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 >

Real Education
Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
Written by Charles Murray

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $15.00

"The most talked-about education book this semester." —New York Times

From the author of Coming Apart, and based on a series of controversial Wall Street Journal op-eds, this landmark manifesto gives voice to what everyone knows about talent, ability, and intelligence but no one wants to admit. With four truths as... Read more >

Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools and Selective Public Schools, 6th Edition

Written by Victoria Goldman

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $35.00

This guide, written by a parent for parents, is a perennial seller. Expanded and extensively revised in this sixth edition, it is the first, last, and only word for parents on choosing the best private and selective public schools for children. Including information on admissions procedures, programs, diversity, school size, staff... Read more >

Kindergarten Super Math Success (Sylvan Super Workbooks)

Written by Sylvan Learning

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $18.99

**3 BOOKS IN 1!**

Building a strong foundation in basic math is essential as kindergarteners prepare to advance to more difficult math concepts. The activities in this 3-in-1 Super Workbook are designed to help your student become familiar with numbers and counting, patterns, shape recognition, measurement, and more. They will help your... Read more >

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 >

Positive Discipline: A Teacher's A-Z Guide
Hundreds of Solutions for Almost Every Classroom Behavior Problem!
Written by Jane Nelsen, Ed.D., Linda Escobar, Kate Ortolano, Roslyn Ann Duffy and Debbie Owen-Sohocki

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2001
Price: $16.99

Take Back the Classroom and Make a Positive Difference in Your Students' Lives
Many teachers today are facing problems and discipline issues they never dreamed of when they decided to become teachers. Combine violence, behavioral disorders, and downright defiant attitudes from students with the age-old problems of bullying, poor attendance, and more... Read more >

Montessori from the Start
The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
Written by Paula Polk Lillard and Lynn Lillard Jessen

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $13.99

What can parents do to help their youngest children in their task of self-formation? How does the Montessori method of hands-on learning and self-discovery relate to the youngest infants? This authoritative and accessible book answers these and many other questions. Based on Dr. Maria Montessori's instructions for raising infants, its comprehensive... Read more >

The Unschooling Handbook
How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
Written by Mary Griffith

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 29, 1998
Price: $16.95

To Unschoolers, Learning Is As Natural As Breathing
Did you know that a growing percentage of home schoolers are becoming unschoolers? The unschooling movement is founded on the principle that children learn best when they pursue their own natural curiosities and interests. Without bells, schedules, and rules about what to do and... Read more >

Foxfire 10

Written by Foxfire Fund, Inc.
Edited by George P. Reynolds

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1993
Price: $19.95

Chock full of the wit and wisdom that has become  the Foxfire trademark, this entirely new volume in  the acclaimed, 6-million-copy best-selling  Foxfire series is on oral history of  Appalachian lives and traditions, homespun crafts,  and folk arts. Read more >

Feel-Bad Education
And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling
Written by Alfie Kohn

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $15.00

Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices
 
Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamental assumptions about education and motivation as boldly as Alfie Kohn. The Washington Post says that “teachers and parents who encounter Kohn and his thoughts come away... Read more >