Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
If you want to raise kids that who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control -- without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program. Companion novel to "The Face on the Milk Carton" and "Whatever Happened to Janie?"
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails, wearing a dress with a narrow white collar-a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey-she felt overcome with...
Author
Language
English
Description
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In asking, what are the effects of children on their parents, journalist Jennifer Senior analyzes the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"When Joey Campbell's biological father is released from prison, four-year old Joey faces a life no one could've planned. His father wants custody, and a judge's quick decision deals a devestating blow to the Campbell family: Joey must be returned to his biological parents. In a haze of grief and disbelief, the Campbells watch their adopted son pick a dandelion and blow the feathery seeds into the wind. And in the days following the ruling, Jack...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
10) Owen
Author
Series
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Owen's parents try to get him to give up his favorite blanket before he starts school, but when their efforts fail, they come up with a solution that makes everyone happy.
14) Locust lane
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, the powerful neighbors close ranks to keep their families safe. The three teenagers who were partying with her that night are the suspects: Hannah, a sweet girl with an unstable history; Jack, the popular kid with a mean streak; Christopher, an outsider desperate to fit in. Their parents, each...
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books Life/Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this absorbing, clever, and warm book, renowned psychotherapist Philippa Perry tells us what really matters and what behavior it is important to avoid--the vital dos and don'ts of parenting"--
16) In my heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Parents describe how their child is always in their hearts, no matter where they are or what they are doing.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Jamie Glowacki--potty-training expert, Pied Piper of Poop, and author of the popular guide, Oh Crap! Potty Training--shares her proven 6-step plan to help you toilet train your preschooler quickly and successfully. Let Jamie Glowacki, potty-training expert and the popular "Pied Piper of Poop," show you how it's done. Her 6-step, proven process to get your toddler out of diapers and onto the toilet has already worked for tens of thousands of kids...
18) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Just how far parents will go to protect their kids? When their son Adam is implicated in the death of his classmate, Tia and Mike Baye install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent.
Author
Language
English
Description
The covers of such magazines as Time and Newsweek have described parents as living in "mayhem" and "madness" with their children. TV's Supernanny regularly captures kids wildly, unbelievably out of control. How did our families get to such a state? Child psychologist Dr. Beth Grosshans has the answer. And mothers and fathers everywhere are listening. In what is sure to become a much-discussed blockbuster, Dr. Grosshans reveals why she believes nearly...
Author
Language
English
Description
A daily challenge for today's parents is incorporating positive discipline techniques and practices that put an end to temper tantrums, defiance and meltdowns. Dr. Jerry Day helps parents develop practical methods that teach children a fundamental attribute: how to willingly live under authority.
His successful methods are based on four key principles that parents must instill in their relationships with their youngsters:
1. Tolerance and Acceptance...
In Interlibrary Loan Catalog
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by MetroShare Consortium can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan Catalog libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request