"Everyone has a hard time saying no, but doing so can vastly improve our lives and relationships. Enter the art of empowered refusal: the skill of strategically saying no from a place of personal power that gives voice to your principles, values, and priorities while protecting your relationships and reputations. In Power of Saying No, Professor and researcher Vanessa Patrick explains that empowered refusal is a much-needed framework that can be mastered...

Gia the deer is an organized gardener, so she is dismayed when her friends' enthusiasm to help creates chaos, but she has a difficult time speaking up and telling them what they are doing wrong.

Paulina, nicknamed Feather, leaves her piano to take up boxing, showing her father and brothers that she will stand up for herself.

"Felix has a new best friend! With take-charge Fiona, anything seems possible, and before Felix knows it, she sweeps him into singing and dancing with her as pixies in the Guinea Pig Jubilee talent show. But right after Felix's first-prize triumph, trouble waits in the wings. "Twinkletoes!" someone taunts, and Felix crumbles. Can he pull himself together and face down the bullies? With a little help from Fiona, can Felix find a magic key that unlocks...

Describes the characteristics and behaviors of women who are people pleasers, explains why it is so difficult for them to say no, offers advice on how to recognize and deal with controllers, and includes guidelines for making positive change.

A brief biography of the successful entertainer, Oprah Winfrey, focusing on the value of assertiveness.

When Alma Rivera and her friends decide they want to paint a mural in their neighborhood, everyone has a different idea, and it is up to Alma to get their attention and suggest a solution, but when she starts painting and Andrae offers to help, he keeps adding things that aren't in the design and once again she must find a way to handle the situation.