"Who are you? How do the identities you hold-like your racial or gender identity-impact you every day? How do they impact others? These big and important questions are key to understanding ourselves. Part of being your true self means learning about group identities and how they affect our experience of the world. With kid-friendly explanations of key ideas and relevant scenarios, this text will help young kids explore their identities and how it...

Explains the process of recognizing and accepting a child's feelings to improve his or her emotional resilience. Offers parents skills they can use to validate and empower children in order to reduce behavioral problems, instill confidence, and increase a child's ability to regulate their own emotions.

"After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel prize-winning author completes his haunting trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. In Estrella, David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old who is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Simón and Bolívar the dog usually watch while his mother Inés now works in a fashion boutique. David still asks many questions, challenging...

"Am I really Polish? On a trip to visit relatives in Poland, a young girl feels disconnected from her identity ... until she and her cousin bond over their shared love of mermaids, magic and fairy tales"--

"Magic has a dark side . . . Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shapeshifting. This year, he's especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament-as a witch. He's determined to show everyone that he's proud of who he is and what he's learned, but he knows it won't be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker things on her mind than the Festival-like...