Choose Your Super Power

Ages 8-12/ Interactive Fiction/ 4 Superpowers/ 46 Endings! IT'S TIME TO BE A SUPERHERO! Have you ever wanted to have superpowers? Now you can! Select your very own superpower and how you will use it in this interactive adventure with four superpowers to select from. It's all up to you. Your friends need help and you're the only one who can save them!

Ages 8-12 ◆ Interactive Adventure ◆ 9 Superpowers ◆ 46 Endings Now you can be faster, stronger, invisible, and you can fly, time travel, teleport, walk through walls, freeze time, and even shapeshift into a marvelous creature! It's all up to you! Your new friends are in trouble and you're the only one who can save them. Their father is a medical research scientist and has discovered a cure that can help millions of people. It has one side effect though - it gives superpowers to kids! Great, right? Maybe. Bad people will do whatever they can to get that cure and use it to take over the world. Select your very own superpower and how you will use it to save your friends in this interactive adventure. You can start over as many times as you like and try all of the superpowers because you're given the ability to time travel from the very first page! This is a gamebook. If you're familiar with Choose Your Own Adventure or Pick Your Own Path or Case Closed, then you know exactly how to read this book. First you'll select a superpower and then you'll make choices on how to use it and what to do next. Select Your Superpower can be enjoyed by those as young as 7 and as old as 14 (and parents and grandparents who want their own superpower!). What are you waiting for? Save your friends now!

Rediscover the superpower that makes good things happen, from the professor behind Yale School of Management's most popular class “The new rules of persuasion for a better world.”—Charles Duhigg, author of the bestsellers The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better You were born influential. But then you were taught to suppress that power, to follow the rules, to wait your turn, to not make waves. Award-winning Yale professor Zoe Chance will show you how to rediscover the superpower that brings great ideas to life. Influence doesn’t work the way you think because you don’t think the way you think. Move past common misconceptions—such as the idea that asking for more will make people dislike you—and understand why your go-to negotiation strategies are probably making you less influential. Discover the one thing that influences behavior more than anything else. Learn to cultivate charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. Along the way, you’ll meet alligators, skydivers, a mind reader in a gorilla costume, Jennifer Lawrence, Genghis Khan, and the man who saved the world by saying no. Influence Is Your Superpower will teach you how to transform your life, your organization, and perhaps even the course of history. It’s an ethical approach to influence that will make life better for everyone, starting with you.

A Brain Pickings Best Children's Book of the Year "An embarrassment of riches." —The New York Times An expansive collection of love letters to books, libraries, and reading, from a wonderfully eclectic array of thinkers and creators. In these pages, some of today's most wonderful culture-makers—writers, artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and philosophers—reflect on the joys of reading, how books broaden and deepen human experience, and the ways in which the written word has formed their own character. On the page facing each letter, an illustration by a celebrated illustrator or graphic artist presents that artist's visual response. Among the diverse contributions are letters from Jane Goodall, Neil Gaiman, Jerome Bruner, Shonda Rhimes, Ursula K. Le Guin, Yo-Yo Ma, Judy Blume, Lena Dunham, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Jacqueline Woodson, as well as a ninety-eight-year-old Holocaust survivor, a pioneering oceanographer, and Italy's first woman in space. Some of the illustrators, cartoonists, and graphic designers involved are Marianne Dubuc, Sean Qualls, Oliver Jeffers, Maira Kalman, Mo Willems, Isabelle Arsenault, Chris Ware, Liniers, Shaun Tan, Tomi Ungerer, and Art Spiegelman. This project is woven entirely of goodwill, generosity of spirit, and a shared love of books. Everyone involved has donated their time, and all profits will go to the New York Public Library systems. This stunning 272-page hardcover volume features a lay-flat binding to allow for greater ease of reading.

An interactive book that provides simple tasks to help kids develop resilience, persistence, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-esteem. Help the kids in your care discover not only their new superpowers, but an ability to give new challenges a go and to keep on trying! Included: Discussion Questions and extra ideas to boost kids' confidence.

Bailey Hoskins has just discovered that he's a mutant. For someone who's never been special, never stood out, this could be his big moment. But as he gains entry into the halls of Xavier's School for Gifted Children, what exactly is his gift? He's used to being hated, but is he anything to be feared? Bailey struggles to find a place alongside his fellow students, but the X-Universe is a big one - perhaps Mystique will see his potential. Or could Magneto have just the mission for him? Max Bemis, front man of the band Say Anything, makes his Marvel debut with the story of a misfit among misfits, just trying to fit in. Bailey Hoskins? Worst. X-Man. Ever. COLLECTING: X-MEN: WORST X-MAN EVER (2015) #1-5.

What is free speech and why is it so special? Your Voice is Your Superpower tells you why your voice matters and how you can use it and also why we must protect everyone’s right to free speech. Everyone loves superheroes. Who doesn't? They're super! Some of them can fly. Some are strong. Some can become invisible. And some wear capes. But the thing that really makes them super is that they help people and change the world. And guess what? You have a superpower inside you. Your VOICE is your superpower. And because of a thing called freedom of speech, with that voice, you can express yourself, you can help people, and you can change the world. Now, more than ever, teaching children the value of free speech is essential to raising smart, engaged citizens. Knowing the value of free speech allows children to courageously share what they think and believe, whether it’s with their family, friends, or their elected officials. Learning about the value of free speech also teaches children the importance of being good listeners, even if it means listening to points of view that differ from their own. In Your Voice is Your Superpower, father-daughter duo Jessica and Sandy Bohrer team up to teach children the importance of free speech and why it is essential for maintaining a functioning democracy. Your Voice is Your Superpower provides the perfect stepping-stone for parents looking to teach their children more about their First Amendment rights in an easy, appealing way. This fun, colorful book proves that the first step to raising engaged, courageous children–and in turn, raising a new generation of superheroes–starts at home. A portion of proceeds will be donated to the Committee to Protect Journalists. "The First Amendment gives us superpowers! What a terrific way to help kids understand why they are free to say and write what they think. This engaging story is perfect for young readers and maybe a few parents, too." --Kathleen Carroll, Chair of the Board of the Committee to Protect Journalists

Show them the power of caring for others--an introduction to empathy for kids 5 to 7 Learning to understand and care about the feelings of others is one of the most important steps in a child's development--and it's never too early to help little ones build those skills. This beautifully illustrated storybook teaches young kids how to recognize and practice empathy through simple real-life scenarios that are easy for them to understand. It's written with clear language for adults to read aloud and features discussion questions and activities that encourage kids to talk about what they learned and use it in their lives. Empathy Is Your Superpower features: Empathy heroes--Little superheroes Emmanuel and Emma model easy, age-appropriate ways for kids to practice empathy every day. Ways to set a good example--Kids will learn to put themselves in someone else's shoes, lend a helping hand, and inspire others to do the same. Using empathy for life--Tips, reflections, and games will help adults foster empathy in children for their whole lives. Teach kids to be kind and considerate, with a fun and friendly book about the importance of empathy.