Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween
10 best books like Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween (Melissa Atkins Wardy): How to Be an Antiracist, The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border, Christmas Shopaholic, The Butterfly and the Violin, Weird Girl and What's His Name, Motherhood: Lost and Found, The Devil Between Us, Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life, Goodnight Stranger, Canada
| Author | Ibram X. Kendi |
| ISBN | 0525509283 |
Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist...
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes...
| Author | Sophie Kinsella |
| ISBN | 1787631974 |
Celebrate Christmas with the ultimate Shopaholic!
The brilliant laugh-out-loud festive novel from the Number One bestselling author.
Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adores Christmas. It's always the same – Mum and Dad hosting, carols playing, Mum pretending she made the Christmas...
The Butterfly and the Violin
| Author | Kristy Cambron |
| ISBN | 1401690599 |
A Mysterious painting breathes hope and beauty into the darkest corners of Auschwitz--and the loneliest hearts of Manhattan.
Manhattan art dealer Sera James watched her world crumble at the altar two years ago, and her heart is still fragile. Her desire for distraction reignites a passion...
Weird Girl and What's His Name
| Author | Meagan Brothers |
| ISBN | 1941110274 |
In the tiny podunk town of Hawthorne, North Carolina, seventeen-year-old geeks Lula and Rory share everything—sci-fi and fantasy fandom, Friday night binge-watching of old X-Files episodes, and that feeling that they don’t quite fit in. Lula knows she and Rory have no secrets from each other;...
Motherhood: Lost and Found
Ann Campanella, a freelance writer and horsewoman, returns to North Carolina after a several year absence. In her mid thirties and ready to start a family, she is used to setting goals and accomplishing them. But when Ann experiences a series of miscarriages at the same time her mother shows signs of...
Jessica Pratt is only ten when her world is destroyed. After witnessing unspeakable acts of violence, she flees for her life, becoming lost in the untamed California wilderness. Terrified and alone, she fights for survival as each step takes her further away from everything she has ever known.
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Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life
| Author | Gretchen Rubin |
| ISBN | 0449014398 |
In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier place.
One Sunday afternoon, as she unloaded the dishwasher, Gretchen Rubin felt hit by a wave of homesickness. Homesick—why? She was standing...
Lydia and Lucas Moore are in their late twenties when a stranger enters their small world on Wolf Island. Lydia, the responsible sister, has cared for her pathologically shy brother, Lucas, ever since their mom’s death a decade before. They live together, comfortable yet confined, in their family...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0061692042 |
"First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later."
When fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons' parents rob a bank, his sense of normal life is forever altered. In an instant, this private cataclysm drives his life into before and after, a threshold...
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
As the title of her current book makes clear, Sallie Tisdale is a provocative writer who likes to address uncomfortable (even taboo) subjects that many prefer to avoid. If you can get past the blunt, weirdly funny, and challenging title of this book, you’ll be okay with the contents: an interesting...
| Author | Drew Barrymore |
| ISBN | 1101983795 |
Award-winning actress Drew Barrymore shares funny, insightful, and profound stories from her past and present told from the place of happiness she's achieved today.
Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences...
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
| Author | Jessica Lahey |
| ISBN | 0062299239 |
In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s...
How do we build resilient children who can handle life's challenges?
As parents today, we often feel that our role is to protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controlling a child’s entire...
Beating Guns: Hope for People Who Are Weary of Violence
Parkland. Las Vegas. Dallas. Orlando. San Bernardino. Paris. Charleston. Sutherland Springs. Newtown. These cities are now known for the people who were shot and killed in them. With less than 5% of the world's population, the people of the US own nearly half the world's guns. America also holds the...
Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child
| Author | John M. Gottman |
| ISBN | 0684838656 |
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child is John Gottman’s groundbreaking guide to teaching children to understand and regulate their emotional world.
Intelligence That Comes from the Heart
Every parent knows the importance of equipping children with the intellectual skills...
Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years—No Time-outs Needed
| Author | Jamie Glowacki |
| ISBN | 1982109734 |
Real-world, from-the-trenches toddler parenting advice from the author of the bestselling Oh Crap! Potty Training.
Toddlers—commonly defined as children aged between two and five years old—can be a horribly misunderstood bunch. What most parents view as bad behavior is in fact just...
Nurturing the Family: The Guide for Postpartum Doulas
| Author | Jacqueline Kelleher |
| ISBN | 1401057853 |
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
| Author | Michael Booth |
| ISBN | 0224089625 |
Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years and has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book, he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all...
| Author | Zach Hines |
| ISBN | 0062567268 |
In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives—and they can’t wait to burn straight through them.
As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian’s friends are obsessed with the idea of burning...
| Author | Kwame Alexander |
| ISBN | 1328960013 |
Kwame Alexander's The Crossover is brought to life as a graphic novel with illustrations by Dawud Anyabwile.
"With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . . The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. ’Cuz tonight I’m delivering," raps twelve-year-old Josh...
| Author | Rachel McMillan |
| ISBN | 0785216928 |
“Maybe it was time to land straight in the middle of the adventure…”
Hamish DeLuca has spent most of his life trying to hide the anxiety that appears at the most inopportune times -- including during his first real court case as a new lawyer. Determined to rise above his father’s expectations,...
Usborne Illustrated Stories from Dickens
| Author | Mary Sebag-Montefiore |
| ISBN | 0794526284 |
It was a really good read. I recommend it to anyone who want to have a feel of Dicken's major works and does not have the time to read his lengthy works.
Don't be fooled by the fact that it is illustrated and think it is for children, it is not necessarily so. Actually the language is rich in vocabulary,...
Raising Girls with ADHD: Secrets for Parenting Healthy, Happy Daughters
| Author | James W. Forgan |
| ISBN | 1618211463 |
Although an increasing number of girls are diagnosed with ADHD every year, most of the focus of parent and teacher interventions has been on boys, leaving girls with ADHD frustrated and prone to acting out. Written by two professionals who have "been there and done that" with their own children with...
Moms Raising Sons to Be Men
| Author | Rhonda Stoppe |
| ISBN | 0736949771 |
Mothers of boys have the special calling to shape future men of God. Popular speaker Rhonda Stoppe, mom to two sons, knows this opportunity is a challenge, a joy, and probably the most important work of a woman’s life. Drawing from years of ministering to youth and to women and from her own parenting...
Are My Kids on Track?: The 12 Emotional, Social, and Spiritual Milestones Your Child Needs to Reach
Tools for Identifying and Developing Spiritual, Social, and Emotional Growth
From birth to adulthood, our children's physical and intellectual development is carefully tracked and charted. But what about their hearts? After all, how our children develop emotionally, socially, and...
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
From Girls to Parks and Recreation to Bridesmaids, the female friendship has taken an undeniable front seat in pop culture. Text Me When You Get Home is a personal and sociological perspective - and ultimately a celebration - of the evolution of the modern female friendship.
Kayleen Schaefer...
The Parents' Phrase Book: Hundreds of Easy, Useful Phrases, Scripts, and Techniques for Every Situation
| Author | Whit Honea |
| ISBN | 1440570744 |
What do you say when your child gets caught in a fib? Or asks you where babies come from? With "The Parents' Phrase Book," you no longer have to worry about coming up with the right response on the spot. Written by Whit Honea, a parenting expert whose advice has appeared on BabyCenter, Babble, and the Huffington...
A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons
| Author | Ben Folds |
| ISBN | 1984817272 |
Ben Folds is a celebrated American singer-songwriter, beloved for songs such as "Brick," "You Don't Know Me," "Rockin' the Suburbs," and "The Luckiest," and is the former frontman of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. But Folds will be the first to tell you he's an unconventional icon, more normcore...
