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Different Learners. Jane Healy, $17.00

Identifying, preventing and treating your child's learning problems. Positive and empowering, DIFFERENT LEARNERS gives parents and teachers the tools they need to improve every child's ability to learn.

How Can My Kid Succeed in School? What Parents and Teachers Can Do to Conquer Learning Problems. Craig Pohlman, $23.95

This practical resource for parents and teachers explains how to understand a child's complete learning profile — an inventory of his or her unique strengths and weaknesses — and provides helpful strategies that can be used at school and at home to get the child on a path to success. The book walks readers through the process of gathering clues about the child's learning style and provides guidelines for selecting the most appropriate learning strategies that will help spell success in school and life. Pohlman shows how parents and teachers can collaborate to help kids become successful learners, and also guides readers through the process of getting an educational assessment, for those students with particularly challenging issues.

I Hate School: How to Help Your Child Love Learning. Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, $17.50

'One-size fits all' schooling leaves many children, parents and teachers feeling frustrated. By understanding and respecting a child's personal and unique learning style you can help them learn to minimize weaknesses and maximize their gifts. Cynthia Ulrich Tobias shows how parents and teachers can work together to provide learning opportunities for all students.

The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child. Richard Lavoie, Book $18.99; DVD $52.95 (90 minutes)

Motivation is the key to learning. But very few parents and teachers have an effective arsenal of techniques at their disposal. Acclaimed author Rick Lavoie arms all those who deal with children with proven, effective tools and strategies they can use to encourage any child to learn and achieve success. Lavoie explores motivational styles, presenting proven techniques, strategies, and scripts that can be used in the classroom and at home to break through a child's apathy and discouragement and inspire him/her to succeed and achieve. Along the way, Lavoie explodes some common myths about motivation: for instance, he demonstrates that rewards, punishment, and competition are not effective motivational tools. He gives specific advice throughout for parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities and provides detailed instructions for how to create a motivated classroom.

Organizing the Disorganized Child: Simple Strategies to Succeed in School. Martin Kutscher & Marcella Moran, $14.50

Is your child disorganized? Is it making you crazy? This book is your new best friend.

Overcoming School Anxiety: How to Help Your Child Deal with Separation, Tests, Homework, Bullies, Math Phobia, and Other Worries. Diane Peters Mayer, $18.00

School should be rewarding, not terrifying. This unique guide shows parents how to make their child's learning experience a positive one.

Filled with real-life examples as well as proven advice for working with teachers, principals, and counselors, this is the only comprehensive guide that will enable every parent to help a child cope, build confidence, and succeed in school.

Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids: Dealing with Competition While Raising a Successful Child. Wendy Grolnick & Kathy Seal, $23.50

Reassuring and empathic, authors Grolnick and Seal show parents how to avoid the burn-out—in both parents and children—that afflicts so many in our highly competitive society, while raising children who thrive and excel.

That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life. Ana Homayoun, $18.50

Top academic counselor Ana Homayoun has helped turn even the most disorganized, scattered and unfocused boys into successful young people who consistently meet their personal and academic challenges. She does this by getting back to basics, starting with a simple fact: most boys need to be taught how to get organized, how to study, and how to visualize, embrace and meet their own goals.

Much more than a study guide, this insightful, user-friendly book provides a roadmap for the success.

Complete Booklist

Bright Minds, Poor Grades: Understanding and Motivating Your Underachieving Child. Michael Whitley, $16.95

Could Do Better: Why Children Underachieve and What to Do About It. Harvey Mandel & Sander Marcus, $18.25

Different Learners. Jane Healy, $17.00

Helping Your Child to Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal: a Step-by-Step Guide for Parents. A. Eisen & Laura Engler, $18.95

How Can My Kid Succeed in School? What Parents and Teachers Can Do to Conquer Learning Problems. Craig Pohlman, $23.95

I Hate School: How to Help Your Child Love Learning. Cynthia Ulrich Tobias, $14.50

A Mind at a Time: How Every Child Can Succeed. Mel Levine, $17.50

The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning On the Tuned-Out Child. Richard Lavoie, Book $18.99; DVD $52.95 (90 minutes)

My New School: a Workbook to Help Students Transition to a New School. Melissa Trautman, $21.50

Organizing the Disorganized Child: Simple Strategies to Succeed in School. Martin Kutscher & Marcella Moran, $14.50

Overcoming School Anxiety: How to Help Your Child Deal with Separation, Tests, Homework, Bullies, Math Phobia, and Other Worries. Diane Peters Mayer, $18.00

Pressured Parents, Stressed-Out Kids: Dealing with Competition While Raising a Successful Child. Wendy Grolnick & Kathy Seal, $23.50

The Schoolyard Bully: How to Raise an Assertive Child in an Aggressive World. Kim Zarzour, $18.00

The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child. Richard Selznick, $15.95

That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life. Ana Homayoun, $18.50

The Trouble with Boys: a Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School and What Parents and Educators Must Do. Peg Tyre, $18.95

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