Category: Teens

By Melody Carlson

ISBN-10: 1441201955

ISBN-13: 9781441201959

Teens are already dedicated fans of Melody Carlson's fiction sequence. yet in line with hundreds of thousands of private letters to Carlson, she is aware they wish extra. they're trying to find substance and religious advice that could make a distinction of their lives.

True introduces adolescents to the Bible by way of concentrating on the phrases of Jesus. Carlson stocks together with her devoted readers the life-changing message of Jesus, giving them whatever to lean on within the turbulent time that's youth. This 90-day devotional will enhance children' religion and aid them commence learning the Bible for all its worthy.

By John Gregory Betancourt

ISBN-10: 0671520482

ISBN-13: 9780671520489

Monitoring a shuttle's misery sign to the approximately abandoned Arbuk approach, the U.S.S. Voyager staff encounters an strange weapon 1000 occasions extra strong than the Starship. contained in the commute, the staff discovers an subconscious alien and less information regarding the machine. Captain Janeway and her group are attacked via a bunch of mysterious warships with an curiosity within the weapon's strength. With warp energy off line, the staff of the Starship Voyager needs to give you the option to save lots of themselves from a gaggle of extraterrestrial beings wanting to keep watch over the superweapon.

By Sarra Cannon

By David L. Krakow

Squadron-Signal Warships In motion 4018 - Schnellboot КНИГИ ;ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ издательство: Squadron SignalТип: PDFФормат: rarРазмер: 35,2 MbКол-во страниц: fifty one+ three% информации для востановления архива. eighty five

By Thomas Stearns Eliot

By Dona Sarkar

ISBN-10: 0373830955

ISBN-13: 9780373830954

ISBN-10: 1426820151

ISBN-13: 9781426820151

Shedding pounds is the answer to all basketball-star Leah Mandeville's difficulties, or so she thinks. Getting superthin will:a) support her leap shotb) make her appear like America's subsequent most sensible version c) get the eye of the highschool hottie who ignores any woman with a bit junk within the trunkAnd it truly is operating, is not it? Her boo is now crushing on her. everybody says how solid she seems to be. however the challenge is that Leah does not believe strong. And her lifestyles is taking a massive flip for the more severe, regardless of her new "perfect body."

By Kevin Hillstrom

ISBN-10: 0787648876

ISBN-13: 9780787648879

Vietnam struggle: basic assets provides 13 complete or excerpted records from the Vietnam warfare period. those records diversity from awesome speeches that mark small print within the clash to private diaries and letters that mirror the hopes, desires, fears, and studies of standard infantrymen and civilians. a few of the decisions talk about hugely own matters, reminiscent of a tender American's agonizing choice no matter if to record for army provider or a Vietnamese girl's choice to affix the Viet Cong. Others chronicle significant occasions linked to the Vietnam warfare, just like the Tet Offensive and the 1970 killings of 4 scholar protesters at the campus of Kent country college. extra, the works integrated during this quantity current quite a lot of views at the clash. for instance, a few entries supply insights into the sentiments of american citizens who served in Vietnam-including squaddies, nurses, and prisoners of war-while others supply a glimpse into the motivations of devoted antiwar activists. integrated are excerpts from civil rights chief Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1967 antiwar speech at Riverside Church in ny urban; President Richard M. Nixon's 1969 "Silent Majority" speech; Le Ly Hayslip's memoir approximately turning out to be up in a wartorn Vietnamese village; and Admiral James Stockdale's memoir approximately his years in a Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.

By Carin T Ford

ISBN-10: 1464510954

ISBN-13: 9781464510953

In April 1861, Abraham Lincoln's prophetic phrases, "A condominium divided opposed to itself can't stand," got here actual while accomplice squaddies attacked castle Sumter, starting the yank Civil conflict. The battle pitted North opposed to South, brother opposed to brother, neighbor opposed to neighbor. the difficulty of slavery had torn the country aside. struggle will be required to place it again jointly. writer Carin T. Ford makes use of shiny basic resources to inform the tale of the struggle that reunited the Union and ended slavery eternally.

By The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell

Immediately from front line of city the USA, the inspiring tale of 1 fiercely made up our minds instructor and her extraordinary students.

As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English instructor at Wilson highschool in lengthy seashore, California, Erin Gruwell faced a room of “unteachable, at-risk” scholars. sooner or later she intercepted a be aware with an unpleasant racial comic strip, and angrily declared that this used to be exactly the type of factor that resulted in the Holocaust—only to be met by means of uncomprehending seems to be. So she and her scholars, utilizing the precious books Anne Frank: The Diary of a tender Girl and Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s existence in Sarajevo as their courses, undertook a life-changing, eye-opening, spirit-raising odyssey opposed to intolerance and false impression. They discovered to determine the parallels in those books to their very own lives, recording their strategies and emotions in diaries and dubbing themselves the “Freedom Writers” in homage to the civil rights activists “The Freedom Riders.”

With cash raised via a “Read-a-thon for Tolerance,” they prepared for Miep Gies, the brave Dutch girl who sheltered the Frank kin, to go to them in California, the place she declared that Erin Gruwell’s scholars have been “the genuine heroes.” Their efforts have paid off spectacularly, either by way of recognition—appearances on “Prime Time Live” and “All issues Considered,” assurance in People journal, a gathering with U.S. Secretary of schooling Richard Riley—and educationally. All one hundred fifty Freedom Writers have graduated from highschool and at the moment are attending college.

With strong entries from the students’ personal diaries and a story textual content by way of Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary is an uplifting, unforgettable instance of the way labor, braveness, and the spirit of decision replaced the lives of a instructor and her scholars.

The authors’ proceeds from this ebook can be donated to The Tolerance schooling origin, a firm arrange to pay for the liberty Writers’ collage university. Erin Gruwell is now a vacationing professor at California country collage, lengthy seashore, the place a few of her scholars are Freedom Writers.

By Melissa de la Cruz