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What Is a Feeling? examines how we can understand feelings and where they come from, while at the same time learning the best ways to express our feelings without hurting ourselves and others. The importance of emotional awareness and intelligence is stressed so that children have guides for allowing safe and creative expression of their feelings.

What Is Right? helps children develop critical thinking skills on the difficult subjects of ethics and integrity. Author Boritzer does not take a teaching approach. He presents children and adults with an opportunity to dialogue together in considering decisions and choices involving various situations which require wholesome social reasoning abilities.

What Is Funny? book addresses the subject of sensitivity and awareness in humor. Laughing at others or laughing at oneself, or laughing for no particular reason at all, author Etan Boritzer approaches the various subtleties of this basic human activity asking what is appropriate and what is hurtful, while tackling issues of taunting and teasing, bullying, and aggression - issues that are very much in the focus of our nation’s schools today.

Children’s dreams are a mysterious and sometimes frightening subject. Dreams can be informative in dealing with everyday problems. What Is Dreaming? will help to open discussion on children’s dreams and to unravel some of the subconscious concerns which children confront in their dreams, both scary and fun dreams. Parents, educators, and child-life professionals will find What Is Dreaming? to be a valuable resource in dealing with children’s dreams.

What Is Beautiful? explores the underlying ideas of what constitutes true beauty in a person. Parents and teachers will welcome the book’s message of genuine self-esteem as the antidote to peer pressures inside and outside school. Etan Boritzer conveys a deep understanding of inner values to children as opposed to media and social hypes. The book is a useful tool that encourages our children to consider inner values, what makes a person truly beautiful.

Calvin has always been a boy, even if the world sees him as a girl. He knows who he is in his heart and in his mind, but he hasn't yet told his family. Finally, he can wait no longer: I'm not a girl, he tells his family. I'm a boy—a boy in my heart and in my brain. Quick to support him, his loving family takes Calvin shopping for the swim trunks he's always wanted and back-to-school clothes and a new haircut that helps him look and feel like the boy he's always known himself to be.

Faye Fox wurde mit Fuchsohren geboren und ihr Leben lang als Hauptattraktion im Zirkus ausgestellt. Erst als die Teehexe Miss Butterling sie in ihrem magischen Teesalon als Lehrling aufnimmt, scheint ein Traum wahr zu werden. Faye ist nun täglich umgeben von zuckrig-leckerem Gebäck, verrückt-zauberhaften Zutaten und skurril-lebendigem Geschirr. Und sie findet neue Freunde, darunter den vorlauten weißen Raben Madrigal. Doch der böse Mr Gram will, dass Faye ihm ins Reich der Toten folgt – und er wird alles dafür tun, dass es so kommt.

Alyssa et ses coéquipiers se dirigent vers la prestigieuse compétition nationale de Niagara Falls afin de se mesurer aux meilleures équipes du Canada. Malheureusement, une révélation insolite fait chavirer l’univers de la jeune athlète. Alors que la pression est à son comble, Alys devra apprendre à s'ouvrir et à faire confiance de nouveau afin de pouvoir se concentrer sur l’objectif. Remportera-t-elle cet immense trophée tant convoité?

Alyssa rêve d’être une voltige aussi talentueuse et populaire que ses idoles sur les réseaux sociaux. Pour atteindre son but, elle décide de quitter son équipe scolaire et de rejoindre le club Diamonds Cheerleading Allstars, où elle espère pouvoir briller tout en haut de la pyramide. Face à de nouveaux défis et avec de nouveaux amis, elle découvrira bien rapidement que sa saison ne sera pas de tout repos!

Alyssa développe des liens de plus en plus serrés avec ses coéquipiers alors qu’ils vivent toutes sortes d’émotions fortes lors des compétitions. Toutefois, la plus belle période de la saison se complique quand les histoires d’amitié, d’amour et de famille s’entremêlent et deviennent un casse-tête. De nombreux plans sont imaginés par Alys et ses amis pour parvenir à leurs fins, mais oseront-ils passer à l’action?

Best friends Malena and Klepetan always adventure together! The two storks excitedly prepare to fly thousands of miles for the flock’s annual migration to a warm winter. But when Malena is injured, she stays in Croatia while Klepetan goes to South Africa—and the pair must navigate the turbulent winds of separation for the first time. But even over the vast distance, the two brave explorers discover ways to enjoy their separate seasons while keeping their hearts connected—and their hopes aloft that spring will bring them back together.

Allein in den Keller gehen, einen großen Hund streicheln, woanders übernachten als zu Hause – solche Herausforderungen können Kindern ganz schön Angst machen! Mit sechs spannenden Geschichten hilft Jugendliteraturpreisträger Achim Bröger Hörern ab dem Kindergartenalter, Stück für Stück Selbstsicherheit zu entwickeln. Und bald wird klar: auch die Kleinen können mutig sein! Dieses Buch hilft Kindern auf altersgerechte Weise, ihre eigenen Fähigkeiten zu entdecken und sich selbst mehr zuzutrauen.

Pia just found out the terrible news that pigs can't look straight up, which means her best friend and right-hand pig Patches has never seen the sky. If you ask her, that is absolutely cuckoo bananas. Now Pia is on a mission to share the beauty of the big wide sky with Patches...and she will do whatever it takes!

Séptimo grado va a ser todo un desafío para Merci Suárez: los maestros son más estrictos, las amistades son más complicadas y su familia es todavía… bueno, ellos siempre hacen que las cosas sean interesantes. Merci también tiene que gestionar la tienda de la escuela con un varón… y el hecho de que él es—pudiéramos decir—amable hace que todo sea aún más confuso. Y también está Edna Santos, más mandona que nunca, especialmente ahora que está a cargo de un evento anual: el Baile de los Corazones.

Pi's just like any other kid robot: they love to listen to music, play with their dog, and hang out with their friends. And when their teacher announces a field trip to Olde Silicon Valley, Pi couldn't be more excited! They daydream of all the awesome things they want to see and do there—but also begin to worry about all the things that could go wrong. Then, on the way home, Pi feels a ZAP! They try to avoid the strange feeling, but the Zaps keep happening. Pi doesn't understand. They have a firewall installed! What could be going on?

For one little girl, there’s no place she’d rather be than sitting between Mama and Mommy. So when Mommy goes away on a work trip, it’s tricky to find a good place at the table. As the days go by, Mama brings her to the library, they watch movies, and all of them talk on the phone, but she still misses Mommy as deep as the ocean and as high as an astronaut up in the stars. As they pass by a beautiful garden, the girl gets an idea...but when Mommy finally comes home, it takes a minute to shake off the empty feeling she felt all week before leaning in for a kiss.

Merci has always been fine with not being one of the popular kids like Avery Sanders, who will probably be the soccer captain and is always traveling to fun places and buying new clothes. But then Avery starts talking to Merci more, and not just as a teammate. Does this mean they’re friends? Merci wants to play it cool, but with Edna always in her business, it’s only a matter of time before Merci has to decide where her loyalty stands. Whether Merci is facing school drama or changing family dynamics, listeners will empathize as she discovers who she can count on.

Leila Wayward is a little witch who excels at everything she does. She’s the fastest flier, the most cunning conjuror, and the most superb shape-shifter. She has won trophies for potions, herbology, and alchemy—and now she dreams of winning the Magnificent Witchy Cake-off! As the youngest in a long line of masters of the Dark Arts of Patisserie, Leila wants her entry to be perfect. But even with the most bewitching of recipes, she realizes a terrible truth: she’s a disaster in the kitchen.

You'll fall in love with this really cool story about treating people kindly. Listen along as three little fruits go on an adventure filled with fun, friendship, and wonderful life lessons.

Zadie loves Tae Kwon Do, comic books, and outer space. She also loves visiting the community theater that her mom runs, especially the lighting grid over the stage and the stage manager’s booth, which is filled with levers and buttons like a spaceship control panel. So when the family’s finances suffer a blow and Zadie has to give up her usual activities to spend the summer at the theater, she doesn’t mind too much. After all, she’s always wanted to tech a show. She knows she’d be great at it, but her mom and the new stage manager are totally opposed to having a kid do tech.