Below is a list of books that we have at Alfred and Lyman that are available for parents to borrow. If you are interested in borrowing one of the books below to help support your child, please contact us and we will send the book home with you. If there are other topics that you are looking for resources on, please let us know and we can help you find resources.
Books for Adults
* Don't Give In, Give Choices: Winning your child's cooperation by Holt & Ketterman
* Helping a Child with Nonverbal Learning Disorder or Aperger's Disorder (2nd edition) by Stewart
* Panic Attacks: What they are, why they happen and what you can do about them by Ingham
* Raising Safe Kids in an Unsafe World: 30 simple ways to prevent your child from becoming lost, abducted, or abused by Wagner
* When Children Grieve: For adults to help children deal with death, divorce, pet loss, moving, and other losses by Matthews
* How to Help Children Through a Parents' Serious Illness by McCue
* Speaking of Divorce: How to talk with your kids and help them cope by Beyer & WInchester
Books to Read with Children
Coping with Change
* Who Moved My Cheese? for Kids by Johnson (A book on how to deal with changes in life.)
* Alexander, Who's Not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to Move by Viorst
* We Just Moved! by Krensky
* The Invisible String by Karst
Coping with an Illness and Coping with Loss
* The Paper Chain by Blake, Blanchard, and Parkinson (A book on helping families cope with an ill parent.)
* Rabbityness by Empson (A book on coping with loss of any kind.)
* Jenny is Scared!: When sad things happen in the world by Shuman (A book to support children after a crisis.)
* What On Earth Do You Do When Someone Dies? by Romain
* I Wish I Could Hold Your Hand...a child's guide to grief and loss by Palmer
* Good-bye, Jeepers: What to expect when your pet dies by Loewen
* When Molly Was in the Hospital: A book for brothers and sisters of hospitalized children by Duncan
* Missing Mommy: A book about bereavement by Cobb
* The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye (loss of a pet) by Yolen
* Samantha Jane's Missing Smile: A story about coping with the loss of a parent by Kaplow and Pincus
* Something Happened: A book for children and parents who have experienced pregnancy loss by Blanford
* Striped Shirts and Flowered Pants: A story about Alzheimer's Disease for young children by Schnurbsuh
* The Great Katie Kate Discusses Diabetes by DeLand
Understanding Special Needs
* The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (and Their Parents) by Verdick & Reeve
* Autism Through a Sister's Eyes: A young girl's view of her brother's Autism by Band & Hecht
* Views From Our Shoes: Growing up with a brother or sister with special needs by Meyer
* Autism and Me: Siblings stories by Shapiro
* I Can't Stop: A story about Tourette Syndrome by Niner
* Mr. Worry: A story about OCD by Niner
* My Travelin' Eye by Kostecki-Shaw
* Never Sell Yourself Short by Riggs (a story about dwarfism)
* Dad and Me in the Morning by Lakin
* Understanding Katie by Shipon-Blum (A book on Selective Mutism.)
* Keep Your Ear on the Ball by Petrillo
* I Can See Just Fine by Barclay (a book about needing glasses)
* You Can Be a Friend by Dungy
* Uniquely Wired: A story about autism and its gifts by Cook
* The Alphabet War: A story about dyslexia by Robb
* Andy and His Yellow Frisbee by Thompson (a story about autism)
Family
* Tight Times by Hazen
* Every Kid's Guide to Understanding Nightmares by Berry
* The Berenstain Bears and the Bad Dream by Berenstain
* The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies by Berenstain
* Maybe Days: A book for children in foster care by Wilgocki and Wright
* Mia's Home: children, families, and foreclosure by Rockwood
* Families Change: A book for children experiencing termination of parental rights by Nelson
* Dinosaurs Divorce: A Guide for Changing Families by Brown and Brown
* Two Homes by Masurel
* Living with Mom and Living with Dad by Walsh