The Great Gilly Hopkins -- by Katherine Paterson (Author) (Book - Child)
"Gilly Hopkins is a determined-to-be-unpleasant 11-year-old foster kid who the reader can't help but like by the end. Gilly has been in the foster system all her lifen and she dreams of getting back...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
My Side of the Mountain -- by Jean George (Author) (Book - Child)
"Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Youn Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going--all the way to the Catskill...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Hocus-Pocus Dilemma -- by Pat Kibbe (Author) (Book - Child)
"Convinced she has psychical powers, a ten-year-old girl makes predictions for the members of her large family which seem to come true." From Card Catalog
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Nobody's Baby Now -- by Carol Benjamin (Author) (Book - Child)
"Fifteen-year-old Olivia, unhappy because she is overweight and because she must care for her invalid grandmother after school every day, at first denies, then struggles to come to terms with both...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Talk With Teens About Self and Stress: 50 Guided Discussions for School and Counseling Groups -- by Jean Peterson (Author) (Book - Parent/Child)
"Fifty guided discussions on success and failure, loneliness, and other topics help students share their feelings and concerns, gain self-awareness, and cope with stress." [--from the publisher]
All Ages
Age groups: Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)
An Ounce of Prevention -- by Lawrence Shapiro (Author) (Book - Parent)
"Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, an expert on using play techniques to help children, now shows parents how they can help prevent emotional problems even before symptoms occur. The book covers the major...
All Ages
The Children's Bible from the Good News Bible in Today's English Version (Book - Child)
"Both the Old and the New Testement stories are presented clearly, with illustrations, maps and an index." From Choosing Books for Kids
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Parenting: Guide to Your Baby's First Year -- by Anne Krueger (Author) (Book)
Editors of Parenting, in consultation with experts and parents have written a comprehensive hands on guide, orgnaized in three month increments from birth to first birthday.
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1)
Dragonwings -- by Laurence Yep (Author) (Book - Child)
"The story begins as eight-year-old Moon Shadow Lee journeys across the Pacific to join his proud and clever father at the family-owned laundry in San Francisco. The boy recounts their problems with...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Smith -- by Leon Garfield (Author) (Book - Child)
"This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known onnly as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder....
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
