Family Nonfiction

Do you want to have your kids learn math in a fun way? Guaranteed to enrich a child’s arithmetic and analytical thinking, this book is simple and fun for kids to discover different ways of learning math as they solve each question. This is an excellent resource for kids who are 6-12 years old. Let your child impress teachers and classmates with sharpened math skills.

Fun Riddles and Trick Questions for Kids and Family contains the best riddles and brain teasers around that are guaranteed to give your entire family, especially the young ones, countless hours of fun and learning! This amazing collection offers 300 riddles that range from easy to hard to challenge kids of different age groups. It is a fail-safe way to stimulate your kids’ mental power, wit, creativity, and ability to think outside the box - and give them fun, entertainment, and an amazing opportunity to bond with family and friends as well!

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From Ty McCormick, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, an epic and timeless story of a family in search of safety, security, and a place to call home. When Asad Hussein was growing up in the world’s largest refugee camp, nearly every aspect of life revolved around getting to...

When babies are born early, they often have trouble surviving. But special containers called incubators help babies grow by keeping them warm and protected. At first, people in the medical world were skeptical about incubators. But some trailblazing doctors believed in the technology—and put it on display across Europe and the United States. "Incubator exhibits" showed the public how incubators saved lives. The controversial displays led people to accept this medical innovation. Meet the doctors who invented the incubator and follow the incubator's fascinating rise with this history.

Si usted es un padre, cuidador o educador, le preocupa el bienestar de los niños pequeños a su cargo. El tiempo emocionante y fascinante de las edades de 2 a 6 años marca un período sorprendente de cambios e hitos alcanzados. Los niños cambian de niños pequeños, inestables, apenas comunicativos, a correr, saltar, trepar y ser expresivos. A través de este libro, Esther lo lleva a través del significado de Montessori y le explica en detalle la singularidad de la técnica Montessori y por qué puede complementar mejor la singularidad de su propio hijo.

Raised by a mother who turned to drugs to relieve past pain, Valencia had to grow up fast. Being welcomed by gangs, being shunned by her family, and finding motherhood early should have sealed Valencia's fate, at least according to all the statistics. Open, honest, and often raw, Motherless Child exposes a falsehood far too many of us have been led to believe - that those raised in addiction will fall victim themselves. Instead, she found an inner strength born of determination, resolve, and forgiveness.

Questions in this audiobook can be fun and challenging at the same time. This is an ideal solution for kids with gaming and social media addiction. Video games and other addictions can ruin a healthy childhood, and it’s so frustrating for parents. Solving riddles helps to stimulate the brain, boost creativity, and learn new things. Both kids and adults can enjoy this at the same time. You can enjoy this at home, on the road, at bedtime, or use this in a school competition.

Warm morning sunlight and love fill the Neal home. And on one quiet day, playtime leads to an important realization: Trinity wants long hair like her dolls. She needs it to express who she truly is. So her family decides to take a trip to the beauty supply store, but none of the wigs is the perfect fit. Determined, Mom leaves with bundles of hair in hand, ready to craft a wig as colorful and vibrant as her daughter is.

When two-and-a-half-year old Sword first met her baby brother, Bow, her reactions were mixed. Would he take away all her mother's attention, or would he be a new playmate?

Guy Stuff Feelings: Everything You Need to Know About Your Emotions is full of advice on dealing with the new feelings and emotions that are a part of puberty. Boys will find helpful tips from a pediatrician on identifying, managing, and expressing emotions—from anger to sadness to embarrassment to happiness—in positive ways.

Intimate and honest essays on motherhood, marriage, love, and acceptance. Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra's family: her wife, who is white; her adopted child, Shiv, who is black; and their experiences dealing with America's rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Her...

This charming story follows a young boy as he anticipates, then experiences, the arrival of his baby sister. At first, excitement fills his world as he imagines his new role. This story helps kids realize that change is okay, change doesn’t mean you are loved less. But as Little Sister arrives, he grapples with feelings of sharing and a fear of being overlooked.

It took 35 years for Karen to be diagnosed with severe, visual dyslexia, and 44 years to get a bipolar diagnosis. Karen was conceived as a replacement baby for her slightly older sister Lorraine, a thalidomide baby without arms or legs. This is a true account of Karen's journey through the toughest times of her life, triumphant in the end. And an unbreakable bond with her sister.

This is the perfect audiobook for any family that wants to teach their children compassion for themselves, others and the planet. Featuring messages of kindness woven into memorable verses, Our Family Pledge is a universal set of promises designed to be practised and passed down through generations.

During a travel in Romania as a social clown, in October 2006, together with my friends we visited an institute hosting orphaned. The children were more than a hundred and the service staff in total counted no more than six people. In particular, I was impressed by a child among many; although he was three years old, he wasn’t able to speak. No one spent time teaching him. Something broke and, at the same time, something was born in me. It was a new awareness that, left for years at the bottom of my heart, day after day, pulse after pulse, helped me in writing this audiobook.

When beavers move in, they chew down a tree. They nibble the bark. And they drag the branches into a stream. Beavers topple trees and build dams, which can cause floods and disrupt neighborhoods. So what do we do when beavers move in? In Puget Sound, we call the Tulalip Tribes. They send...

In the early 2000s, 13-year-old Katie Van Heidrich has moved more times that she can count, for as long as she can remember. There were the slow moves where you see the whole thing coming. There were the fast ones where you grab what you can in seconds. When Katie and her family come back from an out-of-town funeral, they discover their landlord has unceremoniously evicted them, forcing them to pack lightly and move quickly. They make their way to an Extended Stay America Motel. Within the four walls of their new home, Katie and her siblings, Josh and Haley, try to live a normal life.

Esta é a história da criação de uma bela família interespécies que começou na solidão e continuou no amor. Uma jovem que experimentou o amor pelos cães em primeira mão e passou a adotar filhotes e cães vadios adultos porque o mundo precisa ser um lugar melhor. Uma história maravilhosa que oferece a oportunidade de ensinar uma mensagem positiva às crianças e encher de alegria o coração de um adulto, desfrutando de um impulso de ternura que destaca as melhores características da humanidade no ato de cuidar da vida de todas as criaturas.

A collection of witty & nostalgic vignettes from childhood... a love letter to Mom. She is the star of these 22 stories with supporting roles by Dad, Sister, and Brother. These funny and universal early memories and experiences make a wonderful bedside companion.