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TITLE Colour Blindness Using A Wheelchair
A Different World
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Author: Robin Twiddy Publisher: Book Life Age: 6 to 12 years
RRP: $29.99
Format: Hardback (pages: 24) Series Release Date: 01/06/2020
We all share the same world, but do we experience it in the same way? A Different World gives children the opportunity to see the world through other people’s eyes. Readers will understand what challenges other people face on a daily basis and be provided with the tools that will allow them to challenge their own assumptions about the world.
ISBN 9781839270437 9781839270451 TITLE Deafness Dyslexia ISBN 9781839270444 9781839270468
Where’s My Stuff? 2nd Edition | RRP: $24.95 Shipping Oct 2020 Author: Samantha Martin, Lesley Martin | ISBN: 978-1541578951 Publisher: Zest Books | Release Date: 01/03/2020 | Format: Paperback Pages: 120 | Size: 16.5 x 21.6 cm | Age: 11 to 18 years A comprehensive guide for young adults on how to organize school work, lockers, bedrooms, and even schedules. Take a quiz to identify your organizing style and get great advice about making decisions, purging closets, and creating the perfect space to relax, work, and store belongings. With fun and useful illustrations, easy-to-follow charts, and ample doses of humor, this is an incredible asset for anyone who wants to get it together and keep it together, for good. Written in collaboration with professional teen organizer Lesley Martin.
TITLE Let’s Explore Earning Money Let’s Explore Needs and Wants
Bumba Books ™ — A First Look at Money
Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman RRP: $14.95 ea Publisher: LernerClassroom Format: P/back (pages: 24) Age: 4 to 7 years Release Date: 01/02/2019 Invite young readers to learn and think about how they can earn, spend, and save money. Core social studies curriculum and kid-friendly text work together to spark readers’ interest in economics.
ISBN 9781541545717 9781541545724 TITLE Let’s Explore Saving Money Let’s Explore Spending Money ISBN 9781541545731 9781541545748
A Girl Like Me
RRP: $34.95
ISBN: 978-1541557772 | Author: Angela Johnson | Release Date: 01/06/2020 Publisher: Lerner | Format: Hardback (pages: 32) | Age: 5-10 years Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews’s distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color.
Fuelling Your Future: Above and Beyond with ...
Author: Various RRP: $19.95 ea Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Format: Paperback (pages: 48) Age: 11 to 15 years Series Release Date: 2017 Recent research demonstrates that a focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration is essential for preparing young people for the future. This innovative series gives readers the tools to not only build these essential skills but to apply them to all situations so they become habits. Each title concentrates on one skill and helps readers build up their abilities. They will learn the important benefits of each skill, how each is relevant to all subjects and areas of learning, and how each skill will continue to be relevant throughout their lives, at work and personally.
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Communication 978-0778728443
Collaboration 978-0778728436
Creativity and Innovation 978-0778728450 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 978-0778728467 DESCRIPTION Explore the differences between various forms of communication such as active listening, written, oral, nonverbal, and digital communication. Readers will learn about potential communication roadblocks and strategies to overcome them. This title explores the skills and practices needed to be a successful collaborator in any situation covering topics such as establishing responsibilities, engineering plans, and becoming socially aware. Encourages active listening, respect, self-direction, and focus to understand diverse perspectives and come to achieve common goals. Readers are introduced to various brainstorming techniques and will learn different approaches to help refine and evaluate their ideas. Real-world examples, motivating challenges, and case studies broaden readers’ understanding of this key skill set. Explore the ways that critical thinking can be applied to problem solving in school, work, and social settings. Real-world examples and opportunities for hands-on practice support readers as they learn how to frame, analyse, and synthesize information.
Author: Various | Publisher: Crabtree | RRP: $14.95 ea Format: Paperback | Release Date: 01/02/2020 | Pages: 32 Size: 21.6 x 27.3cm | Age: 8 to 11 years Be Your Best Self: Building Social-Emotional Skills is a motivating series that helps young readers understand and practice social-emotional skills. Each inspiring book features a character-building topic, such as kindness, mindfulness, gratitude, self- and social awareness, diversity and inclusion, and conflict resolution. Using relatable experiences and challenges faced by children in their everyday lives, each book shows how to recognize emotions, cope with stress, and build relationships. Practical ideas and activities help children focus on positive thinking and behavior to become the best and happiest “self” they can be.
TITLE Be Mindful! Be Here Now Creating a Happy School Community ISBN 9780778767107 9780778767114 TITLE Kindness is Cool! The Power of Gratitude ISBN 9780778767183 9780778767190
Experience Personal Power
Author: Jean C. Lawler Publisher: Red Chair Press Format: Paperback (pages: 24) Age: 7 to 10 years Series Release Date: 1/2/2019 Experience Personal Power is a four-book series to guide young readers in learning mindfulness skills and building personal power to feel secure and confident with themselves.
TITLE Experience Media: How Your Media Choices Make You Feel Experience Mindfulness: How Quiet-Time Makes You Feel Experience Nature: How Time Outside Makes You Feel Experience Nutrition: How the Food You Eat Makes You Feel HARDBACK ($39.95) 9781634403764 9781634403757 9781634403733 9781634403740 PAPERBACK ($12.95) 9781634403801 9781634403795 9781634403771 9781634403788
Cooling Down Teen Stress
RRP: $19.95
Author: DJ Chandler Publisher: Signs Publishing Date: 01/10/2020 | Paperback Pages: 128 | Size: 15 x 23 cm ISBN: 9781922373120
An exciting story, by a teen for teens, that relates to the stresses of everyday life. Live a year with Derisa—energetic, smart, caring and otherwise typical high school student—as she navigates challenges in and out of school. Her story grapples with real life-and-death teen issues, like dating, parents, fear, jobs, grades, suicide and grief. Following each chapter is an interactive teen stress strategy, providing readers with high-impact awareness tools to assess their stress levels and manage stress. There are practical solutions for external stressors, like not enough time, money or friends—and for deep-seated, internal stressors, like low self-worth, guilt and negative emotions. This book is priority reading for every teenager. “Very well written, especially because the author is a teenager! Phrasing and word choice are age and culture appropriate.”—Writer’s Digest
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Cooling Down Stress
RRP: $19.95
Author: Cameron Johnston Publisher: Signs Date: 01/10/2020 | Paperback Pages: 176 | Size: 15 x 23 cm Age: Adult ISBN: 9781922373144
Chris Brooks’ new start-up is booming and everyone thinks he is a success. But when his 30-year-old sales manager unexpectedly dies of a heart attack and his friend Kate is diagnosed with cancer, Chris is forced to take an honest look at how he’s really doing. Cooling Down Stress follows Chris and his wife Jessica as they attend a series of wellness seminars and learn strategies for managing their stress effectively. Based on author Cameron Johnston’s extensive experience in presenting seminars on this topic and his analogy of cooling down soup, this engaging book provides simple, practical steps to relieve stress, anxiety and depression, improve well-being and deal with deepseated issues like anger and grief. “Cameron’s books and the stress soup concept are outstanding.” — Dr Hans A Diehl, bestselling author, founder of CHIP and Professor of Preventative Medicine, Loma Linda University, School of Medicine.
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Money Habitudes for Teens US (14 to 18 Years)
Author: Syble Solomon | Format: Card Set | RRP: $24.95 ea ISBN: 9780974253183 | Release Date: 01/01/2009 Publisher: Money Habitudes (USA) Money Habitudes for Teens gets high school students to talk about money in a fun, non-threatening way. The handson conversation starter and money personality assessment helps teens understand their own unique spending habits and attitudes that affect their financial decisions.
Geared for teens (ages 14-18), the money personality cards are used like money management games. They are often used in high school classes (economics and personal finance, psychology, business, history, etc.), after-school and youth programs, as well as job readiness and life skills seminars. To use the cards, you simply complete an easy sorting process that takes less than 15 minutes. Interpreting and discussing the results can take just a few minutes or may be structured from 10 minutes to many hours. At a glance, you will get an easy-to-understand but powerful understanding of the user's money personality. By using the interpretation cards, you will gain valuable clues about thoughts, feelings and patterns of behaviour. Best results come from using one deck of cards per person so everyone participates and gets his or her own money personality assessment. Therefore, use 10 decks for a class of 10 people. The durable, laminated cards can be used over and over.
ISBN: 9780974253176 Money Habitudes cards are a novel, non-threatening, hands-on activity to get people talking about money. Effective money management is really about making choices, balancing impulsive behavior, seeking acceptance, avoiding rejection and feeling empowered to plan for the future. The positive way the cards present these issues help young adults develop a healthier relationship with money. They are then able to use their financial skills more successfully to manage money now and in the future.
Money Habitudes (Adults)
ISBN: 9780974253176
Helping people understand the way their habits, attitudes and values affect their financial decisions can help them make better choices at work, in their relationships and in life. This new Australian version of Money Habitudes is designed for adults aged 25 years and older. It has been written in accessible English, making it faster to read for everyone and suitable for even lowliteracy audiences.
These engaging cards are used and trusted by many professionals, including financial educators, financial planners & career coaches. Use them with individuals, couples and groups, as a 5-15 minute financial ice-breaker or money conversation starter, a standalone activity of 30-90 minutes, or a module within a larger class or series. Include them in training on premarital counselling or marriage retreats, communication skills, budgeting and financial education classes, life skills and career training.
Feelings to Share from A to Z
Author: Todd Snow & Peggy Snow | Format: Paperback | RRP: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1934277003 | Release Date: 10/05/2007 Publisher: Maren Green | Age: 5 to 7 years Knowing how to describe our feelings is important to our emotional health. So is knowing it's okay to talk about our feelings with others. Feelings can be confusing when we don't have the words to express them; they can be overwhelming and even scary when we keep them to ourselves. In rhyming poems and engaging illustrations, this book helps children build and use a vocabulary for communicating their emotions. Because it's meant to be read aloud, it encourages discussion. From "A is for Awesome" to "Z is for Zany", Feelings invites kids to name, claim, and share their emotions.
Stress Less! A Kid's Guide to Managing Emotions
Author: Rebecca Sjonger | Format: Paperback | RRP: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0778718864 | Release Date: 01/01/2016 Publisher: Crabtree | Age: 6 to 9 years Good mental health is as important as good physical health to our overall fitness. This important book gives children ways to reduce feelings of anxiety and manage their emotions. Simple activities help children learn how to relieve tension and improve concentration.
Hack Your Cupboard
Author: Alyssa Wiegand & Carla Carreon | RRP: $33.95 ISBN: 978-1942186076 | Release Date: 01/11/2019 | Format: Paperback Publisher: Zest Books | Age: 13 to 18 years It's not always easy to try out a new recipe, but sticking to what you know and love can get pretty boring. After a discussion of what food storage areas typically have (and what they ought to have), Hack Your Cupboard provides age-specific guidance to help you move on to more ambitious meals. This makes it the perfect book to take from the family pantry to a dorm room fridge, a first apartment, and beyond. With dozens of photographs as well as dream dinners for every skill level, this is the cookbook for anyone who wants to break out of a kitchen rut without breaking too much of a sweat. With dream dinners for every level of experience, this is the cookbook full of age-specific guidance for anyone who wants to break out of a kitchen rut without breaking too much of a sweat.
Think Savvy, Revise Smart
Author: Christine West | RRP: $24.95 ISBN: 978-0648400059 | Release Date: 01/11/2018 | Format: Paperback Publisher: Magnettic | Age: 13 to 18 years Think Savvy, Revise Smart is designed to empower students to learn well and perform at their best. By learning how their brains work, students should be well placed to confidently apply the practical strategies contained in this book. With a specific focus on revising for exams, students will learn how to: * Use smart study habits to learn more, in less time. * Use strategic revision to target their efforts; and * Use savvy exam tips to maximise their marks. Think Savvy, Revise Smart is also an invaluable resource for parents, providing them with the necessary knowledge and skills to confidently assist their children in their learning.
