emotionally disturbed children

"Adele is a star soccer player with a rotten family, an aching heart, and an impossible frenemy. As pressures at school and home mount, will she overcome all or will she crash and burn? When everything collapses, Adele realizes she can only rely on herself in this feminine take on the soccer world, being a teenager, and figuring out who you are"--Publisher.

Having trespassed and explored the empty Hutchinson mansion, which seems haunted by the presence of a long-dead young girl, sixth-grader Neely and her little brother become regular visitors when emotionally disturbed Curtis Hutchinson moves in.

Explains why it is important for teachers and parents to understand the impact prevalent trauma has on the lives of students, their learning, and behavior and explores how teachers can help those students have a promising future.

A guide for elementary and secondary school teachers and counselors that discusses student motivations and explains how to work effectively with difficult children without becoming obsessive or discouraged. Also covers interactions with difficult parents and colleagues.

Describes strategies educators can use to prevent and effectively respond to problem behavior in kindergarten through high school classrooms, and includes reproducible checklists, assessment tools, and planning forms.

Problem children Jenna and Lucas find themselves invited to Camp Fielding, where they are surrounded by other misfits whose parents hope will be changed into prodigies. When strange things begin happening around them, Jenna and Lucas team up to investigate, but what they discover is beyond anything they could have imagined.

As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.

"When Pelly sees her best friend, who disappeared six years ago, in a coffee shop with a strange man, she's determined to discover the truth of her friend's disappearance and rescue her from her current captor"--Provided by publisher.

A first-hand account by a special education teacher about five children in her classroom with a variety of needs and disabilities.