Fourteen years after an unhappy young mother's beloved baby is kidnapped, Sophie, a reclusive, home-schooled teen, breaks the strict rules of her adoptive parents and meets a loving family that encourages her to look into her mysterious past.
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
the bestselling classic that revolutionized parent-child communication
Ginott, Haim G
2003
Contains a practical guide to dealing with the daily problems of child rearing including developing basic communication skills, encouragement, effective discipline, and identifying some of the sources of anxiety in children.
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Contains nineteen essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to homeschooling, discussing the ways in which homeschooling affects children, whether homeschooling should be regulated, which children should be homeschooled, and what methods homeschoolers should use.
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.
