Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond--and How Parents Can Help
By: Phyllis L. Fagell
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct d…
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1. Middle School Makeover
By: Michelle Icard
4.02
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navig… read more
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- middle grade
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
2. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
By: Lisa Damour
3.98
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more
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- parenting
- nonfiction
- education
- self help
3. How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
By: Julie Lythcott-Haims
4.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A provocative manifesto that exposes the harms of helicopter parenting and sets forth an alternate … read more
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- self help
- parenting
- childrens
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
4. How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
By: Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish
3.85
Format: None pages,
The renowned #1 New York Times bestselling authors share their advice and expertise with parents an… read more
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5. Pax
By: Sara Pennypacker , Jon Klassen
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Pax was only a kit when his family was killed, and "his boy" Peter rescued him from abandonment and… read more
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6. The Power of a Praying Parent
By: Stormie Omartian
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Stormie Omartian's bestselling The Power of a Praying series (more than 23 million copies sold) is … read more
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7. The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
By: Amy Ellis Nutt , Frances E. Jensen
3.36
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An internationally respected neurologist offers a revolutionary look at the brains of adolescents, … read more
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8. The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
By: Jessica Lahey
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Paul Tough's How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned K… read more
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9. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
By: Anna Quindlen
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this irresistible memoir, the #1 New York Times bestselling author writes about her life and the… read more
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10. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- education
- audiobook
11. The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans
By: Aliza Pressman
4.15
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Let go of perfect and become a transformative, positive influence in a child’s life while creating … read more
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- parenting
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- nonfiction
- self help
12. Something Like Home
By: Andrea Beatriz Arango
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Library Binding
A novel in verse in which a lost dog helps a lonely girl find a way home to her family . . . only f… read more
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- middle grade
- childrens
- audiobook
13. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- health
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
14. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- childrens
- teaching
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
15. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture
By: Sara Petersen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
16. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
17. Your Money or Your Life
By: Vicki Robin
3.81
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
By: Lisa Damour
4.47
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ in… read more
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- self help
- parenting
- health
- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
19. Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls
By: Lisa Damour
4.30
Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to the alarming increase in anxiety and stress… read more
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- parenting
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- nonfiction
- education
- audiobook
20. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)
By: Steven Rowley
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more
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21. This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained
By: Cara Natterson
4.28
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty. … read more
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- audiobook
22. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
By: Elizabeth Crane
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more
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- audiobook
23. Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
By: Peggy Orenstein
4.24
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daugh… read more
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- parenting
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"Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men."-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
"They [boys] are particularly eager to have their fathers talk to them about their own experience with sex, love, even regret."-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
"At one time or another, every young man will get a letter of admission to dick school. The question is will he drop out, graduate, or go for an advanced degree?"-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
"As culture critic Dara Mathis tweeted about Kanye West, 'Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.' They are neither a form of punishment nor "tiny spiritual guides sent to newly sho…"-Peggy Orenstein, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
24. Drunk-ish: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving Alcohol
By: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay , a hilariously candid and refreshingly honest… read more
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- health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Fourteen Talks by Age Fourteen: The Essential Conversations You Need to Have with Your Kids Before They Start High School
By: Michelle Icard
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The fourteen essential conversations to have with your tween and early teenager to prepare them for… read more
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26. The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
By: Oksana Masters
4.62
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from the United States’s most decorated winter Paralympic or Olympic athlete, The Hard Par… read more
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27. Thrivers
By: Michele Borba
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of UnSelfie explains why the old markers of accomplishment (grades, test sco… read more
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28. Decoding Boys: New Science Behind the Subtle Art of Raising Sons
By: Cara Natterson
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
When boys enter puberty, they tend to get quiet—or at least quieter than before—and parents often m… read more
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29. Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond--and How Parents Can Help
By: Phyllis L. Fagell
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct d… read more
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30. Daybreak on Raven Island
By: Fleur T. Bradley
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Midnight at the Barclay Hotel comes a thrilling new middle … read more
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31. The Successful Middle School: This We Believe
By: Penny A. Bishop
3.79
Format: None pages, ebook
For educators committed to success for every student, this updated edition of AMLE's landmark posit… read more
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