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The clinically proven five-week program for improving your child's behavior--fully updated and revised. In 1996, Parenting the Strong-Willed Child established itself as a seminal guide for parents who want to manage challenging behavior with parenting techniques grounded in positive reinforcement, without yelling or harming a child's self-esteem. The authors provide a proven, step-by-step five-week program giving parents the tools they need to successfully...
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Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
It all starts the summer Neely and her little brother, Grub, accidentally find a way to sneak into Halcyon House. It's a magnificent mansion that was deserted years ago. Inside they discover a playroom full of wonderful old-fashioned toys. Despite the spookiness of the house and the rumors about the ghost that haunts it, and despite the fact that they don't belong there, the playroom becomes their secret hideaway.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Lida is sent to the Alice Marshall School in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area of Idaho in order to come to terms with her "Thing." Some girls are sent for sexual promiscuity, some for theft and crime, but Lida is keeping her "Thing" a secret. When she meets Boone--an arsonist--the generally-mischievous Jules, and Gia--whose glamour seems to invite problems on its own--Lida's secret is threatened to be uncovered and she doesn't know...
5) Identical
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
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Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
This book tells the story of Sheila, a high school student suffering from severe emotional disturbance, and her attempts to cope by venting her rage, cutting herself, and starving herself before getting the help she needs to begin to recover.
7) Like a thorn
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Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Throughout her childhood, Melie believes her mother is two people--Rosy Mother and Dark Mother--and she performs more and more rituals to keep Dark Mother away as she reaches adolescence, when she begins to realize that her mother is mentally ill and that Melie may be, as well.
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Having experienced compulsive behavior all her life, Lo's symptoms are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder while wandering dangerous quarters of Cleveland, Ohio, collecting things that do not belong to her, obsessing about her brother's death.
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
Challenges the labeling of millions of children as victims of Attention Deficit Disorder and the use of psychoactive medication to control their behaviors, and offers fifty alternative ways of helping children learn to channel their creative energies in a productive manner.
14) The ring
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Plagued by slipping grades and a budding criminal record, Mardie's heading down a path of self-destruction she can't seem to avoid. Unlike her perfect older brother Michael, who does everything right according to their father, Mardie can't meet those high expectations. Then she discovers a girls' boxing club at the gym, and learns to believe in herself.