This book is about a young woman growing up on the plains of Oklahoma. She is the daughter of a farmer whose mother is an alcoholic. She spends the first eighteen years of her life trying to escape abuseverbal, physical, and sexual. She explains how she was able to at last raise above her past and live a happy, peaceful life through her belief in herself and in her God.
As climate changes bring uncertain weather patterns and as Earth's population grows, it becomes increasingly important to figure out how to feed everyone. As Earth's greatest scientists and activists work on a viable solution, it's important for readers to realize that they can take action too. This guidebook explores agricultural and distribution practices around the world. Readers will learn about ideas that ensure everyone has access to food resources and proper nutrition. Your young readers will be inspired to take an active role in changing the world for the better.
Broken-Mended is a recount of my childhood through adulthood of what childhood molestation does to format one’s life. NO HOPES, NO DREAMS, NO SELF-CONFIDENCE AND FOR THE MOST PART WISHING FOR THE COURAGE TO TAKE MY OWN LIFE AT TIMES... I knew I couldn’t do that to my mom so I basically “Flat-Lined” through life, doing anything to stay one step ahead of the pain. Wearing a mask of, “No Worries...Everything will be ok.” No affection to anyone around me in my family...No hugs, No “I love you” to anyone in or around me... When a child is molested by the “man” so called “father,” that was supposed to love me, wreaks havoc on all levels...LOTS OF SELF- HATRED, LOTS OF PRAYING STARTING AT THE AGE OF TWO OR THREE FOR GOD TO PLEASE TAKE ME HOME...PLEASE... I just wasn’t good enough for anything... When I was eight-teen, while waterskiing, I hit a log and went down...they took me to the hospital as my knee was a mess...everything was torn up...all muscles, ligaments, tendons and my kneecap was shattered. They wanted to amputate my leg from above the knee, however back then they didn’t have prosthetic legs that went above the knee...so I said NO. Just try to come up with something...PLEASE...we can always take it off later, but we can NEVER put it back on! Broken-Mended started out as just a journal I wrote in the time I spent in bed with a blown-out knee at forty-one years of age...as I had already had sixteen surgeries and after research, I knew I needed a total knee replacement but my orthopedic surgeon of so many years did not want to do it...
Close friends Madison and Dayton play together so well that they are a scoring machine for their team, but when Dayton becomes more interested in partying than soccer, Madison worries about their chances of getting onto a good college team.
Billie Jean was a world's #1 women's tennis player who won 39 Grand Slam titles. Read how this little girl whose mother sewed her tennis clothes became a world champion and led the way for equal rights for all people. She worked tirelessly to have equal pay for men and women tennis players and equal playing opportunities for girls and boys in all sports. Keywords: Champion, Citizen, Athlete, Overcome, Persevere, Tennis, Battle Of The Sexes, Billie Jean King, Leadership, Strength
As Reverend and Mrs. Camden counsel pregnant teens and Matt struggles with a project for Human Sexuality class, Mary and Lucy get themselves in trouble over a co-ed basketball sleepover.
At eighteen years old, Amanda Bateman applied to be a counselor at a Girl Scout camp in Western Pennsylvania. Instead of looking for internships or working a part time job, she canoes, eats chicken fingers, and fights raccoons. TIE DYE TUESDAY is a reflection of what those years have made her believe about family, friendship, and herself. It is a memoir of the summers between her years in college and trying to grow up while being paid to act like a kid.
Dalton Moss has come a long way since she left her semi-single life in Los Angeles to live as Mrs. Roman Duquesne in Washington, D.C. She's a devoted wife, she's got a much more serious career and now, she finds herself keeping company with scholars and the political elite in place of the barflies and forever young who were her friends and colleagues back home. Who would have ever thought it? Dalton, it would seem, has finally grown up. But it's an ongoing struggle to define herself as a "real" adult in a real adult world as she can't help but recall her former existence as a carefree party girl in Hollywood . and even wonder if she made the right decision to leave it all behind. It doesn't help that life is going on without her just fine back in California (except for a very disturbing transformation by her little sister, Maddy)-and that everyone she meets in Washington seems to know something about her husband that she doesn't . When Dalton is told of a secret that Roman's been keeping from her ever since they first met, by Roman's ex-girlfriend, to add insult to injury . it suddenly appears that she might have made the wrong choice when she gave up everything that was hers to share everything of his. Now Dalton's faced with the daunting task of having to figure out if it's situations like these that come along to challenge a marriage, and test two people's love for one another-or ultimately, prove that it was never meant to be.
Hollywood's a dog-eat-dog world, but you know who your friends are ... What would you do if you were born on Oscar night into Hollywood royalty? If you went to Vanity Fair parties rather than birthday parties? And if your life felt like a glamourous movie - but you were only an extra in it, playing boyfriendless, jobless hopeful no.310? Meet Lola Santisi. She's an Actorholic. Stuck in a pattern of dating beautiful actors then as soon as she's got over the dazzle of their teeth and the rockhard abs, realising they're just as self-obsessed as the last one. She's gone cold-turkey, and resolved to plough her energy into helping her friends instead. Julian, Lola's BGF (best gay friend), is a designer on the up. But he'll be down and out if he can't get someone to wear his designs on Oscar night so persuades Lola to become his Hollywood Ambassador. Lola's best friend Kate, is an ambitious young agent desperate to sign a big name. Together with their other friend, Cricket, a ditzy actress aspiring to play something other than a coma victims on ER, they must navigate through celebrity-hell if they're ever going to make it to the red carpet...
Meet and get ready to fall for thirteen-year-old girls Grace Elizabeth Gordon and Allie Smith. Follow the girls' back to back, "She said, She said" journal entries as they record their feelings throughout the dramatic school year. Share their secrets as they adventure through the complexities of ninth grade drama, mean girl tricks, fun and life. Their world is full of excitement running the full range of experiences from the fi rst Kiss to the ultimate betrayal of a best friend. Journey with the girls as they strive for popularity, to party, battle peer pressure, go on commercial auditions, gossip and shop till they drop. The surprise twistending will leave readers reeling!
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