Tag Archives: Values

A Rainbow of Friends

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: P. K. Hallinan
Publisher: Ideals Children’s Books

Product Description
This book is for ages 3-5. Friends come in all colours and sizes; they can be funny or serious, musical or athletic, outgoing or quiet. This book reminds children to celebrate their differences because that is what makes each of us so special.

Working Together: Learning About Cooperation and Citizenship (Character Education Readers)

Author: Regina Burch
Publisher: Creative Teaching Press

The Christmas Cup

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Nancy Patterson
Publisher: iUniverse

Product Description
Eight-year-old Ann Megan McCallie impulsively bids all of her hard-earned money for a worthless milkshake cup she sees at an auction. Her grandmother Nannie comforts her when other children tease her for buying “junk.” As Megan and Nannie secretly find the perfect use for Megan’s disappointing purchase, Megan [...]

Hands Are Not for Hitting (Board Book) (Best Behavior Series)

Rating: (18 reviews)
Author: Martine Agassi Ph.D.
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Product Description
It’s never too soon for children to learn that violence is never okay, hands can do many good things, and everyone is capable of positive, loving actions.
In this bright, inviting, durable board book, simple words and full-color illustrations teach these important concepts in ways even [...]

Spoon

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

Product Description
Meet Spoon.
He’s always been a happy little utensil. But lately, he feels like life as a spoon just isn’t cutting it. He thinks Fork, Knife, and The Chopsticks all have it so much better than him. But do they? And what do they think about [...]

The Easter Egg

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Product Description
Jan Brett’s lovable bunny hero, Hoppi, and her remarkable Easter Rabbit will enchant readers as they pore over illustrations filled with dazzling eggs made by Flora Bunny, Aunt Sassyfrass and others.
If Hoppi can make the best Easter egg, he will get to help the Easter Rabbit deliver [...]

The Christmas Candle

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Product Description
On a dark, snowy Christmas Eve, a young man hurrying home for a family celebration enters a chandler’s shop to buy a candle for his lantern. He scoffs at the beautifully sculpted creations of the old chandler and instead purchases a simple, inexpensive [...]

Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Product Description
“ANGELS AND Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” Maya Angelou writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.” Angelou’s moving poem is a radiant affirmation of the goodness of humanity. First read at the 2005 White House tree-lighting ceremony, it comes alive again as a fully illustrated [...]

A Christmas Carol (Puffin Classics)

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Puffin

Product Description
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the “humbug” of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitors—his former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come—show him [...]

The Christmas Candle

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Product Description
On his way home for Christmas, Thomas needs a light for his lantern. He stops in an old candlemaker’s shop and is dismissive of all of the old man’s intricate and beautiful candles, buying an inexpensive one. However, as he continues his journey, [...]

The Crazy Christmas Angel Mystery (The Cul-de-Sac Kids #3) (Book 3)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Beverly Lewis
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers

Product Description
It’s almost Christmas, and Eric Hagel is spying on the new neighbor. What’s going on next door? Why is the house always flickering with candlelight? And what about the eerie flute music every morning at 6:00?
When Mr. Tressler puts up a Christmas tree, Eric’s eyes nearly [...]

Fallen

Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Lauren Kate
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Product Description
There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.
Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where [...]

The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Glenn Beck
Publisher: Aladdin

Product Description
Adapted from the original bestselling novel, The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book is the story of a young boy who finds the true meaning of Christmas in the most unlikely of places. Eddie wants a bicycle for Christmas, but his mother knits him a homemade sweater instead. His [...]

Marta and the Manger Straw: A Christmas Tradition from Poland (Traditions of Faith from around the World)

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Virginia Kroll
Publisher: Zonderkidz

Product Description
Part of the Traditions of Faith series, this book explores the tradition of the manger straw in Poland. This story, set during WWII, follows a young girl named Marta who goes to church to get a piece of manger straw in order to have luck and wealth in [...]

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
In this luminous picture book adaptation of Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, the story of Ebenezer Scrooge leaps off the page to warm the soul of one and all. Be swept away in an unforgettable Christmas Eve, from Scrooge’s first “Bah, humbug!” to the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past; from [...]

Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Product Description
“ANGELS AND Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward,” Maya Angelou writes, “and speak the word aloud. Peace.” Angelou’s moving poem is a radiant affirmation of the goodness of humanity. First read at the 2005 White House tree-lighting ceremony, it comes alive again as a fully illustrated [...]

All the World

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Liz Garton Scanlon
Publisher: Beach Lane Books

Product Description
All the world is here.
It is there.
It is everywhere.
All the world is right where you are.
Now.
Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night, this book affirms the importance of all things great and small in our [...]

A Christmas Carol: The Junior Novel (Junior Novelization)

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Publisher: Disney Press

Product Description The timeless tale of an old miser who must face Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet-to-Come, is re-imagined by cinematic visionary Robert Zemeckis. The three Ghosts remind Scrooge of the man he once used to be, the cold truth of who he is today, and what will happen if Scrooge does [...]

Auntie Claus and the Key to Christmas

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Elise Primavera
Publisher: Silver Whistle

Product Description It’s getting toward Christmas at the Bing Cherry Hotel, and Auntie Claus is preparing for her annual “business trip.” Just before she is ready to leave, her favorite nephew, Christopher Kringle, begins to have doubts about the family business. To settle the matter, Auntie Claus summons [...]

The 7 Habits of Happy Kids

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Sean Covey
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Product Description
For the Seven Oaks friends, there is always something to do. Whether they’re singing along with Pokey Porcupine’s harmonica or playing soccer with Jumper Rabbit, everyone is having fun and learning all sorts of things. These seven stories show how practicing the 7 Habits [...]

The Giving Tree 40th Anniversary Edition Book with CD

Rating: (618 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperCollins

Product Description
“Once there was a tree . . . and she loved a little boy.” So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein.
Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide [...]

My Little Girl

Rating: (49 reviews)
Author: Tim McGraw, Tom Douglas
Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Product Description
Ordinary days are magical when spent with those you love.
Dad and his little girl, along with their very large bloodhound, set off on an ordinary day and turn it into a wonderful adventure. From dancing by a duck pond to swinging on a tire swing, [...]

Impulse

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Product Description
Sometimes you don’t wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same.
Three lives, three different paths to the same destination: Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital for those who have attempted the ultimate act — suicide.
Vanessa is beautiful and smart, but her [...]

The Giver

Rating: (39 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Product Description
When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.

How to Steal a Dog

Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Barbara O’Connor
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Product Description
Half of me was thinking, Georgina, don’t do this. Stealing a dog is just plain wrong. The other half of me was thinking, Georgina, you’re in a bad fix and you got to do whatever it takes to get yourself out of it.
 
Georgina Hayes [...]

Big Words for Little People

Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: Joanna Cotler

Product Description
I know some Big Words.
I’ll teach them to you.
Although you are small,
you can use Big Words too.
Big Words aren’t scary.
They’re big fun to learn.
I was taught once
and now it’s your turn.
The eighth hilarious picture book by the #1 New York Times bestselling team of Jamie Lee [...]

Miss Nelson Is Missing!

Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Harry Allard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Product Description
Where is Miss Nelson, and Who is Miss Viola Swamp. This delightful story answers the questions.

Birchbark House, The

Rating: (51 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

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Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little House books. With The Birchbark House, award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s first novel for young readers, this same slice of history is seen through the eyes of the spirited, 7-year-old Ojibwa [...]

The Berenstain Bears and the Truth (First Time Books(R))

Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Product Description
When Brother and Sister Bear accidentally break Mama’s favorite lamp, their little lie grows bigger and bigger, until Papa Bear helps them find the words that set everything right again.  

You Are Special

Rating: (169 reviews)
Author: Max Lucado
Publisher: Crossway Books

Product Description
Every day the small wooden people called Wemmicks do the same thing: stick either gold stars or gray dots on one another. The pretty ones–those with smooth wood and fine paint–always get stars. The talented ones do, too. Others, though, who can do little or who have [...]

The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble with Chores (Berenstain Bears)

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperFestival

Product Description
Papa Bear and the cubs are having some trouble with chores –– they don’t want to do them! When they decide to take a break from cleaning, Mama Bear plays along. But what will happen when the mess builds up . . . and up . . . and up?
Ages [...]

Burned

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Book Description
Raised in a religious — yet abusive — family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions — about God, a woman’s role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of control. Pattyn is [...]

The Giving Tree (Slipcased Mini Edition)

Rating: (581 reviews)
Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: HarperCollins

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To say that this particular apple tree is a “giving tree” is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein’s popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the boy happy makes [...]

Have You Filled a Bucket Today: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Carol McCloud
Publisher: Ferne Press

Product Description
Through simple prose and vivid illustrations, this heartwarming book encourages positive behavior as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation, and love. Bucket filling and dipping are effective metaphors for understanding the effects of our actions and words on the well being of [...]

The Biggest Valentine Ever

Author: Steven Kroll
Publisher: CARTWHEEL BOOKS

Book Description
When Mrs. Mousely asks her class to make valentines, Clayton and Desmond decide to make one together and give it to their teacher as a surprise. But things don’t go as planned. First Clayton puts too much glitter on the card. Then Desmond puts on too many hearts. Soon the [...]

Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons

Rating: (25 reviews)
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Publisher: HarperCollins

Book Description
Everyone knows cookies taste good, but these cookies also have something good to say. Open this delectable book to any page and you will find out something about life. Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons is a new kind of dictionary, one that defines mysteries such as “fair” and [...]

The All-I’ll-Ever-Want Christmas Doll

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Patricia Mckissack
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

Book Description
IT’S CHRISTMAS, AND NELLA is beside herself with excitement! She and her sisters have been given a real gift – a beautiful Baby Betty doll. But it’s hard to share something you’ve waited your whole seven-year-old life for, and Nella grabs the doll for herself. It [...]

Christmas at Stony Creek

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Stephanie Greene
Publisher: Greenwillow

Book Description
The pond at Stony Creek is perfect for ice skating, and a blanket of snow is on the ground. It’s almost Christmas. Pipsqueak wishes she could spend the days at the pond, then curl up in front of a glowing fire with her family.
But Papa has gone away [...]

What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Book Description
Not everyone is lucky at Christmas. Some people would call 16-year-old Liz Kitchell and her family truly fortunate, but it doens’t feel that way to her. It seems that only a miracle can give 8-year-old Katie her holiday wish. She wants a family, something she does [...]

Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)

Rating: (205 reviews)
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
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Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The “New Pretties” are then [...]

Life Strategies for Teens

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: Jay McGraw
Publisher: Fireside
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“Are you as tired as I am of books constantly telling you the same old Brady Bunch, Beaver Cleaver, goody-two-shoes BS about doing your best to understand your parents, doing your homework, making curfew, getting a haircut, dropping that hemline, and blah blah blah?” So inquires Jay McGraw, son [...]

Ella Takes The Cake

Rating: (6 reviews)
Author: Carmela D’Amico
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books

Book Description
Ella the elephant is too little to slice the cake in her mother’s bakery, and the oven is absolutely off-limits. It feels like she can’t do ANYTHING important – until Ella’s mother needs help with an emergency cake delivery. Then Ella peddles off on her [...]

The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs

Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Betty G. Birney
Publisher: Aladdin

Book Description
Life in Sassafras Springs has always been predictable, boring even, but one afternoon that changes when Eben McAllister’s pa challenges him to find Seven Wonders in Sassafras that rival the real Seven Wonders of the World. The reward? An adventure that Eben’s been craving — a trip [...]

Is There Really a Human Race?

Rating: (32 reviews)
Author: Jamie Lee Curtis
Publisher: Joanna Cotler

Book Description
Is there really a human race?
Is it going on now all over the place?
When did it start?
Who said, “Ready, Set, Go”?
Did it start on my birthday?
I really must know.
With these questions, our hero’s imagination is off and running. Is the human race an obstacle course? Is [...]

The Giving Tree

Rating: (559 reviews)
Author:
Publisher: HarperCollins
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To say that this particular apple tree is a “giving tree” is an understatement. In Shel Silverstein’s popular tale of few words and simple line drawings, a tree starts out as a leafy playground, shade provider, and apple bearer for a rambunctious little boy. Making the boy happy makes the tree [...]

The Giver

Rating: (3023 reviews)
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
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In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing [...]

Share and Take Turns (Learning to Get Along, Book 1)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Cheri J. Meiners
Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Book Description
Sharing is a social skill all children need to learn—the sooner the better. Concrete examples and reinforcing illustrations help children practice sharing, understand how and why to share, and realize the benefits of sharing. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, [...]

Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul II: Stories About Taking Charge, Making a Difference and Moving Through the Preteen Years for Kids Ages 9-13 (Chicken … the Soul (Paperback Health Communications))

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap
Publisher: HCI

Book Description
At last …the long-awaited follow-up to the 1.2 million-copy bestseller! Filled with relevant, inspiring and fun stories written mostly by kids, this new volume features a unique, innovative chapter, “Rockin’ Our World”, that highlights real kids achieving real dreams, helping less [...]

It’s Not What You’ve Got

Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Wayne W. Dyer, Kristina Tracy
Publisher: Hay House

Book Description
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, the internationally best-selling author and lecturer, has written a new book in his series of inspirational books for kids. You’re Not What You’ve Got addresses the topics of money and abundance, with the understanding that children’s earliest thoughts and perceptions [...]

How to Behave and Why

Rating: (21 reviews)
Author: Munro Leaf
Publisher: Universe Publishing
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It’s hard to be good. Especially if you don’t really know what “being good” means. Munro Leaf, beloved author of The Story of Ferdinand, decided to try his hand at defining good behavior in his 1946 classic How to Behave and Why. The two biggest questions to ask [...]