The Backpack

The Backpack

Author: Tim A. Gardner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-04-29

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1119576393

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A guide for being fully equipped to succeed on the journey of life The Backpack: How to Understand and Manage Yourself While Loving Others Along the Way tells the story of Jon, Sofia, and Buddy whose pathways merge on a life-changing flight. Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group (a world-wide leader in self-awareness training), the book brings together an angry passenger, a wise flight attendant, and a down-home cowboy. Their chance meeting leads to the ride of their lives as they fully grasp the importance and meaning of their backpacks. As this engaging story reveals, self-awareness is like a backpack! If we are to be prepared to succeed on the journey of life, we need to know and accept which backpack is ours, decide what we need to put in it or take out of it, and be fully aware of how our backpacks are affecting all of the other passengers around us. The question is: Are we whacking the other passengers with our backpack as we travel through life. . . or are we helping them? Offers life lessons on self-awareness written in the form of a funny and engaging story Shows how we can lighten, fill and understand our “backpack” in order to lead a more successful life Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group The Backpack offers a story that explores the concepts of self-awareness and other-awareness, including the importance of appreciating your personality, living by your core values, mentally preparing for your day, being aware of your impact on others and packing your backpack wisely.


What's Inside Your Backpack?

What's Inside Your Backpack?

Author: Jessica Sinarski

Publisher: National Center for Youth Issues

Published: 2021-02-04

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1953945244

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All around us, children are carrying backpacks that are heavy with more than just textbooks. Each day, they also bear the weight of difficult life experiences and intense feelings. Zoey Harmon just wants to feel light-hearted and carefree. Unfortunately, she keeps getting weighed down by pesky "books" in her backpack, like Worry and Shame. Much to her surprise, she's not the only one! Zoey learns that the adults in her life deal with difficult feelings too! Luckily, they have some ideas that can help her set aside the books she's not meant to carry. Will it be enough to help her unload the heaviest book of all? "You look a little worried, kiddo," Zoey's mom said, giving her a squeeze. "Sometimes I need a bright thought to help me when I'm feeling upset. Here, try this." She slid a bookmark into Zoey's hand. Zoey looked down and read: Imagine with Hope. "What's this?" asked Zoey. "When we don't know what to expect, worry wants us to imagine with fear, to think about all the worst possibilities. This is a little reminder I use to think of the good things that might happen when I imagine with hope instead." While there are no quick fixes for all of life's complex problems, What's Inside Your Backpack? highlights some of the ways we can nurture resilience in body and mind. Using the metaphor of books and bookmarks, author Jessica Sinarski offers gentle, effective strategies to help children impacted by trauma. By sharing their burdens with people they trust, kids can lighten their load and realize just how strong and courageous they really are!


The Haunted Backpack

The Haunted Backpack

Author: Michael Dahl

Publisher: Picture Window Books

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1515844862

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There is something in Howard's backpack that should not be there; he is initially relieved to find out that it is just a strange cell phone--until the voice on the phone instructs him to bring it to the cemetery, third gravestone from the left.


A Broken Backpack and a Book

A Broken Backpack and a Book

Author: Scott Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-03

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781704819396

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Inspired by President Obama's memoirs the author tells a gritty story that brought him from: the woods of Keene, New Hampshire, to the beaches of Orange County, California, to the Grandeur of Spokane, Washington; as a transient laborer.


Papa's Backpack

Papa's Backpack

Author: James Christopher Carroll

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1634704169

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When a soldier has to leave his or her family for extended service, it's an emotional time for all involved. It can be especially confusing and upsetting for children, who long for the comfort and security of a parent's presence. Papa's Backpack honors the bond between a parent/soldier and a child, and acknowledges the difficult and emotional process of separation during deployment. A young bear cub dreams of accompanying Papa when he leaves on a mission, wanting to stay close to provide comfort and moral support, ultimately overcoming adversity together.


Backyard to Backpack

Backyard to Backpack

Author: Evie Farrell

Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Published: 2019-08-05

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 176087180X

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Inspiring true story of a single mum and daughter who traded a conventional life for one lived fully, travelling the world together. What if you followed your heart to a life that made you truly happy? When her daughter Emmie was 6 years old, Evie Farrell left her corporate career, sold or donated almost everything she owned, rented out her house and, hand-in-hand with Emmie, began an epic two-and-a-half-year backpacking adventure that would change their lives forever. Evie farewelled a nasty break-up, long hours in a demanding job, a hefty mortgage and snatched hours with her daughter for a new life lived outside the lines, spending every day with Emmie exploring the world beyond the suburbs. They camped on the Great Wall of China, hung in train doorways in Sri Lanka, swam with mantas in Indonesia, donated much-needed blood in Cambodia, spotted wild orangutans and pygmy elephants in Malaysian Borneo, prayed in Buddhist temples in Taiwan and were chased by monkeys everywhere. In their journey toward happiness and self-acceptance, they learnt more about each other and the beautiful world around them than Evie ever expected. Backyard to Backpack is the inspirational true story that will have you asking yourself, what might be if you took a chance, stepped off the path of expectation and created your own adventure?


My Nasty Backpack

My Nasty Backpack

Author: Allia Zobel-Nolan

Publisher: Reader's Digest Children's Books

Published: 2006-06-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780794409210

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Searching his backpack for a surprise for his mom, a boy discovers a variety of gross, nasty stuff.


Lin's Backpack

Lin's Backpack

Author: Helen Lester

Publisher: Good Year Books

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13: 9780673361943

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Find out what is in a little boy's backpack.