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No parent likes to see their child struggle, especially with dark emotions like anger, fear, and depression. Family counselor and bestselling author Norm Wright addresses these emotional issues in a compassionate, family-friendly way that will help parents to communicate more freely with their children.
Included in this parenting manual are conversational guidelines and learning activities for children that encourage them to work through these difficult...
2) Sweet Anger
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Kari Wynne finds herself hating and being drawn to Acting District Attorney Hunter McKee who while investigating the misappropriation of funds by city council members, uncovers her deceased husband's extramarital dalliances.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After his anger erupts into violence, fifteen year-old Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the Native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
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A holistic look at the underlying emotional, physical, and spiritual causes of anger cites the shortcomings of traditional anger-management techniques while explaining how to shift one's perspective to maintain a state of calm.
When we fight the urge to blow up or melt down, we fight against our own nature. Sometimes a change in perspective is all that is needed to help keep from flying off the handle. Lieberman reveals how to see anger through a...
7) The Unseen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When twelve-year-old Xandra Hobson rescues a beautiful wounded bird from hunters, she is convinced that the single glowing white feather it leaves behind must be magical. At school, a weird, unpopular girl seems to know something about the feather. She calls it a key. But a key to what? When Xandra tries to use the key, she becomes aware of an unseen world within our ordinary one...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In 1887, when her missionary parents have gone to China without her, snobbish twelve-year-old Julia is sent to a farm in upstate New York where she breaks a leg, while it mends learns to love and accept her country cousins and heal her anger.
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Trials of Apollo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor.
10) Cruise control
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A talented basketball player struggles to deal with the helplessness and anger that come with having a brother rendered completely dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy and a father who deserted the family.
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"Today there are too many examples of those claiming to follow Christ being caustic, divisive, and irrational, contributing to dismissals of the Christian faith as hypocritical, self-interested, and politically co-opted. What has happened in our society?"--Publisher marketing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Thirteen-year-old tomboy, Megan McCaffery is just beginning to enjoy growing up when her mother is diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Suddenly, her life is turned upside down, her hurt and anger coming between Megan and everyone she cares about, until she realizes what her real priorities are.
15) Sounder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
16) The honest truth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
17) Harriet, the spy
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Harriet the spy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The story about eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route". However, when her classmates find and read her notebook, their anger and retaliation and Harriet's unexpected responses explode in a hilarious and often touching way.
18) Over the wall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.
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The author has discovered that many Crhistians struggle to reconcile their perception of God as both a loving parent and a stern judge. In this book she helps those who haven't truly received God's love because they are afraid of his anger and disapproval. She explores the source of this confusion, so that God's genuine character can be better understood and His love can be experienced on an entirely new level. -- From book jacket.
20) Finally seen
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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When ten-year-old Lina Gao leaves China to live with her parents and sister, after five years apart, she must reckon with her hurt, anger, and curiosity and find a way to get her bearings in this new country--and the almost-new family that comes along with it.
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