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Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents? In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies,...
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Children of exile volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
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English
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Love your kids for who they are. Mom and dad, your kids are created in God's image, not your own. Jill Savage and Kathy Koch will guide you in truly appreciating your kids. They will teach you how to study and become an expert on your children, because you cannot fully embrace them until you truly know them. In No More Perfect Kids, Jill Savage and Kathy Koch equip us with the tools and perspective to: * Identify and remove the Perfection Infection...
7) No, silly!
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Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As their mothers and fathers listen, animal preschoolers describe favorite things to do.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.
9) Climb on!
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Publisher
NorthSouth Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A child and her father hike to the top of a local mountain.
13) Faucet fish
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth can never get her parents' attention, even after she has filled the house with fish tanks to hold the creatures that keep coming out of her bathroom faucets.
16) The un-wedding
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As their parents disagree more and more about everything, Demetrius and Paula Ogglebutt decide that everyone would be happier if they "un-marry."
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Robbie and his dog, Ellie, spend the summer at his grandmother Maddy's house, where Robbie learns many things about his emotionally distant parents and himself.
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Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In all the writing and reporting KJ Dell'Antonia has done on families over the years, one topic keeps coming up again and again: parents crave a greater sense of happiness in their daily lives. In this optimistic, solution-packed book, KJ asks: How can we change our family life so that it is full of the joy we'd always hoped for? Drawing from the latest research and interviews with families, KJ discovers that it's possible to do more by doing less,...
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