The Good Children

The Good Children

Author: Kate Wilhelm

Publisher: St Martins Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780312179144

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After the McNairs settle for good into their new, large home in Oregon, tragedy strikes, and the family, especially the four children, learns just how far it will go into a world of lies, murder, and insanity to stay together.


All Good Children

All Good Children

Author: Catherine Austen

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 155469826X

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It's the middle of the twenty-first century and the elite children of New Middletown are lined up to receive a treatment that turns them into obedient, well-mannered citizens. Maxwell Connors, a fifteen-year-old prankster, misfit and graffiti artist, observes the changes with growing concern, especially when his younger sister, Ally, is targeted. Max and his best friend, Dallas, escape the treatment, but must pretend to be "zombies" while they watch their freedoms and hopes decay. When Max's family decides to take Dallas with them into the unknown world beyond New Middletown's borders, Max's creativity becomes an unexpected bonus rather than a liability.


I Am Every Good Thing

I Am Every Good Thing

Author: Derrick Barnes

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-09-01

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0525518770

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An upbeat, empowering, important picture book from the team that created the award-winning Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut. A perfect gift for any special occasion! I am a nonstop ball of energy. Powerful and full of light. I am a go-getter. A difference maker. A leader. The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is. He's got big plans, and no doubt he'll see them through--as he's creative, adventurous, smart, funny, and a good friend. Sometimes he falls, but he always gets back up. And other times he's afraid, because he's so often misunderstood and called what he is not. So slow down and really look and listen, when somebody tells you--and shows you--who they are. There are superheroes in our midst!


The Good Children

The Good Children

Author: Roopa Farooki

Publisher: Tinder Press

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0755383451

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'Few novels are life-changing; this one just might be' Daily Mail Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is another. In 1940s Lahore, the Punjab, two brothers and two sisters are beaten and browbeaten into 'good children'. Each has a destiny to fulfil. Sully and Jakie will be doctors, Mae and Lana dutiful wives. But Sully falls for an unsuitable girl, Jakie an unsuitable man. Mae and Lana disgrace themselves and disobey. Rebelling is easy when you're far from home. But the ties that bind them across cultures, continents and time can never be broken. And when, decades later, death draws them back, it will affect them in ways they never imagined.


Raising Good Children

Raising Good Children

Author: Thomas Lickona

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2012-05-02

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0307816516

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Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book available on this crucial subject, a valuable and sensitive guide for parents who want their children to grow up with lifelong positive values. Based on fascinating research, this groundbreaking work by psychologist and educator Dr. Thomas Lickona describes the predictable stages of moral development from birth to adulthood. And it offers you down-to-earth advice and guidance for each stage: • Seven caring ways to discipline “terrible twos” • Why your preschooler “lies” and how to handle it • What to do about a four-year-old’s back talk • How to handle your seven-year-old’s endless negotiations about what’s “fair” • Why teens have trouble with peer pressure—and how to help them • How to talk to your child about drugs, drinking, and sex • How to help children of any age reason more clearly about what’s right and wrong PLUS . . . A list of more than one hundred children’s books that teach moral values, and much more. “An excellent book on a vastly neglected aspect of raising children.”—Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson, author How to Parent, How to Father “We have been waiting for a book like this for a long time—a readable work that translates a moral development into parents’ language and experience.”—Dolores Curran, author of Traits of a Healthy Family “Truly integrates a moral development theory into a consistent approach to childrearing. . . Word-of-mouth recommendations from parent to parent may lift it to the level of popularity once held by Dr. Spock’s book on child care.”—Moral Education Forum


Good Kids, Tough Choices

Good Kids, Tough Choices

Author: Rushworth M. Kidder

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-09-27

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0470547626

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A practical analysis and inspiring guide for teaching kids "ethical fitness" Parents are beginning to realize that deficiencies in ethics and character are becoming a big problem among our nation's children. According to the latest data, lying, cheating, and rampant insensitivity to other people are increasingly common. What can parents do? In this book, ethics expert Rushworth Kidder shows how to customize interventions to a child's age and temperament. He encourages parents not to give up, since what they do can always make a difference, regardless of how long or deep the bad habits of dishonesty may be. Encourages parents to intervene early and re-establish children on the right course Explores the keys to ethical behavior: honesty, responsibility, respect, fairness, and compassion All of Kidder's practical advice is based on the latest psychological and neuroscientific research about how kids develop character and learn what's right and wrong.


The Good Child

The Good Child

Author: S. C. Karakaltsas

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9780994503299

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Everyone hates Lucille for what her son Tom, did and she can't blame them. He'll probably go to jail. She's to blame too - she ignored all of his faults - perhaps even encouraged them. She never wanted him in the first place. But that wasn't her first mistake. She'd ignored her grandmother's warning that if she married the man she loved, her life would be a disaster. She was right too.Now Lucille's on a train with no money and no home. All she's left with is a blind overprotective love for her son, but even that is now pushed to the brink as she comes to terms with her actions and those of Tom's.Quin worked for Tom and knows exactly what he's done because she helped him do it - she turned a blind eye to the corners he cut and the lies he told. Now, she's lost everything and it's her own fault. She wants revenge.Then she meets Lucille on the train and finds herself facing her past and her future.Rich in detail and epic in scope, The Good Child is a powerful novel of emotional and financial resilience, loss and unexpected friendship.


How Are You Going to Save Yourself

How Are You Going to Save Yourself

Author: JM Holmes

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 031651487X

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Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review). Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to liberate themselves from the legacies left to them as black men in America. With potent immediacy and bracing candor, this provocative debut follows a decade in the lives of Dub, Rolls, Rye, and Gio as they each grapple with the complexity of their family histories, the newfound power of sex and drugs, and the ferocity of their desires. Gio proves himself an unforgettable narrator, beautifully flawed and unstintingly honest, as he recounts both the friends' conflicts and their triumphs. Whether it's a fraught family cookout, a charged altercation on the block, a raucous night in high-society Manhattan gone wrong, or the troubled efforts of a drug hustler to go clean, JM Holmes brings the thump and the heat of his scenes to life with the kind of ease that makes us not just eavesdroppers but participants. How Are You Going to Save Yourself illuminates in breathtaking detail an entire world-one that has been underrepresented in American fiction. At times funny, often uncomfortable, occasionally disturbing, these stories fearlessly engage with issues of race, sex, drugs, class, and family. Holmes's blistering and timely new voice, richly infused with the unmistakable rhythms of hip-hop that form the sound track to his characters' lives, delivers an indelible fiction that has never been more vital and necessary.