Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (Understanding Mental Health)

An estimated 40,000 children are born with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the United States each year. The impacts on school and family, and social life are immense. FASDs are a group of disorders and conditions that occur in people whose mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy. This useful title gives an overview of the mental, behavioral, and physical impairments of FASD, as well as new research, treatments and methods for managing behavioral issues. A chapter on caring for others addresses children dealing with parents, siblings, or foster siblings with an FASD diagnosis.

Children's Books

Rodger, Ellen

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Crabtree Classics

An estimated 40,000 children are born with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in the United States each year. The impacts on school and family, and social life are immense. FASDs are a group of disorders and conditions that occur in people whose mothers drank alcohol during pregnancy. This useful title gives an overview of the mental, behavioral, and physical impairments of FASD, as well as new research, treatments and methods for managing behavioral issues. A chapter on caring for others addresses children dealing with parents, siblings, or foster siblings with an FASD diagnosis.

What Is the Judicial Branch? (Your Guide to Government)

The judicial branch of government consists of the nations courts. This title explores the role of the United States Supreme Court and its role in interpreting the U.S. Constitution, as well as the role of Federal Courts. Justices and judges, and how they are selected for their jobs is also provided. A comparison to other judicial bodies in state governments, as well as in other countries, is also included.

Education & Reference

The judicial branch of government consists of the nations courts. This title explores the role of the United States Supreme Court and its role in interpreting the U.S. Constitution, as well as the role of Federal Courts. Justices and judges, and how they are selected for their jobs is also provided. A comparison to other judicial bodies in state governments, as well as in other countries, is also included.

Intended for ages 7-14, this timely new book examines the causes of this massive hurricane, its devastating floods, and the relief efforts to help those most effected by the disaster. Gripping images of rescues and recovery are featured along with information and illustrations of the reconstruction of Louisiana's levies, also exploring topics such prevention, the life cycle of a hurricane, and surviving Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina (Disaster Alert!, 17)

Literature & Fiction

Crabtree Pub Co

Hurricane Katrina (Disaster Alert!)

Lewis and Clark: Opening the American West (In the Footsteps of Explorers)

Intended for ages 8-14, this book follows Lewis and Clark and the members of their Corps of Discovery expedition, describing the effects of their encounters with various Native nations along the way. Features include: full-colour maps of their routes; the customs and cultures of the Shoshone, Teton Sioux, and Minitari nations; and more.

Lewis and Clark: Opening the American West (In the Footsteps of Explorers, 4)

Biographies

This book is intended for ages 8-14. In 1804, on their famous expedition to explore the uncharted American West, Lewis and Clark promised the Missouri Indians peace and prosperity if they didn't make war. This fascinating new book follows Lewis and Clark and the members of their Corps of Discovery expedition describing the effects of their encounters with various Native nations along the way. Its features include: full-colour maps of their routes; Sacagawea, the expedition's Native interpreter, and York, Clark's slave and childhood companion; the customs and cultures of the Shoshone, Teton Sioux, and Minitari nations; the many exotic plants and animals the explorers discovered; what daily life was like on an expedition, including how they cured illness and punishment used to keep discipline; an authentic recipe from life on the trail; and America's social and economic state after the expedition.

The Biography of Spices (How Did That Get Here?)

This work is for ages 8-14. Empires were made from the growth and sale of spices and the age of discovery was launched in pursuit of them. Exciting text and historic images explain to children how spices were used to cure the sick, flavour foods, and make perfume. Other topics include: What is a commodity?; What is a spice?; where spices originated and where they are grown today; how different spices are harvested, manufactured, and processed; the historical and modern spice trades; ancient peoples and how they used spices, from flavouring and preserving their foods, to the mummification of bodies!; how the Crusades changed European tastes; how the spice trade encouraged explorers and colonies; slavery and the spice trade.

History

Spanish conquistadors brought the potato form South America to Europe in the 1500s. Since then, the potato has helped keep peasants from starving, fed armies, and is today the world's most popular vegetable. The Biography of Potatoes underlines the importance of this source of nutrition throughout history. Topics include - What is a commodity? - the origins of the potato plant - the Irish potato famine and subsequent Irish immigration to North America - new varieties of potatoes and potato farming today - growing, harvesting and selling potatoes all over the world - products made from potatoes - pests and diseases that threaten this essential crop

The Biography of Potatoes (How Did That Get Here?, 13)

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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (Understanding Mental Health)

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (Understanding Mental Health)

What Is the Judicial Branch? (Your Guide to Government)

What Is the Judicial Branch? (Your Guide to Government)

Hurricane Katrina (Disaster Alert!, 17)

Hurricane Katrina (Disaster Alert!)

Lewis and Clark: Opening the American West (In the Footsteps of Explorers, 4)

Lewis and Clark: Opening the American West (In the Footsteps of Explorers)

The Biography of Spices (How Did That Get Here?)

The Biography of Potatoes (How Did That Get Here?, 13)