Self-Management
Self-management is the ability to reduce the intensity of negative emotions and debilitating thoughts and to promote positive feelings and a cognitive focus. Readers will learn about protagonists whose self-management affected critical events in their lives.
Adventure of Ulysses
The mythological wanderings of Odysseus are recounted by the Greek epic poet, Homer. (Circa 550 B.C.)
Anything But Typical
A 12-year-old with autism spectrum disorder meets his first real friend online when he posts his original stories.
Frindle
When he decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a series of events that quickly move beyond his control.
Joey Pigza Loses Control
When Joey Pigza meets his dad, Carter, for the first time in years, he meets a grown-up version of his old hyperactive self.
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Joey Pigza is out of control because he has attention deficit disorder (ADD). After injuring another student, Joey finally gets the right professional help and starts to regain control of his actions.
Lisa, Bright and Dark
Lisa is smart, attractive, and seemingly successful, so her parents and teachers are unwilling to admit that she is struggling with a mental illness.
Surviving the Applewhites
A troubled teen is sent to live with an eccentric family in this funny, contemporary story.
The Art of Keeping Cool
Fear permeates the Rhode Island coastal town where Robert, his mother, and sister are living out the war with his paternal grandparents: Fear of Nazi submarines offshore. Fear of Abel Hoffman, a German artist living reclusively outside of town. And for Robert, a more personal fear, of his hot-tempered, controlling grandfather.
The Good Earth
The Good Earth follows the life of Wang Lung, a Chinese man who rises from a peasant farmer, struggling for a living, to become the head of the powerful House of Wang.
The Jungle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel that unveils the corruption and bad practices of the meatpacking industry during the early 20th century.
The Long Valley
Where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers, and owners, past and present.
The Outsiders
Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy is loyal to his brothers and his gang from the wrong side of the tracks. Ponyboy is caught in a turbulent chain of events after his best friend kills a member of a rival gang.
The Pearl
The intriguing story of a poor Mexican pearl diver who finds the largest pearl ever seen is a suspenseful reading experience.
The Phantom Tollbooth
Milo, a very bored boy, drives his toy car through a tollbooth that mysteriously appears in his bedroom and arrives in the Kingdom of Wisdom. There he learns the importance of words and numbers, patience and responsibility.