Recommended Reads from Megan Chrusciel, Adult Services Librarian and Tamara Murray, Marketing Manager
Raising Independent, Self-Confident Kids: Nine E
ssential Skills to Teach Your Child or Teen
By Wendy Moss
Child development experts offer professional advice on how to raise kids that can self-monitor, demonstrate tolerance and patience, and overcome obstacles.
Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws
and Start Banning Snapchat: Strategies for Solving the Real Parenting Problems
By Naomi Schaefer Riley
Take back some control over the encroaching ubiquity of technology in your children’s lives with these easy-to-implement tips and tricks.
The Happiest Mommy You Know: Why Putting Your Kid
s First Is the LAST Thing You Should Do
By Genevieve Shaw Brown
An ABC News reporter makes the case that self-care is just as important as the care you provide your children to have a healthy, happy family.
Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs For Y
our Child's
By Jack A. Gilbert and Rob Knight
Leading scientists answer the most common questions on the topic of the microbiome put to them by parents worried about everything from dirt and germs, to asthma and ear infections.
Ignore It!: How Selectively Looking the Other
Way Can Decrease Behavioral Problems and Increase Parenting Satisfaction
By Catherine Pearlman
Learn how, and when, to selectively ignore your misbehaving child to avoid unintentionally enforcing unwanted behavior.
Recommended Reads from Susan Carr, Youth Services Librarian
Picture book
If Kids Ruled The World
By Linda Bailey
If kids ruled the world, cake would be health food, the sidewalks would be trampolines and everyone would be a prince or a princess. Full page, colorful, action-packed illustrations are accompanied by a lively text perfect for sharing.
Reader
Written and Drawn by Henrietta
by Liniers
Henrietta “draws” beginning readers into an exciting, almost scary world of three-headed monsters, a closet big enough to contain an adventure and a brave red-headed girl. Young artists will be inspired to draw their own adventures.
First Chapter
Bug Blonsky and His Very Long List of Don’ts
By E.S. Redmond
Bug’s series of laugh-out-loud bad choices results in a list of “don’ts,” including the dire consequences that get him into trouble. So, don’t eat your cereal while hopping on one foot, or ask your principal if she was pretty when she was young, or make armpit noises when the teacher bends over---or else!
J Fiction
The New Kid
By Karen English
Khufu, the new kid, is a mystery to Gavin and his friends; some of his stories don’t add up. Then, Gavin’s bike disappears from the school’s bike rack and the next day, Khufu comes to school with a bike that looks a lot like Gavin’s. The answers aren’t as clear cut as you’d think.
Teen Fiction
Kids Like Us
By Hilary Reyl
While his mom is directing a movie in a small French town over the summer, Proust loving Martin is attending the local school where he may be the only teen on the autism spectrum. Martin finds connections to his favorite book everywhere, but will he be able to connect to others?
Juvenile Non-Fiction
Square Foot Gardening with Kids
By Mel Bartholomew
Square foot gardening may be the easiest way to get you and your kids out and working in the dirt—and sneak in a little science and math, too. Create a grid of 1-foot squares, choose your plants and away you go—this thorough book will tell you all the hows and whys.
