![]() ![]() ![]() Three Cups of Tea (Young Readers Edition) by Greg Mortenson, Sarah Thomson (Adapted by), and David Oliver Reline is an inspirational tale about how kindness from strangers can transform lives. ![]() ![]() Can your child jump from the text about numbers to the more abstract moral it espouses? Her other books are just as wonderful! One by Kathryn Otoshi: Wonderfully simple story about the importance of each of us.Help your child relate to this child, either by direct experience, or by identifying times he has felt ostracized or left out. Painted Words/Spoken Memories by Aliki: This story is about being new at school without knowing English and needing to adjust to a different world.Use this as a springboard to talk about your child’s worries, fears, and insecurities, as well as to talk about ways to be empathetic to others. Your child will relate to these heightened “disasters” (e.g., eating the worm in an apple, death of a pet, stage fright, first day of school, camp, blowing a key play in a game, etc.). Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disaster Poems by Lee Bennett Hopkins.Along the way, your child will also discover simple beauty in ordinary, imperfect things. Wabi Sabi by Mark Reibstein: Using text, haiku and illustrations made of collage, a small cat comes to understand the meaning of her name.There's a book for every emotion your preteen is going through: ![]()
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