Escape from Childhood

Escape from Childhood
Author: John Holt
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-06
Genre: Child psychology
ISBN: 9781484877371

"Escape From Childhood is Holt’s attempt to go beyond school reforms to show ways that society as a whole can help children learn and grow into responsible adults. It examines our peculiar institution of childhood, one that systematically denies young people responsible choices, while expecting them to assume this same responsibility at an arbitrarily determined age, and proposes many ideas we can implement that would make society more welcoming to young people"--

Escape From Childhood

Escape From Childhood
Author: John Caldwell Holt
Publisher: Holtgws LLC
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2013-06
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780985400293

A new edition of John Holt's radical book about everybody's freedom. When children are kept in the walled garden of childhood, outside the world of human experience, they learn to manipulate the garden keepers. Further, how many of today's families have become a prison for both parents and children alike? Holt asks the reader to confront the issues of letting children have equal treatment under the law, the right to be legally responsible for their lives and acts, the right to do, in general, what any adult can legally do. Holt describes how our responses to these issues can lead us to family relationships based not on parental control but on the joy of shared experience and responsibilities.

Escape from Childhood

Escape from Childhood
Author: John Caldwell Holt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-09
Genre: Child psychology
ISBN: 9780913677049

The Needs and Rights of Children, by John Holt. The case for treating children like real people, not pets and slaves, and for making available to them all the adult rights & responsibilities as outlined in the U.S. Bill of Rights. This book will challenge not only your ideas about what constitutes "childhood" In today's society, but your ideas about society as a whole.

Chance

Chance
Author: Uri Shulevitz
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0374313709

Winner of the SCBWI Golden Kite Award for Illustrated Books for Older Readers A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2020 A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2020 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2020 Booklist Best Books of 2020 Horn Book Fanfare 2020 Booklist Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2020 Jewish Journal Twenty of the Best 2020 (Non-Holiday) Jewish Books for Kids A National Jewish Book Award 2020 Finalist for Middle Grade Fiction A 2021 Golden Dome Book Award Selection “Harrowing, engaging and utterly honest.” —Elizabeth Wein, The New York Times Book Review “A captivating chronicle of eight turbulent years.” —The Wall Street Journal From a beloved voice in children’s literature comes this landmark memoir of hope amid harrowing times and an engaging and unusual Holocaust story. With backlist sales of over 2.3 million copies, Uri Shulevitz, one of Farrar, Straus and Grioux’s most acclaimed picture-book creators, details the eight-year odyssey of how he and his Jewish family escaped the terrors of the Nazis by fleeing Warsaw for the Soviet Union in Chance. It was during those years, with threats at every turn, that the young Uri experienced his awakening as an artist, an experience that played a key role during this difficult time. By turns dreamlike and nightmarish, this heavily illustrated account of determination, courage, family loyalty, and the luck of coincidence is a true publishing event.

Escape Adulthood

Escape Adulthood
Author: Jason W. Kotecki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Adjustment (Psychology)
ISBN: 9780971525337

Being Grown-Up Isn?t All It Was Cracked Up To Be.Do you ever have the urge to resign from being an adult? Are you burned out by the stresses that come with being grown-up and wish you could be six again ? far, far away from the mountains of paperwork and mortgage payments, credit card debt and computer crashes? Unfortunately, no matter how hard you try, you?re never going to be six again. But relief is within your grasp, because the secrets of childhood are timeless, and they?re available to you right now, no matter how ?grown-up? you may be.In this humorous and inspiring book, cartoonist Jason Kotecki invites you to escape adulthood. He uncovers some of the values that come so easily to children, the ones many of us outgrew as we grew up. Filled with funny anecdotes, real-world examples, and practical advice, this book will help you to:? Break free from the stresses of the fast-paced rat race to find true, abundant happiness.? Accomplish things in your life that you once though impossible.? Discover new opportunities to create financial success for yourself and others.? Become more energized and productive at home and at work.? Improve your health and decrease your chances of heart disease and cancer.? Become more respected and admired by your friends, colleagues, the people you lead ? even your enemies!? Gain peace of mind about the things that worry you most.? Create a family dynamic that is more fun, loving, and supportive.Author Jason Kotecki is the creator of Kim & Jason, the internationally known comic strip about childhood. He has presented to audiences of all ages on the topics of living your dreams, strengthening your faith and renewing your childhood spirit. His humorous insights will leave you encouraged, entertained, and inspired.You may not be able to be six again, but with this book you will begin to rediscover your childlike spirit, resulting in a more happy and fulfilled life while increasing your chances of changing the world.

An Orphan's Escape

An Orphan's Escape
Author: Frank Golding
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2005
Genre: Orphanages
ISBN: 9780734408280

As late as 1961, nearly seven thousand children were in the custody of Victorian institutions or under the care of the Children's Welfare Department. Frank Golding and his two brothers were among this number. On Christmas Eve 1940, the boys - Frank (not yet three), Bob (four), and Bill (six) - found themselves on the doorstep of an orphan asylum. They were certainly not orphans, but the boys spend most of their lost childhood inside the walls of the Ballarat Orphanage. It would take Frank fifty years to learn what had been happening 'outside the wall' while he was inside, and what had happened to his parents, why didn't they come for him, why wouldn'd anyone tell him.....Frank's childhood puzzlement lasted half a lifetime. Frank finally found out that his parents deeply cared for the boys, but the battle for their children had been at a huge cost.

Escape from Fire Island!

Escape from Fire Island!
Author: James H. English
Publisher: Quirk Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-12-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1594749167

Can you save fire island before it’s too late? It was supposed to be a nice, relaxing weekend—with a little swimming, a lot of cocktails, and more hot bods than a year’s subscription to Men’s Health magazine. But when a vat of radioactive waste washes onto the beach, strange things start happening—and now an army of zombie drag queens is storming the coast! Can you save Fire Island before it’s too late? Or will you perish at the hands of a thousand shrieking divas? It all depends on the choices YOU make. If you run toward the nearest ferry terminal, turn to page 44. If you flirt with the cute twink, turn to page 55. If you throw caution to the wind and join the nearest circuit party, turn to page 80. What happens next? That depends on YOU! How does the story end? Only YOU can find out! Best of all, you can read this book again and again until you’ve had 29 amazing adventures!

The Poky Little Puppy

The Poky Little Puppy
Author: Janette Sebring Lowrey
Publisher: Golden Books
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0375861297

One night a puppy,who is always late coming home finds there is no dessert for him. On board pages.

Escape from Childhood

Escape from Childhood
Author: John Caldwell Holt
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1974
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

How often, under the guise of protection, are children kept in the "walled garden" of childhood, outside the world of human experience?

The Truth Book

The Truth Book
Author: Joy Castro
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781559707879

You must always, always tell the truth, no matter the consequences, for you must model yourself on Jehovah, and Jehovah does not lie. This is the most crucial rule of all, Joy Castro is told as a young girl in a Jehovahs Witness family. Joy is 12 years old when her divorced mother marries a brother in the church. He is highly respected in the community, having displayed the ultimate sign of spiritual devotion: he served at Bethel, the Watchtower headquarters in Brooklyn. At home, however, he is a despicable brute. For the two years her mother is married to him, Joy does not grow at all; in fact, she loses 16 pounds, an eloquent testimony to the physical, emotional, psychological, and sexual abuse she suffers at his hands. Her battered mother does nothing to protect her, nor does her church. She is sustained by a consuming fascination for horses and books and her protective love for her younger brother. Their daring escape from this unspeakable cruelty, to discover a nurturing home with their father, is the key to their survival and salvation.