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FREE Kindness Counts: Exploring Random Acts of Kindness

Get this fun printable comprehensive curriculum to go along with the award winning “The Book About Tony Chestnut.” In this Kindness Counts: Exploring Random Acts of Kindness curriculum, The Book Read…

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February 3, 2015
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A time traveler. Someone just like me. Here. How is that possible? How? I’m left with more questions than answers. As I think about them I stroke the back of my head…

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June 16, 2015
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Where Home Is { Free Ebook}

The year is 1910. Katherine Davis, M.D. is an intelligent, self-assured, and attractive woman whose confidence perfectly reflects the confidence of a new century overflowing with scientific, medical, Read more…

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    A Kids’ Guide to Making & Keeping Friends – GROWING FRIENDSHIPS

    June 23, 2017 /

    From Princeton psychologist and children’s friendships expert Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Ph.D. and parenting and health writer Christine McLaughlin comes Growing Friendships: A Kids’ Guide to Making Read more [...]

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    JJ Ramberg, host of Your Business on MSNBC and the founder of Goodshop is releasing the book The Startup Club: The Big Idea.  It's a fun fiction early-reader series about a group of elementary Read more [...]

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    Fidget Spinners: Good for Kids’ Social and Real World Interaction

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    Fidget spinners are still best-sellers in the toys department of Amazon. The addictive palm-sized toy’s popularity has spread like wildfire. In fact, the toy industry has seen sales over $500m since Read more [...]

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    Sherlock Holmes, My Dad, and Me

    June 16, 2017 /

    It took me seven years to land my first publishing contract— which is actually not terrible by industry standards. But it meant that I’d had the dedication on my first novel picked out for at least Read more [...]

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    June 15, 2017 /

    These are available again, but hurry because they usually run out quickly! Order a number of free items from Practical Money Skills for Life! Right now, you can get free copies of Marvel's Guardians Read more [...]

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    Family Travel Self-Care Tool Kit from Author Kristy Rodriguez,

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