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Sugar Cookies and a Green Station Wagon
A Story of Hope for All Prodigals
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Follow the journey of the Johnson family through the ups and downs of a tumultuous and agonizing period of their lives and review with them the lessons they learned when their oldest son, Jared, committed suicide. This is is a story of faith, hope, and renewed love that will uplift and reaffirm the value of human life, including every wayward prodigal anywhere.
by Jennifer Prior
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Build the skills that all fifth graders need to succeed using this engaging resource! Based on today's standards, the activities in this book are designed to develop students' skills in reading, word study, language, writing, mathematics, social studies, and science. It also features fun, yet challenging,...
Support Your Child With Literacy
In Their First Year at School
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The first day at school is the day when an adventure of life-long learning begins and with a positive attitude your child will learn all the skills needed to equip them for adult life. The first year in school sets down the building blocks upon which all other learning takes place. Supporting your child...
User-Friendly Math for Parents
Learning and Understanding the Language of Numbers Is Key
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
User-Friendly Numbers in Math for Parents shares stories of students’ reasoning, thinking, and sometimes misunderstandings about numbers - stories that provide the opportunity to see math differently. Most of the students are visual-spatial, creative, daydreamers who may miss the details in math,...
by Shiv Mohan Mishra
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The novel 'Helplessness‘ is a strong exposition of highly educated, gentle husband men's suffering their inner conflict, their heartfelt anguish, their chest rendering pain and the wail of their miserable condition in a very pathetic manner living among the civilized human society of the world....
by UniversityParent
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
This guide to Missouri State University is created especially for parents and families to help them navigate their student’s college experience. It answers key questions parents have about the university and includes links to further information. Parenting a college student comes with its own challenges...
Welcome to Our World
Crossing Continents: a Father and Son Take the Road from Melbourne to London
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Yet I knew even then that this whole Melbourne to London thing was over the top. It was quite outrageous. Utterly preposterous. But I was a gonertotally, hopelessly bitten. Having an adventure is easy. Step 1drive down ones street. Step 2keep driving. Step 3stop at London! Welcome to Our World is...
Home
Finding Your Place in the Family of God
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In her powerfully refreshing way, Jennifer offers insight into the church from her unique perspective of growing up as a pastors kid. She shares her own story of finding herself disengaging from the family of God as she wrestled with her own questions of who God really was, despite being taught about...
The Elements of Skill
A Conscious Approach to Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Why do so many beginners, both children and adults, fail to master chosen skills? The Elements of Skill was inspired by—and addresses—that question with a program based on proven techniques. The book, written by a renowned practitioner of the Alexander Technique, outlines an educational system...
by Ebony Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This is my life; I have written this book to share that some of us are going through the same things, whether you are man or woman. This story will make you cry, think, and even smile; those also are the feelings that life takes us through. My story shows you that you never know who is or who has...
Finding Me?And Them
Stories of Assimilation
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Finding meand Them: Stories of Assimilation is a collection of ten stories. They are autobiographical. They are nonfiction. They are fiction based on fact. Each story tells the authors life as an individual with or (fictional) without a disability. All of them find the author. They show different...
The Search for a Theology of Childhood
Essays by Jerome W. Berryman from 1978-2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Assembled for the first time in one collection are some of the major writings of Jerome W Berryman, fourth generation interpreter of the Montessori tradition, and founder of Godly Play an approach to religious education and the pastoral care of children which is today being drawn upon all over the world....
by Kristen J. Amundson, president/CEO, National Association of State Boards of Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Kindergarten is no longer just a time when children play and sit in a circle. Today’s kindergarten students are exposed to a much more academic curriculum. So what should children know and be able to do so they’ll be ready for the modern kindergarten classroom? Based on the latest research, this...
When Life Hands You Alzheimer's, Make Aprons!
A Daughter's Journal of Her Mother's Last Months
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Alzheimer's is a disease that afflicts all gender, race, social, and economic classes. It incapacitates the brain of one family member, while holding other family members hostage in a montage of caregiving responsibilities. Many families are ripped apart as they struggle with the decisions of how...