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Helpful Habits (Pull Ahead Readers People Smarts-Nonfiction)

Introduce beginning readers to helpful social-emotional learning skills, such as setting goals, planning ahead, being mindful, and more. Easily decodable texts allow students to boost nonfiction reading skills. Pair these books with their fiction partners to explore these positive behaviours further.

Helping Hand, A

This series provides a picture book approach to personal, social, health, and economic issues that will help children understand and cope with upsetting situations they might face. Bullying, divorce, bereavement, and adoption are difficult concepts to understand and this series provides advice and guidance for both parents and children. The stories will enable children to talk about their own situations and express how they are feeling, while notes for parents and teachers will help caregivers provide answers and support children in the best way possible.

Helping Our Planet

With striking photos and well-researched facts, these books show how humankind has effected the planet. This series offers scientific evidence and easy activities to help illustrate and address the problems we have created. Balanced and clear, this books is perfect for report learning and geography research and reports.

Helping Out (Cherry Blossom Press)

The Helping Out series explores the ways little readers can help out in their own world. The series utilizes social emotional based text to get children comfortable with reading. Each book uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition builds recognition and confidence. Bold, colourful photographs correlate directly to text to help guide readers through the book. Books include teaching guides.

Helping Out Others (Crabtree Roots)  

This series features vibrant images and simple text to introduce early readers to different tasks that children do to be helpful to the people in their lives.

Helping the Environment (Beacon)

People are connected to the environment in many important ways. This series examines how humans have affected our planet, along with the actions people are taking to help protect the environment.

Helping Yourself, Helping Others

Young people must grapple with life-altering and even life-threatening issues in their everyday lives more than ever before. This essential series contextualizes topics such as eating disorders, school shootings, cyberbullying, and more, helping readers to understand the underlying issues that lead to violence, harassment, and self-harm. The series focuses on proactive approaches to prevention and recovery, and each book provides essential information about where to turn, including phone numbers for crisis hotlines and recommendations for expert help.

Henry & Friends Mindfulness

Her Eyes on the Stars: Maria Mitchell, Astronomer

Maria MitchellÎs curiosity about the night sky led her to spend hours studying the stars. She discovered a comet as a young woman, winning an award from the King of Denmark for being the first person to discover a new comet using a telescope. Now famous as Ìthe lady astronomer,Ê Maria went on to become a professional astronomer, an unheard of achievement for a woman in the 19th century. She was the first woman to get any kind of government job when she was hired by the United States Navel Observatory. Then as the first woman astronomy professor in the world, Maria used her position at Vassar College to teach young women to set their sights on the sky, training new generations of female astronomers. Her story inspires all of us to reach for the stars.

Here Goes Nothing

Eighteen-year-old Beatrice has never been a fan of her neighbor Bennie, but when Beatrice's beloved younger sister starts dating one of Bennie's closest friends, Beatrice is drawn into their social circle. As Beatrice wrestles with increasingly confusing feelings for Bennie, her usually close relationship with her sister is fraying, her grief over their motherÎs death is simmering in the background, and sheÎs overwhelmed by looming senior-year decisions about what she wants to do with her life. But after a crisis arises, Beatrice must figure out how to process past traumas and open up to the possibilities of the future.