Joy picked a spot on the wall closest to the door and slid down to the floor. With her hands covering her face and sobbing a bit, she mumbled under her breath, 'I just can't believe this is happening to me. There isn't anyone around here. This is such a mess. What am I going to do?' Joy Jensen is a smart, bubbly eleven-year-old who's moving with her mom and dad to a new neighborhood. She isn't too worried about a new school, new house, or making new friends...until she arrives in a place called Gathering Glen. Then she realizes that moving to a whole new town, away from her grandparents and her friends, is much harder than she thought. As Joy struggles with doubts about finding friends and fitting in, she learns valuable lessons and even enjoys some surprises along the way. Author Cindy North introduces Joy in the first of a collection of stories about Gathering Glen, and young readers will love learning, along with Joy, the importance of staying positive and being confident in yourself. Find out what happens when Joy Moves to Gathering Glen!
One night four lives entered the world by the hands of an Amish midwife, just outside North Star, Pennsylvania. Rebekah’s Babies, as they are called, are now grown adults and in four heartwarming novellas each young person experiences a journey of discovery, a possibility of love, and the wonder of Christmas. Guiding Star by Katie Ganshert Curiosity gets the best of Englischer Chase Wellington when he investigates the twenty-five-year-old disappearance of an Amish baby. When he finds adventurous Elle McAllister in Iowa will his discoveries upend her world? Mourning Star by Amanda Flower Eden Hochstetler slips from her parents’ fudge shop to investigate the death of her friend Isaac. Who is guilty? Isaac’s handsome great nephew Jesse, an angry Englischer, or someone else? In the Stars by Cindy Woodsmall Heartbroken Kore Detweiler avoids North Star after Savilla Beiler rejects his love. But when he is unexpectedly called to return home, he and Savilla must join forces to keep a family together. Star of Grace by Mindy Starns Clark and Emily Clark Andy Danner left North Star to join a new Amish settlement in Mississippi. His little brother devises a scheme to bring Andy home for Christmas and unwittingly unleashes the power of forgiveness in a reclusive widower’s life.
Did you know that the Wright brothers completed the first successful airplane flight in North Carolina in 1903? Or that North Carolina grows the most sweet potatoes in the country? Discover more exciting facts about the history, geography, and symbols of this state in North Carolina, part of the Explore the U.S.A. series. Each book in the series uses vibrant images and engaging text to take beginning readers on a journey across the nation.
Welcome to the fascinating world of early North America — the land that once was home to mastodons, mammoths, and the hunters who followed the herds. The activities in this book provide an overview of life in North America beginning with the first migrations of people across the Bering land bridge during the last Ice Age. The eight full-color transparencies at the back of the book (print books) or the included PowerPoint slides (eBooks) can be used alone or with specific activities listed in the table of contents. For a print book with the PowerPoint presentation instead of transparencies, please see MP8823.
Did you know that North Dakota grows more sunflowers than any other state? Or that North Dakota produces enough beef to make 2 billion hamburgers per year? Discover more exciting facts about the history, geography, and symbols of this state in North Dakota, part of the Explore the U.S.A. series. Each book in the series uses vibrant images and engaging text to take beginning readers on a journey across the nation.
Take students in grades 4 and up on a field trip without leaving the classroom using Jumpstarters for Geography: Short Daily Warm-Ups for the Classroom. This 48-page resource covers maps of the United States, state capitals, landmarks, nicknames, slogans, plants and animals, products and crops, history, and physical features. It includes five warm-ups per reproducible page, answer keys, and suggestions for use.
As centuries turn and decades pass, many wars and major historical events fade into the national memory as bold-face words in our history textbooks. However, the Civil War is unique, in that it still remains a heavily discussed, published, and debated topic in todays society. No other war has struck such a chord in our countrys consciousness, combining romantic notions of glory and chivalry with horrific images of death and devastation, both of the landscape and its people. Entire libraries of books are devoted to discussing the battles, the tactics, and machines of warfare, the strategies of notable and eccentric commanders, and the biographies of the many larger-than-life personalities conducting the war, both civilian and military. But like most wars, the Civil War was a rich mans war, but a poor mans fight. It is the story of the common soldiers plight that is most engaging, for it is in those stories in which one sees the true effects the war had on the people and time. The Tar Heel State provided much of the manpower behind the Confederate armies and thus, sacrificed many of its fathers and sons for the Confederate cause. An eclectic scrapbook of sorts, Piedmont Soldiers and Their Families details, in word and image, the lives of some of those common soldiers and their families in Forsyth, Stokes, Surry, Yadkin, and Davidson Counties, allowing todays readers an opportunity to explore the lives of their ancestors affected by the war.
Are the adventures over for this tiny pencil? "No one wants a little pencil that's all used up!" jeered the new pencils. Little Markie sadly wonders if the new pencils are right. Are my adventures over? he worries. Do I belong in the trash can? Little Markie is the smallest pencil in the classroom. He's been sharpened many, many times, and he's so small, he can hardly be seen so far down in the pencil cup. Students always seem to choose the brand-new pencils, looking tall and proud with nice fresh erasers. Standing as tall as possible, Little Markie gathers his courage and confronts the bullies. This lovable little pencil may be short, but he's still full of BIG ideas!
High school senior, Luke Ryan, may have gone all-star in baseball the previous year, but nothing about his current life resembles that famed reputation. With Christmas break on the horizon, he resents the compulsory trip to visit his estranged father in California. Not only is he forced to abandon his mother over the holiday, but his pianist girlfriend, Andrea, also--who seems too preoccupied by her Christmas Eve charity concert to care that they'll be apart.On the way to California, he meets free-spirit Charli who spins his world in a completely different direction. Once in his old stomping grounds, he's forced to face the reality of his sister's death and his parents' divorce. Decisions assail him over his future, his girlfriend, and his home. Is he destined to move back to California to secure a baseball scholarship or does God have another plan for his life?
Teach students the language of maps and watch them discover the world! This packet presents the basics of reading specialty maps, and much more! Following directions today will prepare your students for travel!
Worie Dressar is 17 years old when influenza and typhoid ravage her Appalachian Mountain community in 1877, leaving behind a growing number of orphaned children with no way to care for themselves. Worie's mother has been secretly feeding a number of these little ones on Sourwood Mountain. But when she dies suddenly, Worie is left to figure out why and how she was caring for them. Plagued with two good-for-nothing brothers--one greedy and the other a drunkard--Worie fights to save her home and the orphaned children now in her begrudging care. Along the way, she will discover the beauty of unconditional love and the power of forgiveness as she cares for all of Momma's children. Storyteller and popular speaker Cindy K. Sproles pens a tender novel full of sacrifice, heartache, and courage in the face of overwhelming obstacles.
Treat your students to an exciting hot air balloon ride across the USA. There's lots to see and do as each state is visited (the District of Columbia, too), its history and geography explored, and fascinating facts explained. There are map activities, places and physical features to identify, and topics for further investigation. There are parks, lakes, mountains and swamps to discover as well as the thousands of plants and animals that share our land and water. This product has been selected by a national panel of classroom teachers as a winner of Learning Magazine's Teachers' Choice Award.
Leath Elliott is a seventeen-year-old competitive shooter living with her mother in Woodvine, North Carolina. Leath’s father was killed in a tragic accident when she was fourteen, and her friend Victor Santana has been there for her every step of the way since. But the friendship starts to change when Victor develops deeper feelings for her. If that wasn’t complicated enough, newcomer James Turner, an emancipated minor with a dark past, wanders into her sights. Leath is captivated by him and wonders if he might be the boy of her dreams—literally. Fading is the first book in an exciting new fantasy romance series by award-winning author Cindy Cipriano.
The challenges of identity, assimilation, achievement, and politics that were faced by Lahoma and Cindy are the same challenges our youth are facing today." –Jaki Shelton Green, poet and NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee The school careers of two teenage girls who lived across town from each other—one black, one white—were altered by a court-ordered desegregation plan for Durham, NC in 1970. LaHoma and Cindy both found themselves at the same high school from different sides of a court-ordered racial “balancing act.” This plan thrust each of them involuntarily out of their comfort zones and into new racial landscapes. Their experiences, recounted in alternating first person narratives, are the embodiment of desegregation policies, situated in a particular time and place. Cindy and LaHoma’s intertwining coming of age stories are part of a bigger story about America, education and race—and about how the personal relates to the political. This dual memoir covers the two women’s life trajectories from early school days to future careers working in global public health, challenging gender biases, racial inequities, and health disparities. LaHoma and Cindy tell their stories aware of the country's return to de facto school segregation, achieved through the long-term dismantling of policies that initially informed their school assignments. As adults, they consider the influence of school desegregation on their current lives and the value of bringing all of us into conversation about what is lost or gained when children go to school in black and white.
Family, community, faith, and love. These “quilt blocks” sewn together made Ariana’s beautiful life. When they are pulled to pieces, will anything familiar remain? The Old Order Amish life Ariana Brenneman loved vanished virtually overnight with the discovery that she was switched at birth twenty years ago. Now she’s immersed in the Englischer world, getting to know her mother and under the authority of her biological father, an atheist intellectual with resolute plans to expand Ariana’s worldview. Only Quill Schlabach, a childhood friend living Englisch, can steady the tilting ground between Ariana’s two worlds, but can she trust him after so many betrayals? At the same time, Skylar Nash is forced to choose rehab or spend several months with her true relatives, the large Brenneman family and their seemingly backward life—no electricity, no technology, no fun. What the young woman can’t leave behind is her addiction to illegal prescription drugs and a deep emptiness from the belief that she doesn’t belong in either family. New ties are binding Ariana and Skylar to the lives they were meant to have. Can they find the wisdom and strength they’ll need to follow God’s threads into unexpected futures? Fraying at the Edge is the second novel in The Amish of Summer Grove series.
A New York Times best-selling author releases her first southern novel, a Steel Magnolias-meets-Sweet Home Alabama story set on St. Simons Island. When an unthinkable loss sends Tara Abbott's life spiraling out of control, she journeys from North Carolina to Georgia's St. Simons Island. Although confused and scared, she hopes to find answers about her past - her life before the years of foster care and raising her two half-brothers as a young adult. Will she find steady ground on the island, surrounded by an eccentric-but-kindhearted group of older women called The Glynn Girls and a determined firefighter? Or will the truth splinter what's left of her identity into pieces?
Teach students the language of maps and watch them discover the world! This packet presents the basics of reading latitude and longitude, using time zone maps, and much more! Following directions today will prepare your students for travel!
Written and edited by today's most-recognized inteventional cardiology thought leaders, this popular guide focuses on key procedures and techniques. Each strategic or tactical move is graded by complexity level and described in a simple, step-by-step approach that includes guidance on how to overcome practical difficulties and navigate particularly challenging clinical scenarios and complications. It offers interventional cardiologists, fellows in interventional cardiology, cath lab nurses and technicians; vascular surgeons and fellows, interventional radiologists: "Tips and tricks" gathered from the personal experience of over fifty international experts Clear, practical, step-by-step guidance on the latest procedures and techniques, performing challenging interventions, and managing complications and other difficult situations where evidence may be limited or inconsistent New coverage of hot topics such as percutaneous aortic valve replacement, renal artery ablation, intracranial interventions, and more
It was a hot afternoon in August 1856 when people in southern Iredell County, North Carolina, gathered for a special event. The train was on its way, bringing officials, a brass band, and the economic future. John Franklin Moore viewed the railroad tracks as an opportunity to fulfill his dream of starting a community and building a town. He knew that trains would bring customers and new citizens and carry freight to and from markets. Moore took a bold step by providing land for a depot and siding and offering land for homes and businesses. Moores Siding prospered and grew, and in 1873, the village was incorporated and named Mooresville to honor the founder. Generations of Mooresville citizens have taken daring steps into the future, building a community that is more than just a placeits a home. This is a story of Mooresville, the Queen of Iredell.
Award-Winning Author Pens a Unique Southern Tale When Minerva Jane Jenkins was just 14 years old, she married a man who moved her to the mountains. He carried with him a small box, which he told her was filled with gold. And when he died 50 years later, he made her promise to keep his secret. She is to tell no one about the box or the treasure it contains. Now 94, Minerva is nearing the end of what has sometimes been a lonely life. But she's kept that secret. Even so, rumors of hidden gold have a way of spreading, and Minerva is visited by a reporter, Del Rankin, who wants to know more of her story. His friend who joins him only wants to find the location of the gold. Neither of them knows quite who they're up against when it comes to the old woman on the mountain. As an unlikely friendship develops, Minerva is tempted to reveal her secret to Del. After all, how long is one bound by a promise? But the truth of what's really buried in the box may be hidden even from her.
Nothing In Particular, Everything In General is a lifetime collection of poems, prose, spiritual writings, gospel and country song lyrics that are peppered with addiction, alcoholism, depression, love, relationships, dedications, gratitude, and spirituality. Some of these writings have won Literary Awards. It is basically a book layered with writings about living life on life s terms, and how that has been accomplished amidst a numerous amount of highs and lows that the author has experienced throughout her life. She touches on the solution, which was given to her and is available to anyone; an answer to some of the problems she has faced with alcoholism, depression and the seemingly unending misery of these common maladies. CINDY DANIELS holds an Associates Degree in Commercial Advertising and Graphic Design. She currently resides In Smithfield, North Carolina, where she has lived for the past 25 years. She has two children. Several of her poems have won Literary Awards and have been published on the Internet. Cindy currently writes a weekly column called Cooking wiht Cindy for the Robeson Journal in Lumberton, North Carolina. She hand paints hand carved Mahogany items shipped in from Indonesia for a company that is located on the east side of I-95 between exits 14 and 17, in Lumberton, North Carolina. Her hobbies include cooking, gardening, ceramics and reading. You can visit her website, where her art work is available, at: www.cindywdaniels.com.
Calum Ranson is sure of three things: his cousin Finley is alive, Calum will find him, and no one knows Calum and his family are Sidhe. No one until Laurel shows up at his mother's bookstore wearing a dark clan's mark. When Calum learns the details surrounding the disappearance of Laurel's brother, he suspects the evil Hobayeth clan. Calum and Laurel work together in the Realm of Man and the Otherworld to rescue her brother-revealing a connection between Calum and Laurel that may cost Finley his life.
The early colony of Fountain Mountain in North Carolina is soon to experience a terrifying ordeal when an innocent game of dare turns deadly for a group of young children. This ghostly novella will take you back to the seventeenth century and leave you sleeping with the lights on. Winter's Rage is the stuff of urban legends, based in part on a true story.
Most people get hurt and suffer painful memories as a result of living in an imperfect world. But God's original plan for humanity included spiritual, emotional, physical, and relational wholeness. Through the example of Jesus, who heals from the inside out, readers will learn how to experience this wholeness and assist in the healing of others. Let Jesus Heal Your Hidden Wounds speaks to the individual who wants to be or already is involved in healing ministry. This is not another technique for doing healing, but a description of how the prayer minister cooperates with the Holy Spirit to bring healing and deliverance to people with hidden wounds. Each chapter includes several questions for use in a Bible study setting or to provoke further personal reflection. Those called to healing ministries will be taken to a new level of understanding and greater effectiveness from reading and studying this book. And those with hidden wounds will find new hope for restoration and freedom.
In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well stocked with labor. This is the story of the farmworkers_Italian immigrants from northeastern tenements, African American laborers from the South, and imported workers from the Caribbean_who came to work in the fields of New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida in the decades after 1870. These farmworkers were not powerless, the author argues, for growers became increasingly open to negotiation as their crops ripened in the fields. But farmers fought back with padrone or labor contracting schemes and 'work-or-fight' forced-labor campaigns. Hahamovitch describes how growers' efforts became more effective as federal officials assumed the role of padroni, supplying farmers with foreign workers on demand. Today's migrants are as desperate as ever, the author concludes, not because poverty is an inevitable feature of modern agricultural work, but because the federal government has intervened on behalf of growers, preventing farmworkers from enjoying the fruits of their labor.
The story of Creation and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden are familiar Bible stories. But they also present a wonderful opportunity to share important biblical truths with eagerly questioning minds through answers that even the youngest believer can understand. Look inside to learn: How did God create everything from nothing? Why was the first person that God created a boy? Why did God have Adam name the animals? The serpent talked to Eve, so why can't snakes talk today? Children are never short of questions - and now there are answers to some of their most difficult ones regarding the Bible and faith! The new Answers Book for Kids series is a unique collection from Ken Ham and the creative team at Answers in Genesis. These answers will help you to impart a Biblical Worldview to Elementary aged students in your Church or Homeschool. This is the 1st book of a 4 volume set.
Quand on est pris pour cible par le beau gosse du groupe, comment faire pour s'en sortir ? Alan Scars, le beau gosse du groupe, le rebelle, le bab boy qui ne prenait jamais "non" comme réponse, avait fait de moi sa cible. La société est dotée d'une très belle aptitude à faire croire que les "bad boys" ou vilains garçons sont ceux qui s'en foutent de la loi, qui ont un certain trait mystérieux, mais Alan était une exception à la règle. Pour lui tout était un jeu et tout avançait selon ses ordres et désirs, sauf moi, ce qui l'exaspérait. Peut-être n'était-il pas un bad boy finalement. Peut-être que le vrai bad boy restait caché et agissait à sa guise, déguisé en agneau. En même temps, il était très facile de confondre le bad et le good boy... Ne pensez-vous pas ? Au travers d'un roman plein de piquant, découvrez les aventures d'une jeunesse dorée dont les jeux de séductions et les rapports de force font partie d'un quotidien bien rempli ! EXTRAIT Aujourd'hui après les classes, les filles et moi avions décidés d'aller faire du shopping. Bizarrement comme doté d'un pouvoir magique ou je ne sais quoi, le professeur nous avait surchargé de devoirs pour le lendemain. Bien sûr les garçons avaient gentiment pris la peine de lui informer qu'on ne pourrait pas le faire. Ce à quoi il avait répondu et je cite " ces exercices compteront pour des notes de participation ". Il nous avait bien eu. Cela voulait dire qu'on devait vite en finir. J'étais tellement excité de faire ce shopping avec Francesca ; notez le sarcasme. Après la gifle, d'hier je n'avais plus eu l'occasion de la voir mais bon passons elle n'allait quand même pas gâcher mon humeur. Pour je ne sais qu'elle raison je m'étais réveillée très contente et je n'étais pas déterminée à laisser cette garçe tout gâcher. Zut ! Plus je pensais à elle, plus mon vocabulaire de gros mots s'élargissait. À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Élisa Cindy N.Kikissagbe (Cindy Lou) est née le 26 septembre 1998 à Cotonou au Bénin. Elle étudie actuellement le droit en Angleterre à l'université de Coventry. C'est une fille qui a toujours rêvé de paix dans ce monde et pour plusieurs de ses proches, elle vit dans une bulle, propre à elle et séparée de tous. Déjà toute petite elle adorait lire et écrire et en classe de seconde partageait ses écrits avec ses camarades de classe. Ainsi après avoir obtenu son baccalauréat en 2013 à 14 ans, elle se lança dans l'écriture de son livre TBBAM rebaptisé Love Experience sur Wattpad. Elle a à présent 9000 abonnés, prés de 10 histoires publiées sur son compte et plus de 2 millions de vue sur son roman Love Experience.
For Calum Ranson, seventh grade brings changes in his relationships with his parents and his friends, and a confrontation with his bully. Calum's talents have also developed to a level unheard of in the Sidhe world. When Calum goes against everything he knows is right, he makes a choice that may cost him his friendship with Laurel. An old friend steps in, but her mysterious ways leave Calum questioning her motives. In the second book of the Sidhe Series, Calum, Laurel, and Hagen reunite in their search for Finley. And while many things have changed, Calum remains steadfast in his belief that Finley is still alive and Calum will bring him home.
Many years have passed since Penelope Delmoore was a resident of Gardenia Hall, but did she ever really leave? Calling her name gives her the power she needs to control the house and all who reside there, even the many other spirits that are trapped within these walls. She is listening, but do you really want to say her name?
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