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A Parent's Guide to Tutors and Tutoring: How to Support the Unique Needs of Your Child
by James Mendelsohn Publisher Comments A Parent's Guide to Tutors and Tutoring offers a survival guide for helping parents decide whether or not to hire a tutor, ?advice for choosing the right person, ?and ideas for evaluating if the?job is well done. In addition, the book includes...
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Toddler 411 2ND Edition
by Denise Fields Synopsis You've survived the sleepless nights, 2am feedings and endless diaper changes. Now the fun begins! Raising a toddler brings its own set of challenges and questions . . . and Toddler 411 has the answers. Written by the same team that brought you the best...
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Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men
by Michael Kimmel Publisher Comments Why do so many guys seem stuck between adolescence and adulthood? Why do so many of them fail to launch? Just what is going on with America's young men? The passage from adolescence to adulthood was once clear, coherent, and relatively secure: in their...
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Sleep Is for the Weak: The Best of the Mommybloggers Including Amalah, Finslippy, Fussy, Woulda Coulda Shoulda, Mom-101, and More! (BlogHer Books)
by Rita Arens Publisher Comments Each month, more than half a million readers turn to the 25 mommyblogs featured in this collection for advice and a sense of camaraderie, and this anthology brings together their best and brightest essays, ranging in style from snort-Diet-Coke-out-the...
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No Babysitters Allowed
by Amber Stewart Publisher Comments Hopscotch is a very brave bunny—except when his parents go out and Mrs. Honeybunch comes to stay. She wants to play, but Hopscotch would much rather be alone in his special NO BABYSITTERS ALLOWED fort . . . that is, until he hears Mrs. Honeybunch...
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The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation
by Marian Wright Edelman Synopsis Founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund--and bestselling author--Edelman looks back on what has been done, and what still needs to be done, to make the nation and world safe and fair for all children....
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Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited
by Elyse Schein Publisher Comments Elyse Schein had always known she was adopted, but it wasn't until her mid-thirties while living in Paris that she searched for her biological mother. When Elyse contacted her adoption agency, she was not prepared for the shocking, life-changing news she...
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Why Don't Your Eyelashes Grow?: Curious Questions Kids Ask about the Human Body
by Beth Ann, M.d. Ditkoff Publisher Comments Ever wondered what that small dewdrop thing is in the back of your throat? Or why you hiccup? Why Donat Your Eyelashes Grow? addresses every weird question about your body that you could think ofaor didnat even think to ask. Prompted by the brain...
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The Lost Daughters of China: Adopted Girls, Their Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
by Karin Evans Publisher Comments A revised and updated edition of the national bestseller. An instant classic upon publication in hardcover in 2000, The Lost Daughters of China presents both a compelling and informative look at the Chinese adoption process. In this book, Karin Evans...
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No Mind Left Behind: Understanding and Fostering Executive Control--The Eight Essential Brain Skills Every Child Needs to Thrive
by Adam J Cox Synopsis From the cutting edge of brain science, eight crucial skills for childrenas future successanow in paperback. From a clinical psychologist who has devoted his clinical and research work to the study of executive control skills, here is a program for...
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The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do
by Peg Tyre Publisher Comments From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade...
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The Book of Virtues for Boys and Girls: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories
by William J. (edt) Bennett Publisher Comments This exciting collection of fables, folktales, and poems, collected by William J. Bennett, illustrates some of the best human values: courage, honesty, work, friendship, and loyalty. With writings by great authors -- among them Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,...
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The Add/adhd Checklist
by Sandra F. Rief Publisher Comments The bestselling guide, fully revised and updated, offering practical information and tips to help every child with ADHD succeed The ADD/ADHD Checklist helps parents and teachers to better understand children and teenagers with attention problems and...
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Winging It: Dispatches from an (Almost) Empty Nest
by Catherin Goldhammer Publisher Comments For every woman on the verge of becoming an empty nester, a wry, insightful chronicle of rediscovering oneself at midlife. In her critically acclaimed first book, Still Life with Chickens, Catherine Goldhammer wrote of the six baby chicks that helped to...
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The Saddest King
by Chris Wormell Publisher Comments Once there was a country where the people were always happy. They would smile and laugh when it was sunny, or when it poured with rain, or even when the snow fell and their teeth were chattering. Nothing ever made them sad. But one day a small boy breaks...
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Christmas Doodles: Over 100 Pictures to Complete and Create
by Piers (ilt) Harper Publisher Comments Doodle decorations for the holiday! Like our bestselling Do You Doodle? and Beautiful Doodles, Christmas Doodles calls on kids to enter and play. Prompts on each of the generous-sized pages invite you to open your imagination and finish incomplete images....
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Knights and Castles with Toy and Gameboard (Groovy Tube Books)
by Kate Torpie Synopsis Was King Arthur real? How were castles built? Kids learn the answers to these and other questions in this stunning introduction to the world of medieval knights and castles. Includes a 24-page fact book, two classic games with instructions, a reversible...
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The Day Leo Said I Hate You!
by Robie Harris Synopsis In a reassuring and caring manner, Harris and Bang address what it feels like to say--and hear--those "other" three words as they delicately navigate the most profound bonds between a parent and a child. Full color....
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The Evolution of the Horse
by Patricia J. Wynne Publisher Comments Everyone who loves horses will be amazed to see the many forms these magnificent animals have taken since they first appeared over 50 million years ago. Kids and adults will delight in coloring the 30 beautifully illustrated images, which include the...
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A Year in a Castle (Time Goes by)
by Rachel Coombs Synopsis Lower the drawbridge Would you like to know what life was like in a castle long ago? Then come spend the next twelve months in this castle. Check out eight action-packed scenes for a bird's-eye view of the life and work of lords, ladies, knights, maids...
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