It Takes a Village – Recommended Reading
A collection of parenting and special needs books put together by ITAV** and
The Mill Valley Public Library
Download this list.
For Parents – Informational Books
155.5 Cohen-Sandler Stressed-Out Girls: Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure
305.23 Elkind The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon
305.23 Pollack Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myths of Boyhood
305.242 Levine Ready or Not, Here Life Comes
306.87 Oddenino Putting Kids First
370.15 Gurian Boys and Girls Learn Differently* (also available as audio download)
370.15 Lavoie The Motivation Breakthrough: 6 Secrets to Turning on the
Tuned-out Child*
370.15 Levine A Mind at a Time*
370.15 Levine The Myth of Laziness
370.15 Pohlman Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling
Learners
371.19 Thompson The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School
and Life
371.9 Lavoie (J Parents) It’s So Much Work to be Your Friend
371.9 Mooney (YA) Learning Outside the Lines: two Ivy League Students with Learning
Disabilities and ADHD...
371.9 Rosner Helping Children Overcome Learning Disabilities*
371.9 Winner Thinking About You/Thinking About Me*
371.9 Wright From Emotions to Advocacy: The SpEd Survival Guide
371.91 Shaywitz Overcoming Dyslexia* (also available as audio download)
612.8 Brizendine The Female Brain
614.47 Kirby Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic:
A Medical Controversy*
616.85 Hallowell Answers to Distraction
616.85 Hallowell Driven to Distraction
616.8589 Alexander-Roberts ADHD and Teens: A Parent's Guide to Making it Through
the Tough Years
616.8589 Amen Healing ADD
618.92 Ayres Sensory Integration and the Child
618.92 Barkely Taking Charge of ADHD: the Complete, Authoritative Guide
for Parents
618.92 Howley Revealing the Hidden Social Code: Social Stories for
People with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
618.92 Kranowitz The Out-of-sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory
Processing Disorder
618.92 Lovecky Different Minds: gifted children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other
Learning Deficits
618.92 Rapee Helping Your Anxious Child: a step-by-step guide for parents
618.92 Stewart Helping a Child with Nonverbal Learning Disorder or Asperger's
Disorder: A Parents Guide
618.928 Hallowell When You Worry About the Child You Love:
Emotional and Learning
Problems in Children*
618.928 Kranowitz The Out-of-sync Child Has Fun*
618.928 McCandless Children with Starving Brains*
649 Levine The Price of Privilege
649.1 Kurcinka Raising Your Spirited Child
649.1 Kvols Redirecting Children’s Behavior
649.132 Elium Raising a Son: Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man
649.133 Elium (J Parents) Raising a Daughter
649.153 Pudney (J Parents) The Explosive Child
649.64 Greene (J Parents) A Volcano in My Tummy
649.64 MacKenzie Setting Limits with Your Strong-willed Child
649.7 Hallowell The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness
Bio Blanco Please Stop Laughing at Me*
Bio Ford Laughing Allegra: The Inspiring Story of a Mother’s Struggle…*
For Parents, Young Adults – Novels, Poetry and Memoirs
362.196 Tammett Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an
Autistic Savant - a Memoir
811 Foust Dark Card*
Bio Ryan The Water Giver: the Story of a Mother, a Son, and their Second Chance
Leimbach Daniel Isn’t Talking
Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Wood Lottery
YA Koertge Stoner and Spaz
YA Nappi The Legend of Mickey Tussler
YA Stork Marcelo in the Real World
J Baskin Anything but Typical
J Giff Eleven (also available on audio CD)
For Teachers – Guides
371.39 Tomlinson The Differentiated Classroom
371.9 Mather Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behavior: a Guide to
Intervention and Classroom…
371.9 Buffum Pyramid Response to Intervention
371.91 Levine Educational Care
371.91 Winebrenner Teaching Kids with Learning Difficulties in the Regular Classroom
618.92 Clinical Clinical Practice Guidelines
For Upper Elementary School
371.9 Levine Keeping a Head in School
618.92 Taylor ADHD and Me: What I Learned From Fighting Fires at the Dinner Table*
J 371.9 Levine (J Parents) All Kinds of Minds: A Young Student’s Book on Learning
Abilities and Learning
Disorders
J 618.92 Peralta All About My Brother
J Baskin Anything But Typical
J Choldenko Al Capone Does My Shirts (also available on audio CD)
J Choldenko Al Capone Shines My Shoes (also available on audio CD)
J Codell Sahara Special (also available as audio download)
J Dowd The London Eye Mystery
J Gantos Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key (and others in the series)
(also available on audio CD)
J Geus Piggy
J Giff Eleven (also available on audio CD)
J Kochka The Boy Who Ate Stars
J Lord Rules
J Riordan The Lightning Thief (and others in the series)
(also available as audio download and on CD)
J Spinelli Loser
For Early Elementary School
J 362.4 Dwight
We Can Do It!*
J 362.4 Rogers Extraordinary Friends
J 362.4 Thomas Don’t Call Me Special*
E Carter Dustin’s Big School Day*
E Lears Ian’s Walk: A Story about Autism*
E Osofsky My Buddy
E Rabe Where’s Chimpy?
E Shriver What’s Wrong with Timmy?*
E Stuve-Bodeen We’ll Paint the Octopus Red
E Woloson My Friend Isabelle
**ITAV = It Takes A Village, Mill Valley’s Special Education PTA – a collaboration between parents and the Mill Valley School District. Many of the books on this list were generously donated by ITAV; look for the bookplate on the inside cover. For more information, please visit www.itavmv.org.
Last updated: 1/27/2011 3:44:49 PM