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A Glow of Emotions Series
This series was developed to teach children how to identify, express, and manage their feelings in healthy ways.
We all encounter various feelings, and sometimes these feelings can seem difficult to navigate. A Glow of Emotions helps readers to understand some of the common emotions we all experience: anxiety, sadness, anger, mindfulness, and confidence. Each of these emotions are highlighted in its own book.
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3) Jo's boys
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Jo's Boys (1886) is a novel by American author Louis May Alcott. Written while Alcott was living in the historic Thoreau-Alcott House in Concord, Massachusetts, Jo's Boys picks up ten years after the events of Little Men, which followed the young sons of Jo Bhaer (née March) and Professor Friedrich Bhaer at their newly established Plumfield Estate School. As with the rest of the series, Jo's Boys was inspired by the educational reforms theorized...
4) Secrets
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English
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Waldo Templeton was, at best, a mediocre organist. He was also careless, so his killer was able to follow him to the sanctuary of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Church in Picketsville, VA, and dispatch him. Then the Vicar's secretary follows Waldo to an early grave. The Vicar, the Reverend Blake Fisher, sent to Picketsville when his ambition overcame his common sense, had had enough trouble in Philadelphia. He did not need a corpse behind his altar. He...
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"If you're a size six, you dance. If you're Ava Alexander, you watch the purses while your girlfriends dance. Each man that passes her by takes a little of her self-esteem. After escaping a mentally abusive relationship, she promises God she will wait on Him to bring her the right man. And she means it-until Ishmael. When her best friend's fiance throws a few compliments her way, she travels down the path of betrayal. Ava's choice strains her friendship...
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Monica Harris-Day's perfect world begins a downward spiral the afternoon she comes home to find her husband in bed . . . with another man. After confronting Kevin, her husband of two years, Monica discovers he's had a lifelong struggle with homosexuality that began at the age of ten after he was molested by a deacon in the church.
For years, Kevin has sought deliverance, crying out to God to make him straight. He explains his deceit by saying that...
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Owlkids
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Goes beyond typical references about physical changes to address the myriad emotional changes that occur throughout adolescence, counseling young adults about such feelings as anger toward parents, experiencing crushes, and feeling attracted to people of the same gender.
8) Peace
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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Based on the Eastern philosophies of the Tao Te Ching, a lyrical picture book explores the eternal question of how to promote world peace and shares inspiring quotes from famous peacemakers while counseling readers on how to find peace within oneself.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
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243 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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English
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The social media star offers personal anecdotes, doodles, and previously unreleased photographs that trace her struggles with heartbreak and anxiety, while counseling readers to be true to themselves.
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