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Author
Publisher
iHomeschool Network, LLC
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
"It's not your imagination. We are in the minority. Only about seven percent of homeschool families have an only child. But you are not alone! There are thousands of parents with just one child who have made the choice to educate at home. Homeschooling is a great educational option for only children! And despite the concerns about the lonely only and unsocialized homeschoolers, your only child can thrive as a student and as a person when taught at...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Emme Remmers feels that as an only child she has to be the peace-maker for her parents rapidly deteriorating marriage, and she could use some help--so the new bakery, Daisy's Desserts, where everything is baked with love, may offer the perfect solution for the dinner she is planning for her parents' anniversary.
Author
Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Only doesn't mean lonely. Families come in all shapes and sizes, and even a family with one child is complete and whole. But every family is unique, and raising an only child can seem daunting. As a therapist, the mother of an only child, and an only child herself, Rebecca Greene is an expert in the variety of issues that surround raising an only child, and she knows that parenting an only child is a complex endeavor, no matter how you came to be...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Perry's mother and father are busy people ... they're impatient, they're tired, they get cross easily. And they think that only children, like Perry, should be kept busy. On Saturday mornings Perry and her father visit her gran, Honora Lee, at the Santa Lucia rest home, but Gran never remembers them. 'Who is that man?' Honora Lee asks when Perry's father leaves the room. After movement class is abruptly cancelled, Perry is allowed to go to Santa Lucia...
49) Only Emma
Author
Series
Emma McGraw series volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Emma's peaceful life as an only child is disrupted when she has to temporarily share her tidy bedroom with four-year-old Anthony Scarpetto, a bona fide "pain in the patootie."
Author
Language
English
Description
In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's belief that the child mind is "the only mind worth having" and explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates how Merton's belief and Jesus's command can be understood as part of contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination....
Author
Language
English
Description
Child brides sold as objects, with a rite of marriage or a simple exchange of money, to people of adult age, suffer real abuse, an act which aids pedophilia.
The stories told in this book are true, they took place in Africa, India, Yemen, Niger, Pakistan, Syria, Mexico; places where, due to poverty, war, famine, it becomes customary for parents to sell their daughters to adult suitors in exchange for money.
The social denouncement aims of the #maipisposebambine...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 11
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When classmate Vanessa insists that all single children are spoiled, Ivy wonders whether she can become "unspoiled" by giving away all her clothes at school (which does not go over well with her teacher or parents)--but ultimately decides that all she needs to accomplish her goal is a little sister.
Author
Language
English
Description
Do you feel that you are incessantly nagging, shouting, pleading, threatening, and demanding that your children do as you have asked? Do you find that after all of the nagging, shouting, pleading, threatening, and demanding that you end up doing it for them anyway? Do you live in a dictatorship – where the kids are in charge? 'Creating boundaries', 'discipline', 'teaching kids how to behave', 'socialisation'… call it what you will, the purpose...
Author
Series
Jasper John Dooley volume 4
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Jasper John Dooley realizes a can of Torpedo High Energy Drink has rolled out of the vending machine instead of the bottle of apple juice he selected, he knows he shouldn't drink it. His parents had warned him about these "Bad" drinks that were full of things like sugar and caffeine. Jasper was allowed sugary things only as a special treat and only after he had eaten good things. Like celery. But Jasper finds the allure of the ice-cold can irresistible....
Author
Series
Jasper John Dooley volume 3
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jasper just wants to play knights and dragons but Isabel loves him and wants to plan their wedding.
Author
Series
Jasper John Dooley volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Feeling left behind when his beloved Nan leaves for a week-long cruise, Jasper John Dooley realizes that he will be less lonely if he has his own adventures, which include a stapling mishap and a hamster escape.