Lawrence Parent Education Books and Resources
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Alcohol
TITLE
AUTHOR(S)
TARGET
AUDIENCE
ADULT
Drinking: A risky business
Laurence Pringle
Focus on Alcohol
Catherine O’Neill
I Was So Mad
How to Take the Grr Out of
Anger
What to Do When You
Grumble Too Much:
When I Feel Angry
Why Do I Have to?
Mercer Mayer
Elizabeth Verdick &
Marjorie Lisovskis
Dawn Huebner
Stress Can Really Get on
Your Nerves
What to Do When You Worry
Too Much
What to Do When You’re
Scared or Worried
When I Feel Scared
The Anxiety Workbook for
Teens
The Stress Reduction
Workbook for Teens
What You Must Think of Me:
A firsthand account of one
teenager’s experience with
social anxiety disorder
101 Strategies for Helping
Children With High Stress
Levels
Don’t Pop Your Cork on
Mondays: The children’s antistress book.
Trevor Romain &
Elizabeth Verdick
Dawn Huebner
No More Monsters in the
Closet: Teaching your child to
overcome everyday fears and
phobias
Jeffrey Brown
Bipolar Disorder
Mind Race
Patrick E. Jamieson
ADULT
Bullying and
Cliques
The Playground Bully
Bernice Chardiet &
Grace Maccarone
Trevor Romain
CHILD/
ADULT
CHILD
Anger
Anxiety & Stress
Bullies are a Pain in the Brain
CHILD
LOCATION
AT
LAWRENCE
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
Cornelia Spelman
Laurie LeventhalBelfer
CHILD
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
James J. Crist
GUIDANCE
Cornelia Spelman
Lisa Schab
GUIDANCE
TEEN
Gina Biegel
GUIDANCE
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Emily Ford
Donna Forrest
GUIDANCE
ALL
GUIDANCE
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Adolph Moser
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE &
And Words Can Hurt Forever
Coping With Cliques
Queen Bees & Wannabees
Bully Proof: A teacher’s guide
on teasing and bullying
James Gabarino &
Ellen deLara
Susan Sprague
Rosalind Wiseman
Lisa Sjostrom and
Nan Stein
Quit It!
Merle Froschl
Mom, They’re Teasing Me:
Michael Thompson
Helping your child solve social
problems.
Coping with Loss
& Grieving
Depression
Playground Politics
Stanley I.
Greenspan
I Miss You: A First Look at
Death
“Mommy, What’s ‘Died’?”
The Kids’ Guidebook: Great
Advice to Help Kids Cope
When Someone Very Special
Dies
Bereaved Children and
Teens: A support guide for
parents and professionals.
Pat Thomas
Helping Children Cope with
the Loss of a Loved One: A
guide for grownups.
William Kroen
Living When a Young Friend
Commits Suicide or Even
Starts Talking About It.
Earl Grollman
The Blue Day Book
Bradley Trevor
Greive
Spelman &
Parkinson
Lisa Schab
Kenneth Merrill
When I Feel Sad
Beyond the Blues
Helping Students Overcome
Depression and Anxiety
Student Depression
Helping Your Depressed
Child: A step-by-step guide
for parents
Sorrow’s Web: Overcoming
the legacy of maternal
depression
TEEN
ADULT
CHILD
LIBRARY
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
Linda Swain Gill
Tova Navarra
GUIDANCE
Marge Heegaard
GUIDANCE
Earl Grollman
Marcel Lebrun
Martha Barnard
Anne Sheffield
ADULT
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
CHILD
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
TEEN
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Divorce
Eating Disorders
and Body Image
My Family’s Changing
When Mom and Dad
Separate
When My Parents Forgot How
to be Friends
The Divorce Workbook for
Teens
What In The World Do You
Do When Your Parents
Divorce?
Pat Thomas
Marge Heegaard
Afraid to Eat
Be Healthy! It’s a Girl Thing
No Body’s Perfect
What’s Eating You
Feelings
(general):
How Are You Feeling?
The Feelings Book
On the Social and Emotional
Lives of Gifted Children:
Understanding and guiding
their development.
Jennifer Moore
Mallinos
Lisa Schab
CHILD
GUIDANCE
TEEN
GUIDANCE
Kent Winchester &
Roberta Beyer
ALL
GUIDANCE
Frances M. Berg
Mavis Jukes & Lilian
Cheung
Kimberly Kirberger
Tammy Nelson
TEEN
Saxton Freymann
and Joost Elffers
American Girl
Tracy Cross
CHILD
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
ADULT
LGBT Families
Families Like Mine: Children
of gay parents tell it like it is.
Abigail Garner
ALL
OCD
Mr. Worry: A Story About
OCD
Up and Down the Worry Hill
Holly L. Niner
CHILD
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
Aureen Pinto
Wagner
Zucker
TEEN
GUIDANCE
What to Do When Your Brain
Gets Stuck
Dawn Huebner
ALL
GUIDANCE
Raising Cain: Protecting the
emotional life of boys
Daniel Kindlon
ADULT
Take Control of OCD
Parenting - Boys
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
Real Boys: Rescuing our sons William Pollack
from the myths of boyhood
The Way of Boys: Raising
healthy boys in a challenging
and complex world
The Wonder of Boys: What
parents mentors and
educators can do to shape
boys into exceptional men
Anthony Rao
Michael Gurian
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Parenting - Girls
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the
lives of adolescent girls.
Mary Bray Pipher
ADULT
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Parenting –
Teenagers
Get Out of My Life, But First
Could You Drive Me and
Cheryl to the Mall?: A parent’s
guide to the new teenager
The Good Teen: Rescuing
adolescence for the myths of
the storm and stress years
Anthony Wolf
ADULT
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Parenting – Both
Genders
Rimm, Sylvia. How to Parent
so Children will Learn:
Strategies for raising happy,
achieving children
The Hurried Child: Growing
up too fast too soon
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Richard Lerner
ADULT
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
David Elkind
Nurture the Nature:
Understanding and
Supporting Your Child’s
Unique Core Personality
Setting Limits with your
Strong-willed Child:
Eliminating conflict by
establishing clear, firm, and
respectful boundaries
Siblings without Rivalry: How
to help your children live
together so you can live, too
SOS Help for Parents
Michael Gurian
Puberty - Boys
Just for Boys
The Boy’s Body Book
What’s Happening to Me?
Matt Crossick
Kelli Dunham
Usborne
TEEN
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
Puberty - Girls
A Smart Girl’s Guide to Liking
Herself
Real Girls Guide to
Everything
The Care and Keeping of
You: The Body Book for Girls
American Girl
TEEN
GUIDANCE
What’s Happening to Me?
Usborne
Puberty – Both
Genders
Robert. MacKenzie
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Adele Faber
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Professional
and Parenting
Collection
Lynn Clark
GUIDANCE
Erin Brereton
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
GUIDANCE
Valorie Lee
Schaefer
It’s Perfectly Normal: A book
Robie Harris
about changing bodies,
growing up, sex and sexual
health.
What’s the Big Secret: Talking Laurie Krasny
TEEN
ALL
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
GUIDANCE
Race
about Sex with Girls and Boys
Brown & Marc
Brown
Is There Really a Human
Race
The Colors of the Rainbow
Jamie Lee Curtis &
Laura Cornell
Jennifer MooreMallinos
Todd Parr
Beverly Daniel
Tatum
Crystal Kuykendall
CHILD
Karen Hammond &
Dave Deardoff
Cornelia Spelman
CHILD
Pamela Espeland
Jay McGraw
TEEN
It’s Okay to be Different
Can We Talk About Race?
From Rage to Hope:
Strategies for Reclaiming
Black & Hispanic Students
Self-Esteem/ Teen
Support
The Self-Esteem Garden
When I feel Good about
Myself
Life Lists for Teens
Life Strategies for Teens
Workbook
More Than a Label: Why what
you wear and who you’re with
doesn’t define who you are.
Peggy Orenstein
The Book of Lists for Teens
Sandra and Harry
Choron
Marci G. Fox &
Leslie Sokol
Think Confident, Be Confident
Smoking
Special Needs
GUIDANCE
TEEN/
ADULT
Smoking
David Pietrusza
Straight Talk about Smoking
Rachel Kranz
The Child with Special Needs:
Encouraging intellectual and
emotional growth.
Stanley Greenspan
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
GUIDANCE
Aisha Muharrar
Schoolgirls: Young women,
self-esteem, and the
confidence gap.
GUIDANCE
GUIDANCE
ADULT
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection
LIBRARY Professional
and Parenting
Collection