Infant Development: The Essential Readings -- by Darwin Muir, Alan Slater (Authors) (Book - Parent)
"Discoveries by researchers into infant development are some of the most exciting and important to be found in the study of human development, and they have been the subject on intense speculation and...
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3)
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe -- by C.S. Lewis (Author) (Book - Child)
"Four English school children find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Legend Days -- by Jamake Highwater (Author) (Book - Child)
"Abandoned in the wilderness after smallpox devastates her tribe, eleven-year-old Amana acquires from Grandfather Fox a warrior's courage and a hunter's prowess, gifts that sustain her as she watches...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Long After Midnight -- by Ray Bradbury (Author) (Book - Child)
"This fine collection of stories by a gifted science-fiction writer explores a variety of subjects. In one, two drifters in space search through the dead cities of Mars for a fabled Blue Bottle. In...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Endless Steppe -- by Esther Hautzig (Author) (Book - Child)
Ten-year-old Esther Rudomin movingly describes 'the end of my lovely world' when her family is arrested in 1941 and taken from their home and exiled to Siberia." From Publishers Weekly
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind -- by Athena Lord (Author) (Book - Child)
"Twelve-year-old Binnie, whose mother runsa company boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts, begins working in a textile mill and is caught up in the 1836 strike of women workers." From Card Catalog
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Secret Ship -- by Ruth Kluger, Peggy Mann (Authors) (Book - Child)
"The author relates the tremendous obstacles involved in the rescue of European Jews who were being secretly and illegally trans ported to Palestine on the ship 'Hilda' to escape destruction by the...
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Age groups: School Age (6-12)
The Pigman -- by Paul Zindel (Author) (Book - Child)
"For sophomores John and Lorraine, the world feels meaningless; nothing is important. They certainly can never please their parents and school is a chore. To pass the time, they play pranks on...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12)
Ten Things Every Child Needs (Video - Parent)
Can a child's IQ be improved during the first years of life? Researchers say yes, if the child receives ten simple things shown to help children's brains develop: Parent/child interaction, loving...
All Ages
Age groups: Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3)
The Pond -- by Robert Murphy (Author) (Book - Child)
"Joey lives in Vermont in1917. His concerns are fishing for bass, watching the otters and mink, and talking to Shake, the hermit. This is a quiet book about a boy of Vermont working toward maturity...
All Ages
Age groups: School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21)