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Social & Emotional Learning: G6

L1 New Students

Fiction stories about being new to school or new to middle school

New Kid by Jerry Craft
Call Number: G CRA
Publication Date: 2019
Airi Sano, Prankmaster General: New School Skirmish by Zoe Tokushige; Jennifer Naalchigar (Illustrator)
Call Number: HUM TOK
ISBN: 9780593465783
Publication Date: 2022
Making Friends by Kristen Gudsnuk
Call Number: G GUD
ISBN: 9781338139228
Publication Date: 2018

Nonfiction

Surviving Middle School by Luke Reynolds
Call Number: 373.18 REY
ISBN: 9781582705545
Publication Date: 2016
Be Confident in Who You Are by Annie Fox
Call Number: 155.5 FOX
ISBN: 9781575423029
Publication Date: 2008
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk Middle School by Jack Canfield; Mark Victor Hansen; Madeline Clapps; Valerie Howlett
Call Number: 158.1 CHI
ISBN: 9781935096269
Publication Date: 2008

L4 & 5 Goals

7 Step Mindset Makeover by Domonique Bertolucci
Call Number: 158.1 BER
ISBN: 9781743798027
Publication Date: 2022

For Parents & Educators

The Organized Mind by Daniel J. Levitin
Call Number: 153.4 LEV
ISBN: 9780147516312
Publication Date: 2015
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Call Number: 650.1 BUR
ISBN: 9780374159122
Publication Date: 2021

L2 How to Grow your Brain

Suitable for Students

Your Changing Brain by Jeff Szpirglas; Danielle Saint-Onge
Call Number: 612.8 SZP
ISBN: 9780778734994
Publication Date: 2017
Big Brain Book by Leanne Boucher Gill
Call Number: 612.8 BOU
ISBN: 9781433830457
Publication Date: 2021
How We Learn by Benedict Carey
Call Number: 153.1 CAR
ISBN: 9780812984293
Publication Date: 2015
Think Like a Mathematician by Alex Woolf; David Broadbent (Illustrator)
Call Number: 510 WOO
ISBN: 9781039647541
Publication Date: 2022
The Owner's Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain by JoAnn Deak
Call Number: 612.8 DEA
ISBN: 9781939775023
Publication Date: 2013
101 Questions about Sleep and Dreams by Faith Hickman Brynie; Sharon Holm (Illustrator)
Call Number: 616.82 BRY
ISBN: 9780761323129
Publication Date: 2006
Freaking Out! by Dana Meachen Rau
Call Number: 612.8 RAU
ISBN: 9780756544867
Publication Date: 2011

Suitable for parents

The Teenage Brain by Frances E. Jensen; Amy Ellis Nutt
Call Number: 649.12 JEN
ISBN: 9780062067845
Publication Date: 2015
Mindset by Carol S. Dweck
Call Number: 153.8 DWE
ISBN: 9780345472328
Publication Date: 2007
How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
Call Number: 649.5 TOU
ISBN: 9780547564654
Publication Date: 2012
Brainstorm by Daniel J. Siegel
Call Number: 155.5 SIE
ISBN: 9781585429356
Publication Date: 2014
Remember by Lisa Genova
Call Number: 153.1 GEN
ISBN: 9780593137956
Publication Date: 2021
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Call Number: 616.82 WAL
ISBN: 9781501144318
Publication Date: 2017

L3 Trying new Strategies

Suitable for Students

Get Organized Without Losing It by Janet S. Fox
Call Number: 371.3 FOX
ISBN: 9781575421933
Publication Date: 2006
SmART by Amy E. Herman
Call Number: 153.4 HER
ISBN: 9781665901215
Publication Date: 2022
Painless Study Techniques by Michael Greenberg
Call Number: 371.3 GRE
ISBN: 9780764140594
Publication Date: 2009
Learning to Learn by Gloria Frender
Call Number: 371.3 FRE
ISBN: 0865306079
Publication Date: 2003
How They Choked by Georgia Bragg; Kevin O'Malley (Illustrator)
Call Number: 920 BRA
ISBN: 9780802734884
Publication Date: 2014

Suitable for Parents

The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey
Call Number: 649 LAH
ISBN: 9780062299239
Publication Date: 2015
Homework - A Parent's Guide to Helping Out Without Freaking Out! by Neil McNerney
Call Number: 649.5 McN
ISBN: 9780983990000
Publication Date: 2011
Smart but Scattered Teens by Richard Guare; Peg Dawson; Colin Guare
Call Number: 649.12 GUA
ISBN: 9781462506996
Publication Date: 2012