The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander
10 best books like The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander (Barbara Coloroso): Lives of Girls and Women, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, Son of Hamas, Half Blood Blues, The Traveler, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood, Like the Red Panda, The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals, One Fifth Avenue
| Author | Alice Munro |
| ISBN | 0375707492 |
The only novel from Alice Munro -- award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman -- is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940s.
Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's...
The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
| Author | Amanda Ripley |
| ISBN | 1451654421 |
Through the compelling stories of three American teenagers living abroad and attending the world’s top-notch public high schools, an investigative reporter explains how these systems cultivate the “smartest” kids on the planet.
America has long compared its students to top-performing...
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
| Author | Donalyn Miller |
| ISBN | 0470372273 |
Known for her popular blog, "The Book Whisperer," Donalyn Miller is a dedicated teacher who says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. Her approach, however, is not conventional. Miller dispenses with the more traditional reading instruction of book reports and comprehension...
| Author | Mosab Hassan Yousef |
| ISBN | 1414333072 |
Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his...
| Author | Esi Edugyan |
| ISBN | 1846687756 |
The aftermath of the fall of Paris, 1940. Hieronymus Falk, a rising star on the cabaret scene, is arrested in a cafe and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. A German citizen. And he is black.
Fifty years later, Sid, Hiero's bandmate and the only witness that day, is going back to Berlin....
| Author | John Twelve Hawks |
| ISBN | 1400079292 |
The Traveler explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. A world that exists in the shadows of our own. A conflict we will never see. One woman stands between those determined to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom.
A world that exists in the shadows of...
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
| Author | Jennifer Senior |
| ISBN | 0062072226 |
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior now asks: what are the effects of children on their parents?
"All Joy and No Fun is an indispensable map for a journey that most of us take without one. Brilliant, funny, and...
| Author | Andrea Seigel |
| ISBN | 0156030241 |
Stella Parrish is seventeen, attractive, smart, deeply alienated, and unable to countenance life's absurdities. She is not nihilistic; she is prematurely exhausted. Since her parents OD'd on designer drugs when she was eleven, she has lived with well-meaning but inexperienced foster parents,...
The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals
| Author | Hannah B. Harvey |
| ISBN | 1598039067 |
Money management can be intimidating. Fortunately, most of us only need to know a few basic principles to get our financial houses in order. Learn these principles in this comprehensive overview of what everyday people need to know to make good financial decisions. Using a scientific, evidence-based...
| Author | Candace Bushnell |
| ISBN | 1400139027 |
"ONE FIFTH AVENUE is a modern comedy of manners -- a landmark novel, if you like. Its observations about money, the Internet, the function of art in society as wellas sex romps, social climbing and snobbery enhance Bushnell's reputation as an astute observer of modern life....Carrie Bradshaw wannabes...
