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Helper Hounds

Meet these uncommon heroes with wet noses and big hearts. Each book focuses on a different emotional support dog and how the dog helps kids process and overcome emotional challenges.

Helpful Habits (Pull Ahead Readers People Smarts-Fiction)

Follow along as Jordan plans ahead, Paco sets a goal, Lola and Lupe work together, and more as the children in each book model good habits and social-emotional skills. These fiction stories pair with nonfiction counterparts to build literacy skills for emergent readers.

Helpful Habits (Pull Ahead Readers People Smarts-Nonfiction)

Introduce beginning readers to helpful social-emotional learning skills, such as setting goals, planning ahead, being mindful, and more. Easily decodable texts allow students to boost nonfiction reading skills. Pair these books with their fiction partners to explore these positive behaviours further.

Helping Hand, A

Providing a picture book approach to PSHE topics, A Helping Hand helps children understand and cope with upsetting situations they might face.

Helping Out (Cherry Blossom Press)

The Helping Out series explores the ways little readers can help out in their own world. The series utilizes social emotional based text to get children comfortable with reading. Each book uses the Whole Language approach to literacy, a combination of sight words and repetition builds recognition and confidence. Bold, colourful photographs correlate directly to text to help guide readers through the book. Books include teaching guides.

Helping Paws Academy

This inviting chapter book series explores health topics through the friendly lens of therapy dogs. Therapy dogs are specially trained to help kids through medical experiencesÑfrom lifting spirits, motivating movement, modeling the power of play, and more. Nonfiction back matter provides more information about medical topics introduced in the books, from acute to chronic issues, while also providing more information about therapy dog programs and the Mayo Clinic Children's Center.

Helping the Environment (Beacon)

People are connected to the environment in many important ways. This series examines how humans have affected our planet, along with the actions people are taking to help protect the environment.

Henry & Friends Mindfulness

Her Eyes on the Stars: Maria Mitchell, Astronomer

Maria MitchellÎs curiosity about the night sky led her to spend hours studying the stars. She discovered a comet as a young woman, winning an award from the King of Denmark for being the first person to discover a new comet using a telescope. Now famous as Ìthe lady astronomer,Ê Maria went on to become a professional astronomer, an unheard of achievement for a woman in the 19th century. She was the first woman to get any kind of government job when she was hired by the United States Navel Observatory. Then as the first woman astronomy professor in the world, Maria used her position at Vassar College to teach young women to set their sights on the sky, training new generations of female astronomers. Her story inspires all of us to reach for the stars.

Here Lies Olive