Library

The CASA library is a resource for CASA volunteers and CASA kids. CASA volunteers can use these books and videos to get their continuing education hours. Our loan time is 3 weeks. To check out a book or video, please come in to the CASA office and fill out the orange form in the library area.

For every 100 pages that you read, you earn one hour towards your continuing education requirement.

TITLE	AUTHOR
A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul	Jack Canfield, et al
A Child Called "It"	Dave Pelzer
A Kind And Just Parent	William Ayers
A Life Without Consequences	Stephen Elliot
A Man Named Dave	Dave Pelzer
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir	Frank McCourt
A Question of Balance: Decision Making for CASA/GALs	Janet L. Ward
A report on the unmet needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adolescents in foster care	Various
A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul	Jack Canfield, et al
A Terrible Thing Happened	Margaret M. Holmes
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water	Micheal Dorris
An Elephant in the Living Room: The Children's Book	Jill Hastings, M.S. and Marion Typpo, Ph.D
Assessing the Long Term Effects of Foster Care: A Research Synthesis	Thomas McDonald, Reva Allen, Alex Westerfelt, Irving Piliavin
Attention Deficit Disorder	Elaine McEwan
Attention Deficit Disorders	Mary Fowler
Beyond the Best Interests of the Child	J. Goldstein, A. Freud, A. Solnit
Beyond the Waves	Elizabeth Marek
Building a Home Within: Meeting the Emotional Needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care	Toni Vaughn Heineman, Diane Ehrensaft
California Juvenile Laws and Rules	N/A
California Mental Health Law	S. Behnke, J. Pries, R. Todd Bates
Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul	Jack Canfield, et al.
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul	Jack Canfield, et al.
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II	Jack Canfield, et al
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III	Jack Canfield, et al
Children Who Shock and Surprise: A Guide to Attachment Disorders	Elizabeth Randolph, MSN, PhD
Children: The Challenge	Rudolf Dreikurs, M.D./Vicki Soltz, R.N.
CWLA Best Practice Guidelines: Serving LGBT Youth in Out of Home Care	Shannon Wilber, Caitlin Ryan, and Jody Marksamer
Developmental Disabilities & Child Welfare	Ronald Hughes, Judith Rycus
Don't Sweat The Small Stuff, And It's All Small Stuff	Richard Carlson, PH.D
Drugs and Youth: An Information Guide for Parents and Educators	Bill Lockyer, Attorney General
El Nino	Douglas Anne Munson
Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids To Know About Sex (but were afraid they'd ask): The Secrets to Surviving Your Child's Sexual Development from Birth to the Teens	Justin Richardson, M.D., and Mark Schuster, M.D., Ph.D
Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting	Elizabeth Bartholet
Finding the Right Spot: When Kids Can’t Live With Their Parents	Janice Levy
First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple	Cameron West, Ph.D
Foundations of Child Advocacy	Eds. Donald Bross and Laura Freeman Michaels
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.	Jonathan Katz
Give Them Roots, Then Let Them Fly:Understanding Attachment Therapy	Carole A. McKelvey, M.A.
Healthy Parenting: How Your Upbringing Influences the Way You Raise Your Children, and What You Can Do to Make It Better for Them	Janet G. Woititz, Ed.D.
Helping Children Cope With Separation and Loss	Claudia L. Jewett
Helping Your Child Succeed in School	N/A
Help Yourself: Celebrating the Rewards of Resilience and Gratitude	Dave Pelzer
Holes	Louis Sachar
Homecoming	Cynthia Voigt
Hope's Boy: A Memoir	Andrew Bridge
I Speak For This Child	Gay Courter
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health	Robie H. Harris
Lifeskills for Adult Children	Janet Geringer Woititz, Alan Garner
Lighting the Way: Volunteer Child Advocates Speak Out	Edited by National CASA Association
Maintaining Family Ties: Inclusive Practice in Foster Care	Sally E. Palmer
Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care	J. Wilgocki and M. Kahn Wright
Me & Emma	Elizabeth Flock
My Body is Private	Linda Walvoord Girard
My Foster Family: A Story For Children Entering Foster Care	Jennifer Levine
Mythbusting	Kathleen McNaught
No matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court	Edward Humes
No Place for Children: Voices from Juvenile Detention	Steve Liss
Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative	Elizabeth Bartholet
On Their Own: What Happens to Kids When They Age Out of the Foster Care System	Martha Shirk and Gary Stangler
Open House	Elizabeth Berg
Orphans of the Living	Jennifer Toth
Our Last Best Shot	Laura Sessions Stepp
Outgrowing The Pain	Eliana Gil
Parental Lack of Supervision: nature and Consequence of a Major Child Neglect Problem	Mary Anne Johnson
Parent in Control: Restore order in your home and create a loving relationship with you adolescent	Gregory Bodenhamer
Places to Go with Children in Northern California	Elizabeth Pomada
Power Source: Facilitator's Manual	Bethany Casarjian and Robin Casarjian
Power Source: Taking Charge of Your Life	Bethany Casarjian and Robin Casarjian
Practical Tools for Foster Parents	Eds:Temple-Plotz, Stricklett, Baker, Sterba
Real Boys	William Pollack, Ph.D.
Real Boys Voices	William S. Pollack
Rebuilding Children's Lives: A Blueprint for Treatment Foster Parents	Christina Baker, Ray Burke, Ron Herron & Mariam Mott
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent	Mary Pipher
She's come Undone	Wally Lamb
Silent Children	Ramsey Campbell
Somebody Else’s Children: The Courts, The Kids, and The Struggle to Save America’s Troubled Families	John Hubner and Jill Wolfson
Something is Wrong at My House: A Book About Parent’s Fighting	Diane Davis
Somewhere A Child Is Crying	Vincent J. Fontana, M.D.
Taking Charge of ADHD	Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
Teenagers with ADD :A Parent's Guide	Chris A. Zeigler Dendy, M.S.
Tender Mercies: Inside the World of a Child Abuse Investigator	Keith N. Richards
The ADHD Parenting Handbook	Colleen Alexander-Roberts
The Best Interests of the Child: The Least Detrimental Alternative	J. Goldstein, A. Solnit, S. Goldstein, A. Freud
The Broken Cord	Michael Dorris
The Child's Attorney: A Guide to Representing Children......	Ann M. Haralambie
The Deeply Moving Account of a Psychologist's First Multiple Personality Patient	Trula Michaels LaCalle, Ph.D
The Foster Care Crisis: Translating Research into Policy and Practice	Eds. Patrick A. Curtis, Grady Dale Jr., and Joshua C.Kendall
The Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls
The Healing Power of the Family	Richard J. Delaney
The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices From the Foster Care System	Youth Communication
The Heart of a Woman	Maya Angelou
The Lost Boy - A Foster Child's Search for the love of a Family	Dave Pelzer
The Lovely Bones	Alice Sebold
The Myth of the Bad Mother	Jane Swigart
The Nanny Diaries	Emma McLaughlin and Nicole Kraus
The Open Adoption Book	Bruce M. Rappaport, Ph.D.
The Optimistic Child: A Revolutionary Program that Safeguards Children Against Depression & Builds Lifelong Resilience	Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.
The Sexualized Child in Foster Care: A Guide for Foster Parents and Other Professionals	Sally G. Hoyle
The Silent Children: A Book for Parents About the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse	Linda Tschirhart Sanford
The Social Context of Child Abuse and Neglect	Leroy H. Pelton
The Star: A Story To Help Young Children Understand Foster Care	Cynthia Miller Lovell
Three Little Words	Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Treating the Aftermath of Sexual Abuse: A Handbook for Working with Children in Care	Margaret Osmond, Duane Durham, Andrew Leggett, John Keating
Trust and Betrayal in the Treatment of Child Abuse	Laurie K. MacKinnon
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk	Marc Parent
Up and Down the Mountain: Helping Children Cope with Parental Alcoholism	Pamela Leib Higgins
Understanding Children (second edition)	Judith Schickedanz, David Schickedanz, Karen Hansen, Peggy Forsyth
Unspeakable Acts	Jan Hollingsworth
Wasted: The Plight of America's Unwanted Children	Patrick T. Murphy
What's a Foster Family Anyway?	Martine Golden Inlay
When Do I Go Home?: Intervention Strategy for Foster Parents and Helping Professionals	Sally G. Hoyle
When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children With Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)	Nancy L. Thomas
Where is Home? Living Through Foster Care	E.P. Jones
White Oleander	Janet Fitch
Who is a Stranger and What Should I Do?	Linda Walvoord Girard
Zachary’s New Home: A Story For Foster And Adopted Children	Geraldine Blomquist, M.S.W. & Paul Blomquist