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"You can build your girl's self-confidence and set her on a path to believing in her ability to be or do anything she wants to in the world...and it's not as hard as you think. Author Danielle Fuligni McKay draws on her vast experience leading groups that teach girls self confidence and her own personal story as a positive parent to offer parents, mentors, teachers and coaches of adolescent and teenage girls powerful methods for raising confident...

"Excellent Women" is one of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those excellent women, the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors, anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door, the novel...

Over the last 100 years, the road to success for most everyone has been divided into five predictable stages: Learning, Editing, Mastering, Harvesting, and Guiding. While none of the stages can be skipped, they can be shortened and accelerated. There are only two paths in life: average and awesome. The average path is easy because all you have to do is nothing. The awesome path is more challenging, because things like fear only bother you when you...

Eleven-year-old girl Ash McNulty struggles to keep up keep up with her fellow "Gifted and Talented" classmates, but when her plan to win the Quiz Bowl to show she is still on top backfires, she learns that there are many ways to be special.

"Tyler the tigon has a tiger for a dad and a lion for a mom, so where does he fit in? A delightful story in rhyming verse about learning to love the skin you're in."

"Little Echo lives alone in a cave until, one day, a chance encounter encourages her to be brave and make a new friend. A gentle story about finding your own voice. Have you ever heard an Echo? They live in lakes and tunnels and caves. But have you ever seen an Echo? Little Echo lives alone in a cave. Shy, she hides away, echoing the noises around her. But Little Echo isn't just shy -- she's lonely. And when Max comes to the cave one day, in search...

Illustrations and easy-to-read text remind the reader that no matter what happens or how one feels, he or she matters.

Thirteen-year-old Rain, who struggles with low self-esteem, must overcome sadness after her older brother Xander is severely beaten up at a frat party, but through the help of an after-school circle group, Rain finds the courage to help herself and her family heal.

This book is full of tips, from clever comebacks to the best ways to ignore someone who bullies.

Lena Eug has hijacked the exhibition match to plunge the kingdom into chaos, steal the Holy Sword, and unleash the power of the Demon Lords upon the world! With Alka out of commission and Lloyd left behind in Kunlun, the gang is in deep trouble--even though the match has already begun!" -- back of cover.