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Language
English
Description
Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world--all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn't going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone...
Series
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed New Zealand director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok, What We Do in the Shadows) comes an award-winning new comedy. Julian Dennison stars as Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle (Sam Neil) in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together.
3) Nanny McPhee
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly, but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
Author
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Clinical psychologist and parent-child relationship specialist Dr. Emily Kline offers a set of five easy-to-learn, clinically proven techniques to improve communication between young adults and their parents. Based in a methodology known as Motivational Interviewing, these techniques focus on elucidating young people's own thoughts and motivations, rather than trying to impose parental views upon them"--
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Every parent is capable of raising happy, healthy, and emotionally grounded children. Despite this, too many of us struggle along the journey. From the fast-changing realities of social media to the fear that permeates our culture, to the generational expectations that are unconsciously placed on children, the pressures on parents and children have reached a critical moment. We feel it and our children feel it. But there is a solution. With over...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," she loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...
Author
Series
Bunny drop volume 7
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
As Rin experiences the ups and downs of being a teenager, she begins to ponder what it means to be family. In her exploration of that question, she takes it upon herself to track down Masako, her birth mother. Masako, now engaged and pregnant, is about to start a new family of her own. But with Masako's feelings of guilt over her treatment of Rin, she can't bring herself to tell Daikichi of the recent developments in her life. So when Rin and Masako...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Great news--Kevin McCallister is spending the holidays in New York City. Bad news--his parents are spending them in Florida! Separated once again from his family, Kevin manages to find food, lodging and fun using his dad's credit card. But his big-spending solo act takes a dangerous turn when the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv escape prison and also land in the Big Apple. Now, Kevin must outrun and outprank them again"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Soaring Wings Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This book introduces a myriad of positive, strength-based theories and techniques that help professionals as well as parents better understand and respond to kids struggling with emotional and behavioral challenges.--Publisher.
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