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Yes I Can!: A Girl and Her Wheelchair

First-grader Carolyn is in a wheelchair, but she doesn't let that stop her! She can do almost everything the other kids can, even if sometimes she has to do it a little differently. Includes a Note to Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers with more information on discussing disabilities with children and helping them to build positive, empathic relationships.

You Are Your Strong

Soothing and empowering, You Are Your Strong reassures kids that they can handle big emotions and highlights the benefit of developing inner strength and confidence in oneself. With diverse characters and scenes featuring a range of different family relationshipsCfrom parents to grandparents to an older sister in the militaryCthis book shows kids that they will have help along the way to being strong and in control. Included is a Note to Parents and Caregivers by Julia Martin Burch, PhD, with advice for building skills to navigate and cope with big emotions.

You Can't Please Everyone!

Ellie feels like she is disappointing people if she says '""no."" One way or another, she thinks she is hurting someone's feelings. Or she puts other people's wants or needs in front of her own. With help from her parents and her teacher, Ellie finds the strength to be honest with people and do the right thing for herself by learning how to say ""no."" This is a hopeful, helpful story for kids who need reassurance that they can be nice to others and be true to themselves.

You'll Be There

This gentle and affirming story encourages readers to remember a loved one in small and meaningful ways through their own life experiences. Our loved ones are always with us, and we can remember them not only with past experiences, but with future ones as well. Whether it's making a snowman just like they used to, or watching the fireworks they would love, or simply being thankful for the time spent with them, they will always be there. This companion book to You'll Find Me offers gentle and positive ways to incorporate a lost loved one's presence into future life experiences. The soothing narration and soft scenes allow space for loss while encouraging a transition to remembrance and hope.

You'll Find Me

Loss becomes remembrance in this book that offers tender ways to pay tribute to, and meaningfully incorporate, a loved one's lost presence into present and future life experiences. Be it departed friends, family, pets, and more, memories can carry us beyond the precious moments we have together to keep the ones we loved before in mind forever. Throughout the book, the omnipresent narrator encourages thoughtful reflection on the empty spaces left by the loss. The gentle scenes portrayed inspire recovery from sadness and honor those who are absent. This lyrical, heartful story provides consent and gently encourages readers to move to a place of peace and acceptance despite the absence.

You're Not Alone: Understanding and Managing Depression

Depression is a mood disorder that causes long-term feelings of sadness and worthlessness that interfere with daily functioning. More than 20 percent of adolescents have experienced depression while they were teenagers. With the help of facts and quotations as well as anecdotes about teens who have experienced depression, this book aims to explain what depression is, how it affects teens, how it is diagnosed, and how it is treated.

Zam-Zam: Two Worlds

Zam-Zam divides his time between his grandparents homes in New York City (United States) and Alexandria, Egypt. While the two places are different in terms of sights, sounds, and flavors, they share much in common. But the most important thing they share is family love.

Zannimo Pak Yo (Farm Animal Friends) Bilingual  

Zero to 60: A Teen's Guide to Manage Frustration, Anger, and Everyday Irritations

High performance cars can go from zero to 60 in just a few seconds. Anger can feel a lot like that for teens. One minute they are calm, but the next, something sets them on a course to speed out of control. Getting to anger's edge too fast can get teens in trouble. Expert author Michael Tompkins offers tips and tricks to help stall anger and leave it by the side of the road. Teens will learn how to calm their body, derail thoughts that fuel anger, communicate, and de-escalate situations.

Zoo Inside Me, The

Sometimes we feel brave as a lion or shy like a mouse . . . and that zoo inside our heads can make us behave differently on the outside. Feelings can be hard to understand. You can't see it, but this little boy is part mischievous monkey, part curious llama, and part chameleon, hiding from the world. It feels to him like there's not enough room for all of those jumbling feelings inside, but the zoo in all of us makes us who we areÑreaching out to the world from the part you can't see. And sometimes, all it takes to make things right is friendshipÑand to realize that everyone else has a zoo inside them, too. This is a picture book that champions our emotions, feelings, and behaviors in a way that makes them feel relatable and easier to understand.