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Channel Kindness - Stories of Kindness and Community by Lady Gaga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues | Reading Level: near fine
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
The Book of Angst - Understand and Manage Anxiety by Gwendoline Smith (Dr Know)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Teenage Issues | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of international bestsellers The Book of Knowing and The Book of Overthinking. There's a lot of angst around these days. This heightened sense of fear, concern, insecurity and uncertainty can be overwhelming. Bestselling author of The Book of Overthinking and The Book of Knowing Gwen ...Show more
Lead the Way: How to Change the World, from the Frontline of the Schoolstrikes by Jean Hinchcliffe
$27.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues
Lead the Way is your ultimate guide to activism and making systematic change, your way. Jean Hinchliffe is one of the key organisers of School Strikes 4 Climate, and in this book she shares her tools, stories and learnings from the movement with you. From identifying your cause to finding allies, planni ...Show more
Not All Heroes Wear Capes by Ben Brooks
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues
What do you think of when you hear the word 'hero'? Is it the wall-climbing, cape-wearing, villain-fighter you see in comics and films? Heroes can actually come in all forms, shapes and sizes. Some cook for the hungry. Some nurse the poorly back to health. Others raise money for important causes. From ...Show more
Let It Go: Emotions Are Energy In Motion (Aroha #2) by Craig Phillips, Rebekah Lipp
$20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Let It Go encourages children to explore what emotions feel like in their body and finda unique way to release them. Join Aroha and her friends as they navigate their waythrough four emotions: sadness, anger, shame and fear. The Latin derivative for the word emotion, ‘emotere,' literally means energy ...Show more
Respect: Consent, Boundaries and Being in Charge of YOU by Rachel Brian
$20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
From the co-creator of the viral 'Tea Consent' video, this is the perfect introduction to consent for kids and families everywhere. Your body belongs to you and you get to set your own rules, so that you may have boundaries for different people and sometimes they might change. Like when you hi-five you ...Show more
Aroha's Way: A Children's Guide Through Emotions (Aroha #1) by Craig Phillips, Rebekah Lipp
$20.00 NZD
Category: Early Experiences & Issues
Come along on a journey with Aroha, as she wards off nervousness, fear, worrying thoughts and apprehension with simple yet effective tools that everyone can use.
Stuff That Sucks: Accepting What You Can't Change and Committing to What You Can by Ben Sedley
$28.00 NZD
Category: Parenting & Teaching
Each of us has thoughts that are painful at times; sometimes the pain is sadness, sometimes worry or anger or shame or grief or some feeling that you don't even have words for. If you are a young person struggling with your emotions, you do not want to be told that 'everyone feels like that' or that 'y ...Show more
What's Happening to Me? by Peter Mayle
$20.00 NZD
Category: Sex Education
For more than twenty years, What's Happening to Me? has helped parents explain puberty to their children who are experiencing "growing pains". More than one million children and young adults have enjoyed the humor and honesty in this book, while learning what really happens to their bodies as they matu ...Show more
We Can Deal With Bullying by Gina Dawson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues
Bullying is serious and potentially has a lasting impact. Young people may feel afraid or ashamed and may even believe they are in some way responsible or helpless to stop it. "We Can Deal with Bullying!" debunks these beliefs. The gentle, conversational and supportive text encourages young people to as ...Show more
Puberty Boy by Geoff Price
$33.00 NZD
Category: Teenage Issues
'Clear, wise and kind - a major achievement. Treats puberty with a whole person viewpoint' - Steve Biddulph, author of Raising BoysHave you ever noticed, now that you're growing up, that your parents want to sit you down and have these embarrassing kinds of conversations with you about sex? Or they leav ...Show more
What's Happening to Me? For Girls (Usborne) by Sue Meredith
$20.00 NZD
Category: Sex Education | Series: Facts of Life | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 3-4, Age 8-9
A sensitive, detailed and informative guide to female puberty, this title will prove invaluable for both young girls and their parents alike, tackling key subjects from the physical changes that occur at this time to practical matters such as buying your first bra.