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The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being (The Parents' Guide to Montessori, #1)
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did]
Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. KluneA Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerCarrie by Stephen  KingWhen Love Is Not Enough by Wade Kelly
Worst Mothers Ever
255 books — 203 voters
The Ultimate Guide for Gay Dads by Eric RosswoodJourney to Same-Sex Parenthood by Eric RosswoodThe Kid by Dan SavageFun Home by Alison BechdelDoes This Baby Make Me Look Straight? by Dan Bucatinsky
Nonfiction: Gay & Lesbian Parenting
171 books — 96 voters

Mist Bound by Daryl KhoFive on a Treasure Island by Enid BlytonCoraline by Neil GaimanFinding the Venom To End by Daisy O. HarrisonThe Mountain Pass by Tamara Ann Sparby
Children to the Rescue!
59 books — 7 voters
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EnglePeter Pan by J.M. BarrieEnder’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Smart Novels to Read to Your Kids
148 books — 90 voters

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddMary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn MeyerCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareTill We Have Faces by C.S. LewisThe Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
Bad Dads
137 books — 30 voters

Jodi Picoult
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way. ...more
Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

Steve Kluger
Alexander Hamilton Junior High School -- SEMESTER REPORT -- STUDENT: Joseph Margolis TEACHER: Janet Hicks ENGLISH: A, ARITHMETIC: A, SOCIAL STUDIES: A, SCIENCE: A, NEATNESS: A, PUNCTUALITY: A, PARTICIPATION: A, OBEDIENCE: D Teacher's Comments: Joseph remains a challenging student. While I appreciate his creativity, I am sure you will agree that a classroom is an inappropriate forum for a reckless imagination. There is not a shred of evidence to support his claim that Dolley Madison was a Les ...more
Steve Kluger, Last Days of Summer

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