KIDS ALIVE . . . RUNNING THE RACE OF LIFE Kids Alive is written for parents and their kids. It is designed to serve as a means of helping parents connect with their children and become better teaching parents. The book is also designed to help parents be more personally involved in the social- PHOTO learning process of their children and is organized in such a way to help parents be more effective and timely in teaching important values, attitudes, and behavior patterns. Finally, the book is written to help kids acquire the basic skills of life while they are still young and impressionable. It can also be used by grandparents, teachers and youth leaders. Kids Alive addresses the basic question, Will your kids be ready for life?

Suicide is a confronting topic. As a parent, it may represent the greatest fear for our family. Yet, for many, there is a misguided belief that talking about suicide with young people causes further distress. Research shows otherwise — not talking about suicide can be harmful. Psychologist Lyn O’Grady has spent decades working, researching and presenting on better mental health for children, young people and families. Along the way, she has witnessed the desperate struggle with life that suicidal thoughts and feelings bring. She has also seen countless books about parenting, usually featuring simplistic recipe-type approaches that can be appealing but challenging to implement at times of crisis. So she wrote this book to explain exactly what it means to be a parent of a teenager who is struggling with suicidal thoughts and behaviours and how to help. Drawing on practical experience across a range of community settings, the lived experience of people and families who have experienced suicidality, and the latest research and theories in the field, this book helps: • to arm parents with knowledge so they can better understand what’s going on with their teenager • to provide space to reflect on their parenting and to look after themselves • to not feel alone; and • to know what to do to support their teenagers during difficult times. This book will help any parent or health worker working with families to understand how to connect and communicate with teenagers when dealing with the topic of suicide.

The Kids Alive Team is proud to present the LIVING WITH WATER book. Start a positive swimming and water safety journey by reading this book with children from an early age.

Alien Boo learns Water Safety

How to tell the difference between living and nonliving things—an essential first skill in scientific sorting and classifying—is explored with hands-on activities and colorful diagrams. Best Children’s Science Book List 1995 (S)

Eerie Elementary is one scary school! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line called Branches, which is aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!In this first book in the series, Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is ALIVE! Sam finds this out on his first day as the school hall monitor. Sam must defend himself and his fellow students against the evil school! Is Sam up to the challenge? He'll find out soon enough: the class play is just around the corner. Sam teams up with friends Lucy and Antonio to stop this scary school before it's too late!

Sam Graves discovers that his elementary school is alive and plotting against the students, and,as hall monitor, it is his job to protect them--but he will need some help from his friends.