| 1. |  | Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
from University of California Press
Price: $14.93
Customer Review:
This book offers a thoughtful, in-depth exploration of how parenting strategies differ between middle class and working class families, and how these differences embody both strengths and weaknesses. Lareau argues that whereas the "concerted cultivation" approach in middle class parenting means that... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Touchpoints-Birth to Three
from Da Capo Press
Price: $12.21
Customer Review:
very clearly written, simple layout by developmental stages, good info. This book was recommended by a friend as the only book that I'd need on childhood development. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
from Anchor
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
This book is about a family living in the Henry Horner housing project in Chicago during a couple years in the 80's, primarily dealing with two boys, Lafayette, who's 11 at the beginning of the book and his younger brother Pharoah, who's 9. They live with their mother LaJoe, their siblings and... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Enrique's Journey
from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Price: $10.17
Customer Review:
I picked this up, only to put it down after a few pages. The author's rather melodramatic approach made the story seem more like a cheap, badly-written novel than a nonfiction account. I just didn't see any sense that the author had 'connected' with the subject, and so I couldn't connect with it,... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
from Topeka Bindery
Price: $12.03
Customer Review:
In Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol shares intimate conversations with the people of Mott Haven, a poverty stricken ghetto neighborhood in New York. They talk of
* hospital waste incinerator that burns body parts in the neighborhood
* a friend that died from AIDS; "she never was sick... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | The Wonder of Boys : What Parents, Mentors and Educators Can Do to Shape Boys into Exceptional Men
from Audio Partners
Price: $17.95
Customer Review:
This book gave me lots of clarity about why my 6-year-old son does what he does. My husband says that it's not just about "boys" but about men as well and he found it really great to read to understand his own motivations!!! Raising my daughter was a totally different beast than raising my son, and... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | There Is No Me Without You - One Woman's Odyssey to rescue Africa's children
from Highbridge Audio
Price: $30.36
Customer Review:
We are adopting from Ethiopia -- My wife read this book in less than a week. She said it was fantastic and thought our family and friends should read it to get an idea what we have to do for our adoption. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation
from Vintage
Price: $11.53
Customer Review:
Once upon a time, the Millennial Generation was a generation of happy children. During the Reagan and Poppy Bush years and the early Clinton years, we romped around in our '80s clothes, studied hard in school and learned to "stay away from drugs" from after-school specials. The economy was good, and... more info | 3.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Children
from McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Price: $110.86
Customer Review:
This book was in great condition when I got it, it looked like new and came very quickly in the mail. Thank you! | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
from Random House
Customer Review:
This book provides great insight and liberation from guilt and inner conflict. Everybody should read it-mothers and wives, sons and husbands. It will definitely help with marriage issues. | 4.0 / 5.0
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