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"What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a question kids get asked over and over. But very few connections are made for kids between the present and the future. This book shows kids a pathway from their current interests and talents to a future career or interest. And in so doing, it also encourages adventure, exploration, and discovery, three core principles of National Geographic's mission. It's a celebration of possibility--so simple and so...
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Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her she is...
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Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity (so bad that even ordinary lights can cause blisters), and somehow, in her senior year of high school, she has to craft a new life that will still include journalism school, activism, and the new guy who caught her as...
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There's a lot to be scared of, that's for sure. There's that mean looking dog, and booming thunderstorms, and spiders and other creepy crawly things. All this scary stuff can make you want to hide under your covers and never come out. Because hiding will solve everything Or will it?
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Poor Little Pencil watches everyone else having fun until his new Forever Friends finally put him to work at the miraculous task of writing! Discover a delightful story introducing the pencil grip to young children. Free parent/teacher activity guide included.
Little Pencil Finds Forever Friends is a marvelous little rhyming book that will make children (and their parents and teachers) aware of the correct pencil grip, as well as activities which...
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"Anything is possible in Patch Land. Little Preston and his dog Beau are challenged by the eye patches they have to wear because of an eye disease, but that does not stop them from doing what they love. At night, Preston puts his eye patch under his pillow. When he starts to dream, he and his dog Beau get to go to Patch Land. They live in a world of fun and adventure and imagination. The illustrations are spectacular and help the story come to life....