Books with title My Hands

Clapping, waving, pushing, pulling, scratching, digging, tickling—how many ways do you use your hands every day? Find out how important your hands are! With her trademark simple words and delightful pictures, acclaimed children's writer Aliki explains the many ways our hands are important to us. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children.My Hands is a Level One Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science title, which means the book explores more challenging concepts for children in the primary grades and supports the Common Core Learning Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) standards. Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out is the winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series.

An utterly amazing, true, first-person account of one girl's experience in wartime. Irene Gut Opdyke was a Catholic Polish nursing student when WWII broke out. She soon became mired in the horrors of central Europe as, at various times, a partisan, a refugee, a housekeeper to the Nazis and, over all, as a heroine. She singlehandedly saved the lives of at least 16 Jewish people from the Holocaust. Now living in America and aged 77, Irene, with the help of a respected historical novelist, has told her story with all the power and passion that such a remarkable history can inspire.

What do we do with our hands? Featuring exuberant photos of young children building, drawing, playing, and loving, My Hand Book offers examples to readers of how to use and care for these masterful body parts. This is a wonderful photographic read-aloud that will help young learners see and understand the many ways we use our hands creatively and playfully.

Six months after their son is diagnosed with epilepsy, Sheri and Russ Hastings move to San Francisco, California so Kaden can see an epileptologist. Once the star of his varsity basketball team, Kaden is eager to try out for the team at his new school, but his mother has forbidden him to play. Kaden's twin brother Logan quickly finds himself trapped between two choices: helping his brother live and giving him something to live for.Mirna Horton has a plan: sell her foster father's seizure dog for a boat-load of cash and skip town. Everything goes according to plan until she meets Kaden Hastings at the epilepsy center. The new kid in her art class has a secret, and she knows exactly how he feels, because she has epilepsy, too.In My Hands takes us into the heart of a family torn apart by epilepsy. A.C. Sutliff offers us a touching story about what it truly means to lose control of your life, and the powerful bonds of friendship you can create when you step out on the journey to take back control.