emotions

Examines the lives of teenage boys from various cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds, covering the various categories applied to them, and chosen by them, while describing the optimism, sadness, disillusionment, and resilience that defines them.

Explores the science of affect and emotion to discover why people develop emotional connections to everyday objects such as cars or teapots, and looks at how a designer's mood can influence the product he or she creates.

In these four previously published stories Katie learns to cope with situations she finds unpleasant.

Includes twenty first-person stories about young risk takers who benefited from taking a chance.

Offers advice to kids on how to deal with anger, explaining that everyone gets angry, describing healthy and unhealthy ways to deal with angry feelings, and discussing what to do when someone else is angry.

Tina Truly, advice columnist to the stars sends advice to kids about caring for others including parents who are divorced, grumpy people, and younger brothers and sisters.

With baking magic, Mrs. Biddlebox uses fog, dirt, sky, and other ingredients of a rotten day to transform it into a sweet cake.

A child recalls different occasions when he has cried, concluding that there are many appropriate times for tears.

Tony, the new kid, tries to make himself into anybody other than the new kid and then tries to bully the other kids into liking him when his plan fails. When all of his monster sketches escape his sketchbook and begin terrorizing the school, however, Tony needs Mandy and her sketch monster Happster's help to recapture them, and Tony learns something about himself in the process.

Eight-year-old Mandy only expresses her feelings as monsters drawn in her sketchbook, but when the monsters escape from the book, Mandy is only able to recapture them after one of the monsters, Happster, gets her to express her feelings.