values

Discusses the nature of loving relationships in the context of traditional psychological and spiritual insights.

Explains why people show off and why it is better not to be a show off.

Describes the traits of a bad sport and tells why it is better to be a good sport.

Rafe Esquith draws on his twenty-four-year career as a teacher in Los Angeles to reveal how parents and teachers can help children build character and develop enriching lives that will help them succeed in school and throughout the rest of their lives.

Intended to enhance students' reading and writing skills and to develop their understanding and appreciation of the basic principles of good character. The selected biographies are intended to help students recognize how the personal traits of these people contributed to their influence and success.

The author reveals the secrets and techniques that have made him a success as a classroom teacher including his hands-on approach to education that helps to prepare his fifth-grade students for the future.

After taking and eating one of his mother's carrot pies, young Rooter Rabbit fearfully tells several false stories before he is able to confess the truth.

A father and his eleven-year-old son take a motorcycle trip across the country, and together, the two learn about life, love, and identity.

Contains skits and related activities to teach students in fourth- through eighth-grade classrooms about positive character traits, providing lessons with two "unfinished" moral dilemmas and a written activity on kindness, forgiveness, honesty, loyalty, cooperation, teamwork, and twenty-five other themes.

Discusses why overdoing it is not good.