New · Mike Pope Books
Maroa Stories
Stories From Small-Town America — Volume One
Stories about the places people lived, grew up, left, and still carry with them. Choose Amazon delivery or a signed copy mailed personally by Mike.
Books by Mike Pope · Published by Pope Studios
Serious books. Practical guides. One completely agreeable shelf.
Start with Mike's authored work, move into the action-oriented Pope Guides, or enter the separate Mr. Yeser property for satire built around people and systems you recognize immediately.
Amazon handles every individual order. Pope Studios handles bulk requests for 20 or more copies.
Mike Pope Books
Start with Mike's newest book.
Serious writing about kids, schools, measurement, responsibility, leadership, and the human consequences of institutional decisions.
Mike Pope Books
It All Falls on the Kid
The True Cost of Evaluation in American Schools
A serious examination of what happens when measurement replaces judgment and institutional consequences are transferred to children.
Read on AmazonPope Guides
Practical books built for action.
Clear, focused guides that help people make better decisions about trust, responsibility, parenting, and everyday systems.
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The Floor
How to Help Kids Without Doing Their Growing for Them
$29.99 on Amazon
One practical test for separating support that builds capacity from support that quietly replaces the child.
Trust
How to Build It, Earn It, and Keep It With Your Kids
$26.99 on Amazon
A concise guide to the decisions, patterns, and follow-through that make trust durable inside a family.
The Handoff
How to Stop Managing Your Teen and Start Preparing Them for Adulthood
$26.99 on Amazon
A practical guide to moving from constant management toward judgment, ownership, and adult readiness.
What Counts
How to Decide What Matters Before the System Decides for You
$26.99 on Amazon
A practical guide to deciding what deserves weight before a school, workplace, or institution supplies the scoreboard.
Say It
How to Have the Conversation Before Avoiding It Becomes the Problem
$26.99 on Amazon
A practical guide to naming the conversation, saying the difficult part clearly, and acting before avoidance becomes its own decision.
Stop Carrying It
How to Help, Lead, and Love Without Becoming Responsible for Everyone
$26.99 on Amazon
A practical guide to separating care from ownership and returning responsibility to the person, role, or system that holds it.
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Every book card opens the exact Amazon listing for familiar checkout, delivery, and gifting.
Find the right person ↓Give an audience the same inside joke.
Events, teams, associations, employers, sponsors, schools, clubs, and organizations can order one title or mix the shelf.
Request bulk pricing →Mr. Yeser Books · 12 Available Now
Find the person who needs their own unofficial guide.
Mr. Yeser's books are a separate Pope Studios property: short, specific satire for the teacher, parent, coworker, coach, hobbyist, or committee member you know too well.
12 gifts found
The sports parent, coach, or tournament family
Youth Sports Parents
How to Raise Athletes, Spend Everything, and Still Blame the Coach
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the parent who calls youth sports a family activity and owns a radar gun.
The coworker, manager, or committee member
Meetings
How to Schedule More, Decide Less, and Call It Collaboration
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the person who scheduled a meeting to discuss why nothing got done.
The HR professional or workplace survivor
Human Resources
How to Care Deeply, Document Everything, and Forward It to Someone Else
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the coworker who has ever been thanked for bringing a concern forward.
The parent who has it completely figured out this week
Parenting
How to Raise Independent Children by Immediately Solving Every Inconvenience
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the parent who is raising independent children by solving everything immediately.
The family organizer, team parent, or office thread
Group Chats
How to Reply to Everyone, Miss the Point, and Keep the Thread Alive
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the person keeping a forty-seven-message thread alive for everyone.
The homeschool parent or family
Homeschooling
How to Ignore the Bell Schedule, Teach at the Wrong Pace, and Learn Without Permission
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the parent whose kitchen table has become an unaccredited learning institution.
The political junkie who can still laugh
Politicians
How to Promise Everything, Answer Nothing, and Call It Leadership
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the person who watches every speech and has never heard the question answered.
The teacher, principal, or professional learner
Professional Development
How to Lose a Planning Period, Learn Nothing New, and Call It Growth
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the teacher who lost a planning period learning how valuable their time is.
The church member, volunteer, or committee regular
Religion
How to Love Everyone, Organize Everything, and Call It Fellowship
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the person who knows fellowship works best after the subcommittee reports.
The teacher who gives everything
Teaching
How to Give Everything, Stay Late, and Still Need to Do More
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the teacher who stayed late, spent their own money, and was asked for one more thing.
The pickleball player who calls it casual
Pickleball
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the player who owns six paddles but is still just trying to have fun.
The author, aspiring writer, or KDP survivor
Publishing on Amazon
How to Upload One Simple Book, Fix Seventeen Invisible Errors, and Call Yourself Published
$12.99 on Amazon
Give it to the writer who thought finishing the manuscript was the difficult part.
Coming Next from Mr. Yeser
More people are about to become extremely easy to shop for.
Boat owners, golfers, campers, gun owners, and fantasy-football general managers are currently being documented.
Coming soon
Owning a Boat
The purchase, storage, maintenance, accessories, weather, and paperwork of responsible leisure.
Coming soon
The Weekend Golfer
Equipment, tee times, swing fixes, scorecards, and the round that will finally put everything together.
Coming soon
Camping
A complete system for buying equipment so the family can temporarily live without its equipment.
Coming soon
Owning a Gun
One gun, seventeen accessories, responsible training, additional storage, and responsible ownership continuing to express itself.
Coming soon
Fantasy Football
Draft boards, waiver claims, trade offers, weekly lineup decisions, and complete managerial accountability.
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