Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)
10 best books like Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) (Gever Tulley): Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, The Miracle at Speedy Motors, Open Wide: Tooth School Inside, Calling Me Home, The White Darkness, Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money, A Diary of Private Prayer, The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
| Author | Richard Louv |
| ISBN | 1565125223 |
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourth-grader. Never before in history have children been so plugged in—and so out of touch with the natural world. In this groundbreaking new work, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the...
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 0375424490 |
The latest installment of this universally beloved and best-selling series finds Precious Ramotswe in personal need of her own formidable detection talents . . . .
Mma Ramotswe's ever-ready tiny white van has recently developed a rather disturbing noise. Of course, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni-her...
The Miracle at Speedy Motors
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
Under the endless skies of Botswana, there is always something Mma Ramotswe can do to help someone and here she finds herself assisting a woman looking for her family. The problem is the woman doesn't know her real name or whether any of her family members are still alive. Meanwhile, Mma Makutsi is the...
| Author | Laurie Keller |
| ISBN | 0805061924 |
From the author/illustrator of The Scrambled States of America, here is a fun-filled introduction to teeth.
"Before the principal's announcements, will you all please stand and recite our pledge: 'I pledge allegiance to this mouth and to the dentist who takes care of us. And to the gums on...
| Author | Julie Kibler |
| ISBN | 1250014522 |
Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler is a soaring debut interweaving the story of a heartbreaking, forbidden love in 1930s Kentucky with an unlikely modern-day friendship.
Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants...
By the #1
New York Times
bestselling author of
Killers of the Flower Moon
, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs
Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer...
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
| Author | Peter C. Brown |
| ISBN | 0674729013 |
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head....
The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money
In the spirit of Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman’s Nurture Shock, New York Times “Your Money” columnist Ron Lieber delivers a taboo-shattering manifesto that explains how talking openly to children about money can help parents raise modest,...
A Diary of Private Prayer
| Author | John Baillie |
| ISBN | 0684824981 |
With over a million copies in print, John Baillie’s classic collection of scripture and prayers is a beautiful daily devotional, the perfect companion guide to any Christian seeking to enrich their life through growth in prayer.
In this book of personal devotions, noted theologian Dr....
The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
"Your only job is to help your players be better." That single idea had a huge impact on Tony Dungy when he heard it from one of his earliest mentors, and it led him to develop the successful leadership style so admired by players and coaches throughout the NFL. Now, a storied career and a Super Bowl victory...
Rick Steves Great Britain
| Author | Rick Steves |
| ISBN | 1631218115 |
Explore the misty isle of Great Britain, from lively London to the lush fields of Wales and the craggy beauty of the Scottish Highlands. With Rick Steves on your side, Great Britain can be yours!
Inside Rick Steves Great Britain you'll find:
Comprehensive coverage for spending two weeks...
Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better
| Author | Brant Hansen |
| ISBN | 0529123851 |
Not entitled to get angry? Really?
It’s a radical, provocative idea: We’re not entitled to get offended or stay angry. The idea of our own “righteous anger” is a myth. It is the number one problem in our societies today and, as Dallas Willard says, Christians have not been taught out...
Instant Pot® Obsession: The Ultimate Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook for Cooking Everything Fast
From the publisher of the bestselling Instant Pot® Electric Pressure Cookbook comes Instant Pot® Obsession, the latest Instant Pot® Cookbook for making ANYTHING using your Instant Pot®.
Your beloved Instant Pot® has completely changed how you get food on the table and now only one...
Inside a prestigious law firm, a rookie lawyer is pulled into a dark maze of lies and violence.
An ambitious Stanford graduate, David Adams has begun a fast-track career at Austin’s most prestigious law firm. It’s a personal victory for the rising superstar—a satisfying reversal from his...
| Author | Jan Karon |
| ISBN | 0399183736 |
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs.
After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove...
| Author | Nick Spalding |
| ISBN | 1542041651 |
From the bestselling author of Fat Chance and Checking Out comes a hilarious story about giving up… but definitely not giving in.
Kate and Scott’s marriage has always been a lot of fun, with alcohol at the heart of it. After all, what’s more entertaining than a good laugh and a large drink…...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 1563127881 |
Faulkner's classic short story was first published in 1930 in The Forum, his first story to be published in a national magazine. At the time it didn't bring him much commercial success, nor did his now famous novels, The Sound and the Fury (1929), and As I Lay Dying (1930). That success would come later...
Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning
| Author | Doug Buehl |
| ISBN | 0872072843 |
Many students today do not successfully learn their course content. Yet our curricula are largely print-based, and students must develop effective reading behaviours to be successful in school. This book provides middle school and high school educators with the resources they need to meet this...
