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