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Addy's Wedding Quilt (American Girls Short Stories #16)
by Connie PorterThough her parents "Jumped the broom," to get married when they were slaves, now that they are living free in Philadelphia after the Civil War they plan to have a church wedding and Addy works to complete a special quilt to give them as a wedding gift.
Ade and Bem Want to Help: Independent Reading Green 5 (Reading Champion #515)
by Sarah SnashallThis story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
Adela's Mariachi Band
by Denise VegaAdela loves everything about her family's mariachi band--except that she isn't in it! Shining a spotlight on Mexican music, full of instruments and dancing, Adela&’s Mariachi Band is sure to be a hit!Adela wants nothing more than to be a part of her family's mariachi band, but when she tries the different instruments, everything comes out wrong. La trompeta fizzles, la vihuela squeaks, and trying to dance makes Adela fall on her face. From watching her family, Adela knows that practice makes perfect, but can she find a way to be part of the band in the meantime?A new go-to read-aloud favorite that comes complete with funny instrument sounds, a rythmic text, and Spanish vocabulary. Strike up the band!
Adele and Simon
by Barbara McclintockWhen Adele walks her little brother, Simon, home from school he loses one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's shop, his books at the park, his crayons at the art museum, and more.
Adem's Cross
by Alice MeadFourteen-year old Adem, an Albanian boy, lives in Serb-occupied Kosovo. Adem hates existing in a constant state of terror. Every week, friends and family are beaten, teargassed, and killed. The Albanians are helpless, and even passive resistance can get you killed--as is Adem's sister Fatmira, gunned down while reading a protest poem. Now Adem must decide how to survive this never-ending nightmare--with or without his family.
Adicta a un gilipollas: Supera tu adicción emocional a una relación tóxica
by Lara FerreiroUn programa de desintoxicación radical en seis semanas para liberarte de tu adicción emocional.¿Crees que tal vez seas adicta a un hombre tóxico? ¿Acabas siempre enganchada al mismo perfil de gilipollas? ¿Repites patrones tóxicos en tus relaciones? ¿Quieres aprender a detectar y evitar esos comportamientos? ¿Te gustaría reforzar tu amor propio y construir una relación sana de pareja?Lara Ferreiro,psicólogade referenciaen España, ha formulado un método pionero que te ayudará a desengancharte de una relación tóxica. Este libro incluye:* un «yonquitest» para que conozcas tu grado de adicción emocional,* historiasde otras mujeres que pasaron por la misma situación que tú y la superaron, * los diez perfiles de adictas emocionales más comunes para que descubras tu rueda adicta,* el «top 10 de gilipollas» con los perfiles de hombres tóxicos más habituales,* un programa de desintoxicación radical de seis semanas para desengancharte de tu relación tóxica.A lo largo de estas páginas aprenderás a no permitir que nadie te maltrate, a valorarte, a quererte incondicionalmente, a sanar tus heridas emocionales y a sentirte digna de amor y merecimiento. Despierta a la mujer fuerte y empoderada que llevas dentro. Este libro es el primer paso hacia tu nueva vida.
Adios, Cowboy
by Celia Hawkesworth Olja SavicevicA gritty, breakneck debut novel by a popular Croatian writer and poet of the country's "lost generation." Dada's life is at a standstill in Zagreb-she's sleeping with a married man, working a dead-end job, and even the parties have started to feel exhausting. <P><P>So when her sister calls her back home to help with their aging mother, she doesn't hesitate to leave the city behind. But she arrives to find her mother hoarding pills, her sister chain-smoking, her long-dead father's shoes still lined up on the steps, and the cowboy posters of her younger brother Daniel (who threw himself under a train four years ago) still on the walls.Hoping to free her family from the grip of the past, Dada vows to unravel the mystery of Daniel's final days. This American debut by a poet from Croatia's "lost generation" explores a beautiful Mediterranean town's darkest alleys: the bars where secrets can be bought, the rooms where bodies can be sold, the plains and streets and houses where blood is shed. By the end of the long summer, the lies, lust, feuds, and frustration will come to a violent and hallucinatory head.
Adios, Nirvana
by Conrad WesselhoeftA 2011 ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book "Wesselhoeft offers a psychologically complex debut that will intrigue heavy-metal aficionados and drama junkies alike. Peopled with the elderly and infirm, crazy parents, caring educators, and poignant teens trying desperately to overcome death's pull, it mixes real and fictional musicians and historical events to create a moving picture of struggling adolescents and the adults who reach out with helping hands. Adios, Nirvana targets an audience of YAs who rarely see themselves in print."—Booklist "Adios, Nirvana is a bit like road rash. It rakes you raw; gets under your skin; and leaves a few shards stuck permanently in your elbow. It is well worth the trip."—Richie Partington, RichiesPicks.com "Scribble its name on a wish list, type it into your PDA, or pre-order it...because to miss it would be shame. This was (without a doubt) the BEST book I have read in a year, and if I could give it 6 stars I would. Get it, live, it, love it...pass it on."—Misty Baker, Kindleobsessed.com blog "At heart, Adios, Nirvana is everything I'd hoped The Catcher in the Rye would be...Adios, Nirvana is fresh, it's impossible not to feel sympathy for Jonathan and I find myself really wanting to keep reading to see if he can successfully battle his demons. Laced with details into things teens are exposed to on a regular basis—drinking, suicidal thoughts, depression and music, most of all the music—I really loved every minute of Jonathan's coming-of-age tale."—Roundtable Reviews "Homage to poetry, music, friendship, and youth, this brash, hip story should attract its share of skater dudes and guitar jammers."—School Library Journal "Jonathan's narration is all about style, moving between clipped, one-line sentences and heavily imagistic rhapsodies influenced by his heroes Charles Bukowski and Walt Whitman, soaring often into descriptions of his music and the atmospheric West Seattle milieu that colors his sensibilities and returning frequently to Homeric allusion."—The Bulletin "A wonderful blend of contemporary, historical, and literary fiction. [Wesselhoeft's] use of figurative language makes each page dance with images of raw realism....This is a poignant piece for older teens."—VOYA —
Adiós, pequeño
by Janet Ahlberg Allan Ahlbergun niño está triste porque no tiene mamá. Cuando va en busca de una mamá, encuentra amigos y aventuras.
Adjudication in Religious Family Law
by Gopika SolankiThis book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. In this model the civic and religious sources of legal authority construct, transmit and communicate heterogeneous notions of the conjugal family, gender relations and religious membership within the interstices of state and society. In so doing, they fracture the homogenized religious identities grounded in hierarchical gender relations within the conjugal family. The shared adjudication model facilitates diversity as it allows the construction of hybrid religious identities, creates fissures in ossified group boundaries and provides institutional spaces for ongoing intersocietal dialogue. This pluralized legal sphere, governed by ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus increase gender equality and individual and collective legal mobilization by women effects institutional change.
Administration of Programs for Young Children
by Phyllis M. Click Kimberly A. Karkos Cathie RobertsonADMINISTRATION OF PROGRAMS FOR YOUNG CHILDREN is a tried and true guide for early childhood education students who want to be directors, as well as a comprehensive resource for those who are already directors. The text emphasizes the role of leaders/managers and their function in relation to new staff, while simultaneously addressing the needs of children, parents, and other staff. Coverage includes a wide variety of information about relevant program elements as well as methods and principles related to supervising student teachers, assistant teachers, teachers, parents, and volunteers. Real-life scenarios equip working directors with problem- solving techniques; readers also learn best practices in child care program management. Highlights include a fresh new design, a new chapter diversity, up-to-date technology information, and new TeachSource Videos integrated into each chapter.
Administrative Data and Child Welfare Research: Using Linked Data to Improve Child Welfare Research, Policy, and Practice
by Terry V. Shaw, Bethany R. Lee and Jill L. FarrellEvery day, social service agencies collect millions of pieces of data about the children and families they serve. Agencies depend on this data to inform decision-making by personnel throughout the organization and to provide meaningful research and evaluation on program effectiveness and outcomes. As capacity for collecting and utilizing data has increased so has the recognition that this data can and should be used more broadly. Further, it should include not just single-system data, but data across different human service agencies. Administrative/big data systems can be powerful tools in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of public child welfare services. Understanding, harnessing, and using big data holds tremendous promise in creating transformative change in the social services. Data analytics and data mining can lead to a better understanding of what services work for specific populations (targeting and predictive modelling), provide a more nuanced understanding of service outcomes for the workforce and major stakeholders (transparency), and facilitate collaboration across existing service delivery silos to reduce duplication of services and enhance consumer access to services (efficiency). This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Public Child Welfare.
Admission
by Julie BuxbaumFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes an of-the-moment novel that peeks inside the private lives of the hypercompetitive and the hyperprivileged and takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the country.It's good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer. She's headed off to the college of her dreams. She's going to prom with the boy she's had a crush on since middle school. Her best friend always has her back, and her mom, a B-list Hollywood celebrity, may finally be on her way to the B+ list. It's good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer--at least, it was, until the FBI came knocking on her front door, guns at the ready, and her future went up in smoke. Now her mother is under arrest in a massive college admissions bribery scandal. Chloe, too, might be facing charges, and even time behind bars. The public is furious, the press is rabid, and the US attorney is out for blood.As she loses everything she's long taken for granted, Chloe must reckon not only with the truth of what happened, but also with the examination of her own guilt. Why did her parents think the only way for her to succeed was to cheat for her? What did she know, and when did she know it? And perhaps most importantly, what does it mean to be complicit?
Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
by Kendra JamesNAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE &“[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she — or any Black student, or all Black students — would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I&’ve read.&”—New York Times A Most Anticipated Book by Vogue.com · Parade · Town & Country · Nylon ·New York Post · Lit Hub · BookRiot · Electric Literature · Glamour · Marie Claire · Publishers Weekly · Bustle · Fodor's Travel· Business Insider · Pop Sugar · InsideHook · SheReads Early on in Kendra James&’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made—to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America&’s inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture. With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness.
Adolesceeeencia: ¿Adolescentes para siempre?
by Alvaro AlcuriEl psicólogo Álvaro Alcuri, con mirada aguda y comunicación clara, reflexiona sobre esta etapa de la vida en este momento sociocul tural en que la adolescentitis, o adolescencia sin fin, nos define. A partir de su experiencia profesional, analiza situaciones co tidianas que atraviesan nuestros adolescentes y que nos interpelan como padres, educadores y ciudadanos. ¿Qué es la adolescencia? ¿Es el despertar biológico de la madurezsexual? ¿Es hormonal? ¿Social? ¿Cultural? ¿Es todo eso junto? ¿Es uninvento de la moder-nidad? El psicólogo Álvaro Alcuri, con mirada aguday comunicación clara, reflexiona sobre esta etapa de la vida en estemomento sociocultural en que la adoles¬centitis, o adolescencia sin fin,nos define. A partir de su experiencia profesional, analiza situacionescotidia¬nas que atraviesan nuestros adolescentes y que nos interpelancomo padres, educadores y ciudadanos.«La adolescencia sin fin de Peter Pan y el País del Nunca Jamás, debe,algún día, terminar. Nosotros, padres, edu¬cadores, figuras de autoridaddebemos comunicárselo a los muchachos, en tiempo y forma, fuerte yclaro. No hay otro camino. Si no "mueren" como adolescentes, nuncanacerán adultos, y sin adultos, estaremos construyendo una sociedadlight, con padres que lloran la milonga y les piden a otros, al PadreEstado, a educadores, mé¬dicos, psicólogos, policías, que solucionen loque ellos no pueden, que eduquen lo que no les resultó cómodo educar,que pongan los límites que no supieron poner.
Adolescence
by Laurence SteinbergIn this tenth edition of Adolescence, Laurence Steinberg continues to utilize an effective combination of a friendly writing style, thorough research, and a contextual approach that emphasizes adolescence in contemporary society. The text's careful organization ensures maximum teaching flexibility that allows the chapters to work together to be covered in sequence or to stand alone. Ethnicity and minority issues are thoroughly discussed in a way that enables students to see how the adolescent experience is shaped by class and culture. The strong pedagogical framework helps students organize and integrate material. Thoroughly updated to reflect current findings in the field of adolescent development, Adolescence is based on solid research and theory, yet it has a distinctively "real world" feel that emphasizes the reality of being an adolescent in today's society.
Adolescence (13th edition)
by John W. SantrockThe new edition includes substantially expanded material on diversity and culture, adolescents and emerging adults health and well-being, including numerous recommendations for improving the lives of adolescents.
Adolescence (Fourteenth Edition)
by John W. SantrockMore students learn from John Santrock’s Adolescence than from any other text in this field. The 14th edition combines proven pedagogy and the most current research to provide a market leading presentation of adolescence. This time tested text provides compelling contemporary research, including updates from eleven leading experts in the field. The text's accessible presentation, plentiful applications and engaging writing foster increased mastery of the content. The new edition includes substantially expanded material on diversity and culture, adolescents’ and emerging adults’ health and well-being, including numerous recommendations for improving the lives of adolescents, and expanded emphasis on the positive aspects of adolescent development.
Adolescence (My Development Kit Series)
by Ian McMahanAdolescence, by Ian McMahan, combines rigorous, scientific coverage of adolescent development research with a scholarly yet enjoyable narrative style that is rarely found in textbooks. <P><P>The table of contents follows an ecological systems framework to show how individual teens both affect and are affected by their families, peers, schools, and society. <P><P>Adolescence also employs unique pedagogy to ensure students practice active learning and deep processing, focus on the practical applications of what they are studying, think critically and become educated consumers of the research
Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach
by Jeffrey Jensen ArnettHelps students understand how culture impacts development in adolescence and emerging adulthood. Grounded in a global cultural perspective (within and outside of the US), this text enriches the discussion with historical context and an interdisciplinary approach, including studies from fields such as anthropology and sociology, in addition to the compelling psychological research on adolescent development. This book also takes into account the period of "emerging adulthood" (ages 18-25), a term coined by the author, and an area of study for which Arnett is a leading expert. Arnett continues the fifth edition with new and updated studies, both U. S. and international.
Adolescence in Context
by Tara L. KutherAdolescence in Context by award-winning author Tara L. Kuther is a topically oriented text that connects learners to the science shaping our understanding of today’s teenagers and young adults. Organized around three core themes—the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science—the text presents classic and current research, along with foundational theories, framed in real-life intersectional contexts such as sex, gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and socioeconomic status. With the new Second Edition, students can expect to gain a deeper understanding of adolescence that they can apply to their personal lives and future careers.
Adolescence in Context
by Tara L. KutherAdolescence in Context by award-winning author Tara L. Kuther is a topically oriented text that connects learners to the science shaping our understanding of today’s teenagers and young adults. Organized around three core themes—the centrality of context, the importance of research, and the applied value of developmental science—the text presents classic and current research, along with foundational theories, framed in real-life intersectional contexts such as sex, gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and socioeconomic status. With the new Second Edition, students can expect to gain a deeper understanding of adolescence that they can apply to their personal lives and future careers.
Adolescence: A Parent's Guide
by Tara Egan D.Ed.Survive adolescence—with the guide no parent should be without Getting through adolescence is tough, but you can help your child make it through—and maintain a strong relationship! Covering everything from late childhood to puberty to emerging adulthood, Adolescence: A Parent's Guide offers you and your child the kind of sound and thoughtful advice you'll wish you'd gotten in your adolescence. Divided into five chapters—each covering a specific age range—this guide digs deep into the most common aspects of adolescence. Whether it's dealing with dishonesty, managing changing relationships, or handling the age-old question of sex, this simple and straightforward guide has your back. You get a toolbox full of effective approaches that are easy to implement and can be tailored to your specific needs. Adolescence: A Parent's Guide includes: Understanding today's adolescents—Refresh your knowledge with the most modern and up-to-date information available. Actionable advice—Discover strategies for overcoming common adolescent hurdles—like when kids start testing limits or stressing out over social media. Talking it out—Sample scripts and scenarios provide helpful guidelines for navigating challenging conversations and situations with your growing child. Make sure the two of you get through adolescence in one piece with this comprehensive book.
Adolescent Depression: A Guide for Parents (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)
by Patrick Kelly Francis Mark MondimoreThe timely second edition of this bestselling guide will inform and encourage struggling adolescents and their families.In Adolescent Depression, psychiatrists Francis Mark Mondimore, MD, and Patrick Kelly, MD, explain that serious depression in adolescents goes beyond "moodiness." Depression is in fact an illness—one that can be effectively treated. The authors describe the many forms of depression and the many symptoms of depression in young people—from sadness to irritability, self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse, and violent rages. Incorporating the latest research from the field of adolescent psychiatry, this comprehensive and compassionate guide answers questions that many parents have, including What are the symptoms of depression in teenagers? How is depression diagnosed? What is the difference between depression and bipolar disorder, and which does my child have? How can I find the best mental health professional team for my child? What kinds of counseling and psychotherapy are available? Are medications safe, and how does a doctor choose a medication for my child? What can I do if my adolescent is using alcohol, crystal meth, marijuana, or other substances? How do autism and Asperger's syndrome, eating disorders, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, ADHD, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder interact with depression? What should I do if I sense that my child is in danger? With all of this going on, how can I take care of myself?