Jonny is a little superhero with a BIG problem. His Mum is sick. How can he help?JOIN Jonny and Bear, as they go to the hospital to investigate.LEARN who the staff working in the hospital are and what they do.DISCOVER Jonny's secret weapon.Why do DOCTORS buy Super Jonny for their waiting rooms?They LOVE the message. (It's suitable for ALL AGES!).It TEACHES patients about hospitalsIt is suitable for ALL PATIENTS (multi-discipli...

Jonny is a little superhero with a BIG problem. His Mom is sick. How can he help?JOIN Jonny and Bear, as they go to the hospital to investigate.LEARN who the staff working in the hospital are and what they do.DISCOVER Jonny's secret weapon.Why do DOCTORS buy Super Jonny for their waiting rooms?They LOVE the message. (It's suitable for ALL AGES!).It TEACHES patients about hospitalsIt is suitable for ALL PATIENTS (multi-discipli...

Recommended by teachers and health professionals. 2nd U.S. edition.How do you support a child with a sick relative?How do you empower them (and their family) to help?You'll find the answer to these questions and more in "What Does Super Jonny Do When Mom Gets Sick?"Jonny is a little superhero with a BIG problem! His Mom is sick. How can he help?JOIN Jonny and Bear, as they go to the hospital to investigate.LEARN who the staff working in the hospi...

Hospitals can be scary.Do you want to help, but don't know how?Here's a little superhero who can show you the way. It starts with a story...Jonny is a little superhero with a BIG problem. His Mum is sick. How can he help?JOIN Jonny and Bear, as they go to the hospital to investigate.LEARN who the staff working in the hospital are and what they do.DISCOVER Jonny's secret weapon!Includes two pages of bonus material:A queston ...

Paradise Manor is depressing -- the smells are bad and the residents are old. Sunny would much rather be doing her volunteer hours at Salon Teo, but her teacher won't let her. Who says volunteering at a hair salon doesn't benefit the community?But working with the Alzheimer's patients has a surprising effect on Sunny. Along with Cole, the grandson of one of the residents, she begins to see that the residents don't have much more choice about their lives than she does: what they eat...

Series streaming now on Disney+, with executive producers including NBA great LeBron James!The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning middle grade bestseller! Basketball and heartache share the court in this slam-dunk novel in verse.“With a bolt of lightning on my kicks . . . The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. ’Cuz tonight I’m delivering,” raps twelve-year-old Josh Bell. Thanks to their dad, he and his twin brother, Jordan, ar...

'You be going to live in the city, Hannah?' Farmer Price asked, pushing his battered hat up over his forehead. 'Wouldn''t think you'd want to go there . . . Times like this, I would have thought your sister would try and keep you away.' Hannah is oblivious to Farmer Price's dark words, excited as she is about her first ever trip to London to help her sister in her shop 'The Sugared Plum', making sweetmeats for the gentry. Hannah does not however get the reception she expected from her sist...

Since the day Emerson Pressman and her mother were diagnosed as HIV positive, nothing has been the same. When her mother dies of AIDS, Emmy has to go live with the father and stepmother she barely knows, and she feels more alone than ever. Now she has to take pills by herself, and there is no one left who understands what it's like to be afraid every time she has a cold. But when her father decides to send her to Camp Positive, a camp for HIV-positive children, Emmy begins to realize that ...

*There's one other thing I should mention right off, which is that I'm fourteen years old and dying. (I guess that was two things, but the significance of one is sort of tied to the other, don't you think?)*e BenchworthKate Benchworth is far from typical. Having been diagnosed with a brain tumour that could end her life at any time, she views the world with refreshing honesty and rare insight. As her family and members of her community struggle to accept what lies ahead, Kate refus...

The little girl in NOWHERE HAIR knows two things: Her mom's hair is not on her head anymore so therefore it must be somewhere around the house. After searching the obvious places the story reveals that her mother although going through cancer treatment is still silly attentive happy and yes sometimes very tired and cranky. She learns that she didn't cause the cancer can't catch it and that Mommy still is very much up for the job of mothering. The book written in rhyme explains hats scarves...

Starting a new life after the death of her mother, Nora learns how to be strong.Are there wounds too deep to heal, pains too sharp to share? And if a family survives by cutting the ties that bind them, can they ever be whole again?After losing her mother to illness and her father to his work, Nora Mackenzie must leave her home in the interior of B.C. for a North Vancouver school. Estranged from her classmates, her family, and the life she’s lost, Nora walls herself off from...

In the tradition of Counting By 7s and The Thing About Jellyfish, a heartwarming coming-of-age story about grief, family, friendship, and the importance of finding your voiceWayne Kovok lives in a world of After. After his uncle in the army was killed overseas. After Wayne and his mother survived a plane crash while coming back from the funeral. After he lost his voice.Wayne has always used his love of facts to communicate ("Did you know m...