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Parenting Dual Exceptional Children: Supporting a Child who Has High Learning Potential and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
by Denise YatesThis is the first comprehensive guide for parents of children with Dual and Multiple Exceptionality (DME, sometimes called Twice Exceptionality or 2E). Children with high learning potential may also have conditions such as ASD, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia, having 'flashes of brilliance' in some areas whilst needing additional support in others. As a result, their abilities may not always be recognised in an educational setting.This book takes a strengths-based approach towards helping parents recognise and focus on their child's areas of potential to support them towards better attainment and self-esteem, and build on these abilities while also identifying and addressing areas of difficulty. It provides an understanding of the mixed learning profile of DME children, explaining why they excel in some areas but not others, as well as guidance for parents on working positively with schools and providing their child with the support they need.With stories, quotes from parents and examples throughout, this is an essential guide to helping DME children achieve their full untapped potential.
American Haven
by Elizabeth YatesTeenagers Michael and Meredith Lamb find new friends and mountains to climb when they travel from war-torn London to New Hampshire with their Uncle Tony during World War II.
A Place for Peter
by Elizabeth YatesThirteen-year-old Peter gets a chance to earn his doubting father's trust when he successfully handles the important task of tapping the sugar maples to make syrup for their mountain farm.
Bullied to Death?: A Story of Bullying, Social Media, and the Suicide of Sherokee Harriman
by Judith A. YatesA teenage girl&’s suicide raises questions of culpability for internet bullies in this investigation by the criminologist and true crime author. On September 5, 2015, in a public park in LaVergne, Tennessee, fourteen-year-old Sherokee Harriman drove a kitchen knife into her stomach as other teens watched in horror. The coroner ruled it a &“suicide.&” But was it? Or was it a crime perpetuated by other teens who had bullied her? Sherokee&’s tragic death created a media frenzy focused more on sensationalism than finding the truth. Meanwhile the community of LaVerge sought answers to questions about who, if anyone, should be held criminally responsible for bullying. Criminologist Judith A. Yates peels back the distorting layers of social media and news coverage to examine a timely question with far-reaching implications: was Sherokee Harriman bullied to death?
Confessions from the Quilting Circle: A Novel
by Maisey Yates"Yates weaves surprises and vivid descriptions into this moving tale about strong and nurturing female family bonds."—Booklist on Confessions from the Quilting Circle The Ashwood women don&’t have much in common...except their ability to keep secrets.When Lark Ashwood&’s beloved grandmother dies, she and her sisters discover an unfinished quilt. Finishing it could be the reason Lark&’s been looking for to stop running from the past, but is she ever going to be brave enough to share her biggest secret with the people she ought to be closest to?Hannah can&’t believe she&’s back in Bear Creek, the tiny town she sacrificed everything to escape from. The plan? Help her sisters renovate her grandmother&’s house and leave as fast as humanly possible. Until she comes face-to-face with a man from her past. But getting close to him again might mean confessing what really drove her away...Stay-at-home mom Avery has built a perfect life, but at a cost. She&’ll need all her family around her, and all her strength, to decide if the price of perfection is one she can afford to keep paying.This summer, the Ashwood women must lean on each other like never before, if they are to stitch their family back together, one truth at a time...
The Lost and Found Girl: A Novel
by Maisey Yates"Yates packs an emotional punch with this masterful, multilayered contemporary…pitch-perfect plotting and carefully crafted characters make for a story that&’s sure to linger in readers&’ minds.&” —Publishers WeeklyNew York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates dazzles with this powerful novel of sisterhood, secrets and how far you&’d go to protect someone you love…Ruby McKee is a miracle. Found abandoned on a bridge as a newborn baby by the McKee sisters, she&’s become the unofficial mascot of Pear Blossom, Oregon, a symbol of hope in the wake of a devastating loss. Ruby has lived a charmed life, and when she returns home after traveling abroad, she&’s expecting to settle into that charm. But an encounter with the town&’s black sheep makes her question the truth about her mysterious past.Dahlia McKee knows it&’s not right to resent Ruby for being special. But uncovering the truth about Ruby&’s origins could allow Dahlia to carve her own place in Pear Blossom history.Recently widowed Lydia McKee has enough on her plate without taking on Ruby&’s quest for answers. Especially when her husband&’s best friend, Chase, is beginning to become a complication she doesn&’t want or need.Marianne Martin is glad her youngest sister is back in town, but it&’s hard to support Ruby&’s crusade when her own life is imploding.When the quest for the truth about Ruby&’s origins uncovers a devastating secret, will the McKee sisters fall apart or band together?
Secrets from a Happy Marriage: A Novel
by Maisey YatesNew York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates’s new novel introduces the women of the Lighthouse Inn B&B. They might not have it all together, but this summer, they’ll discover that together, they might still have it all…Rachel Henderson’s family is falling apart. Becoming a widow—especially at this age—is heartbreaking. With her teenage daughter, Emma, leaving soon for college, Rachel needs a friend—but local diner owner Adam is the last person she ever thought she’d lean on.From the outside, her little sister, Anna, has a picture-perfect marriage. But the weight of it is suffocating her. The only way for her to breathe again comes at a high price, one she’s not so sure she can pay. After raising two daughters on her own, their mother, Wendy, knows just how hard life can be. She’s done things she’s not proud of, things she desperately wants to keep from her girls—until keeping quiet is no longer an option.As long-held secrets bubble up and their old lives unravel, this family will need all their strength to start again and open their hearts up to the possibility of more. But most of all, they’ll need each other…
Claim Me, Cowboy & A Very Intimate Takeover: Two Spicy Romance Novels (Copper Ridge Ser.)
by Maisey Yates LaQuetteBESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTIONReader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors.Claim Me, Cowboy by New York Times bestselling author Maisey YatesWhen Joshua Grayson's father places an ad in the local paper searching for a wife for his son, Joshua formulates a plan of his own: put out an ad himself and find the most ill-fitting woman possible to teach his old man a lesson. And when Danielle Kelly—supposed single mother—answers the ad, she's happy to endure any kind of humiliation if it means the rich cowboy is offering her money she desperately needs. The match should be unsuitable and the engagement should be fake, but soon the charade begins to feel very real…Previously publishedFREE STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!A Very Intimate Takeover by LaQuette Trey Devereaux is out to prove her corporate mettle to her skeptical father. When she sees a chance to take control of Devereaux Inc. from her estranged grandfather, she pounces. But Jeremiah Benton, his second-in-command, is fiercely protective of the Devereaux patriarch…and absolutely enticing. Can Trey maintain her resolve—or is Jeremiah winning this high-stakes merger? The fate of a billion-dollar Brooklyn legacy lies in the balance…Previously published
Disturbing the Peace
by Richard YatesHailed as "America's finest realistic novelist" by the Boston Globe, Richard Yates, author of Revolutionary Road, garnered rare critical acclaim for his bracing, unsentimental portraits of middle-class American life. Disturbing the Peace is no exception. Haunting, troubling, and mesmerizing, it shines a brilliant, unwavering light into the darkest recesses of a man's psyche.To all appearances, John Wilder has all the trappings of success, circa 1960: a promising career in advertising, a loving family, a beautiful apartment, even a country home. John's evenings are spent with associates at quiet Manhattan lounges and his weekends with friends at glittering cocktail parties. But something deep within this seemingly perfect life has long since gone wrong. Something has disturbed John's fragile peace, and he can no longer find solace in fleeting affairs or alcohol. The anger, the drinking, and the recklessness are building to a crescendo--and they're about to take down John's career and his family. What happens next will send John on a long, strange journey--at once tragic and inevitable.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Revolutionary Road: Short Fiction From The Author Of Revolutionary Road (Contemporaries Ser.)
by Richard Yates<P>From the moment of its publication in 1961, Revolutionary Road was hailed as a masterpiece of realistic fiction and as the most evocative portrayal of the opulent desolation of the American suburbs. <P>In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. <P>Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to crumble. <P>With heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves.
Young Hearts Crying (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Richard YatesIn Young Hearts Crying, Yates movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions. Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy their life together. But as the decades pass and the success of others creates an oppressive fear of failure in both Michael and Lucy, their once bright future gives way to a life of adultery and isolation. With empathy and grace, Yates creates a poignant novel of the desires and disasters of a tragic, hopeful couple.
You Are Free to Go
by Sarah YawWinner of the 2013 Engine Books Novel Prize.Moses and Jorge will never leave the maximum security prison. Outside its walls, Gina, Shell, and Ellen will never escape its influence, or the way it tethers them to one another. When Jorge dies in his cell, lives within and beyond the prison walls are upended, testing the boundaries we all draw to keep the good in, the hurtful out.Sarah Yaw received an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and is an assistant professor at Cayuga Community College. She lives and writes in central New York.
Beauty Beside Me, First Edition: Stories of My Grandmother's Skirts
by Seraphine G. Yazzie<P>Grandmother cooks, weaves, and dances. She herds the sheep, makes cedar beads, and lulls tired grandchildren to sleep.<P> While she does all these things, she wears her beautiful Navajo skirts - velvet skirts of many colors that swish and sway as she moves.<P>Grandmother's life is filled with beauty of the best kind: beauty of kindness, beauty of family, and beauty of love. <P>Her actions are a lesson to all those around her, especially to her bright-eyed and observant granddaughter.<P> By following in the footsteps of her grandmother, the girl discovers the true meaning of beauty and the magic of a simple life well-lived.
Throwaway Daughter
by Ting-Xing YeA Canadian teenager travels to China to explore her ancestry and search for her birth mother in a dramatic and moving YA novel.Throwaway Daughter tells the story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, whose biggest concern is how to distill her adoption from China into the neat blanks of her personal history assignment. Aside from the unwelcome reminders of difference, Grace loves passing for the typical Canadian teen — until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on the news. Horrified, she sets out to explore her Chinese ancestry, only to discover that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child policy, strictly enforced by the Communist government. But Grace was one of the lucky ones, adopted as a baby by a loving Canadian couple. With the encouragement of her adoptive parents, she studies Chinese and travels back to China in search of her birth mother. She manages to locate the village where she was born, but at first no one is willing to help her. However, Grace never gives up and, finally, she is reunited with her birth mother, discovering through this emotional bond the truth of what happened to her almost twenty years before.
Mi Mamá Me Habla
by Douglas M. YeagerThe book is focused on the importance of parents and caregivers talking to and with children age 0 to 4. It is a book that children will enjoy, but it also provides a range of ideas to parents and caregivers as to how to engage young children in the world of millions of words.
Mommy Talk
by Douglas M. YeagerThe book is focused on the importance of parents and caregivers talking to and with children age 0 to 4. It is a book that children will enjoy, but it also provides a range of ideas to parents and caregivers as to how to engage young children in the world of millions of words.
Talk to Me
by Douglas M. Yeager“Talk to Me” is the theme of this short children’s book. The text and illustrations emphasize, from the point of view of the child, the critical importance of parents, grandparents, siblings, and others talking to and with the child every opportunity they get.
Come, Llamas
by YearlingIt's spring time on the Kinnaman Ranch in Alaska, and nine-year-old JT is sure it will be the best one yet. This season he's determined to become a pitcher on his school's baseball team and to raise his very own llama, just like Grandad promised. When baby llama Elmo is born, JT has all kinds of plans for the first of his herd. Every night after baseball practice, JT trains Elmo. And every morning, the small llama seems to be growing stronger--even as Grandad's persistant cough gets worse and worse. Then a bear charges through their property, and JT doesn't see how their family will manage. Half their llamas are gone, Elmo's leg is broken, and it's not long before Grandad needs to be rushed to the clinic. But everything's always growing and changing on a llama ranch, and JT will find a way to keep on keeping on and make Grandad proud.From the Hardcover edition.
Absolutely Maybe
by Lisa YeeMaybe (short for Maybelline, her mother's favorite mascara brand) wears oversize men's T-shirts, uses lots of black eye makeup, and rejects everything girly--which is probably a reaction to her mother's charm school and impending seventh marriage. This latest husband-to-be is the worst yet, and when he attempts to rape Maybe (in a scene that is realistic but not explicit), she and her friend Ted decide to join their buddy Hollywood when he moves to California for film school. Maybe's stated goal is finding her biological father, but as she runs out of money and hope, that goal changes to finding herself. Despite the heavy topics, this is a breezy read populated with friendly characters and sunny serendipity: Maybe is welcomed into the home of an ex-stepdad, Ted, finds work as an assistant to a movie star, and Hollywood aces his first film. When your starving protagonist spends her only five dollars on eyeliner, the intended audience is obvious; for those readers, Maybe's ugly duckling-type transformation will be predictable but pleasing. Grades 7-10.
Absolutely Maybe
by Lisa YeeLisa Yee makes her YA debut with this hilarious novel about a charm-school dropout who becomes a drop-dead charmer on a quest for her father in California.Meet Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, named for two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara. Chessy teaches the students in her charm school her Seven Select Rules for Young Ladies, but she won't tell Maybe who her real father is -- or protect her from her latest scuzzball boyfriend. So Maybe hitches a ride to California with her friends Hollywood and Thammasat Tantipinichwong Schneider (aka Ted) -- and what she finds there is funny, sad, true, and inspiring . . . vintage Lisa Yee.
Good Luck, Ivy (American Girls Collection)
by Lisa YeeIvy Ling feels unlucky. Her best friend has moved away, and she's got a big report due in Chinese school. Worst of all, she learns that the Ling family reunion is happening on the same day as the all-city gymnastics tournament. Ivy's been practicing for months, and her gymnastics team is counting on her. When her parents tell her she has to choose which event to attend, Ivy despairs. How can she please both her gymnastics coach and her family? Gradually Ivy comes to see that she can make her own luck-and make a decision that's right for her.
The Kidney Hypothetical: Or How to Ruin Your Life in Seven Days (Arthur A Levine Novel Bks.)
by Lisa YeeLisa Yee gives us her most fascinating flawed genius since Millicent Min.Higgs Boson Bing has seven days left before his perfect high school career is completed. Then it's on to Harvard to fulfill the fantasy portrait of success that he and his parents have cultivated for the past four years. Four years of academic achievement. Four years of debate championships. Two years of dating the most popular girl in school. It was, literally, everything his parents could have wanted. Everything they wanted for Higgs's older brother Jeffrey, in fact. But something's not right. And when Higgs's girlfriend presents him with a seemingly innocent hypothetical question about whether or not he'd give her a kidney . . . the exposed fault lines reach straight down to the foundations of his life. . . .
Maizy Chen's Last Chance: (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
by Lisa YeeNEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR YOUTH LITERATURETwelve year-old Maizy discovers her family&’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY School Library Journal • Booklist • The Horn Book • New York Public LibraryWelcome to the Golden Palace!Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom&’s plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance and at the Golden Palace—the restaurant that&’s been in her family for generations—she makes some discoveries.For instance:You can tell a LOT about someone by the way they order food. People can surprise you. Sometimes in good ways, sometimes in disappointing ways.And the Golden Palace has secrets...But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting? Who are the people in the photographs on the office wall? And when she discovers that a beloved family treasure has gone missing—and someone has left a racist note—Maizy decides it&’s time to find the answers.
So Totally Emily Ebers (The Millicent Min Trilogy #3)
by Lisa YeeIn a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time
by Lisa YeeStanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If *that* happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over. Then his parents are fighting, his grandmother Yin-Yin hates her new nursing home, he's being "tutored" by the world's biggest nerdball Millicent Min--and he's not sure his ballpoint "Emily" tattoo is ever going to wash off. (cont. on next page)