Lisa Thompson
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"Sometimes I think everyone would be better off if I'd never existed in the first place."
Nothing's going right for Maxwell Beckett. He's being blamed for his best friend's bloody nose -- it was an accident! -- his parents can't stop shouting at each other, and he just broke his neighbor's bright pink flamingo lawn ornament. So when Maxwell turns off the power in his school during a giant fundraiser, it's the last straw. He's sure that now the...
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Nate and his mother are running away. Fleeing from a bad situation at home, they hide out in an abandoned cottage in the middle of a forest. Though it's old and run-down, at least it's a place of their own.
Then Nate's mother heads off for groceries and doesn't return. Has she run into trouble, or simply abandoned him? He is left alone and afraid, with the dark -- and all his old fears -- closing in on him.
But comfort can come from the most unexpected...
3) Fruits
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Nutrients are essential components that are important in the body's functions and processes. Each of these nutrients performs a particular work to promote good health.
Every day, the body produces skin, bones, and muscles. The body produces red blood cells that carry oxygen and important nutrients throughout the body; it sends out nerve signals and formulates chemical messengers to and from the brain. All these bodily processes require raw materials,...
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Melody Bird has discovered an old, abandoned building on the edge of town...
It's a dark, creepy place, but she can't resist its pull. When she goes to explore, she finds a boy hiding out there. Hal tells Melody that he is a spy-in-training, using the house as a base for his undercover surveillance of a nearby suspected criminal. He's very secretive about the details, but Melody trusts him and starts bringing him blankets and sneaking him food. She...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life ... if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
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Preachers often feel stuck when met with quickly shifting and dense media topics that flood the headlines. If, and when, they determine it is appropriate to address issues that arise in the news cycle, they are often at a loss for how to speak about them from the pulpit. When preachers understand that a responsibility to sustain life is, embedded in the purposes of preaching, they discover greater fluidity between the everyday world, the biblical...
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Ingenuity introduces a theology and practice of preaching that emerges from the faith and wisdom of black women. Preaching has been resourced and taught from a narrow field of cultural or gendered experiences, historically. Without much support from established channels, black women are left to "figure it out" on their own, and others discern how to preach from a limiting scope.
The best preachers understand their own voices and the voices of others....
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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This film is intended to help coaches/teachers, parents, and school administrators educate students/athletes about the harmful effects of homophobia and asks the question, "How can we make sure that people in athletics are evaluated, not based on their sexual orientation or gender expression, but on their individual character and accomplishments?"
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So he got her best friend pregnant--twice! She could kill him, but there are options besides murder.
Ms. All That and a Bag of Chips meets King of the Jungle. Will she let his wrapper block her blessing?
This is a lesson on how not to do relationships. Just do the opposite, and you will be fine!
Psychology, therapy, and all the self-help in the world may get people one-third of the way, but what about the rest? Friendship woes, relationship...