How to make friends with the dark

Tiger's life changed with a simple phone call. Her mother has died. That's when darkness descended on her otherwise average life. Tiger's mother never talked about her father, and with no grandparents or aunts or uncles, her world is packed into a suitcase and moved to a foster home. And another. And another. Until hope surfaces in the shape of . . . a sister? Sometimes family comes in fo…

Think again: the power of knowing what you don't know

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement a…

Shy little lion

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9781783737468

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Unpaged. ; ill. ; 25 cm

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Caring for earth

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Ed. 1

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9791036353239

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10 p. ; ill. ; 27 cm

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