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  • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

    • ASIN: 0553386697
    • ISBN: 9780553386691
    • Brand: Bantam
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book. “Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s struggles.”—Harvey Karp, M.D. In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neur... [Read More]

  • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1501173219
    • ISBN: 1501173219
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths ... [Read More]

  • The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0061537969
    • ISBN: 9780061537967
    • Brand: Harper Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders a... [Read More]

  • The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

    • ASIN: 0470372273
    • ISBN: 0470372273
    • Brand: Redwood Ventures
    • Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass

    Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps stu... [Read More]

  • Salt to the Sea

    • ASIN: 0142423629
    • ISBN: 0142423629
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal! "A superlative novel . . . masterfully crafted."--The Wall Street JournalBased on "the forgotten tragedy that was six times deadlier than the Titanic."--TimeWinter 1945. WWII. Four refugees. Four stories.Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, ... [Read More]

  • National Geographic Kids Brain Games: The Mind-Blowing Science of Your Amazing Brain

    • ASIN: 1426320701
    • ISBN: 9781426320705
    • Brand: National Geographic Society
    • Manufacturer: National Geographic Children's Books

    QUICK: Name the most powerful and complex supercomputer ever built. Give up? Here’s a hint: It’s housed in your head and it’s the one thing that makes you YOU. Your brain is mission control for the rest of your body and steers you through life. Not bad for something the size of a softball that looks like a wrinkled grey sponge!In this fascina... [Read More]

  • Counting by 7s

    • ASIN: 014242286X
    • ISBN: 014242286X
    • Brand: Puffin Books
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    A New York Times BestsellerIn the tradition of Out of My Mind, Wonder, and Mockingbird, this is an intensely moving middle grade novel about being an outsider, coping with loss, and discovering the true meaning of family. Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to co... [Read More]

  • The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

    • ASIN: B000QCQ970
    • Manufacturer: Free Press

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0061120073
    • ISBN: 0061120073
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family�... [Read More]

  • The Graveyard Book

    • ASIN: 0060530944
    • ISBN: 0060530944
    • Brand: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    The 10th anniversary edition of The Graveyard Book includes a foreword by Margaret Atwood as well as sketches from the illustrator, handwritten drafts, and Neil Gaiman’s Newbery acceptance speech.IT TAKES A GRAVEYARD TO RAISE A CHILD.Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, bei... [Read More]

  • My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

    • UPC: 787721927150
    • ASIN: 1609450787
    • ISBN: 9781609450786
    • Brand: Europa Editions
    • Manufacturer: Europa Editions

    Now an HBO series.Book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)   Beginning in the 19... [Read More]

  • You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less

    • ASIN: 0738212415
    • ISBN: 0738212415
    • Brand: Perseus Book Group
    • Manufacturer: Da Capo Lifelong Books

    Learn to draw in 30 days with Emmy award-winning PBS host Mark KistlerDrawing is an acquired skill, not a talent--anyone can learn to draw! All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. With Emmy award-winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you'll learn the secrets of so... [Read More]

  • Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

    • ASIN: 0143109391
    • ISBN: 0143109391
    • Brand: William Finnegan
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    **Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Autobiography**“Reading this guy on the subject of waves and water is like reading Hemingway on bullfighting; William Burroughs on controlled substances; Updike on adultery. . . . a coming-of-age story, seen through the gloss resin coat of a surfboard.”—Sports IllustratedIncluded in President Obama’s... [Read More]

  • World of Eric Carle, My First Library Board Book Block 12-Book Set - PI Kids

    • ASIN: 1503723003
    • ISBN: 1503723003
    • Brand: HACHETTE BOOK GROUP
    • Manufacturer: Phoenix International Publications, Inc.

    The Very Hungry Caterpillar is having an anniversary, and it's a big one! Celebrate the beloved book's 50th anniversary with this Eric Carle Book Block Library. Look, find, and learn with the Very Hungry Caterpillar! This take-along library includes 12 sturdy little board books featuring classic Eric Carle art. Six "Look and Find" titles let little... [Read More]

  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel

    • ASIN: B000SEGHT6
    • Manufacturer: The Dial Press

  • Flowers for Algernon

    • ASIN: 015603008X
    • ISBN: 015603008X
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Harcourt

    Oscar-winning film Charly starring Cliff Robertson and Claire Bloom-a mentally challenged man receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.

  • The Dangerous Book for Boys

    • ASIN: 0062208977
    • ISBN: 0062208977
    • Brand: William Morrow Company
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

    The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—is soon to be an Amazon Prime Original Series created by Bryan Cransto... [Read More]

  • Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

    • ASIN: 1601428294
    • ISBN: 1601428294
    • Brand: WaterBrook Press
    • Manufacturer: Multnomah

    A generation stands on the brink of a "rebelution.""Most people don't expect you to understand what we're going to tell you in this book. And even if you understand, they don't expect you to care. And even if you care, they don't expect you to do anything about it. And even if you do something about it, they don't expect it to last. We do." – Ale... [Read More]

  • Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

    • ASIN: 1933718579
    • ISBN: 1933718579
    • Brand: Tanglewood Press
    • Manufacturer: Tanglewood

    Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's sur... [Read More]

  • The Essential Guide to Talking with Gifted Teens: Ready-to-Use Discussions About Identity, Stress, Relationships, and More

    • ASIN: 1575422603
    • ISBN: 1575422603
    • Brand: Brand: Free Spirit Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Free Spirit Publishing

    Like other kids their age, highly capable adolescents experience developmental challenges. They’re forging identity, finding direction, exploring relationships, and learning to resolve conflicts. These are difficult tasks to do alone, no matter how smart one may be. The 70 guided discussions in this book are an affective curriculum for gifted tee... [Read More]

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