Child Esteem

National Book Award Longlist * Bank Street Children's Book Committee Best Book of the Year ""Beautifully written and elegantly structured, this fantasy is as real as it gets.""—Franny Billingsley, author of Chime The Real Boy, Anne Ursu's follow-up to her widely acclaimed and beloved middle...

Gaze into the wounded soul of an innocent child and experience a different perspective of soul damage and the destruction left by sexual abuse. Through the eyes of author Shari Rickenbach, go on a healing journey of overcoming the shame, rage, guilt, fear, and pain of sexual abuse. Choice is the beginning to your life lived free - free from the shackles and pain of abuse - free to be who God created you to be - free to live life to your fullest potential to co-create with God. Choose your beginning to restoring your voice and value.

Als die achtjährige Leni im Schnee ein zitterndes Lichtwesen findet, wird ihre Fantasie plötzlich Wirklichkeit. Hoppellicht, ein frecher Funkelgnom, braucht dringend Hilfe: Ein dunkler Schleicher stiehlt dem magischen Flimmerforst die Farben und langsam auch seine Freude. Schon bald spürt Leni die eisige Kälte, die sich im Wald ausbreitet. Um Hoppellicht und seine Welt zu retten, muss sie etwas entdecken, von dem sie nie wusste, dass es in ihr steckt: ein Herz, das heller leuchtet als jede Angst.

Whether you’re new to inner child healing or seeking a fresh approach, this guide offers actionable steps to help you heal deeply and transform your life. If you're ready to release the past and reclaim your joy, start your healing journey today.

Meet Bubble Gum Brain and Brick Brain: two kids with two very different mindsets. Bubble Gum Brain likes to have fun adventures, learn new things, and doesn't worry about making great mistakes. Brick Brain is convinced that things are just fine the way they are and there's not much he can do to change them, so why try?

This comical companion to Ross Burach's The Very Impatient Caterpillar pays loving homage to every child's struggle to persist through challenges while also delivering a lighthearted lesson on butterfly migration. Remember, if at first you don't succeed, fly, fly again!

They say that life is about compromise. Sacrifice. A series of trades to reach one’s destiny. But in Grey’s wildest dreams, she never imagined that her journey would include an underground joyride—or that the repercussions of her past could cost her everything.

Are you feeling stuck in relationships, overwhelmed by stress, and struggling to set boundaries? Do past emotions leave you exhausted? Heal Your Hurt Inner Child is a step-by-step guide to help you break destructive patterns, unleash creativity, and enhance relationships. It offers practical strategies to reduce stress and rebuild self-esteem with compassionate guidance.

Ernest, like many of the kids nowadays, doesn’t have many friends, is made fun of in school, has to deal with bullies, and lacks self-esteem because of his small thin frame and oversized glasses. He is considered a nerd who doesn’t even get good grades in school, but inside of him is a courageous heart that is a yearning to be unleashed. Living in a small town with an uneventful life, he tends to retreat into his head which is exploding with an imagination that leads him from an unpopular reality into an outstanding adventure!

Remove negative thinking and replace with positive thinking!

Shira Gordon is painfully shy. She rarely speaks and blushes at everything. And yet, when she’s alone in her room, she’ll sing and dance, dreaming she were different. So when her best friend forces her to audition for their school’s production of The Music Man, she’s mostly hoping the play will get canceled…but a tiny part of her hopes she’ll get in. And she does. As a member of the barbershop quartet. Playing a dude with a mustache is not exactly her dream role, but Shira is surprised by how much she loves rehearsing with her quirky new friends.

Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants - especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere - not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two White men, but also in his own hometown of Spokane - is making him realize that he can't mutely stand by.

When Andy's school announces a new no-uniform policy, her classmates are over the moon—but her heart sinks. All she wants is to dress like everyone else. However, her mum's the owner of a run-down kooky vintage boutique, so she's bound to look—well—different. But when Andy finds a gorgeous bag full of designer goodies in the shop's storeroom, everything changes. Can she learn to love vintage and help transform her mum's shop into something truly special?

Step into the world of positivity, growth, and happiness with the Happy Kids' Handbook! Are you ready to embark on a magical journey that will help you become your best self? This book is your fun, friendly guide that offers nuggets of wisdom for all young adventurers.

Jewel tries to stay invisible at school, looking forward to the day when she can finally leave her small town behind, making art with her fellow weirdos, and obsessively reading graphic novels with her best friends. But when she's selected to represent her school at the regional French speaking competition, she decides she's had enough of the shy life. The horn needs to come off. What happens when you have the ability to become the girl you've always wanted to be? When you don't know your true self, how do you know your true friends?

Ginny Shepard is glad to be in Montana for a month of backcountry camping before she starts high school. The world is on fire. That's the awful truth. And Ginny would much rather be hiking in the mountains than doing the summer college prep classes her parents think will help her future. Because, the future? Who even knows what that is anymore. But once Ginny gets to camp, things get complicated fast. She meets her tripmates: five challenging, rebellious, tech-addicted boys. And she finds out TrackFinders is designed for kids who need extra "support."

If you are a parent looking for bedtime stories for your child, to help build their self-confidence and develop their bravery and sense of adventure, this is the perfect book for you. Bravery, wits, and kindness aren’t things you can find in a shop, nor do they magically show up at your doorstep. They are gifts that spark from the inside and grow every time you choose to do the right thing. Being true to yourself might not always be the easiest thing to do, but in the end, it’s what makes you who you are.

Page is in unfamiliar territory as the new kid at school. To make matters worse, Shale Pit Academy of Creativity and Excellence (or “SPACE” as it is more commonly known) is no ordinary school. Students there have the dubious distinction of being nicknamed “SPACE cadets.” No, not the astronaut-in-training meaning. Think of the other kind of space cadet—you know, someone who is out of touch with reality. When a bitter prank war erupts with a rival school, Page and her classmates must ask themselves some difficult questions: Are they more than a nickname? Are they more than just SPACE cadets?

Tiffany Tudwell is cursed. She once tripped over a backpack and fell face-first into a trashcan. She had pink eye on picture day. One time she tried to hold back a sneeze and farted on the cutest boy in class. She longs for the spotlight, but it's safer to stay hidden in the shadows where the curse can't reach her and no one can make fun of her. Until the night two meteors collide over her backyard giving Tiffany the ability to steal people's talents for a day.

Breaker did the one thing he swore he’d never do - leave his little brother Brody behind. All for a chance to save the planet he hates from a mad queen. But the Queen Mother is determined to find the galaxy’s biggest payload of dark matter, which means Scarlatti is still in danger. And the clock is ticking. With the fate of his friends, his family, and the entire planet of Scarlatti in his hands, Breaker must decide how far he is willing to go to try to save them all. Because this time, he has nothing left to give save himself.