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A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, the legal system, and our understanding of the human mind. Emotions feel automatic, like uncontrollable reactions to things we think and experience. Scientists have long supported this assumption by claiming that emotions are hardwired in the body or the brain. Today, however, the science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery...
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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From the Publisher: Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"--the rational and the emotional--and how they together shape our destiny. Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence,...
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"An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives—and how to support them through this critical developmental stage—from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under Pressure. In teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today’s teens contending with academic pressure, social media stress, worries about the future, and concerns about...
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"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness...
5) Inside out
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Disney
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions ; Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life.
6) Raising a kid who can: simple strategies to build a lifetime of adaptability and emotional strength
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English
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"Three mental health professionals cut through the "parenting advice" noise with this accessible, easy-to-skim book filled with actionable strategies and tips to build a child's capacity to thrive where they are planted, in good times and bad. It’s time to parent smarter, not harder. Filled with scientifically based and eminently actionable advice and strategies, Raising a Kid Who Can boils down the ten essential things that every child needs to...
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 5
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Elephant accidentally breaks Piggie's new toy, they both experience intense feelings before coming to realize how important their friendship is.
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Kind World Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The Struggle Bus’s lyrical, rhyming text adds a comforting touch to the book, while not downplaying the reality that sometimes life is really hard. From a growth mindset perspective, the story gives the main character space to feel those hard feelings, but also to be open-minded to lots of different solutions. With a concluding reminder that we can do hard things, The Struggle Bus offers a lot: self-discovery, tips for problem-solving, and, mostly...
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Elephant and Piggie books volume 2
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Gerald the Elephant is sad, Piggie is determined cheer him up, but finds after many tries that it only takes the simplest thing to change Gerald's mood.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"For most of her life, Lauren Martin thought that she was the only one who experienced insecurity, inferiority, and self doubt that could detail her entire day. But after a chance encounter with a (beautiful, successful) stranger who revealed that she felt it, too, Lauren realized that she wasn't alone in mood swings. She set out to better understand the hold that her moods had on her, and began to blog about the wisdom she uncovered. Quickly, it...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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In engaging text, photographs, and infographics, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds showcases fascinating and heart-warming examples of animal emotion and cognition that will foster wonder and empathy. Learn about an orangutan who does “macramé,” monkeys that understand the concept of money, and rats that choose friendship over food. Even language, math, and logic are no longer exclusive to humans. Prairie dogs have their own complex vocabularies...
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Simon & Schuster Libros para Ninos
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2021.
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Español
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"La autora Sandra Boynton regresa con este nuevo libro de car̤tn sobre estados de nimo. Los animales inteligentes de Boynton ejemplifican una amplia gama de emociones en este divertido cuento sobre diferentes sentimientos. Los lectores ms pequęos se reirn cuando el texto les pregunte si estn 'grųones como un alce o eňrgicos como un perro'. Quizs esťn 'nerviosos como un conejo o contentos como una rana'?" -- Amazon.com.
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A Playful Primer to Learn about Your Feelings helps young readers recognize and respond to emotions in themselves and others. The book introduces a range of emotions such as happy, angry, sleepy, anxious, and surprised. Each emotion is featured in a spread in the book, and each spread has a variety of illustrations with cats expressing different emotions. Children will match the emotion to the illustration that most closely represents it. The book...
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"Life has a way of provoking us with traffic jams and computer malfunctions, with emotionally distant partners and crying children--and before we know it, we're upset. We feel terrible, and then we end up saying and doing things that only make matters worse. But it doesn't have to be that way, says Pema Chödrön . It is possible to relate constructively to the inevitable shocks, losses, and frustrations of life so that we can find true happiness....
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A celebration of friendship and empathy follows the experiences of two best friends, whose shared activities of reading, laughing and playing together are interrupted on a day when one of them becomes consumed by anger and the other uses the power of their bond to help.
16) Crankenstein
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Crankenstein volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A boy who looks ordinary transforms into grumbling Crankenstein when faced with a rainy day, a melting popsicle, or bedtime but everything changes when he meets a fellow Crankenstein.
17) Hurty feelings
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It looks like trouble when Fragility, a hippopotamus whose feelings are easily hurt, meets Rudy, a rude elephant, on the soccer field.
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Avery
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"The counterintuitive approach to achieving your true potential, heralded by the Harvard Business Review as a groundbreaking idea of the year. The path to fulfillment, whether at work or at home, is almost never a straight line. Ask anyone who has achieved their biggest goals or who thrives in their relationships, and you'll hear stories of many unexpected detours along the way. What separates those who rise to these challenges and those who get...
19) Sour cakes
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Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Two siblings wake up in two very different moods; the older one cheerful and lively, the younger feeling sad and irritable. The big sister negotiates and cajoles, tries everything she can think of to cheer her little sister up, but nothing works. She offers to go outside and play, but her sister refuses. She suggests they color a picture, but her little sister only likes the color gray. She proposes they bake sweet cakes, but her sister only wants...
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Bumble
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Be Mindful of Monsters is designed to help children understand and cope with powerful emotions. The book follows Ezzy, a nine-year-old whose feelings of anger, sadness and worry have grown into monsters. With a compelling story and diverse characters, the book explores the challenges and benefits of accepting uncomfortable emotions. Be Mindful of Monsters can be used in a therapy setting or at home.
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