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Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explains how the primal human emotion of fear can sometimes manifest in the form of extremes, describing common phobias ranging from arachnophobia to zoophobia to reveal their histories, treatments, and famous sufferers.
2) False memory
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
While struggling to help an agoraphobic friend cope, Martie Rhodes, a young video game designer, suddenly falls prey to her own traumatic autophobia, a fear of herself.
Martie Rhodes is a successful young computer games designer with a loving husband, Dusty, and a seemingly normal life. Her best friend, Susan, however, suffers from agoraphobia, or a fear of open spaces, and relies on Martie to take her to weekly therapy sessions. Suddenly and inexplicably,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
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Description
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply,...
Author
Publisher
Hay House
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
We live in the Age of Anxiety. The rates of overall anxiety have increased dramatically during the last 50 years. In fact, the average child today exhibits the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s. We now know where it comes from, how it operates on the mind, and the behavior it generates. Here, cognitive therapist Robert L. Leahy looks at the origin of anxiety and teaches us how to outsmart our fears for a less stressful...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Now in its sixth edition and recommended by therapists worldwide, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has been the unparalleled, essential resource for people struggling with anxiety and phobias for almost thirty years. Living with anxiety, panic disorders, or phobias can make you feel like you aren't in control of your life. If you're ready to tackle the fears that hold you back, this book is your go-to guide. Packed with the most effective skills...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to syllogomania (a compulsion to hoard) to zoophobia (a fear of animals)."--Publisher's website.
12) Slappy New Year!
Author
Series
Goosebumps HorrorLand volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
400L
Language
English
Description
"Ray Gordon loves to scare his younger brother, Brandon. It's not hard considering Brandon is terrified of everything--loud noises, roller coasters, and especially the wooden dummy, Slappy, that Ray got from Jonathan Chiller's HorrorLand gift shop. In order to throw his big New Year's Eve party, Ray's parents make him promise to leave Brandon alone. But strange, mean-spirited things keep happening to his little brother, and Slappy always seems to...
13) Phobias
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses phobias including: history and research, social and specific phobias, simple phobias, panic attacks and agoraphobia, and overcoming phobias.
15) Primal fear
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Explores the history, psychology, and science behind what scares us most. Examines the roots of each fear, when the fear flourished, how the fear has changed over time, and how many of these fears have been manipulated to create mass hysteria.
16) School of Fear
Author
Series
School of fear volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, and thirteen-year-old Garrison, are sent to a remote Massachusetts school to overcome their phobias, but tragedy strikes and the quartet must work together--with no adult assistance--to face their fears.
17) Arachnophobia
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
A doctor who is deathly afraid of spiders moves his family to a small town where the disgusting arachnids are attacking the townspeople. He must overcome his fear to save the community, but it may already be too late!