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Beeline : what spelling bees reveal about generation Z's new path to success / by Shankar, Shalini,1972-author.(CARDINAL)801495;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Kids today -- Brain sports and kid competitions -- Spelling bees -- Gen Z kids -- Parents of Gen Z kids -- Bee week -- Becoming elite -- Making spellebrities -- Professionalizing childhoods -- Conclusion: Gen Z futures.Shankar argues that, far from being simply overstressed and overscheduled, Gen Z spelling bee competitors are learning crucial twenty-first-century skills from their high-powered lives, displaying a sophisticated understanding of self-promotion, self-direction, and social mobility. She examines the outsize impact of immigrant parents and explains why Gen Z kids are on a path to success. --
Subjects: Success in children.; Generation Z.; Spelling bees; Performance in children.; Achievement motivation in children.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4
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Never enough : when achievement culture becomes toxic--and what we can do about it / by Wallace, Jennifer Breheny,author.(CARDINAL)872717;
"In Never Enough, reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and psychologists, she offers a humane view of the crisis plaguing today's teens and a practical framework for how to help."--Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-282) and index.Introduction. Running with their eyes closed -- Why are our kids "at risk"? -- Name it to tame it -- The power of mattering -- You first -- Taking the kettle off the heat -- Envy -- Greater expectations -- The ripple effect -- Resources: Taking action: at home -- Taking action: for educators -- Taking action: community efforts.
Subjects: Informational works.; Academic achievement; Achievement motivation in adolescence.; Performance in children.; Overachievement.;
Available copies: 35 / Total copies: 36
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I want to win! / by Graves, Sue,1950-author.(CARDINAL)395874; Carletti, Emanuela,illustrator.(CARDINAL)419863; Guicciardini, Desideria,illustrator.(CARDINAL)422240;
Subjects: Failure (Psychology) in children; Failure (Psychology); Performance in children; Performance; Perseverance (Ethics); Sportsmanship; Success in children; Success;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Running on Ritalin : a physician reflects on children, society, and performance in a pill / by Diller, Lawrence H.(CARDINAL)534820;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-375) and index.
Subjects: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Methylphenidate.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Running on ritalin : a physician reflects on children, society, and performance in a pill / by Diller, Lawrence H.(CARDINAL)534820;
Subjects: Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Methylphenidate.; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Reading rainbow. by Burton, LeVar,1957-actor.(local)tlcaut9654289087900; Meddaugh, Susan(DLC)n 79118910; Great Plains National (Firm)(DLC)no2003108810; Great Plains National Instructional Television Library.(DLC)n 80050336 ; Lancit Media Productions,producer.(DLC)n 84151480 ; WNED-TV (Television station : Buffalo, N.Y.)(DLC)n 84173836 ;
Feature book -- Dogs in the movies -- A dog's life -- Dog tricks -- Review books - My puppy is born / by Joanna Cole ; Earth hounds, as explained by Professor Xargle / by Jeanne Willis ; The night I followed the dog / by Nina Laden.Hosted by LeVar Burton.Presents a reading of Susan Meddaugh's Martha speaks, in which Martha, the family dog, learns to speak after eating alphabet soup. A variety of dogs also appear. Includes a segment about dogs doing tricks.Primary grades.DVD.
Subjects: Educational television programs.; Television programs for the hearing impaired.; Children's television programs.; Dogs; Children's stories.; Children; Dogs.; Dogs in the performing arts.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cora et les et-si / by Kilgore, Emily,author.(CARDINAL)856938; Persico, Zoe,1993-illustrator.(CARDINAL)618135; Marineau, Michèle,1955-translator.(CARDINAL)359876;
Cora s'inquiète pour tout et pour rien. C'est pourquoi les Et-si l'adorent. Ils s'accrochent à elle et lui soufflent à l'oreille tous les malheurs qui pourraient survenir: et si mon chien se sauvait? Et si j'oubliais me devoirs? Et si le soleil disparaissait? Et si mon crayon se brisait?
Subjects: Picture books.; Girls; Anxiety; Piano; Anxiety in children; Life change events;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Wham! it's a poetry jam : discovering performance poetry / by Holbrook, Sara.(CARDINAL)527742; Yolen, Jane.(CARDINAL)138811;
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Subjects: Poetry.; Children's poetry, American.; Oral interpretation of poetry; Performing arts in literature;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 7
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Katie and the Mustang. by Duey, Kathleen,author.(CARDINAL)434707;
Katie knows she has come too far to give up. Taken under the Kylers' wing, she stays close to the Mustang and clings to her dream of finding her uncle. Then a particularly bad river crossing leaves their guide crippled and their group diminished. Knowing that there is strength in numbers, they join forces with a traveling circus troupe, and somehow make it to Fort Laramie .800LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Orphans; Horses; Determination (Personality trait) in children; Historical fiction, American; Overland journeys to the Pacific; Circus performers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Little Leonardo's fascinating world of the arts / by Cooper, Bob,author.(CARDINAL)719018; Paprocki, Greg,illustrator.(CARDINAL)470965;
Little Leonardo's Fascinating World of the Arts is a great way to encourage kids' interests in all manner of artistic pursuits that they might aspire to. This volume introduces children to the many different types of creative fields in the arts including drawing and painting, music and dance, writing, design, architecture, and photography.Ages 4-8.AD1140L
Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519; Art appreciation; Arts and youth; Arts; Creative ability in children; Performing arts;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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