Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

The Piggy in the Puddle *1974

Michael Ondaatje

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

Boarding a 1950s ship and sequestered to an out-of-sight dining table with other marginalized children, an 11-year-old boy shares rollicking adventures while traveling to various world regions, learning about jazz, women and a shackled prisoner along the way. By the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient. 100,000 first printing.

The Cat's Table

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Sal Severe

Tim McCormick

Pennsylvania

With more than 200,000 copies in print, this valuable classic is an award-winning guide that is changing the face of parenting. Dr. Severe maintains that "children learn what they live . . . your children do as you do". So instead of focusing on what children do wrong, his book teaches parents what they can do right by highlighting the positive. (Parenting)

How to Behave So Your Children Will, Too!

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Hayden Herrera

Georgia

A Memoir

"A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"--

Upper Bohemia

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Connecticut

Eskimo life has adjusted to the long summer day and the long winter night, the severe cold, and the arrival and departure of wildlife. In this stunning tribute to the Arctic and its inhabitants by the celebrated author of "Julie of the Wolves", the warmth of the Inupiat Eskimo culture shines through.

Arctic Son

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Illinois

A memoir 

Ugly

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Thomas W. Phelan

Addressing the task of disciplining children ages 2 through 12 without arguing, yelling, or spanking, this program offers easy-to-follow steps to immediately manage troublesome behavior with reason, patience, and compassion. Parents and teachers learn how to encourage and respect children’s growing independence with 10 strategies for building self-esteem. Also discussed are the three most important qualities for parents or teachers to exhibit in order to foster competence in kids. Tips are included on how to prevent homework arguments, make mealtimes more enjoyable, conduct effective family meetings, and encourage children to start doing their household chores. This award-winning program discusses the importance of establishing and maintaining a home or classroom with fair and consistent discipline. This revised edition includes suggestions on how to avoid over-parenting, build children’s social skills, and apply the program within mental health agencies and classrooms. "

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Texas

Effective Discipline for Children 2-12

This revised edition of the award-winning 1-2-3 Magic program addresses the difficult task of child discipline with humor, keen insight, and proven experience. The technique offers a foolproof method of disciplining children ages two through 12 without arguing, yelling, or spanking. By means of three easy-to-follow steps, parents learn to manage troublesome behavior, encourage good behavior, and strengthen the parent-child relationship—avoiding the "Talk-Persuade-Argue-Yell-Hit" syndrome which frustrates so many parents. Ten strategies for building a child’s self-esteem and the six types of testing and manipulation a parent can expect from the child are discussed, as well as tips on how to prevent homework arguments, make mealtimes more enjoyable, conduct effective family meetings, and encourage children to start doing their household chores. New advice about kids and technology and new illustrations bring this essential parenting companion completely up-to-date.

1-2-3 Magic

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Kate Moses

Kansas

From the author of the internationally acclaimed Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath comes a funny, touching memoir of a crummy--and crumby--childhood.

Growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Kate Moses was surrounded by sugar: Twinkies in the basement freezer, honey on the fried chicken, Baby Ruth bars in her father's sock drawer. But sweetness of the more intangible variety was harder to come by. Her parents were disastrously mismatched, far too preoccupied with their mutual misery to notice its effects on their kids.

A frustrated artist, Kate's beautiful, capricious mother lived in a constant state of creative and marital emergency, enlisting Kate as her confidante--"We're the girls, we have to stick together"--and instructing her three children to refer to her in public as their babysitter. Kate's father was aloof, ambitious, and prone to blasts of withering abuse increasingly directed at the daughter who found herself standing between her embattled parents. Kate looked for comfort in the imaginary worlds of books and found refuge in the kitchen, where she taught herself to bake and entered the one realm where she was able to wield control.

Telling her own story with the same lyricism, compassion, and eye for lush detail she brings to her fiction, coupled with the candor and humor she is known for in her personal essays, Kate Moses leavens each tale of her coming-of-age in Cakewalk with a recipe from her lifetime of confectionary obsession. There is the mysteriously erotic German Chocolate Cake implicated in a birds-and-bees speech when Kate was seven, the gingerbread people her mother baked for Christmas the year Kate officially realized she was fat, the chocolate chip cookies Kate used to curry favor during a hilariously gruesome adolescence, and the brownies she baked for her idol, the legendary M.F.K. Fisher, who pronounced them "delicious."

Filled with the abundance and joy that were so lacking in Kate's youth, Cakewalk is a wise, loving tribute to life in all its sweetness as well as its bitterness and, ultimately, a recipe for forgiveness.

Cakewalk

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Jennifer Lauck

New York

A Childhood Lost and Found

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child's will to survive takes flight....

Blackbird

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Megan McDonald

Arizona

Third grader Judy Moody is in a first day of school bad mood until she gets an assignment to create a collage all about herself and begins creating her masterpiece, the Me collage.

Judy Moody

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bestselling story of a boy's journey through time and culture

Barrio Boy 

Kenneth Wooden

Light shelf wear on the jacket confined to the edges. Subtle. Pages in great shape. Low mileage. Crisp and clean. No dog ears or scribbles. Please see photos for reference.

Ohio

The Plight of Incarcerated Children

"Where are America's children tonight? Over 50,000 of them between the ages of five and sixteen are locked away in prisons though they are innocent of any crime. These prisons are called detention centers, reform schools, and training schools-but there are no euphemisms for their brutality and their cruelty. They constitute a child-care system that perpetuates such conditions as: the Florida facility which punishes by subjecting them to mock burials, a Southern school for disturbed children which regularly employs bull whips and leg irons to restrain its charges, a Texas facility that finds an electric "bull shocker" an effective disciplinary measure, a psychotic child in an Arizona detention center who escaped solitary confinement the only way he knew: he killed himself by violently flipping his body over a bar and breaking his neck. These are not isolated instances; they indicate a shocking pattern of child abuse and experimentation that has become a virtual business in this country. This gripping expose reveals for the first time on a national scale the grim truth of our juvenile jails and constitutes an indictment of an exploitive system maintained at staggering public expense and immeasurable human cost. It exposes the "politics" of incarcerating young children to perpetuate the penal-institution industry, the politics of jobs, of corruption, of professional power and greed, and, most damning, the politics of misinforming the public while innocent children are destroyed generation after generation" -- Dust jacket.

Weeping in the Playtime of Others

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Pretty good condition 😉 see all pics. #paperback #madeintomovie #memoir #bestseller #nonfiction #childhood #twisted #funny #teenageyears #comingofage

Missouri

The author describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers.

Running with Scissors

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Susanna Kaysen

Massachusetts

Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider. By the best-selling author of Girl, Interrupted. 35,000 first printing.

Cambridge

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Richard Edwards

Retired school library book. Previous owner’s information has been blackened out on the inside of the front and back cover. Interior pages are in like new condition. Book has a jacket!

North Carolina

Matt and his stuffed dog Watt were always together, but as Matt grew older, Watt was left behind by a river bank and finally found by a little girl.

You're Safe Now, Waterdog

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Structurally this book is in good condition. There are a few worn areas. A partial red stamp on the inside cover and the first page before the title page has been torn out. Please see pictures.

The debut of an astonishing new literary talent, Rain proves that its author, Kirsty Gunn, is already a master of her craft. Written in luminous prose and embroidered with sensuous imagery, Rain is an unforgettable novel.

Twelve-year-old Janey and her younger brother, Jim spend summers at a lake with their parents. Ignored for long stretches and then called upon suddenly to mix drinks or receive drunken kisses, the children huddle together in tender, compulsive closeness. Nourished only by their devotion to one another, the two fill their neglected hours exploring the lush, dangerous landscape and protecting each other from the unpredictable moods of the dark adult world that surrounds them.

A haunting, beautifully rendered story that explores the hidden dangers of childhood, Rain has established Kirsty Gunn as one of the most promising and original writers of her generation.

Rain

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Yellowed from age and some blemishes from misuse before I rescued it! See all pics, still in great reading condition. #paperback #funny #kids #childrens #secrets #childhood #school #family #relationships #fiction

The Many Troubles of Andy Russell 

Reflections of Childhood

Designed for maximum eye appeal and strong impulse sales, Cherish Moments feature today's most popular themes. Blended with full-color Victorian images from museums and private collections around the world and gift boxed, they bring to mind the quiet pleasures of life and special moments with friends.

Once upon a Memory

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Kay Winters

Poems about School

This energetic collection of twenty-four poems brings the excitement of a child's first few years at school to life. From opening a box of squeaky new crayons and swinging way up high on the playground swings to getting caught passing a note and bidding farewell to a beloved class pet, the highlights and the lowlights of classroom life are captured here.

"The rhymes and sounds and wordplay are part of the fun."
-Booklist

Did You See What I Saw?

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Previously owned. Inside jacket has a torn corner. 

Diego

Katie Hafner

Nebraska

The complex, deeply binding relationship between mothers and daughters is brought vividly to life in Katie Hafner's remarkable memoir, an exploration of the year she and her mother, Helen, spent working through, and triumphing over, a lifetime of unresolved emotions.
Dreaming of a "year in Provence" with her mother, Katie urges Helen to move to San Francisco to live with her and Zoe, Katie's teenage daughter. Katie and Zoe had become a mother-daughter team, strong enough, Katie thought, to absorb the arrival of a seventy-seven-year-old woman set in her ways.
Filled with fairy-tale hope that she and her mother would become friends, and that Helen would grow close to her exceptional granddaughter, Katie embarked on an experiment in intergenerational living that she would soon discover was filled with land mines: memories of her parents' painful divorce, of her mother's drinking, of dislocating moves back and forth across the country, and of Katie's own widowhood and bumpy recovery. Helen, for her part, was also holding difficult issues at bay.
How these three women from such different generations learn to navigate their challenging, turbulent, and ultimately healing journey together makes for riveting reading. By turns heartbreaking and funny--and always insightful--Katie Hafner's brave and loving book answers questions about the universal truths of family that are central to the lives of so many.
Praise for "Mother Daughter Me"
"The most raw, honest and engaging memoir I've read in a long time."--KJ Dell'Antonia, "The New York Times"
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"A brilliant, funny, poignant, and wrenching story of three generations under one roof, unlike anything I have ever read."--Abraham Verghese, author of "Cutting for Stone"
"Weaving past with present, anecdote with analysis, Katie] Hafner's riveting account of multigenerational living and mother-daughter frictions, of love and forgiveness, is devoid of self-pity and unafraid of self-blame. . . . Hafner is] a bright--and appealing--heroine."--Cathi Hanauer, "Elle"
" A] frank and searching account . . . Currents of grief, guilt, longing and forgiveness flow through the compelling narrative.""--"Steven Winn, "San Francisco Chronicle"
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"A touching saga that shines . . . We see how years-old unresolved emotions manifest.""--"Lindsay Deutsch," USA Today"
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" Hafner's] memoir shines a light on nurturing deficits repeated through generations and will lead many readers to relive their own struggles with forgiveness."--Erica Jong, "People"
"An unusually graceful story, one that balances honesty and tact . . . Hafner narrates the events so adeptly that they feel enlightening."--"Harper's"
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"Heartbreakingly honest, yet not without hope and flashes of wry humor."--"Kirkus Reviews"
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" An] emotionally raw memoir examining the delicate, inevitable shift from dependence to independence and back again."--"O: The Oprah Magazine "(Ten Titles to Pick Up Now)
"Scrap any romantic ideas about what goes on when a 40-something woman invites her mother to live with her and her teenage daughter for a year. As Hafner hilariously and touchingly tells it, being the center of a family sandwich is, well, complicated."--"Parade"

Mother - Daughter - Me

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Don't miss Little Altars Everywhere, the New York Times bestselling companion novel that introduces the Ya-Yas and is also a basis for the film.

Little Altars Everywhere

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The Day of Ahmed's Secret

As young Ahmed delivers butane gas to customers all over the city of Cairo, he thinks, I have a secret. All day long, as he maneuvers his donkey cart through streets crowded with cars and camels, down alleys filled with merchants' stalls, and past buildings a thousand years old, Ahmed keeps his secret safe inside. It is so special, so wonderful, that he can reveal it only to his family, only when he returns home, only at the end of the day.

Day of Ahmed's Secret

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Abigail Lawrence

The Abuse the Rebellion the Survival despite all Odds

This is the story of Abbie's struggle to survive, the grim details of child abuse of the worst kind all told from the perspective of a little girl. As a teenager Abbie is uncontrollable. A Modette during the 80's revival, she finds a love of scooters, rebellion and gang life on the wild side. Dulling her pain with alcohol, drugs and promiscuity at a very young age she loses control and becomes well known to the local police. Her family eventually disowns her realizing they are unable to help. Abbie finds herself in the care of the Court until she is abandoned by children's homes and Social Services too. Alone, penniless and pregnant at the age of 16, she is haunted by the secrets of her unspeakable past. Will anyone ever see her invisible tears?

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