Help children build essential reading skills with this collection of adorable mini-storybooks that give them practice reading and writing words from 25 different word families. Each book uses a few simple rhyming words to tell a lively and funny story. Includes ready-to-photocopy pages and extension activities. For use with Grades PreK-1.

Teach children the story of Jesus walking on water to the disciples' boat.

Medical Response to Child Sexual Abuse, Second Edition is specifically developed to equip physicians, nurses, and other medical professionals with the necessary tools to identify cases of child sexual abuse. This new edition is revised and updated to reflect contemporary best practices for the pediatric approach to childhood sexual abuse and effectively treat and examine sexually abused patients. Professionals who work with sexually abused children face a great challenge in not only treating the immediate outcomes of sexual abuse but also safeguarding their patients' long-term recovery. To meet their needs and the needs of those in their care, Medical Response to Child Sexual Abuse, Second Edition offers a wealth of evidence-based research and practical guidelines to the evaluation of childhood sexual abuse.

Be the best parent that you can be with "The Quick Guide to Parenting Solutions." The profession of parenting is both complex and simple. The concepts, methods, and skills endorsed in this book will give you a good start to make changes, solve problems, or create new tranquility within your home. What is the role of the parent today? It seems to hold more responsibility than ever before. Amid the enchantment, charm, and benefits of parenting, rests the ordinary nuisances of family life with daily pressures and conflicts. Parenting is an immense challenge, yet it does not have to overwhelm. You can discover how to efficiently and effectively parent your children. You have the skills. You have the already completed the groundwork. This book will assist you in putting everything together successfully. Are there unwanted behaviors you desire to eliminate from your children? Is there too much to do, and too little time to do it? Are you experiencing pressures and stress from all directions? If unwanted behaviors are unsettling the tranquility in your home, then seek no further. The fundamental concepts, objectives, and ideas for parenting presented here will enhance your ability to parent effectively. You will be able to take what you discover and make a difference in your home almost immediately. One by one, the unwanted behaviors will disappear or shrink. If you desire to have a better relationship with your children, you will find concepts and ideas to assist you. You can discover how to communicate more effectively with your children. The creation of your successful parenting solutions starts now.

"A Dangerous Search" is historic fiction based on actual events in the Revolutionary War and some of the African American men who shaped those events. Tobias Gardner, a twelve-year-old free black in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775, steals away on a dangerous journey to find his uncle in Boston as the Revolutionary War begins. After meeting up with Minutemen on the road to Boston, Tobias befriends African American militia men Peter Salem, Lemuel Haynes, and Barzillai Lew, all real figures from history, and helps out in the Minuteman camp outside Boston while planning a way to sneak into a heavily guarded Boston. Finally making his way past British sentries on the road to Boston, Tobias searches for his uncle's workplace and there meets Prince Hall and George Middleton, two African American men who were leaders of Boston's black community at the time. From Hall and Middleton, Tobias learns of his uncle's work as a spy for the Sons of Liberty and the cause of freedom embraced by Boston's black population. After being reunited with his uncle in the Minuteman camp outside Boston, Tobias becomes a drummer in a regiment and joins other black patriots, including actual Afican American hero Salem Poor, in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Primary sources relating to and biographical information about the historical figures featured in the book are included at the end of the book. For grades 4-6.