LeGoff, a pediatric neuropsychologist specializing in the assessment and treatment of neurodevelopmental and neurobehavioral conditions in infants, children, and adolescents, et al. offer a guide to LeGoff's LEGO-based therapy for children with autism spectrum disorders or related social communication difficulties and anxiety conditions. They describe the history, rationale, development, and outcome studies of LEGO clubs for group therapy; their implementation, participants, staff, environment, and basic principles; modes of intervention, including individual therapy and pivotal skills and collaborative building with one or two peers; group sessions; effective and ineffective therapy strategies; behavior management and rewards; setting up therapy groups; materials and arrangements; assessment procedures; and two therapists' experiences running LEGO clubs. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Imagine your father is a monster. Would that mean there are monsters inside you, too? Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke, his mother, and little sister scrape by for a living on their dying family farm. Ry wishes for anything to distract him from the grim memories of his father's physical and emotional abuse. Then a meteorite falls from the sky, bringing with it not only a fragment from another world but also the arrival of a ruthless man intent on destroying the entire family. Soon Ry is forced to defend himself by resurrecting a trio of imaginary childhood protectors: kindly Mr. Furrington, wise Jesus, and the bloodthirsty Scowler.

Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school.
    
Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey's father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey's life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating.
    
Daniel Kraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.

Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school.
    
Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey's father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey's life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating.
    
Daniel Kraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters make Rotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.

Tre ragazzini di dodici anni: James, schiacciato dalle aspettative dei genitori e voglioso di fare il bravo ragazzo; Reggie, uno sbandato senza padre e con una madre che passa da un fidanzato all'altro; e Willie, debole e sognatore. In un'estate da incubo Willie è investito da un camion e perde un braccio. Subito dopo sorte ancora peggiore tocca a un altro ragazzino, investito e ucciso. Si diffonde la sindrome del camionista serial killer, e viene decretato il coprifuoco: per Reggie, James e Willie, l'occasione ideale per lanciarsi in esaltanti scorribande notturne, spedizioni proibite nelle quali tireranno fuori il meglio e il peggio di sé. Fino a uno scioglimento drammatico, che li costringerà a crescere e segnerà a fondo le loro vite.

Lieberman (U. of Nevada) and Krauss (Claremont McKenna College) present the first volume of a two-volume set reviewing the major areas in which psychology is relevant to court proceedings. This volume focuses on how courts and juries make decisions with special emphasis on the application of psychological evidence in a standard trial, and to the nature of the trial itself. The volume's eight chapters discuss the validity of jury decision-making research, procedural justice, theoretical models of jury decision making, the effects (or ineffectiveness) of admonitions to disregard inadmissible evidence and pretrial publicity, the psychology of jury selection, the psychology of the jury instruction process, the social psychology of capital cases, and psychological issues in civil trials. The other volume focuses on the use of psychological expert testimony and evidence. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)