ferveur.English.;
"Haru, a successful Japanese art dealer, has an affair in Japan with a French woman who becomes pregnant with his child, but who threatens to take her own life if he ever tries to see her or the child and, as time passes by, wonders if it's too late to change things"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Families; Fathers and daughters; Man-woman relationships; Pregnant women; Promises;
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Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city / by Elliott, Andrea,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tightknit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north. By the time Dasani comes of age in the twenty-first century, New York City's homeless crisis is exploding amid the growing chasm between rich and poor. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani must lead her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental addiction, violence, housing instability, pollution, segregated schools, and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system. When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. As she learns to "code-switch" between the culture she left behind and the norms of her new town, Dasani starts to feel like a stranger in both places. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love?"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Coates, Dasani, 2001-; African American homeless children; Homeless children;
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Maskerade [graphic novel] / by Smith, Kevin,1970-author.; Brusco, Giulia,colorist.; McElfresh, Andy,author.; Sprengelmeyer, John,artist.; Thomas, Andrew(Comic book creator),letterer.;
"Felicia Dance is hiding in plain sight. The provocative social media star and shock TV sensation has one of the most recognizable faces in the world--so she can't capture and kill the butchers who murdered her little brother and experimented on Felicia like a lab rat when she was a child. Not unless she looks like someone else. The face of justice is reshaped forever in Maskerade--an exciting new vigilante comic series from writers Kevin Smith and Andy McElfresh with Artist John Sprengelmeyer"--
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Revenge; Women superheroes; Vigilantes;
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I will find you [text (large print)] / by Coben, Harlan,1962-author.;
"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large print books.; Novels.; Escaped prisoners; Fathers; Judicial error; Murder; Truth;
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Tiny humans, big emotions : how to navigate tantrums, meltdowns, and defiance to raise emotionally intelligent children / by Campbell, Alyssa Blask,author.; Stauble, Lauren,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.We're in the midst of a parenting revolution that is radically changing the way we raise our kids. Gone are the days of minimizing emotions. As our understanding of developing brains has increased, today's parents are looking for new ways to help their children understand their feelings and learn to process them. From two early childhood experts comes this essential guidebook that empowers parents to help their little ones navigate their big feelings-including tantrums, outbursts, and separation anxiety-while laying the groundwork for a lifetime of emotional intelligence.
Subjects: Emotions in children.; Parenting.;
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