Foxfire 5

Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc. and Eliot Wigginton

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: June 1, 1979
Price: $19.95

The fifth Foxfire volume includes rain-making, blacksmithing, bear hunting, flintlock rifles, and more. Read more >

Playful Learning
Develop Your Child's Sense of Joy and Wonder
Written by Mariah Bruehl

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 9, 2011
Price: $22.95

Children are natural scientists, artists, mathematicians, authors, and scholars. From the time they are born they seek out information about the world around them in an effort to construct meaning and further their development. While children have an inherent drive to make sense of their reality, parents have a unique opportunity... Read more >

Your Child's Growing Mind
Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence
Written by Jane Healy

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2004
Price: $14.95

The classic guide to understanding children’s mental development is now updated and better than ever!

Hailed by parents and educators, Your Child’s Growing Mind is a window into the fascinating process of brain development and learning. It looks at the roots of emotion, intelligence, and creativity, translating the most current scientific research... Read more >

Sticks and Stones
Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
Written by Emily Bazelon

Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $13.99

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators... Read more >

How to Be a Person
The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself
Written by Lindy West, Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, Bethany Jean Clement and The Staff of The Stranger

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $16.95

From Dan Savage, Lindy West, and The Stranger staff comes this hilarious guide to life for college students and beyond. Here is all the information you actually need to know that no one else will tell you including: which majors to avoid, how to not get a STD, everything there is... Read more >

Setting Limits in the Classroom, 3rd Edition
A Complete Guide to Effective Classroom Management with a School-wide Discipline Plan
Written by Robert J. Mackenzie and Lisa Stanzione

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2010
Price: $16.99

Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder—at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. That’s why thousands of teachers and child-care providers have turned to the solutions in Setting Limits in the Classroom. This fully updated and expanded third edition offers the most up-to-date alternatives to... Read more >

The College Dorm Survival Guide
How to Survive and Thrive in Your New Home Away from Home
Written by Julia DeVillers

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 23, 2006
Price: $14.00

The Ultimate Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Dorm

Dorm life offers you a great chance to meet new people and try new things. But leaving the comforts of home for the first time to enter the roommate-having, small-room-sharing, possibly-coed-bathroom-using world of the dorms can be overwhelming and intimidating.

The College Dorm... Read more >

Foxfire 4

Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by Eliot Wigginton

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: November 1, 1977
Price: $19.95

Fiddle making, spring houses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, gardening, and other affairs of plain living are the topics covered in this volume. Read more >

Be Different
Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers
Written by John Elder Robison

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: March 22, 2011
Price: $11.99

“I believe those of us with Asperger’s are here for a reason, and we have much to offer. This book will help you bring out those gifts.”
 
In his bestselling memoir, Look Me in the Eye, John Elder Robison described growing up with Asperger’s syndrome at a time when the diagnosis didn’t exist... Read more >

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had
My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High
Written by Tony Danza

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $12.99

I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s absorbing account of a year spent teaching tenth-grade English at Northeast High -- Philadelphia’s largest high school with 3600 students. 
 
Entering Northeast’s crowded halls in September of 2009, Tony found his way to... Read more >