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Restore "peas and harmony" to the dining table with this comprehensive guide to building successful childhood feeding strategies. Focus is placed on the food-fight challenges parents are most likely to face—such as starting babies on solid foods, dealing with picky eaters, and making healthy food choices in child-care settings and restaurants—and a wide range of winning solutions are offered. More than a simple nutrition guide, this book also...

2) The story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White's eccentric life in nature and the birth of an American classic

Author

Sims, Michael

Pub. Date

2011.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft repeated maxim: "Write what you know." Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats, White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Painfully shy his entire life, "this boy," White once wrote of himself, "felt for animals a kinship he never felt for people." It is all the more impressive,...

3) The witches

Author

Dahl, Roald

Language

English

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Description

This is not a fairy tale. This is about real witches. Grandmamma loves to talk about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as children, and they work all kinds of terrifying spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens closely to Grandmamma's stories-but nothing can prepare him for the day he comes face-to-face with The Grand High Witch herself! --from Amazon.

4) Freeing Your Child from Anxiety: Practical Strategies to Overcome Fears, Worries, and Phobias and Be Prepared for Life—from Toddlers to Teens

Author

Chansky, Tamar

Publisher

Harmony/Rodale

Pub. Date

2014

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

Newbery Medal Award Winners
YS eNewsletter Spotlight: Audio books for the Whole Family

Childhood should be a happy, carefree time.
Too many children are stressed-out and exhibiting symptoms of anxiety. In Freeing Your Child from Anxiety, childhood anxiety expert Dr. Tamar Chansky shares a proven approach for helping children build emotional resilience for a happier and healthier life.
Parents everywhere want to know: What is normal? How can you know when stress has crossed over into a full-blown anxiety disorder?...

5) A wrinkle in time

Author

L'Engle, Madeleine

Series

Time quintet volume 1

Language

English

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Description

Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.

6) Children's Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Author

Reynolds, Kimberley

Series

Very Short Introductions

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

Summer Fun: Elementary and Middle Grade

Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, classic books such as Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, and...

7) Judy Moody and the not bummer summer

Author

McDonald, Megan

Series

Judy Moody volume 10
Candlewick on BrillianceAudio

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook on CD, eBook, Kindle

Description

Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun.

8) Mr. Louie is screwy!

Author

Gutman, Dan

Series

My weird school volume 20

Language

English

Formats

Description

When the hippie crossing guard, Mr. Louie, puts a love potion in the water fountain before Valentine's Day, everyone at Ella Mentry School falls in love.

9) Bullied: what every parent, teacher, and kid needs to know about ending the cycle of fear

Author

Goldman, Carrie

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Carrie Goldman became an unexpected voice for the antibullying movement after her blog post about her daughter Katie's bullying experience went viral and an online community of support generated international attention. In Bullied, Goldman brings together the expertise of leading authorities with the candid accounts of families dealing firsthand with peer victimization to present proven strategies and concrete tools for teaching children how to speak...

10) Big Yellow Trucks and Diggers

Author

Caterpillar

Publisher

Chronicle Books LLC

Pub. Date

2012

Language

English

Description

Kids love trucks and diggers, and with the help of full color photographs featuring rugged Caterpillar machines, these budding little contractors will love learning colors, too!

11) Easter: A Look Book Easy Reader

Author

Harding, P.J

Publisher

Speedy Publishing LLC

Pub. Date

2014

Language

English

Description

The Great American Read - 2018
YS eNewsletter Spotlight: Audio books for the Whole Family

Written and published by P.J. Harding. The first in the 'LOOK BOOK' series - Your child will love this easy reader and brilliant color picture book of monster trucks. Each page has a photographic image on the Easter theme. The simple text is easily understood by young pre-readers and easy to learn for emerging readers.

12) The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe

Author

Lewis, C. S

Series

Chronicles of Narnia volume 2

Language

English

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Description

Book, Audiobook on CD, eAudiobook

Four English schoolchildren 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 with eternal winter.

13) Diary of a wimpy kid: The long haul

Author

Kinney, Jeff

Series

Diary of a wimpy kid volume 9

Language

English

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Description

The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys won't soon forget.

14) The Egyptians

Author

Series

Publisher

Hachette Children's Books

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Description

How do we know how people in the past lived? How do we know what they wore, what they ate, if they worshipped gods and if they could read or write? We know through studying the objects they used.

15) My Family Celebrates: : Id-ul-Fitr

Author

Senker, Cath

Series

My Family Celebrates

Publisher

Hachette Children's Books

Pub. Date

2009

Language

English

Description

This book introduces the reader to the festival of Id-ul-Fitr and explores how one child and her family celebrate it. The book includes panels to show how people around the world celebrate Id and an Id recipe for you to try yourself.

16) The Greeks

Author

Series

Publisher

Hachette Children's Books

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Description

How do we know how people in the past lived? How do we know what they wore, what they ate, if they worshipped gods and if they could read or write? We know through studying the objects they used.

17) The Romans

Author

Series

Publisher

Hachette Children's Books

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Description

How do we know how people in the past lived? How do we know what they wore, what they ate, if they worshipped gods and if they could read or write? We know through studying the objects they used.

18) The Vikings

Author

Series

Publisher

Hachette Children's Books

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

Description

Book, Audiobook on CD, eAudiobook

How do we know how people in the past lived? How do we know what they wore, what they ate, if they worshipped gods and if they could read or write? We know through studying the objects they used.

19) Miss Small is off the wall!

Author

Gutman, Dan

Series

My weird school volume 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

A.J. and the other second graders do everything except play sports when they go to "fizz ed" class with their new teacher, Miss Small.

20) The book you wish your parents had read: (and your children will be glad that you did)

Author

Perry, Philippa

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

Description