Sharable Parables

Sharable Parables
Author: Steven James
Publisher: Standard Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005-01-03
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780784716328

Teach 15 parables in fun and fresh ways. There is 1 parable per chapter with multiple ideas such as drama, skits, and interactive activities for each age group. Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.

Lord, Stand By Me

Lord, Stand By Me
Author: Eula Youngblood
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2013-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481730959

LORD, STAND BY ME This book is more like a series of novellas, than a continuous novel; for it is the strange recorded moments of an eight year old child remembering tales she overheard her adult relatives, and their friends tell of hardships, rape murder, and other horrific crimes that occurred in the early forties in the deep South.

Bathtime, Little Piglet

Bathtime, Little Piglet
Author: Happy Yak
Publisher: Ribbon Pull Tabs
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2022-03-29
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0711274983

Bathtime, Little Piglet is a fun animal-filled interactive board book which introduces young children to the concept of bathtime.

The Secret of Nightingale Wood

The Secret of Nightingale Wood
Author: Lucy Strange
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338157493

A beautifully tangled story of friendship, fairy tales, and family secrets. For those who loved Pax and The War That Saved My Life. A Kirkus Best Middle Grade Book of 2017 An Amazon Best Book of 2017 A 2018 Bank Street College Best Book of the Year A Telegraph Top 50 Book of the Year Everyone is too busy to pay attention to Henrietta and the things she sees -- or thinks she sees -- in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is busy taking care of her younger sister. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale Wood. What she finds there will change her whole world...

The Adventures of the Carbide Kid

The Adventures of the Carbide Kid
Author: John K. Bright
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 79
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1642141372

The Adventures of the Carbide Kid (Volume II) is part of an ongoing collection of actual events that were exaggerated through many years of storytelling. Growing up in a rural county in Mississippi, the author and the Carbide Kid had many mischievous adventures and mishaps.

Luida and the Pig Farm

Luida and the Pig Farm
Author: Clarice Barnes
Publisher: Vantage Press, Inc
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2010-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780533157976

InLuida and the Pig Farm, young girl helps care for all the animals on her family's farm. When a a group of pigs is born, Luida really bonds with one of them who she names Eddie. But all the attention Luida pays to Eddie makes the other farm animals feel neglected. When Luida finds Miss Chick-a-dee crying, she learns an important lesson about equality and that every animal and every human being, is special in their own way.

Having Our Say

Having Our Say
Author: Sarah L. Delany
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side by side. Their sharp memories tell us about the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T. Washington, Harlem’s Golden Age and Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson. Bessie Delany breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie Delany quietly integrates the New York City system as a high school teacher. Their extraordinary story makes an important contribution to our nation’s heritage—and an indelible impression on our lives.

The Saints

The Saints
Author: Lex Thomas
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ®
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1606843370

A cross between the Gone series and Lord of the Flies, Quarantine #2: The Saints continues this frenetically paced and scary young adult series that illustrates just how deadly high school can be. Nothing was worse than being locked in—until they opened the door... McKinley High has been a battleground for eighteen months since a virus outbreak led to a military quarantine of the school. When the doors finally open, Will and Lucy think their nightmare is finished. But they are gravely mistaken. As a new group of teens enters the school and gains popularity, Will and Lucy join new gangs. An epic party on the quad full of real food and drinks, where kids hook up and actually interact with members of other gangs seemed to signal a new, easier existence. Soon after, though, the world inside McKinley takes a startling turn for the worse, and Will and Lucy will have to fight harder than ever to survive. The Saints brings readers back to the dark and deadly halls of McKinley High and the Quarantine series.

A Dead Pig in the Sunshine

A Dead Pig in the Sunshine
Author: Penny Burwell Ewing
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2017-10-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509216812

Jolene Claiborne, owner of Dixieland Salon loves Halloween, but this year her fondness of the holiday is marred when bestselling author Vanessa Van Allen disappears. Vanessa, called the Queen of the Vampires, has a few secrets she wants to share, but some secrets are better left buried. When Detective Sam Bradford, Jolene's former beau, asks for her help in getting rid of a spirit that seems to be clinging to his aura, Jolene is shocked. Not only is there a ghost riding on Sam's broad shoulder, it seems to be Vanessa, and she refuses to leave until her murderer is found. Is the woman truly dead or is there magic as well as mischief afoot? With help from Heaven's sassy bounty hunter, Scarlett, Jolene and Sam set out to find the truth of what has truly happened to the Queen of the Vampires, but sometimes the truth can get you killed.