Since her mother left, C.J. Jones does not do friends and does not smile, but as she builds sandcastles and dreams of becoming an architect, she notices a group of neighborhood children who invite her to play with them and tell her about God.
Tressa is worried that the robins nesting on her grandmother's window ledge will not survive a pre-Easter cold snap, but her grandmother urges her to trust that God is caring for them, as a robin once cared for His son, Jesus.
The tree for Christmas for Jesus through the different phases of His life. The story of Christ told through the theme of wood.Subjects: Christmas, Jesus Christ, wood, salvation.
In small-town Missouri in tumultuous 1963, Tree Taylor, thirteen, wants to write an important story to secure a spot on the high school newspaper staff, but when a neighbor is shot, she investigates and learns that some secrets should be kept.
Maggie Dale's on a fast track to nowhere...stuck at a dead-end job in a podunk town in Ohio. Then a stranger comes to town. This is a contemporary story of Mary Magdalene - what if it happened today?.
Dandi enjoys nothing more than baseball, and so after the boys at school tell her their lunchtime game is now boys only, she enters an essay contest hoping to become a bat boy for the Kansas City A's, not realizing the contest is for boys only. Includes author's note on Title IX.
When high school senior Bailey Daley shows up at a St. Louis diner soaking wet in the middle of a rainy night, wearing her prom dress and leading three dogs, the owner invites her in to tell her story of searching in vain for the perfect boyfriend.
Scoop, looking for meaningful work in the summer before sophomore year, enlists some of her friends in a plan involving horses and children, but the group's inability to work as a team threatens to derail the entire project.
Discusses the difference between scientific and creative problem-solving techniques and describes a five-step problem-solving process that can be applied to almost any situation. Includes case studies, practice exercises, and additional resources.
