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Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Formats
Description
This book uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty and the powerful and the dispossessed. In it the author challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks. He begins with the real story of what happened...
2) Footloose
Description
Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont, where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with...
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
During the terrible struggle of the English Civil War, two people--Gideon Jukes and Juliana Lovell, who are on opposites sides of the conflict--meet during one of the era's most crucial events, their mutual attraction brings the comfort and companionship for which they both have yearned. But shadows from the past soon threaten their hard-won peace.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Sometimes things are really tough. It's just too hard, you've had enough. Grumble, rumble, bump, and roar, The Struggle Bus is at your door. This is a must-have picture book for any reader struggling with new experiences and figuring out how to manage emotions. Debut author-illustrator Julie Koon delivers a lighthearted and relatable picture book about facing challenges as you grow up. Incorporating her experience as an elementary school counselor,...
10) Ominous choices
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Each book follows a group of teens who were "left behind" when other friends and family members were taken to heaven by God in the Rapture. All they have left is their friendship and their growing faith in Jesus Christ. For them, the last several years have not been easy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Join Bear and his best friend Bird, as they embark on their next exciting adventure. Bear, with the help of Bird, has decided he wants to learn how to ride a bike. But Bear usually walks everywhere, so he needs to learn how to persevere when trying something new, even if he doesn't get it right the first time"--Provided by publisher.
Series
Living the Truth volume 4 s
Pub. Date
2020
Description
The average high school student today suffers from a level of anxiety that would have institutionalized a person in the 1950s (Psychology Today, April 30, 2008). And the rest of us aren’t much better. Anxiety, worry, stress—these are accepted as normal.
But they don’t have to be.
Jesus came to this earth to do more than just free us from our sin. He also came to “guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:79). That is what this book endeavors...
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