Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child
10 best books like Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child (Robert B. Brooks): Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity, Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!, The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, Hit And Run, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!, The Last Vampire, Twisted, After Silence: Rape & My Journey Back
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1844280594 |
Merging expressive cartoon network-esque illustrations with beautiful black and white photographs of Brooklyn, this funny story tells how Trixie and Knuffle Bunny's trip to the laundromat with Dad goes terribly wrong when Trixie realizes some bunny's been left behind...! Her attempts to alert...
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423102991 |
Trixie can't wait to bring her one-of-a-kind Knuffle Bunny to school and show him off to everyone. But when she gets there, she sees something awful: Sonja has the same bunny. Suddenly, Knuffle Bunny doesn't seem so one-of-a-kind anymore. Chaos ensues until the bunnies are taken away by Ms. Greengrove....
Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 0786837462 |
PreSchool-Grade 2-The star of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (Hyperion, 2003) returns in another irresistible tale. Hurrying away to brush his teeth, the pajama-clad bus driver implores readers not to let his feathered friend stay up late. Youngsters are thrust into the role of caregiver as the...
The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 1423109600 |
I am feeling a lot better this lovely evening thanks to all of you who showed me nothing but love whenever i was going threw that tough illness by talking to me and encourageing me to get better... Barabra Saffer, Teresa, Leila Wilson, Charlotte, Julie Grippo, Ashley Devault, Tadiana *Night Owl*, Stacy,...
| Author | Deborah Tannen |
| ISBN | 0060959622 |
From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.
Women and men live in different worlds...made...
Out of all the Point Horrors that I’ve re-read, this is the one that I could instantly recall.
Cassie and her friends Eddie, Scott and Winks decided to get some extra practice in before their driving test by taking Eddies family car out for a ride.
But tragedy strikes as the hit a man during...
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog!
| Author | Mo Willems |
| ISBN | 0786818697 |
When Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, he can hardly wait to shove the entire thing in his beak. But . . . then a very sly and hungry duckling enters the scene and wants a bite. Who will be the more clever bird?
In this hilarious follow-up to the acclaimed Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Mo Willems...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0340877456 |
Fasten your seatbelts ‘cause I’m going to give this book the review it deserves. Probably a shady one. I don’t know what to say first, I usually start by saying the good aspects of a book but in this one there is none. Sorry fans.
The protagonist is Alisa a 5.000 year old vampire who...
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0590431390 |
Abby is eager to join the Tri Gams, the most exclusive sorority at Rockland State. She says most girls would kill to get into this sorority. They pledge ten girls a year and it's an honor to be asked.
After Abby attends a pledge meeting, Andrea, the president of the Tri Gams, says that when they become...
| Author | Nancy Venable Raine |
| ISBN | 0609804197 |
"Silence has the rusty taste of shame. The words shut up are the most terrible words I know. . . . The man who raped me spat these words out over and over during the hours of my attack--when I screamed, when I tried to talk him out of what he was doing, when I protested. It seemed to me that for seven years--until...
| Author | Dean Hughes |
| ISBN | 1573454060 |
In the beginning of this book, there was a guy named Alex and he was going back to the war after he recovered from his injury during the war. While he is in the war, he has a brother and a sister that are also helping out in the war. The brother's name is Wally and he is a prisoner of war in Japan. Alex's sister, Bobbi...
| Author | Dean Hughes |
| ISBN | 1573455849 |
The Thomas family members face ongoing challenges in the dark years at the close of WW2. Alex's values are tested as he works to complete an intelligence assignment in Germany while wondering if he'll ever see his beloved Anna and their son again. Wally struggles to survive the torture he endures as a...
| Author | Dean Hughes |
| ISBN | 1573451991 |
"Every era has its own refiner's fire, and World War II put general Church membership and Utah to a test," Dean Hughes explains. In Children of the Promise, his first historical fiction series for adults, Dean shows through the eyes of the Thomas family how LDS families were tested to the limit.
"Most...
| Author | Dean Hughes |
| ISBN | 1590383397 |
Mom, when are you going to add two more stars to the banner in our window?" LaRue asked.
"You obviously haven't looked. I sewed them on this morning." All around Salt Lake City-and across the nation — the banners were showing up now. Each star represented a member of the household who was serving...
| Author | Dean Hughes |
| ISBN | 1573458007 |
Dean Hughes has managed to make the Thomas family and all they interacted with seem real to me. I think he put it best in his afterward. "..I will miss the Thomases. I know that they only exist when I put words in their mouths or invent their actions, but it doesn't seem so to me. They seem like friends, or family,...
The Good Son (Movie-Tie-In)
| Author | Todd Strasser |
| ISBN | 0671867512 |
"The Good Son" is an example of a direct novelization that worked extremely well in its basis from the movie, and even added a few key scenes that were missing from the movie that helped identify the characters within it better. On the whole, however, the characters were clearly defined, the setting established...
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say: Destroying Myths, Creating Love
| Author | Warren Farrell |
| ISBN | 1585420611 |
In Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say, Dr. Warren Farrell demonstrates how gender-based anger at home, in the workplace, in omnipresent media images, and throughout the overall culture combines with men's own fear of speaking out to misrepresent the inner and outer reality of men's lives. Looking...
No Enemies Within: A Creative Process for Discovering What's Right about What's Wrong
Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse
| Author | Mic Hunter |
| ISBN | 0449906299 |
A long overdue book by a psychologist who has extensive clinical experience treating male victims of child sexual abuse, it explodes the myth that sexual abuse of male children is rare, or that the consequences are less serious than for girls. Hunter examines the physical and emotional impact of abuse...
Trichotillomania: An Act-Enhanced Behavior Therapy Approach Therapist Guide
| Author | Douglas W. Woods |
| ISBN | 0195336038 |
Trichotillomania (TTM) is a complex disorder that is difficult to treat as few effective therapeutic options exist. Behavior therapy has the greatest empirical support, but the number of mental health providers familiar with TTM and its treatment is quite small. This manual was written as a tool...
Kaplan & Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry
| Author | Benjamin James Sadock |
| ISBN | 0781731836 |
The best-selling general psychiatry text since 1972, Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry is now in its thoroughly updated Ninth Edition. This complete, concise overview of the entire field of psychiatry is a staple board review text for psychiatry residents and is popular with a broad range...
Quick Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-IV-TR
| Author | American Psychiatric Association |
| ISBN | 0890420262 |
The Quick Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria From DSM-IV-TR(R) is a handy, low priced companion to the ultimate psychiatric reference, DSM-IV-TR(R). It includes all the diagnostic criteria from DSM-IV-TR(R) in an easy-to-use, paperback format.
In making DSM-IV diagnosis, clinicians...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0671872656 |
I've given up on this book... I bought the trilogy edition and loved the first story. The second one however, I just could NOT get into. Normally, when I find a book I like, I can't put it down. This one I had to force myself to pick up. I feel like since I didn't finish it, I'm not in a place to write a review but...
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0590461001 |
During a long drive back to Florida, friends Christina and Terri decided to pick up young good looking hitchhiker James to liven up the journey.
But during a rest stop they witness James short temper and with news reports of a murderer on the lose, have the girls made a massive mistake by allowing James...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0671872664 |
OMG, I was reading this on a plane and had to keep it as hidden as possible because LOOK AT IT. It just LOOKS embarrassing (and I don't get embarrassed by much). If you open that first flap, wowzas, there's a sunset, a pretty blonde girl, a crazy demon hand, black roses, a graveyard, and an open coffin with...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0671690582 |
Roxanne and Pepper are a teenage couple with problems. They leave their small town for a weekend to try and solve them. They don't really succeed, and when they return home they find their town empty.
They call other towns.
They find the whole world empty.
But eventually they...
| Author | John Saul |
| ISBN | 0553288342 |
Borrego looks like an ordinary New Mexico town: it borders an Indian reservation, its teenagers are bored and restless, and its only industry is the outdated oil refinery. But someone has a plan to shake up Borrego that involves controlling the minds of the local residents. When Judith Sheffield is...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0340616857 |
Christopher Pike is the pseudonym of Kevin McFadden. He is a bestselling author of young adult and children's fiction who specializes in the thriller genre.
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
McFadden was born in New York but grew...
| Author | R.L. Stine |
| ISBN | 0345476549 |
Master of chilling suspense R. L. Stine proves that you never outgrow a good scare. If he frightened you then, he’ll terrify you now. . . .
Ellie Saks is dying to escape the city. She’s sick of dead-end jobs, her mother’s disapproval, her loser ex-boyfriend, Clay, who won’t take a hint,...
| Author | Christopher Pike |
| ISBN | 0743424239 |
HE MAY HAVE PHOTOGRAPHED A MURDER. Herb just wanted to photograph the cheerleaders in the school showers. He planted his camera high in the corner where no one could see it, and rigged it to a special homemade timer. He did that Thursday night, and he hoped that by Friday night he would have an exciting roll...
