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Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive guide to embracing your child's differences and putting them on the right path. Parenting a child with special needs doesn't work with a one-size-fits-all plan; it requires a strategy toolbox. Raising Exceptional Children is a thoughtful and compassionate guide that helps you understand the learning and thinking differences of exceptional children and discover tools to help you support your child's growth without limiting their potential....
Author
Language
English
Description
Diagnosis is not destiny. Autism. ADHD. Learning difficulties. Epilepsy. Cerebral palsy. Traumatic brain injury. From the moment your child is diagnosed with a special needs condition, you are plunged into a world of doctors, specialists, and therapists. But the most important person on your child's care team is you. In Healing Your Child's Brain, child development experts Matthew and Carol Newell arm parents with the knowledge, confidence, and tools...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Scottoline writes riveting thrillers that keep me up all night, with plots that twist and turn." –Harlan Coben
With Lisa Scottoline's trademark emotional depth and fast-paced action, the New York Times bestseller Damaged will have readers riveted to the last page as they root for the beloved characters and their fight for justice.
One boy. One lawyer. One chance for justice.
Ten-year-old Patrick O'Brien
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Humanity has been all but destroyed by a fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating 'hungries'. Only a small group of children seem to be immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, these unique children are being studied and subjected to cruel experiments. When the base falls, one little girl escapes and must discover what she is, ultimately deciding both her own future and that of the human race....
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andrew Solomon won the National Book Award for The Noonday Demon. In Far from the Tree, he examines the phenomenon of children whose personalities are far different from their parents'. Putting forth the idea that humans create originals, not clones, Solomon reinvents theories on parenting and identity.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Today millions of kids are stuck in a world that doesn't respect, support, or embrace who they really are--these are what Deborah Reber is calling the "differently wired" kids, the one in five children with ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's, giftedness, anxiety, sensory processing disorder, and other neurodifferences. Their challenges are many. But for the parents who love them, the challenges are just as hard--struggling to find the right school, the right...
7) Saga: 4
Author
Series
Saga volume 04
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Saga is the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they visit a strange new world and encounter even more adversaries, baby Hazel finally becomes a toddler, while her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana struggle to stay on their feet"--Back cover.
8) Saga: 8
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Incs
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe."--Amazon.com.
9) Saga: 7
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"From the worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan, 'The war for Phang' is an epic, self-contained Saga event. Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience."--Back cover.
10) Saga: 5
Author
Series
Saga volume Vol. 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk everything to find a cure for The Will, Marko makes an uneasy alliance with Prince Robot IV to find their missing children, who are trapped on a strange world with terrifying new enemies.
12) Saga: 1
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe" -- p. [4] of cover.
13) Saga: 2
Author
Series
Saga volume 2
Publisher
Image
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her family's greatest challenge yet: the grandparents. Collects SAGA #7-12"--Publisher's website.
14) Saga: 6
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After a dramatic time jump, Hazel begins the most exciting adventure of her life: kindergarten. Meanwhile, her starcrossed family learns hard lessons of their own.
Author
Publisher
Parenting Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and loneliness. Using the voices of parents on the front lines and...
Author
Language
English
Description
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest...
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