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2) Caring
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Describes caring as a virtue and suggests ways in which caring can be shown, such as recycling, donating to charity, helping others, and listening.
4) Fairness
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A good sense of fairness can go a long way toward building friendships and making a good reputation for yourself. Readers of this book will develop word recognition and reading skills while discovering why it is important to be as fair as possible to others. They will also explore examples of fairness at home and at school. Sidebars help readers draw connections to the text by encouraging them to reflect upon times when they were treated unfairly....
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Trust plays an important role in bonding people together. Readers will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning what being trustworthy entails and exploring how they can earn the trust of their friends and family members. They will also draw connections to the text as they consider what would happen if they or others were not trustworthy. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students...
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
8) Respect
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Describes respect as a virtue and suggests ways in which children can recognize and practice being respectful.
9) Citizenship
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The What I Value series demonstrates the impact that positive values have on individuals, families, and communities. Every title in the K–2 Lightbox program is designed to inspire beginning readers to become independent readers. The titles promote literacy and fluency through a focus on key concepts and sight words. All sight and content words used in a title are listed for quick reference on page 24.
10) Sportsmanship
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Explains the virtue of sportsmanship and describes ways to practice sportsmanship at home, with friends, at school, and on the playing field.
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Experts have documented an explosive rise in the number of hate groups since the turn of the century, driven by anger over immigration and demographic projections showing that whites will no longer hold majority status in the United States by 2040. The rise accelerated with the elections of presidents Obama and Trump. Extremists are increasingly diffuse, moving to the web and away from organized, on-the-ground activities. What is a hate group and...
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Bullies made Andrew's whole seventh-grade year a nightmare. Bullies forced Jaevon to change schools and get into fights. Emily's "friends" picked at her until she was a carcass.
From all kids of backgrounds, kids and grownups talk openly about their experiences of being bullied. Their honest, moving stories will resonate with the many children who have undergone bullying of all kinds - emotional and physical - and who have tried to deal with it alone...
14) Loyalty
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Loyalty. Be faithful to a cause, ideal, or institution. Support for friends and family. The 21st Century Jr. Library Character Education books help kids learn how to make the choices that will help them be people of good character.
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"Although shyness is a very common trait and almost everyone experiences it at some level, it's often misunderstood. That's because few of us ask about the frustration, anxiety, pain, and triumphs in the life of a shy person. These experiences remain hidden, and shy people may feel that nobody wants to know what's going on in their hearts, minds, and souls. Their silence often isolates them. In Shyness: The Ultimate Teen Guide, Bernardo J. Carducci...
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Pets may not have words, but they can communicate. Paying attention to an animal's cues-a joyful bark, a scary growl, a swishing tail-can help a child understand what the animal is "saying" and what an appropriate response might be. That's part of what this book is about. But mostly it's about showing children how to love pets gently-because pets are for loving, after all. Kids learn that teasing isn't nice, that they can choose to be kind to animals,...
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Violence in the media is a major topic of debate, and video games are often at the center of these debates. Are they too violent? Does playing a violent video game have any impact on a young person becoming violent themselves? Readers are encouraged to form their own answers to these challenging questions and to back them up with facts from the enlightening text. A detailed graphic organizer, vivid photographs, and helpful fact boxes are also included...
18) I Cry
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Young children are naturally curious about themselves. Tell Me Why I Cry offers answers to their most compelling questions about those salty tears. Age-appropriate explanations and appealing photos encourage readers to continue their quest for knowledge. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.
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Results of the 2009 Monitoring the Future survey showed 20.6 percent of high school seniors had smoked marijuana in the past month, 32.8 percent had smoked it in the past year, and 42 percent had smoked it in their lifetime. Teens learn here that marijuana use can have serious consequences, including loss of short-term memory and negative effects on mental development. Besides describing the effects of marijuana, this volume also provides information...
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According to a UN tally, more than 1 million people fled violence and persecution in 2015. Of these, more than half were children. Thousands died along the way. The Syrian civil war as well as armed conflicts in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, and the Central African Republic contributed to the continuing exodus of people into Europe and North America. Learn more about these modern mass exoduses, what is fueling them in the 21st century, how...
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