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Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2003
Description
"Slow Way Home is a warm, witty, fresh, and innovative novel." - --Homer Hickam, author of October Sky
"Slow Way Home is a gem -- both gritty and heartwarming at once. A wonderful, emotional read." - --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls
"Slow Way Home is a novel for the heart. It is pitch perfect and the character Brandon is going to linger in a lot of minds. The opening chapter is one of the most poignant and poweful I have ever read. This is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
As his extended family gathers for their annual Midwinter Festival magic competition, Aster decides to enter the contest meant for witches, despite the lingering discomfort and hostility of certain family members. Meanwhile, Ariel struggles to accept her new family's love while her estranged aunt attempts to lure her away by poisoning her self-esteem.
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
By recognizing and accepting their childis feelings, parents can improve their childis emotional resilience. The Power of Validation is the first book to explain this critical process and offer parents skills they can use to validate and empower children in order to reduce behavioral problems, instill confidence, and increase childrenis ability to regulate their own emotions.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Obayda's family is in need of some good fortune. Her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion, forcing the family to move from their home city of Kabul to a small village, where life is very different and Obayda's father almost never leaves his room. One day, Obayda's aunt has an idea to bring the family luck -- dress Obayda, the youngest of her sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh. Now Obayda is Obayd. Life in this in-between place is confusing,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Aster and his family are adjusting to his unconventional talent for witchery; unlike the other boys in his family, he isn't a shapeshifter. He's taking classes with his grandmother and helping to keep an eye on his great-uncle whose corrupted magic wreaked havoc on the family. Meanwhile, Aster's friend from the non-magical part of town, Charlie, is having problems of her own--a curse has tried to attach itself to her. She runs to Aster and escapes...
Author
Series
Emma just medium volume 1
Publisher
One Elm Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Even though her family calls her Emma Bemma, Emma knows she is really just Medium. That's because she's the middle kid between her two brothers, who everyone calls Big and Little. Big thinks he's the coolest kid on the planet now that he's 10. And everyone thinks Little is just adorable even when he picks his nose and eats it! What if she could get out of being the middle by taking on a new role? What if she acted BIG? Or even bigger than that?"--...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simon and Bolivar the dog usually watch while his mother Ines now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging his...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the evergreen classic about the innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with completely new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids. Eleven years ago, Why Gender Matters broke ground in illuminating the differences between boys and girls--how they perceive the world differently, how they learn...