Tag Archives: Sociology

I Think, I Am!: Teaching Kids the Power of Affirmations

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Louise Hay
Publisher: Hay House

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“Your thoughts create your life!” This is the message that Louise Hay has been teaching people throughout the world for more than 27 years. Now, children can learn and understand the powerful idea that they have control over their thoughts and words, and in turn, what happens [...]

Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

Rating: (127 reviews)
Author: Alex Harris
Publisher: Multnomah Books

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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 [...]

Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination (Published in association with The Open University)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Book Description
Doing a Literature Review offers students from across the social sciences and humanities a practical and comprehensive guide to writing a literature review. It takes the reader through the initial states of an undergraduate dissertation or postgraduate thesis.

The Night Before Christmas: The Anniversary Edition

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Christian Birmingham
Publisher: Running Press Kids

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After ten years in print and more than 1 million copies sold, our bestselling holiday classic returns in this special anniversary edition-and it’s still value priced at $9.98. Clement C. Moore’s American holiday poem comes to life in a splendid volume that’s rich with old-fashioned charm. [...]

Teeth Are Not for Biting (Board Book) (Best Behavior Series)

Rating: (28 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Verdick
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Book Description
TEETH ARE NOT FOR BITING Board Book by Elizabeth Verdick, illustrated by Marieka Heinlen. “Crunch crunch crunch. Teeth are strong and sharp. Crunch crunch crunch. Teeth can help you chew. But teeth are not for biting. Ouch! Biting hurts.” Sooner or later, almost all young children [...]

What to Expect When the New Baby Comes Home (What to Expect Kids)

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Heidi Murkoff
Publisher: HarperFestival

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Angus the Answer Dog is back! This time the ever-helpful pooch is here to help kids learn all about their new baby siblings. As in the other popular titles in Heidi Murkoff’s What to Expect Kids series, including What to Expect When Mommy’s Having a Baby and What to [...]

Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: Leonard Sax
Publisher: Basic Books

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Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film Failure to Launch is not far from the truth. Fully one-third of [...]

What’s Happening to Me?: Boys Edition (What’s Happening to Me?)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Alex Firth
Publisher: Usborne Books

What to Do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Problems With Anger (What to Do Guides for Kids)

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Dawn Huebner
Publisher: Magination Press

Book Description
Did you know that anger is like fire? It starts with a spark, igniting us with energy and purpose. But it can also blaze out of control, causing lots of problems. If you’re a kid whose temper quickly flares, a kid whose anger gets too big, too [...]

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

Rating: (44 reviews)
Author: Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Publisher: Vintage

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Adolescent girls today face the issues girls have always faced: “Who am I?” and “Who do I want to be?” Unfortunately their answers, now more than ever before, revolve around the body rather than the mind, heart, or soul. “The body is at the heart of the crisis [...]

Christmas Is

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Holiday House

Book Description
Christmas is many things to many people. It celebrates the birth of the Christ child. It is also Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus, angels, lights, Christmas trees, cards, carols, presents, and prayers. Christmas is . . . peace, love, and joy.

Organizing from the Inside Out for Teenagers: The Foolproof System for Organizing Your Room, Your Time, and Your Life

Rating: (18 reviews) Author: Julie Morgenstern, Jessi Morgenstern-Colon Publisher: Owl Books Book Description In an increasingly busy world, its not just adults who need help getting their lives in order. As teenagers face unprecedented pressures, they find themselves struggling to balance schoolwork, friends, extracurricular activies, and time. Jessi Morgenstern-Colnknows about the organizational challenges [...]

Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars (Smart Pop series)

Rating: (5 reviews)
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Publisher: Benbella Books

Book Description
Neptune Noir is a collection of essays on the hit drama Veronica Mars, and is not authorized by CW, the creators or producers of Veronica Mars, or any entity associated with the show.
More than just a high school drama, Veronica Mars is a smart and savvy teen detective show [...]

God’s Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America

Author: Hanna Rosin
Publisher: Harcourt

Book Description

Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation’s capital. Most of them are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. And God’s Harvard grooms these students to be the elite [...]

Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks: A Real Girl’s Guide to Getting Through the Day with Smarts and Style

Rating: (12 reviews)
Author: Erika V. Shearin Karres
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation

Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation

Rating: (70 reviews)
Author: Neil Howe, William Strauss
Publisher: Vintage
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Building on the concepts they first developed in Generations and 13th Gen, Neil Howe and William Strauss now take on Generation Y, or, as they call them, the Millennials. Unlike their rather distressing portrait of the more reactive Generation X (the 13th Gen), or the negative stereotypes [...]

Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Russell A. Barkley, Christine M. Benton
Publisher: The Guilford Press

Book Description
Every child has “ornery” moments, but more than 1 in 20 American children exhibit behavioral problems that are out of control. For readers struggling with an unyielding or combative child, YOUR DEFIANT CHILD: EIGHT STEPS TO BETTER BEHAVIOR offers the understanding and [...]

Mama, Do You Love Me? Board Book

Rating: (35 reviews)
Author: Barbara Joosse
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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This exceptional board-book tells a beautiful and timeless story about a daughter’s attempt to find the limit of her mother’s love. Barbara Lavallee’s exquisite illustrations of Alaska, with their exaggeratedly foreshortened perspective and rich tones of violet, blue-gray, and gray-green, tell of an easy declaration (“I love you [...]

The Sorcerer’s Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter

Rating: (75 reviews)
Author: Allan Zola Kronzek, Elizabeth Kronzek
Publisher: Broadway
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Harry Potter aficionados: remember when Buckbeak, Hagrid’s pet Hippogriff, was put on trial by the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures? This crazy idea was not invented by Harry Potter’s creator, J.K. Rowling. In fact, from medieval times all the way up to the 19th [...]

The Story of Thanksgiving

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Nancy J. Skarmeas
Publisher: Ideals Publications

Book Description
This book tells the story of the first Thanksgiving-how the pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom, how they landed at Plymouth Rock, and how the Native Americans taught them to plant and then joined them in a Thanksgiving feast. Parents [...]

Go Ask Alice

Rating: (65 reviews)
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
January 24th
After you’ve had it, there isn’t even life without drugs….
It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to [...]

Growing Up: It’s a Girl Thing

Rating: (32 reviews)
Author: Mavis Jukes
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers