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Title: 10 Best Gifts for Your Teen: Raising Teens With Love and Understanding
Author: Patt Saso Steve Saso
10 Best Gifts For Your Teen -- which include respect, room, role-modeling, responsibility and reconciliation -- teaches parents how to relate when needed, and to relent when necessary, offering support without infringing on their teenagers' burgeoning sense of freedom.

Title: 10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting: Nurturing Your Child's Soul
Author: Mimi Doe Marsha F. Walch
This mother-daughter team offers practical advice for parents who wish to bring more spirituality into their parenting as well as their children's day-to-day life. Parents, regardless of whether they belong to an organized religion or not, report that the book has been profoundly inspirational. Each chapter is devoted to 1 of the 10 principles of spiritual parenting and includes ruminations as well as specific suggestions. The writing is fluid, well organized, and filled with respect for parents and their children. In the chapter titled Create a Flexible Structure, suggestions include: provide daily quiet time, downshift into your child's rhythms rather than always imposing your own, and try not to get caught up in the competitive rush to sign up, join in, and push harder to give your child a leg up on other kids.

Title: Parenting Teens With Love And Logic
Author: Foster W. Cline Jim Fay
Parenting Teens With Love & Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood is unique approach to dealing with the turmoil of adolescence that recognizes that teens learn best when they're allowed to make choices and learn from the consequences.

Title: The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
Author: Louise Erdrich
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year is about the caring of baby from womb to experiencing the baby's many firsts. It is also about the undefined joy found in any mother-baby relationship.

Title: The Broken Cord
Author: Michael Dorris
Michael Dorris describes the signs of fetal alcohol syndrome and tells of his experiences raising three adopted children who suffer from this birth defect. He also discusses some ethical issues for the future.

Title: The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism
Author: Debra Van Ausdale
This book offers a comprehensive look at America today, the issue of race, and how to help our children better understand and cope with the reality of racism before the hurtful confrontation.

Title: The Optimistic Child: Proven Program to Safeguard Children from Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience
Author: Martin E.P. Seligman
Martin E.P. Seligman is a noted psychologist who has observed that 30% of American children suffer from depression. The Optimistic Child offers parents a plan for preventing depression in children, based on self-evaluation and social interaction, that will instill them with optimistic attitudes and high self-esteem.