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  1. Books by Cathy Cassidy
  2. Contents
  3. 1. Friends Forever?
  4. Making Friends
  5. Keeping Friends
  6. Falling Out
  7. Helpbox
  8. Read It…
  9. Websites:
  10. THE FRIENDSHIP CHARTER: 6 EASY STEPS TO MAKING A DIFFERENCE
  11. Cathy’s Books… Published by Puffin
  12. 2. Growing Up
  13. Body Matters
  14. Girl Talk
  15. Skin Deep
  16. Mixed-Up Feelings
  17. Helpbox
  18. Read It…
  19. Websites:
  20. Cathy’s Books… Published by Puffin
  21. 3. Boys, Boys, Boys
  22. First Crush
  23. Taking Your Time
  24. Love Hurts
  25. Breaking Up
  26. Helpbox
  27. Read It…
  28. 4. School Daze
  29. School’s Cool!
  30. Teacher’s Pet?
  31. Teacher Trouble
  32. Work It Out
  33. School Blues
  34. Helpbox
  35. Read It…
  36. Websites:
  37. 5. Beat Bullying
  38. Don’t Pick On Me
  39. Sticks and Stones
  40. Speaking Out
  41. An End to Bullying
  42. Helpbox
  43. Read It…
  44. Websites:
  45. Helplines:
  46. 6. Confidence Tricks
  47. Accept Yourself!
  48. Making Friends With You!
  49. Look for the Good Stuff!
  50. Get Happy!
  51. Do it Anyway!
  52. Get Lucky!
  53. Helpbox
  54. Read It…
  55. 7. Being Yourself
  56. Who Am I?
  57. Style Matters
  58. Let It Out
  59. Peer Pressure
  60. Role Models
  61. Being Different
  62. There’s No Such Thing as Perfect
  63. Helpbox
  64. Read It…
  65. Websites:
  66. 8. Dream On
  67. Big Ideas
  68. Fame at Last
  69. Making It Happen
  70. Helpbox
  71. Read It…
  72. Read It…
  73. 9. Family Matters
  74. Super Strict?
  75. Brothers and Sisters
  76. Problem Parents…
  77. … and Parent Problems!
  78. Patchwork families
  79. Helpbox
  80. Read It…
  81. Websites:
  82. Helplines:
  83. 10. Sad Stuff
  84. Bereavement
  85. When Someone is Ill
  86. Scary Stuff
  87. Broken Families
  88. Helpbox
  89. Read It…
  90. Websites:
  91. Helplines:
  92. Email:
  93. Write to:
  94. 11. Things That Don’t Help…
  95. Don’t Worry!
  96. Little White Lies
  97. Self-destruct
  98. Rebel, Rebel
  99. Looking for Love?
  100. Hurting Inside
  101. Food Wars
  102. Running Away
  103. Helpbox
  104. Read It…
  105. Websites:
  106. Helplines:
  107. Email:
  108. 12. … and Things That Do!
  109. Negotiate!
  110. Talk It Over
  111. Expert Help
  112. Feeling Understood
  113. Express Yourself!
  114. Get Moving!
  115. Believe It or Not…
  116. Back to Nature
  117. Good Stuff!
  118. The Fab Five
  119. Helpbox
  120. Check Out:
  121. Websites:
  122. Helplines:
  123. Inspiration Box Things to Help on Blue Days!

There are a million cool things to get involved in… the only limits are your imagination. What are you waiting for? Get out there and find yourself a life!

Websites:

  • www.childline.org.uk – sections on feeling sad, helping a friend
  • www.cathycassidy.com – send in a picture or poem, enter the writing comp, check out the Cathy Cassidy & ChildLine page, find out more about the books… and check out the cool, free downloads and ideas to help you celebrate friendship!

Helplines:

  • ChildLine – 0800 1111

Cathy’s Books… Published by Puffin

  • Shine On, Daizy Star – valuing friendship, family, truth and trust
  • Dizzy – friendship
  • Indigo Blue – being brave enough to ask for help
  • Driftwood – expressing yourself through art, the power of friendship, asking for help
  • Scarlett – learning to trust again, controlling anger
  • Sundae Girl – friendship, family, learning to accept help
  • Lucky Star – expressing yourself through art, standing up for what you believe in
  • GingerSnaps – random acts of kindness, standing up for yourself
  • Angel Cake – more random acts of kindness, friendship; trust

Inspiration Box Things to Help on Blue Days!

To copy out for your HAPPY BOX or just to look at on sad and rainy days…

‘I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work!’ –Thomas Edison

‘Never, never, never give up’ –Winston Churchill

‘Imagination rules the world’ –Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt…’ –Mark Twain

‘I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it’ –Thomas Jefferson

‘Our greatest glory is not in never falling… but in rising every time we fall’ –Confucius

‘The only way to have a friend is to be one’ –Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Be yourself, everyone else is already taken’ –Oscar Wilde

‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover’ –Mark Twain

‘You can’t have a rainbow without the rain’ –anonymous

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