Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Social Themes - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

How do you turn an upside-down life right-side up? Thirteen-year-old Alex is afraid, afraid of his dad, afraid of kids at school, worried about his sick brother and, most of all, angry at himself for being a wuss. How can he make his life different, become a new person that people like? Im writing because its starting to get to me. Plus I need to tell someone, begins Alex. Through letters to his only friend, Alex breaks his solitude and confronts the truth. As courage and wisdom gradually build, he gains the confidence to confront his own dragons.

"Don't you get it, Lydie? They never come for gimps like me."

For a small town, Warsaw Junction has a lot of secrets. Who could guess that Augie Knapp, the kid who hides his deformed hand in a glove, has collected most of them...and hides them in an old suitcase?

No one even suspects Augie has a secret of his own until Lydie Rose Meisenheimer blows into town and signs up for sixth grade. Driving a...

We know our children are special, and now the incomparable Nancy Tillman expresses this universal feeling in the most touching of ways: Every child is born with a crown. The crown is everything that gives us unique value. Our crown will always be with us wherever we go, whatever we do.

Meet Beatrice Bottomwell: a nine-year-old girl who has never (not once ) made a mistake. She never forgets her math homework, she never wears mismatched socks, and she ALWAYS wins the yearly talent show at school. In fact, Beatrice holds the record of perfection in her hometown, where she is known as The Girl Who Never Makes Mistakes. Life for Beatrice is sailing along pretty smoothly until she does the unthinkable-she makes her first mistake. And in a very public way

"The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes is a must read for any...

Affirmation Weaver is a story that teaches children how to increase self-confidence and self-esteem by using affirmations and positive statements. This simple technique is woven into the story allowing children to follow along and read how a self-doubting dolphin uses positive statements to increase self-confidence.

Children relate to the self-doubting dolphin and love reading how the sea creatures show the dolphin how saying positive statements can turn self-doubt into self-belief. Watch your child increase self-esteem and build confidence as the sea creatures weave a web...