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The Educated Child : A Parent's Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade
William J. Bennett
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Current:
9.7 |
William J. Bennett, that doyen of common sense who brought us The Book of Virtues, has returned to the topic of child rearing, delivering a massive canon on the education of young children. He joins fellow veterans of the U.S. Depart
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Siegfried Engelmann
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Current:
9.6 |
* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? * Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? * Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms? * Did you know that ear
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The Way They Learn
Cynthia Ulrich Tobias
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Current:
9.6 |
In this enlightening resource, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias introduces the variety of learning styles that shape the way students interpret their world. Once these approaches are understood, parents and teachers can become far more effective in he
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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer
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Current:
9.6 |
Teach your child at home or supplement his or her classroom learning --this book provides you with the techniques, curriculum, and resources necessary to ensure that your child's education is the best it can be. As a parent, you worry about
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The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
Mary Griffith
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Current:
9.6 |
Unschooling, a homeschooling method based on the belief that kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities and interests, is practiced by 10 to 15 percent of the estimated 1.5 million homeschoolers in the United States. T
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The Complete IEP Guide : How to Advocate for Your Special Ed. Child
Lawrence M. Siegel, Marcia Stewart
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Current:
9.4 |
The specifics of a special needs child's education are determined together by parents and educators through a process called the Individualized Education Program (IEP), which can be complicated, stressful, and intimidating to parents. THE C
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Raising Lifelong Learners : A Parents' Guide
Lucy McCormick Calkins, Lydia Bellino
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Current:
9.4 |
Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide is a vital book for parents. Beginning with talk as the foundation of literacy, and emphasizing the importance of listening to and speaking with children, Lucy Calkins, longtime education s
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For the Children's Sake
Susan S. MacAulay
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Current:
9.3 |
For the Children's Sake is a book about what education can be--for your child, in your home, and in your school. It is based first on a Christian understanding of what it means to be human and on the Christian meaning of life. more]
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| 9
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How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development)
John Caldwell Holt
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Current:
9.1 |
"Children do not need to be made to learn," Holt maintains, because each is born with what Einstein called "the holy curiosity of inquiry." For them, learning is as natural as breathing. First published in 1967, How Children Learn has becom
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San Francisco Bay Area School Ratings
Mark Mastracci
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Current:
9.1 |
The San Francisco Bay Area School Ratings guidebook compares and rates more than 1,100 San Francisco bay area public schools. This book provides parents with critical information about bay area schools so they can make an informed decision
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Games for Math : Playful Ways to Help Your Child Learn Math from Kindergarten to Third Grade
Peggy Kaye
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Current:
9.1 |
At a time when the poor math performance of American school children has labeled us a "nation of underachievers," what can parents--often themselves daunted by the mysteries of mathematics--do to help their children? In Games for Math,more]
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Caring for Your School-Age Child : Ages 5 to 12
Edward L. Schor
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Current:
9.1 |
Puberty, divorce, drugs, masturbation, eating disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are all waiting to ambush the unsuspecting parent in a midchild crisis, and each one is thoroughly addressed in this encyclopedic tour of
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The Homeschooling Book of Answers : The 88 Most Important Questions Answered by Homeschooling's Most Respected Voices
Linda Dobson
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Current:
9.1 |
This how-to guide offers the collective wisdom of six dozen homeschoolers, their children, and noted writers on the subject. Written in a question-and-answer format, it leaves no stone unturned, with chapters on everything from socializatio
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What Your First Grader Needs to Know : Fundamentals of a Good First Grade Education (The Core Knowledge Series)
E. D. Hirsch
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Current:
9.1 |
What will your child be expected to learn in the first grade? How can you help him or her at home? How can teachers foster active, successful learning in the classroom? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the
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What Your Third Grader Needs to Know : Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education (The Core Knowledge)
E.D., Jr. Hirsch
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Current:
9.1 |
The acclaimed Core Knowledge Series, illustrated parent/child interactive books teaching education fundamentals, continues with a collection of American speeches, tales from around the world, math problems, and more, all supplementing a thi
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Math Magic for Your Kids : Hundreds of Games and Exercises from the Human Calculator to Make Math Fun and Easy
Scott Flansburg
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Current:
9.1 |
In Math Magic, his New York Times bestseller, Scott Flansburg demonstrated his universal ability to make math fun and easy for adults. Now in Math Magic for Your Kids, the Human Calculator does the same for elementar
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The Edison Trait : Saving the Spirit of Your Nonconforming Child
Lucy Jo Palladino
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Current:
9.0 |
Lucy Jo Palladino defines the Edison Trait (named after Thomas Edison) as divergent vs. convergent thinking. Edison Trait kids--one in five children--have the qualities that make innovative leaders, inventors, explorers, yet they often have
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Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill : A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence
Dave Grossman
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Current:
8.9 |
There is perhaps no bigger or more important issue in America at present than youth violence. Jonesboro; Paducah; Pearl, Mississippi; Stamps, Arkansas; Conyers, Georgia; and, of course, Littleton, Colorado. We know them all too well, and fo
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Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
William S. Pollack
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Current:
8.8 |
Listening to the author William Pollack read Real Boys, it doesn't take long to find out that being a boy these days isn't all fun and games. As codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical Center, Pollack has
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Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Mary Bray Pipher
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Current:
8.8 |
At adolescence, says Mary Pipher, "girls become 'female impersonators' who fit their whole selves into small, crowded spaces." Many lose spark, interest, and even IQ points as a "girl-poisoning" society forces a choice between being shunned
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See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women
Sylvia B. Rimm
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Current:
8.8 |
See Jane Win is a parents' guide for turning girls into happy, successful women. Child psychologist Sylvia Rimm, along with her daughters--a research psychologist and a pediatric-oncology researcher--spent three and a half years coll
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Raising Cain : Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Daniel J. Kindlon
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Current:
8.6 |
Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher's groundbreaking book, exposed the toxic environment faced by adolescent girls in our society. Now, from the same publisher, comes Raising Cain: Protecting
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens : The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
Sean Covey
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Current:
8.6 |
Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the timeless principles of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face.
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Ophelia Speaks : Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self
Sara Shandler
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Current:
8.6 |
Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler is a clever response to Mary Pipher's bestselling Reviving Ophelia. Shandler reveals telling portraits of teenage girls in this book, a compilation of
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Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers
Michael Riera
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Current:
8.6 |
Michael Riera is the high school counselor many of us wish we'd had: he's smart, non-judgmental, and respectful of kids. This excellent book is chock full o' advice for parents that sometimes goes against the established grain but makes utt
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Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? : A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager
Anthony E. Wolf
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Current:
8.6 |
This is a survival guide for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen. Area maps cover the obvious ground--there are chapters on school, sex, suicide, and so on--but it's the title of Ch
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Real Boys; Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
William S. Pollack
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Current:
8.6 |
What are little boys made of? In Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood author and psychologist William Pollack presents his findings from almost 20 years of clinical work and his recently completed study examining co
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'I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!' : A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict
Roni Cohen-Sandler, Michelle Silver
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Current:
8.5 |
If you are a mother and many of your conversations with your teenage daughter begin with a rolling of eyes, move into shrieked insults, and end with a door slam, I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You! could save you both. As Roni Cohen-Sandle
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Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood [ABRIDGED]
William S. Pollack
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Current:
8.5 |
Listening to the author William Pollack read Real Boys, it doesn't take long to find out that being a boy these days isn't all fun and games. As codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical Center, Pollack has
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A Fine Young Man : What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do to Shape Adolescent Boys in Exceptional Men
Michael Gurian
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Current:
8.4 |
Building on the success of his guide to raising healthy young boys (The Wonder of Boys, Michael Gurian has written the next chapter--a book focusing on the much-maligned adolescent male. Gu
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The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
Debbie Stoller, Marcelle Karp
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Current:
8.3 |
"In BUST we've captured the voice of a brave new girl: one that is raw and real, straightforward and sarcastic, smart and silly, and liberally sprinkled with references to our own Girl Culture." So say Marcelle Karp and Debbie Stolle
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The Roller-Coaster Years : Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle School Years
Charlene C. Giannetti, Margaret Sagarese
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Current:
8.1 |
For the 20 million parents of 10- to 15-year-olds, The Roller-Coaster Years is a lively guide to mastering the ups and downs of early adolescence. Every parent knows about the terrible twos and the brooding teens, but few have antici
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A Tribe Apart : A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
Patricia Hersch, Hersch. Patricia
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Current:
8.1 |
Why do teenagers so often seem like a different species? Journalist Patricia Hersch gives a troubling answer in her fascinating, up-close-and-personal look at what it means to be a teen in today's American high schools. Rather than intervie
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Teen-Proofing : A Revolutionary Approach to Fostering Responsible Decision Making in Your Teenager
John Rosemond
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8.1 |
With his trademark user-friendly, humorous, and common-sense style, John Rosemond lays out a perfectly sound and logical case for recognizing the realities of the teen/parent relationship, forming the foundation, and parenting with the Long
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A Tribe Apart : A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence
Patricia Hersch(Preface)
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Current:
8.0 |
Why do teenagers so often seem like a different species? Journalist Patricia Hersch gives a troubling answer in her fascinating, up-close-and-personal look at what it means to be a teen in today's American high schools. Rather than intervie
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The Teenager's Guide to the Real World
Marshall Brain
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Current:
7.8 |
"The Teenager's Guide to the Real World" starts from the central reality that teenagers get to design their own lives. Many of the choices that teenagers make as teenagers will affect them for the rest of their lives. This book is designed
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A Fine Young Man : What Parents, Mentors, and Educators Can Do to Shape Adolescent Boys into Exceptional Men
Michael Gurian
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Current:
7.8 |
Building on the success of his guide to raising healthy young boys (The Wonder of Boys, Michael Gurian has written the next chapter--a book focusing on the much-maligned adolescent male. Gu
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Seen and Heard : Teenagers Talk About Their Lives
Mary Motley Kalergis
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7.7 |
Part of what is hard about being a teenager is that it seems like you're alone with your feelings and that no one else has ever worried about, hoped for, or dreaded the same things in the same, painful way. Struggling teens (and parents who
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The Corner : A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood
David Simon
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7.7 |
David Simon and Edward Burns spent more than a year hanging out on a poverty-stricken corner of West Baltimore; what they witnessed there was a reality most Americans only hear about on the evening news. In The Corner, the chronicle
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Parent in Control
Gregory Bodenhamer, Betsy Radin
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Current:
7.7 |
Living with willful, aggressive, and seemingly incorrigible adolescent behavior is a nightmare many heartbroken and confused parents face. In this straightforward book, the author of Back in Control--a former probation officer--shows parent
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Riding the Rails : Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
Errol Lincoln Uys
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Current:
7.5 |
"Go fend for yourself," Clarence Lee's father said. "I can't afford to have you around any longer." Like hundreds of thousands of other young people across the country during the Great Depression, the 16-year-old left home, hopped a freight
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Toilet Training in Less Than a Day
Nathan H. Azrin, Richard M. Foxx
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Current:
7.4 |
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Fathers' Rights : Hard-Hitting & Fair Advice for Every Father Involvled in a Custody Dispute
Jeffery M. Leving, Kenneth A. Dachman
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7.4 |
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Frugal Families : Making the Most of Your Hard Earned Money
Jonni McCoy
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7.3 |
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Magic Trees of the Mind : How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence
Marian, Ph.D. Diamond, Janet L. Hopson
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Current:
7.2 |
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Negotiating the Special Education Maze : A Guide for Parents & Teachers
Winifred Anderson
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7.2 |
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Among Schoolchildren
Tracy Kidder
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7.2 |
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100 Books for Girls to Grow On
Shireen Dodson
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Current:
7.2 |
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The Good Son : Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men
Michael Gurian
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7.1 |
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Before She Gets Her Period : Talking With Your Daughter About Menstruation
Jessica B. Gillooly
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7.0 |
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