Dont Tell A Whopper On Fridays

Indicates the problems associated with telling lies, the importance of telling the truth, and ways that can help an individual choose to be truthful.

Discusses how to develop and maintain healthy self-esteem and a positive attitude.

Explores the causes and effects of stress and offers practical approaches and techniques for dealing with stress in daily life.

Examines the "kinds of violence that threaten the lives of children and the overwhelming influences that can move them to become violent themselves."

Annabelle Forest was just seven years old when she was inducted into a twisted sex cult by her own mother. For the next few years she was brainwashed by the cult's leader, Colin Batley, who ran a harem of followers from his unassuming cul-de-sac in Kidwelly, Wales. Batley ruled the cult with an iron will, his twisted ideology based on Aleister Crowley's Book of the Law, which informed their day-to-day lives. From the age of 11, Annabelle was repeatedly raped by Batley, and threatened with going to hell if she angered 'the gods' by refusing Batley's sick demands. Annabelle's mother joined in the sessions and even filmed them. Annabelle lived a double life - a schoolgirl by day, a sex slave at night. It might have endured for years had she not fallen pregnant at 17 with Batley's baby. In February 2008 she gave birth to a daughter, Emily, who gave Annabelle a reason to live and hope. Now she knew she had to escape, especially after Batley forced her into prostitution when Emily was three months old. She contacted relatives through Facebook on a computer in the public library and found the courage to report Batley, her mother and the other cult members to the police. In 2011 her evidence helped convict 48-year-old Batley for life on 11 charges of rape and numerous other sexual offences.Annabelle's mother was also jailed, along with two others in a case that came to be known as the 'cul-de-sac cult'. But Annabelle's story was far from over - she had to adjust to a new life away from the rules and rituals of the cult. Today she lives a happy and settled life with Emily and her partner but the nightmares of her damaged past will haunt her forever. Child of Couragerefers to Annabelle herself but also her daughter, the child who gave her the chance to hope, the will to fight and the courage to live again.

Explores the problems experienced when parents divorce, suggesting ways to handle such situations effectively.

Examines, in simple text, how to deal with feelings of grief when people or pets die, or when friends move away.

The author of the beloved Kids of the Polk Street School series introduces a new generation of readers to a multicultural group of kids who enjoy all the activities of an after-school center. It’s Discovery Week at the Zigzag Afternoon Center! Everyone writes their discoveries on a big sheet of paper in the hallway. But Destiny Washington can’t think of anything new to discover. Before she knows it, Destiny has told a BIG whopper. And snooty Gina, who’s great at discovering things, knows all about it. Destiny has to find a way out of the whopper. In the end, she makes the best discovery of all. In this delightful new series, award-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff introduces readers to a quirky, lovable group of kids, capturing all the excitement and surprises of new friends and after-school fun.

Fleeing a failed marriage and haunted by ghosts of his past, Luis Alberto Urrea jumped into his car several years ago and headed west. Driving cross-country with a cat named Rest Stop, Urrea wandered the West from one year's Spring through the next. Hiking into aspen forests where leaves "shiver and tinkle like bells" and poking alongside creeks in the Rockies, he sought solace and wisdom. In the forested mountains he learned not only the names of trees—he learned how to live. As nature opened Urrea's eyes, writing opened his heart. In journal entries that sparkle with discovery, Urrea ruminates on music, poetry, and the landscape. With wonder and spontaneity, he relates tales of marmots, geese, bears, and fellow travelers. He makes readers feel mountain air "so crisp you feel you could crunch it in your mouth" and reminds us all to experience the magic and healing of small gestures, ordinary people, and common creatures. Urrea has been heralded as one of the most talented writers of his generation. In poems, novels, and nonfiction, he has explored issues of family, race, language, and poverty with candor, compassion, and often astonishing power. Wandering Time offers his most intimate work to date, a luminous account of his own search for healing and redemption.

Does your kid never take no for an answer and demand things gohis way? Do her theatrics leave you drained at the end of the day? Are you resorting to bribes and threats to get your kid to dochores? Does he cheat, complain, or blame others for his problems? Do you feel you’re running a hotel instead of ahome? Are you starting to feel like your child’s personal ATMmachine? What happened? You thought you were doing the best for yourchild and didn’t set out to raise a selfish, insensitive,spoiled kid. In her newest book, Don’t Give Me ThatAttitude! parenting expert Michele Borba offers you aneffective, practical, and hands-on approach to help you work withyour child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthfulcharacteristic, attitude. If you have a child who isarrogant, bad-mannered, bad-tempered, a cheat, cruel, demanding,domineering, fresh, greedy, impatient, insensitive, irresponsible,jealous, judgmental, lazy, manipulative, narrow-minded,noncompliant, pessimistic, a poor loser, selfish, uncooperative,ungrateful, or unhelpful, this is the book for you!