Marc hopes that his Uncle Jake can help him turn around his terrible summer, which he has to spend at camp with Nathan James, who is mean and annoying, while longing for a fancy new bike his parents will not buy him.

"A Wall Street tech leader explains how small behavioral changes lead to major self-improvement Whether trying to lose weight, save money, or get organized, we're always setting goals and making resolutions but rarely following through on them. Determination and willpower aren't strong enough to defeat our mass of ingrained habits; to succeed we have to learn how to focus our self-control on precise behavioral targets and overwhelm them, according...

Roxy the Rhino does not mean to interrupt or cut in line but after meeting a new friend she learns to control her impulses and stop and think before acting.

Focused Ninja had a hard time paying attention to instructions and working on tasks like homework until his friend Confident Ninja shared the strategies in the F.O.C.U.S. method.

When it comes to drones and video games, fifth-grader Michael and Merle, a 2000-year-old talking squirrel, have very little self-control.

McGonigal provides a step-by-step program for identifying goals, strengthening self-control, and making lifelong changes, whether it's weight loss, financial health, stress reduction, conquering procrastination, being a better parent, or finding your focus.

With his Navy SEAL Uncle Jake back for a visit, Marc plans. With seventh grade finishing up, Marc begins to plan for his Navy SEAL Uncle Jake's summer visit, including how Uncle Jake could help Marc in relating to fellow student Danny Rhinehart, who seems to be better than Marc at everything and a nice person on top of that.

Seventh-grader Selah Godfrey knows that to be "normal" she has to keep her feelings tightly controlled when people are around, but after hitting a fellow student, she needs to figure out just what makes her different--and why that is ok. Told in verse.