The Organized Writer! 7Do you know what your writing goals are? 7Do you know where to find ideas and how to use them? 7Do you want to use your writing time more wisely? 7Do you wonder if contests are worth the investment? 7Does being an organized writer mean the perfectly arranged office? The Organized Marketer! 7How can you use the internet to market? 7How can you juggle writing time with time for marketing? 7Is it possible to sell your articles more than once? 7What should you do when you've waited months to hear from an editor?
It's time for the Circleville Elementary Spring Carnival! The teachers have nominated five male teachers for king and five female teachers for queen and now the kids get to vote for the winner. When Mr. Andrews announces he's taken a new job and will be leaving, Wendy's Weather Watchers take a break from weather and put a plan in motion to make Mr. Andrews king and show him how much they want him to stay. But a sudden hailstorm ruins the carnival and their plan! Can Wendy, Jessica, Dennis, and Austin save the carnival? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 2-5.
Just before Thanksgiving, Mr. Andrews announces there will be a snowman-building contest on the first snow day of the year. Wendy, Jessica, Dennis, and their class wonder when snow will come. They decide to record the temperature and cloud formations to track when the best chance of a snow day will be. When the snow comes, it isn't enough to make snowmen, but the Weather Warriors have a better idea--one that will also help out the local homeless shelter. Can the Weather Warriors convince the entire school to go along with their plan? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 2-5.
Since the tornado in Circleville, Wendy and her friends Jessica and Dennis have formed a club and named it "Wendy's Weather Warriors." Their first order of business is to inform their classmates and Principal Stuard about the dangers of lightning. But, the whole school is distracted by the soccer championship between the Circleville Cougars and the Diamond Ducks. The day of the big match finally arrives and Wendy is the only one paying attention to the cumulonimbus clouds warning of a storm! Can Wendy's Weather Warriors get Mrs. Stuard to postpone the game before it's too late? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 2-5.
Louisa May Alcott's classic tale follows the lives of the four March sisters. Beautiful Meg, tomboyish Jo, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy may not have a lot of money while their father is off fighting in the Civil War, but the have each other and their friends. Follow the powerful story of love and friendship in the Calico Illustrated Classics adaptation of Alcott's Little Women.
Summer is almost over for Wendy's Weather Warriors, and they've had so much fun Wendy forgot all about the essay contest she'd entered at the end of the school year. Just two weeks before school, Wendy received a letter telling her she won! Now she gets to take the Weather Warriors and Mr. Andrews to Galveston, Texas, to read her essay about the big 1900 hurricane in Galveston. As they are enjoying their trip, a tropical storm turns into Hurricane Harry! Can Wendy's Weather Warriors ride out the storm in safety? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 2-5.
Wendy Peters is wild about weather! She loves experimenting with it, learning about it, and teaching others about all kinds of weather patterns. Wendy's family has just moved to Circleville, Texas, and she's excited to learn that her new teacher and classmates Jessica and Dennis are as weather mad as she is! When Wendy, Jessica, and Dennis discover Circleville Elementary doesn't have a safety plan for tornadoes, they set a plan in motion to change that--just in time, too! Can Wendy's Weather plan keep everyone safe when a tornado hits? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 2-5.
Jean Vanmai’s Chân Đăng The Tonkinese of Caledonia in the colonial era is a rare insider’s account of the life experiences of Chân Đăng, the Vietnamese indentured workers who were brought from Tonkin to work in the New Caledonian nickel mines in the 1930s and 1940s, when both Indochina and New Caledonia were French colonies. Narrated from the unique perspective of a descendant of Chân Đăng, the novel offers a deep understanding of how Vietnamese migration, shaped by French colonialism and the indenture system, led to the implantation of the Vietnamese community in New Caledonia, in spite of the massive repatriation of the workers and their families to Vietnam in the 1960s. Through his writing which blends his own family story with the rich oral testimonies of his compatriots, Jean Vanmai, a passionate advocate for the recognition of the part played by the Chân Đăng in the New Caledonian national history, has succeeded in giving these often faceless and powerless ‘coolies’ a strong collective voice. The translation into English of that voice was long overdue. Only accessible until now to French speakers, this English version opens up the exceptional account of the personal and emotional complexities of the Chân Đăng’s experience to a global readership. The English version not only advances knowledge of the history of indentured labour and colonialism in the Asia-Pacific, thus offering Anglophone historians and interested readers a new understanding of the processes through which histories and memories travel and translate across national, oceanic, and linguistic borders, it also constitutes an invaluable historical resource for Anglophone Vietnamese diasporic communities. One of the significant revisions in this English version is the restitution of the diacritical marks to all the Vietnamese names in the novel. Rather than a simple correction of the printing of Vietnamese diacritics which was unavailable at the time of publication of the origin text, it lends greater authenticity to the story for the Anglophone reader and symbolically restores their full identity to the Chân Đăng protagonists, who had become mere matriculation numbers under the colonial indenture system. The critical introduction by Tess Do and Kathryn Lay-Chenchabi is a richly documented text that contextualises the novel for the Anglophone reader. The photographs and official documents, carefully selected from a wealth of sources, including the National Archives of both New Caledonia and New Zealand, the private community collections and Jean Vanmai’s family photo albums, all contribute to an illuminating and informative visual overview of the Chân Đăng’s working and living conditions in New Caledonia. This emotive illustration of the past also functions as an important reference for the common future shared by all Caledonians, in that it conveys to the reader the long-lasting imprint left by the Vietnamese community on New Caledonia’s economic and cultural scene since the Chân Đăng first migrated to this country more than two centuries ago.
Josh and Jenny's school is suddenly overrun with substitute teachers. But these aren't the usual substitutes. These substitutes all look alike, ask a lot of questions, and record everything the students say. Luckily, Josh and Jenny still have their teacher. Until one afternoon they return from lunch to find their teacher missing, and a substitute in his place. What happened to Mr. Ott? Josh and Jenny decide to find out for themselves what is going on in their school. What will they find, and will they save their school? The ending is Up2U. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
It has been a long, dry spring in Circleville, and Wendy worries that when rain finally arrives there will be dangerous flash floods. But Wendy's Weather Warriors have more important things to think about--like the unveiling of the new middle school they will attend next year! Just as the ribbon is cut, the sky lets loose and it finally begins to rain. On the way home, Wendy's flash flood knowledge stops the vice principal from driving into danger. Can Wendy's Weather Warriors save another driver that wasn't as lucky? Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades 2-5.
Travel through time with Luis, Casey, Tyler, and robot cat Steel! Using Tesla's Time Twister, the friends hope to save Uncle Cyrus, who's trapped in time. They travel back in time to a haunted house. With robbers and ghosts on the loose, can they find the truth and find their way back home? Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Calico is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Can you taste food with your elbows and shoulders and belly button? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use taste to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of taste to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Tasting Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Could you see your favorite restaurant from the other side of town? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use their eyes to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of sight to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Seeing Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Can you find your lunch deep down in your backpack by hearing it? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use their ears to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of hearing to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Hearing Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Can you use the hairs on your arm to feel the vibrations of the things around you? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use touch to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of touch to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Touching Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
If one friend was on the other side of the cafeteria with a hot dog and another friend on a different side with a plate of spaghetti, could you find them with your eyes closed by only sniffing? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use their noses to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of smell to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Smelling Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
If you yell in the kitchen when its dark, do you feel sound bouncing off the refrigerator? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use special ways to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use extreme senses to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Extreme Senses. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
This book offers a new perspective on the often-overlooked lives of lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. It explores how over a century ago in England some exceptional Catholic lay women – Margaret Fletcher, Maude Petre, Radclyffe Hall, and Mabel Batten - negotiated non-traditional family lives and were actively practicing their faith, while not adhering to perceived structures of femininity, power, and sexuality. Focusing on c. 1880-1930, a time of dynamism and change in both England and the Church, these remarkable women represent a rethinking of what it meant to be a lay women in the English Roman Catholic Church. Their pious transgressions demonstrate the multiplicity of ways lay women powerfully asserted aspects of their faith while contravening boundaries traditionally assumed for them in an ostensibly patriarchal religion. In fact, the Church could be a place for expressions of unconventional religiosity and reinterpretations of womanhood and domesticity. Connecting together the lives of these women for the first time, this work fills a lacuna in the scholarship of modern Catholic and gender history. Drawing from private collections and numerous archives, it illustrates the surprising range of modes of Lived Catholicism and devotion to faith. Students and scholars of Catholicism, gender, and LGBTQIA+ studies will find significant merit in a book that assigns lay women a more prominent role in the English Catholic Church and offers examples of the flexibility of Roman Catholicism.
A collection of some of the most beloved Christian children's prayers ever written. These prayers have been thoughtfully edited to reflect today's modern language."--Page 4 of cover.
How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair won’t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter. Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit impart a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to one’s own community shine forth.
During the country's stay at home order, Sophia spent her days working from home. But she spent more time calming down frantic brides – and their mothers – than her real job as a wedding designer. Busy as a bumblebee, she put her own life plans aside. As Sophia helped others, someone else made plans for her. A heartwarming short story set during America's attempt to flatten the curve.
Original Stories and Novels by Kathryn Kaleigh Each issue contains a complete novel and at least five full short stories. Each issue is an anthology of Kathryn's different stories including historical romance, time travel romance, and sweet wholesome contemporary. Most issues contain stories from her different series, but some issues have standalone stories not part of a series. In this issue: SHORT STORIES… Silver Linings Ninety silver foil balloons. Ten party hats and ten party blowers. But no one at the party but Maribelle and her ninety-year-old grandmother. The self-quarantine order happened quickly, sending everyone isolating in their homes. After retiring from the Air Force, Lucas needed a break. Some time to himself. Little did he know that the world had completely changed during the four weeks he avoided any semblance of civilization. When Lucas found Maribelle and her grandmother isolating in a cabin in the woods, he wanted to catch up on more than just a world turned upside down. A heartwarming short story set during America's fight with COVID 19. On a Snowy Winter Morning Natalie Worthington loved the magic of snowy mornings. The quiet peacefulness. But beneath the peacefulness lay a deadly danger. Natalie's world flipped upside down, leaving her responsible for not only her own survival, but the survival of her little brother. When their home is invaded, and Natalie's life on the line, will she survive? A heartwarming and suspenseful American historical short story. Louisiana Time Whispers Lilah Woodward spent her days working in hospitality with senior citizens. Enchanted by the magic of the Mississippi River, she does something few people in her position would do. Would a simple act of kindness change her destiny? A Rainy Wednesday Morning A rainy Wednesday morning. Just like any other morning. In the rain. Except that it wasn't. Emily's life turned upside down in the blink of an eye. A chance encounter in a coffee shop folds away the years. An Errant Yankee While on a supply run to town, southerner Alisa and her cat Muffin find a Yankee soldier treed by their dog. The injured soldier posed no danger, but Muffin wove a safety spell around them anyway. The man needed shelter. Rescuing an errant Yankee proved to be more than Alisa could have predicted… A charming short story in the Civil War Southern Belle historical romance series with unexpected compelling characters. NOVEL... Just Chance Tara Rodgers reinvented herself. She moved to Dallas. Enrolled in college classes. Broke up with her boyfriend. On her way to a new career. A shiny new life. Jonathan Cooper slowly adjusted to Dallas life. Especially the heat. He struggled to adapt to life in Texas. But flying for the famed Skye Travels made the sacrifice worthwhile. When Tara and Jonathan experience a life-altering event together, each find the course of their lives changing… A heartwarming and intensely engaging standalone novel in Kathryn Kaleigh's Cupid's Kiss sweet wholesome romance series.
Everyday Prayers and More" was written and published in 2014. It contains simple and thoughtful prayers for many holidays, various needs and special occasions. Titles of some of the concluding chapters discuss prayer, Christian living, discipleship and faith. In the concluding chapter, Kathryn expresses her views on these and other subjects. Her goal is to offer prayers that are easy to understand and yet are meaningful.
When your daughter wants to pry into your past, how selective are you about your answers? Furthermore, how do you love the girl you once were? Trueblood’s tales unfold in remote places—a hippie high school on an island off the West Coast and a roadhouse in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest—places where only situational ethics seem to apply. At once stories of sexual abandon and sexual entrapment, they present two snapshots of the same woman and her coming-of-age where the road ends.
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