CARUSI MEDIA CENTER –

PARENTS’ BOOKSHELF

The books in our Parents’ Bookshelf have been purchased with funds that were generously donated by the Carusi PTA. An asterisk (*) next to a title on the list indicates that it is a new acquisition. Carusi parents and guardians may borrow the books for a two-week period.

The 7 Worst Things (Good) Parents Do

The 10 Greatest Gifts I Give My Children*

100 Books for Girls to Grow On

101 Educational Conversations with Your Sixth Grader

101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Love Her Body*

And Words Can Hurt Forever: How to Protect Adolescents from Bullying, Harassment, and Emotional Violence*

Be Home Soon! A Guide for Parents of Latch-Key Children

Before It’s Too Late: Why Some Kids Get Into Trouble and What Parents Can Do About It*

Between Parent and Teenager

Boys Into Men: Raising Our African-American Teenage Sons

But i Love Him: Protecting Your Teen Daughter from Controlling, Abusive Dating Relationships*

Childhood Speech, Language, & Listening Problems*

Cliques: 8 Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle*

Choices & Consequences: What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol and Drugs

Come Home to Your Children: Families Survive and Thrive on One Income

Designer Kids: Consumerism and Competition—When Is it All Too Much

The Good Enough Child: How to Have an Imperfect Family and Feel Perfectly Satisfied*

Good Friends are Hard to Find: Help Your Child Find, Make, and Keep Friends, and Also Deal with Teasing,

                        Bullying, Meanness, and Stormy Relationships

Good Music, Brighter Children

Grandparents as Parents

Guiding Your Child Through Grief

Helping Your Child Succeed After Divorce

Helping Your Depressed Teenager

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, & Listen So Kids Will Talk

The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast, Too Soon

Is Your Child Hyperactive?

It Takes a Parent to Raise a Child: 9 Principles for Families

Keeping Kids Reading: Raising Avid Readers in a Video Age

Keys to Raising a Drug-Free Child

Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace

Kids Who Succeed

Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them

Making Sense of Adoption*

Managing the Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted

Middle School Years: Achieving the Best Education for Your Child, Grades 5-8

The Moral Intelligence of Children: Raising a Moral Child

National PTA Talks to Parents: How to Get the Best Education for Your Child

Negotiating the Special Ed Maze

No Time for Good-byes: Coping with Sorrow, Anger, and Injustice After a Tragic Death

Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Search for Self

The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children*

The Over-Scheduled Child*

Parent Power! Parenting in the 90’s and Beyond

Parents Under Siege: Why You are the Solution and Not the Problem in Your Child’s Life*

A Parents’ Guide to Letting Go

Perfectionism: What’s Bad About Being Too Good?

Peterson’s Guide to Colleges for Learning Disabled Students

Raising Adopted Children*

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

Raising Children to Achieve

Raising Drug-Free Kids in a Drug-Filled World

Raising Black Children

Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parents’ Guide

Raising Nuestros Ninos: Bringing Up Latino Children in a Bicultural World*

Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World

The Report Card Trap

Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Ritalin Nation

The Sacrificial Mother: Escaping the Trap of Self-Denial

Second Time Around: Grandparents Raise Children’s Kids

See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on How 1000 Girls Became Successful Women

Siblings Without Rivalry

The Single Father: A Dad’s Guide to Parenting Without a Partner

The Single Mother’s Book: A Practical Guide to Managing Your Children, Career, Home, Finances, and

                            Everything Else

Step-by-Step-Parenting

Stick Up for Yourself: Every Kid’s Guide to Personal Power and Self-Esteem

Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence

Street-Smart Parenting

The Survival Guide for Kids with LD (with read-along cassette tape)

Teaching Your Children Values

Teens in Turmoil: A Path to Change for Parents, Adolescents*

Thinking, Feeling, Behaving

Understanding Teenage Depression*

What Stories Does My Son Need?: A Guide to Books and Movies That Build Character in Boys

Why Your Child is Hyperactive

Your Child’s Growing Mind

Your Hyperactive Child

VIDEOS: Building Self-Confidence, Drug-Free Kids, Teen-Parent Conflict

AUDIO CASSETTE: Drug-Proofing Your Child