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Simple text and illustrations discuss the kinds of worries facing many children today and explores how their fears might be overcome. Uses child-friendly text and includes interactive questions, plus has a helpful section with advice, practical tips, and activities for caregivers and teachers.

A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband--these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with a government scholarship right around the corner, everyone can see that these dreams aren't too far out of reach. But the girl's dreams turn to nightmares when her village is attacked by Boko Haram, a terrorist group, in the middle of the night. Kidnapped, she is taken with other girls and women into the forest where she is forced to follow her captors' radical beliefs and watch as her best friend slowly accepts everything she's been told. Still, the girl defends her existence. As impossible as escape may seem, her life and her future is hers to fight for.

Explores the life, work, and creative inspiration of children's book writer Maurice Sendak, highlighting the importance of his book "Outside Over There" for showcasing Sendak's creative side.

Presents three children's plays. In "I'm the King of the Castle," brothers Boris and Morris take turns being king and drive the court crazy. The second play tells the story of reporter Sam Smith who stops a gangster's plan and rescues a nightclub singer. The third play features a boy who refuses to learn to read and then discovers the importance of words.

"Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis' bidding, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soirthat pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin--daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors. The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke, and they have only eighteen days to tell it"--Provided by publisher.

In graphic novel form, Raina Telegmeier relates her struggles with stress and anxiety as a child.

"Stella and Tom's quest to solve the riddle of their neighbor's disappearing dog over the summer holidays soon leads to a boat buried under a grassy mound - and a tunnel that takes them to a secret lake. Who is the boy rowing towards them who looks so terrified? And whose are those children's voices carried on the wind from beyond the woods? Stella and Tom soon discover that they have travelled back in time to their home and its gardens almost one hundred years earlier. Here they make both friends and enemies, and soon find themselves in deeper trouble than they ever could have imagined?" --Publisher description.