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Mindfulness and me / by Watts, Rhianna,Dr.,author.(CARDINAL)890849; Woolley, Katie,author.(CARDINAL)630005; Jennings, Sarah,illustrator.(CARDINAL)631029;

"We are full of thoughts, sensations, and emotions. By turning into our bodies and our minds, mindfulness can help us find ways to learn more about ourselves and what makes us special. Mindful Spaces guides children through exercises and activities that help them slow down and pay attention to their minds, their bodies, their feelings, and their emotions." --870L

Subjects: Mindfulness (Psychology); Identity (Psychology); Self-perception;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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The star whale / by Davies, Nicola,1958-author.(CARDINAL)272508; Horáček, Petr,illustrator.(CARDINAL)318882;

Last Night I Visited a Lion -- Once -- The Star Whale -- The Five-Legged Dog and the Three Legged Cat -- Mama Tree -- Inside the Wolf -- The Queen of the Fishes -- Moose Moon -- Moth Alphabet Tongue-Twister -- On the Bat's Back -- Morning Raven -- Song of the Melted Tiger -- Kingfisher -- Seal for Dinner -- Titanosaurus -- Minding Their Own Business -- Southern Ocean -- I Love a Garden -- The Names of a Butterfly -- The Earth is Dancing -- Conversation with a Honeyguide -- Way Back in the Old Cretaceous -- The Ostrich and the Kiwi -- Bumblebee -- A Night Out in Tasmania -- Mandrill In the Mirror -- Toucan In the Square -- Look, Dragonfly -- Walking the Hippo -- My Granny has a Blackbird on her Shoulder -- Turkey -- The Zebras' Dream -- Hedgehog -- Spider and Wind -- The Witch's Cat -- Maybe There's A Planet -- Wild Night -- The Old Apple Tree -- Carry Me Over the Sea -- Goldfinch.Two superlative talents combine in a feast of verbal and visual imagery: forty brilliant poems celebrating the living world with love and laughter. Always inventive, with surprises and fresh perceptions on every page, these poems and pictures will captivate young readers. The range is astonishing, from the cosmic qualities of the Star Whale to the tiny but intense identities of a butterfly or a moth. The boundaries of time and space retreat in poems like 'Way back in the Old Cretaceous'. Raw realities are faced in the "tazzies" feast and fighting in 'A Night out in Tasmania'. There is magical vision in 'The Song of the Melting Tiger' and rude hilarity in 'Walking the Hippo'. From the Titanosaurus to the bat, the butterfly and the moth, trees and bees, toucans and turkeys, the tone move effortlessly from comic to lyrical or reflective.

Subjects: Nature poetry.; Animals; Nature; Children's poetry, English.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3

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The silenced child : from labels, medications, and quick-fix solutions to listening, growth, and lifelong resilience / by Gold, Claudia M.,author.(CARDINAL)396556;

"Are children and adolescents being silenced and their growth stunted in the age of quick diagnoses and overmedication? In The Silenced Child, Dr. Claudia Gold shows the tremendous power of listening in parent/child and doctor/patient relationships. Through vivid stories, perceptive insights, and new research, she shows the way children grow from these relationships and how being heard actually changes their brains. She helps both parents and caregivers make the time and space for listening. Praise for Keeping Your Child in Mind: "A very useful, thoughtful book. It lays out the best thinking of our time to help parents make decisions about nurturing their child's development." -T. Berry Brazelton, MD, professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus Harvard Medical School"--Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Listening.; Parent and child.; Child psychology.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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Wayfinding : the science and mystery of how humans navigate the world / by O'Connor, M. R.,1982-author.(CARDINAL)802813;

Includes bibliographical references and index.The last roadless place -- Memoryscapes -- Why children are amnesiacs -- Birds, bees, wolves and whales -- Navigation made us human -- A storytelling computer -- Supernomads -- Dreamtime cartography -- Space and time in the brain -- Among the lightning people -- You say left, I say north -- Empiricism at Harvard -- Astronauts of Oceania -- Navigating climate change -- This is your brain on GPS -- Lost Tesla -- Epilogue: our genius is topophilia."At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision--especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when anyone can use a GPS to navigate. O'Connor explores the neurological basis of spatial orientation within the hippocampus. Without it, people inhabit a dream state, becoming amnesiacs incapable of finding their way, recalling the past, or imagining the future. Studies have shown that the more we exercise our cognitive mapping skills, the greater the grey matter and health of our hippocampus. O'Connor talks to scientists studying how atrophy in the hippocampus is associated with afflictions such as impaired memory, dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, depression and PTSD. Wayfinding is a captivating book that charts how our species' profound capacity for exploration, memory and storytelling results in topophilia, the love of place"--

Subjects: Orientation (Physiology); Space perception.;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 10

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Just looking : essays on art / by Updike, John,author.(CARDINAL)138921; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,publisher.(CARDINAL)133459; Random House (Firm),distributor.(CARDINAL)152590;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-204) and index.

Subjects: Art; Artists; Communication in art.; Visual perception.;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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Blokus [board game] the strategy game for the whole family. by Tavitian, B.(Bernard); Mattel, Inc.(CARDINAL)747548;

"Blokus is a strategy board game that challenges spatial thinking, encourages creative thinking and has received a Mensa award for promoting healthy brain activity. The goal of this game is for players to fit all of their pieces onto the board. When placing a piece it may not lie adjacent to the player's other pieces, but must be placed touching at least one corner of their pieces already on the board. The player who gets rid of all of their tiles first is the winner and strategic thinking helps as you block moves from your opponent. Blokus sometimes comes to an end because there are no more possible moves. Four players make this abstract game especially fast and exciting; however, it can be just as fun for two or three players. Blokus has come up with a number of different ways to play the game to make it more thrilling when playing with less than four players. Draft Blokus allows a player to use more than one color and Reverse Blokus reverses the entire game so that the person who places the least amount of tiles on the board is the winner. It can even be played in a solitaire version when one player attempts to place all of their pieces in a single sitting. A game of Blokus typically lasts a 30 minutes. As a practical feature, raised edges on the board help keep the tiles in place and allow convenient clean-up. This game includes 84 pieces in four vibrant colors, an instruction guide, and one gameboard with 400 squares. Blokus is simple to understand, but the game's complexity is revealed shortly after everyone begins to play. It can be addictive, even for those not normally into abstract games. Blokus is a catalyst for spatial thinking, as players form images in their mind before placing the pieces on the board."Players attempt to cover as much of the board with their pieces as possible, blockading opponents while expanding their territory.Ages 5 +

Subjects: Puzzles and games.; Board games.; Educational games.; Games of strategy (Mathematics); Indoor games.; Matching games.; Space perception; Visual perception;

Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1

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The speed of falling objects / by Fischer, Nancy Richardson,author.(CARDINAL)601101;

An exceptional new novel about falling down, risking everything and embracing what makes us unique. Danger "Danny" Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement and space. Now Danny keeps her head down, studies hard, and works to fulfill everyone else's needs. She's certain that her mom's bitterness and her TV star father's absence are her fault. If only she were more--more athletic, charismatic, attractive--life would be perfect. When her dad calls with an offer to join him to film the next episode of his popular survivalist show, Danny jumps at the chance to prove she's not the disappointment he left behind. Being on set with the hottest teen movie idol of the moment, Gus Price, should be the cherry on top. But when their small plane crashes in the Amazon, and a terrible secret is revealed, Danny must face the truth about the parent she worships and falling for Gus, and find her own inner strength and worth to light the way home.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Survival fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Fathers and daughters; Teenagers with visual disabilities; Children of divorced parents; Self-esteem in adolescence; Reality television programs; Rain forests;

Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 9

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Growing up online [videorecording] / by Goodman, Rachel Dretzin,director,producer,screenwriter.; Lyman, Will,1948-narrator.; Maggio, John,director,producer.; Ark Media (Firm)producer.; PBS Home Video,distributor.(CARDINAL)218235; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)publisher.(CARDINAL)189964; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)(CARDINAL)154259; WGBH Educational Foundation,pulisher.(CARDINAL)132712;

Introduction -- Living their lives essentially online -- Revolution in classrooms and social life -- Self expression, trying on new identities -- Child predator fear -- Private worlds outside parents' reach? -- Cyberbullying -- Updates -- Credits.Camera, Tom Hurwitz ; editor, R.A. Fedde ; original music, Frank Ferrucci ; researchers, Bartholt Clagett, Sheherzad Kaleem.Narrator, Will Lyman; commentators, Anne Collier, C.J. Pascoe, Anne and Chris Bukata, Darren Groh, Mike Lasusa, Steve Maher, Rose Porpora, Rob Hunter, Evan Skinner, Greg Abbot, Bill Tsigaris, Parry Aftab, John and Kelly Halligan.Originally broadcast by PBS as an episode of the television series Frontline on January 22, 2008.FRONTLINE examines the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood. Not so long ago, the digital world was the province of adults, business, and the world of work. Today, there is a very definite teen cyberculture, developed by kids who are growing up online. This digital world provides a private space, where kids communicate with their friends, do schoolwork, and also face the dangers posed by predators and cyberbullies. The Internet is forging a society with fundamentally different properties, leaving parents grapple with the question of how to manage kids interactions with a world where the partition between public and private has effectively disappeared.Not rated (may not be suitable for young children; viewer discretion is advised).System requirements for access to DVD-ROM feature: computer with DVD-ROM drive; Adobe Reader or equivalent.

Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Digital media; Identity (Psychology) in adolescence.; Internet and teenagers.; Internet; Internet; Mass media and children.; Mass media and technology; Online social networks.; Self-perception in adolescence.; Social media.; Teenagers; Teenagers;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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How many mice make an elephant? : and other big questions about size and distance / by Turner, Tracey,author.(CARDINAL)424101; Poskitt, Kjartan,author.(CARDINAL)746067; Cushley, Aaron,illustrator.(CARDINAL)803413;

Say hello to big numbers -- How many. Mice make an elephant? ; Flights of stairs to the top of Mount Everest? ; Swimming pools in the ocean? ; Giraffes make the tallest skyscraper? ; Sandboxes in the Sahara Desert? ; High jumps to the moon? ; Kangaroo hops to cross Australia? ; Ice cubes make an iceberg? ; Christmas trees make a Coast Redwood? ; Planet Earths fit inside the Sun? ; Soccer balls fill the world's biggest stadium? ; Microraptors make a titanosaur? ; Central Parks make the Amazon Rain Forest? ; Astronauts fit inside the International Space Station? ; Goldfish make a blue whale? ; Soccer fields to cover planet Earth? -- Jetpack journeys -- Measuring in metric."How Many Mice Make an Elephant? And Other Big Questions about Size and Distance introduces children to a world of fascinating information by comparing sizes and distances in an easily relatable way. A wide range of subjects are covered, including animals, the human body, engineering, Earth, and space, to explore the answers to questions such as "How many ice cubes make an iceberg?", "How many high jumps to the Moon?" and "How many planet Earths fit inside the Sun?" The math and logic behind each comparison is explained clearly and simply."--Amazon.com.

Subjects: Instructional and educational works.; Picture books.; Measurement; Size judgment; Size perception; Distances; Mathematics;

Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13

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Water on fire : a memoir of war / by El-Ariss, Tarek,author.(CARDINAL)888276;

West End boy -- The beachcombers -- Sediments -- A boiling cauldron -- The French submarine -- Mina, Mina -- My Syrian mother -- The fish tank -- Hotel Ivoire -- Thugs -- An eerie canal -- On 9/11."In this evocative, insightful memoir, a leading voice in Middle Eastern Studies revisits his childhood in war-torn Lebanon and his family's fascinating history, coming to terms with trauma and sexuality. Water on Fire tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated by the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90), continues with experiences of displacement in Europe and Africa, moves to northeastern American towns battered by lake-effect snow and economic woes, and ends in New York City on 9/11. A story of loss, but also of evolution, it models a kind of resilience inflected with humor, daring, and irreverence. Alternating between his perspective as a child and as an adult, Tarek El-Ariss explores how we live with trauma, poignantly illustrating the profound impact of war on our perception of the world, our fears and desires. His memoir is at once historical and universal, intellectual and introspective, the outcome of a long and painful process of excavation that reveals internal turmoil and the predicament of conflict and separation. A contemporary "interpretation of dreams" dealing with monsters, invisible creatures, skin outbreaks, and the sea, it is a book about objects and elements, like water and fire, and about how encountering these elements triggers associations, connecting present and past, time and space"--

Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; El-Ariss, Tarek.; Lebanese Americans; Middle East specialists;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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