My Parents Think I’m Sleeping

From reading under the covers to watching shadows dance on the wall, these fourteen vigorous verses show that a child's life begins at bedtime!

Presents a collection of humorous poems about bedtime.

A collection of humorous poems about bedtime.

Three boys struggle to come to terms with the death of a friend in a drunk-driving auto accident in which all four were involved, in a story told through newspaper stories, diary entries, school announcements, telephone conversations, and classroom assignments.

As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

Special edition slipcase edition of John Green's Paper Towns, with pop-up paper town. From the bestselling author of The Fault in our Stars. Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school. So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow. But the next day Margo doesn't come to school and a week later she is still missing. Q soon learns that there are clues in her disappearance . . . and they are for him. But as he gets deeper into the mystery - culminating in another awesome road trip across America - he becomes less sure of who and what he is looking for. Masterfully written by John Green, this is a thoughtful, insightful and hilarious coming-of-age story.

Sam has the best seat in second grade—right next to George Washington, the class pet! Sam brings his hamster buddy on the class field trip to the science museum…but disaster strikes when George jumps from Sam’s pocket into the museum’s Hamster Habitat. “Carter’s expressive watercolor illustrations help bring the kids in room 75 and their furry pet to life,” commented Kirkus. The Best Seat in Second Grade is a Level Two I Can Read book, geared for kids who read on their own but still need a little help. Whether shared at home or in a classroom, the engaging stories, longer sentences, and language play of Level Two books are proven to help kids take their next steps toward reading success.

"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads" “Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star of Broad City Named a best book of the month by GoodReads and Entertainment Weekly A former child actor best known for her starring roles in Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire, Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and out of place: as the only kid on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, a Valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and a grown-up the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from what she learned about sex on the set of Melrose Place, to discovering in adolescence that she was no longer “cute” enough for Hollywood, these essays chart her journey from accidental fame to relative (but happy) obscurity. They also illuminate universal struggles, like navigating love and loss, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Candid, insightful, moving, and hilarious, Where Am I Now? introduces Mara Wilson as a brilliant new chronicler of the experience that is growing up female.

The Tyler family had the perfect life - until sixteen-year-old Leah decided she didn't want to be perfect anymore.While Leah's parents fight to save their daughter from destroying her brilliant future, Leah's younger sister, Justine, must cope with the damage her out-of-control sibling leaves in her wake. Will this family survive? What happens when love just isn't enough?Jodi Picoult fans will love In Leah's Wake - a heartbreaking, ultimately redemptive story about family, connection and our responsibility to those we love.

The ultimate breakthrough for solving your baby/child's sleep issues. "The Baby Sleep Coach Book" is NOT another cookie cutter sleep plan that requires an endless amount of time and energy of a sleepless parent. Instead, this is the ONLY method available that is completely customizable to YOUR baby's unique personality and YOUR natural parenting style. The Baby Sleep Coach Book is a "first of it's kind comprehensive system with a unique capability that makes it work like clockwork for ANY sleep problem. You will learn -- Why your child will not fall asleep on his own. -- How to know the best time to put your child to sleep. -- Why your child cries and how to avoid it. -- What sleep method is right for you and your child. -- Seven simple steps to a full night's rest. -- How to establish healthy sleep habits from the beginning. -- How to create a proper sleep environment that will actually induce sleep. -- Answers to many frequently asked questions about sleep and travel, holidays, developmental milestones, etc. -- How to have an overall happier, healthier more rested baby so that you are happier and more rested as well. Avoid sleep programs that leave you frazzled almost before you begin, and full of useless information that wastes your time and money. Let "The Baby Sleep Coach Book" introduce you to the NEW idea of sleep coaching. Do you sincerely want to see your baby sleeping peacefully through the night, EVERY night?In this book, I'm going to show you how starting tonight, you can be on your way to connecting with your baby in a way that is not hindered by feelings of hopelessness, despair, and guilt for not being a good parent!I'll show you how starting tonight, you can restore peace to your home and finally enjoy your little one the way you'd love to do...just by "coaching" your baby to reliably fall asleep on their own and sleep through the night.

Sometimes the love our heart needs to heal can be found in the familiar eyes of a childhood friend... Julie Porter learned the hard way that trust is something which must be earned and not something to be given out lightly, those who say they love you are those who hold the power to hurt you most, and best friends can help you survive anything—until they move away. Nick Owen knows a thing or two about a hard life. At a young age Nick learned how to take a hit and to make lemonade out of the lemons life tossed his way. Returning home after nearly two years of being away, all Nick cares about now is protecting his mom from the abusive hands of his father and catching up with his best friend—the girl who lived across the street, the girl he can’t seem to stop thinking about. Finally reunited after two years apart, Nick and Julie are about to learn that age does nothing to protect you from life’s trials and tribulations, heartache and loss, but maybe together they’ll find a way to survive.

When Your Parent Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens, National Institutes of Health Publication 12-5724: If your mom, dad, or an adult close to you has cancer, this book is for you. Here you can read about what has helped other teens get through this tough time. Doctors, nurses, social workers, friends, and family are working hard to help your mom or dad get better. You are a very important part of that team, too. In the weeks and months ahead, you may feel a whole range of emotions. Some days will be good, and things might seem like they used to. Other days may be harder. This book can help prepare you for some of the things you might face. It can also help you learn to handle living with a parent or relative who has cancer. This book includes information about cancer treatments, ways teens can talk to family and friends, how to connect with other teens, and where to find other resources for information and support. It includes a glossary of cancer terms and appendices explaining monitoring tests and member of the cancer team.~

Pocket Change is a book of wisdom accumulated through life's challenges to make you think. The choices we make are not only crucial to our lives, but to others as well. For this reason alone, we should be considerate of each other. We many times question our existence because of the strenuous task we encounter. One thing to remember is every problem has a solution. We must always search ourselves for error, that we may keep an open mind to the truth. This is the responsibility of life. As one needs pocket change for a parking meter or a telephone call, wisdom is needed as well as knowledge.

The 10th-anniversary edition of the No. 1 international bestseller and modern classic beloved by millions of readers HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH The 10th-anniversary edition features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook.

This book Beyond Four Boarders is about marriage challenges of the South African citizens who are married to Africans from Africa. The damage of the division of Africa a long time ago still is felt today. The different languages, cultures, perceptions, and stereotypes. Some South African mothers even go to the extent of cursing their daughters married to Africans from Africa. Some African mothers from Africa also don't approve South African ladies. We need to address this in order to allow our children to marry those they love. In this book I'm focusing on those who are struggling in marriages. These are usually the middle class and the lower class people. The rich don't experience these challenges. God gave me the title Beyond Four Boarders based on that my husband Katalay was beyond four boarders when I wrote this book. Katalay comes from Democratic Republic of Congo, when traveling by road, he goes through Zambia (2 boarders), Zimbabwe (2 boarders) then enter South African boarder. L'amour and I suffered hardship when Katalay was in Congo for over four years. The lies, gossiping, humiliation at home, in the community and some churches. The false beliefs that "foreign nationals marry South African women for identity document and to get resources. That African men from Africa come to South Africa already married and marry South African women as second wives. Denying African men from visiting their parents and siblings accusing them of visiting their wives and children. Now also added is falsely accusing foreign nationals of being human traffickers without any proof." Children of South Africans and African parents hide their identities at school for fear of discrimination. My daughter L'amour is asked by her classmates what nationality she is. They don't understand why her name is L'amour and not an African name. Some women and children why L'amour is taller that her classmates. There are children from various African countries who hide their identities because the moment it is know they are called derogative names. One day I took L'amour at a public park, I heard some kids between 7 - 10 years old telling a young Zimbabwean boy to go to his country and stop using a South African swing. The boy just kept quiet and kept playing. I did watch to make sure the boy was not beaten by his bullies. As individuals we have to make sure we promote loving our fellow human beings in spite of where they come from. There are people who think I'm from Africa and not a South African. That does not bother me. This happened even before the democracy of South Africa. I remember applying for an identity document, I spent two years going to Home Affairs Department, every Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays after school to apply for my identify document. Home Affairs told me to go to Zimbabwe or Mozambique to bring my father. What a humiliation it was. This book is also based on my personal challenges being married to a Congolese and of others I have met with similar problems. My domineering and controlling mother and relatives rejecting my husband. My husband's domineering and controlling mother who rejected me. Katalay's mother and sister calling me a foreigner, on the other hand my mother, siblings and some relatives calling Katalay a foreigner. These inflictions of pain went on for over 10 years of our marriage. When they failed on talking they resorted to witchcraft. It is unfair that parents choose for their children who to marry. To claim to care and protect their children. The phenomenon of choosing marriage partners by parents for their children is an unfair practice. Such parents usually have their interest in heart and not that of their children. Some of these children after agreeing to the arranged marriage they turn to drugs and alcohol to deal with the pressure. Some even abuse their spouses.

In a world like ours, humans are born in pairs. When a newborn boy takes his first breath in the coastal town of Tularosa, the exact time is noted, recorded in the Registry, and later compared to the birth times of other newborns around the globe. There will be one identical match—his half. They will meet on their eighteenth birthday and they will spend their lives together. Except this time, there is no match.

Rose had lived her entire life in an isolated cottage, in the middle of the woods with her three uncanny aunts. She had never wanted for anything more, and was happy in her surroundings. But when she meets Mistress M, her entire world changes and her eyes are opened. Yet the Mistress holds a certain mystery and secrets which have Rose questioning what else lies beyond the woods. When Mistress M introduces Rose to to a handsome, young farmer, their mutual affection turns into something a little more. However, happy ever after may not be a possibility when Rose finds out who she really is...

As the Gypsies gather in the ancient village of Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer for the annual celebration honoring their patron saint, a mystical convergence of events brings four adolescents together at a haunted house and sets them on a perilous quest to locate a centuries-old manuscript that holds the power to release the devastating force of the Ancient Ones upon the Earth. Fifteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Luca are lonely Gypsy kids who travel about Europe with their parents. Forced by their Gypsy father to beg and pick pockets for money, Sarah and Luca find it impossible to earn their father's approval. Fifteen-year-old Edgar cannot stand his parents (and the feeling is mutual) when the family moves from New Jersey to France so that his parents can live out their dream of being French aristocracy. Fourteen-year-old Aleck's world is turned upside down when his parents are killed in a car crash and his older sister decides that he would be better off in France with their Aunt and Uncle whose real concern is their own lavish lifestyle. Beset by their parents and guardians, the four young people must also survive the mercurial activities of a spirit haunting the house that holds clues to the location of the manuscript which is also sought by a secret society bent on locating it for their own purposes. In a frenzied chase that takes them from the ancient villages of Provence through the blood-soaked quarries of Roussillon to the macabre catacombs of Paris, the four must put aside their differences and suspicions to outwit the evil forces who would stop at nothing to get their hands on the ancient book. "From the Grave: The Prayer" is a classic tale of terror, suspense and intrigue set in southern France, written by the Master of the Macabre, William Castle.

Our consumer society needs a reality check. The landfills are overflowing, the oceans are full of plastic, North American money is now used by China to buy more weapons, and still we think a product that lasts only 4 years is a good one. This book contains over 170 tips, tricks and hacks to help you repair, reuse, lead a simpler life and save money. We have entered a Grand Solar Minimum and it will get colder. This is your Darwin Moment. Survival will no longer be simple, but if you are prepared it will be easier. Inside is a guide inspired by the wisdom of the do-it-yourselfers of 100 years ago. Find out how to use tools, make things last longer, repair them when they break and live a simpler life. Make something at adult education night.Find out which tools are actually useful. How to remove a car engine in your back yard. Get through snow drifts using snow The uses of a come-along winch. Strengthen weak and wobbly furniture. Bend metal with a metal bender. Repair broken windows and dripping taps. Reset the oven temperature on your electric stove. What to do about a "bang" in the fridge. Fix your electric stove elements. Repair a screen and frustrate the mosquitos. The basics of lumber and what is not lumber. Using a table saw, countersink and hand plane. How to get rid of pests: rats, bugs, ants and wasps. Finding the hydraulic oil filter on your tractor. How growing trees in your yard affect your wood stove. Why you should get your wood stove very hot in the morning. The challenges of life in the country and how to meet them. Staying warm with wood heat. Knowing what questions to ask. Getting good stuff for FREE. The ideas and information presented in this book will inspire you and give you great confidence that taking charge of your possessions and your life is not only easy, it is fun, and more rewarding than just buying something new. IT IS EASY AND YOU CAN DO IT!!