values

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.

Margaret Rose steals Rhoda's ribbon and runs away, but when she misses her family, she learns that running away doesn't solve anything.

Intended to enhance students' reading and writing skills and to develop their understanding and appreciation of the basic principles of good character. The stories encourage students to think about moral issues and are presented in situations that almost all students will face at some point.

Intended to enhance students' reading and writing skills and to develop their understanding and appreciation of the basic principles of good character. The poems were selected to represent a variety of poets, classical and modern, and each poem relates to a particular character trait. Includes accompanying activities that can be used in the study of any one or all of the character traits.

Intended to enhance students' reading and writing skills and to develop their understanding and appreciation of the basic principles of good character. Proverbs often express society's sense about what comprises good character and how people should behave. Includes familiar quotations, proverbs, sayings, and adages found within languages of different cultures around the world.

Encourages children to value the gifts of family, friends, community, wisdom, and happiness through the story of a girl who wants to grow like the mango tree.

Sixteen-year-old Jill falls in love with a political activist and begins to experience some changing values.