Snowball Truce

Winter has come, and Leopold wants to use his invisibility to launch the best snowball fight of all time! His big sister, Celine, thinks he should be using his powers for the greater good. He could catch thieves, stop wars, or save the world, after all! Of course, Leopold would rather torment her. Celine bribes him with some cake and gets him to agree to a snowball truce. But Leo’s tricks don’t end, they just move indoors.

Winter has come, and Leopold wants to use his invisibility to launch the best snowball fight of all time! His big sister, Celine, thinks he should be using his powers for the greater good. He could catch thieves, stop wars, or save the world, after all! Of course, Leopold would rather torment her. Celine bribes him with some cake and gets him to agree to a snowball truce. But Leo?s tricks don?t end, they just move indoors.

Introducing a Social TheatreTM, this book provides guidance on how to deliver fun and transformative activities to develop social skills in teenagers and children. Drawing on ideas from Social Thinking®, CBT, mindfulness and assertiveness training this book develops games, skits and short plays which can be adapted to suit children and teenagers including those who are gifted, typical, and those with mild to moderate cognitive abilities. These activities will help participants become more assertive and flexible as well as improving confidence, focus and self-esteem. Social TheatreTM can be used in small groups, in class or throughout the school, as well as in group therapy sessions. It provides a new and inclusive way to teach social skills and collaborative learning and is especially useful for those with anxiety, ADHD and ASD.

April Truitt didn't trust doctors, battle of wills was raging in the Lone Star State in 1876. least of all handsome newcomer Gray Fuller, who opposed her efforts to offer the women of Dignity, Texas, an herbal alternative to surgery. He treated her like some quack, but April was determined to save other women from dying on the operating table, like her mother did. Gray couldn't help admiring April's spirit and good intentions. Yet he couldn't let this bluebonnet belle steal all his patients—even if she was on her way to stealing his heart.

Turning sixteen is a major event, ask anyone that's done it. Driving, dating, getting through that nasty Chemistry test, maybe even starting to think about where to go for college. So, what do you do, when you find out that you got an extra birthday gift this year, that you soooo weren't expecting? Well, if you're Cin, then you're probably running for your life, wishing that the worst thing you had to worry about was flunking Chemistry, or getting a date for Prom. Demons, Half-breeds, Hunters, and the undead... Will life ever get back to normal?

Amish marriages are forever. Abram Lapp believes he could love his neighbor forever, but Rachel Ann is enjoying her Rumschpringe, exploring Englisch life with a very Englisch boy named Michael. As Abram watches Rachel Ann stray from the life he had hoped for them, he regrets not telling her that his feelings for her have deepened. Rachel Ann loves the freedom she has away from the familiar Amish rules and responsibilities. But when tragedy strikes and her brother is critically wounded in an accident, she begins to feel a pull toward home. She struggles with guilt and throws herself into working two jobs to help with hospital expenses. Leaning on Michael for support, she realizes he might not be the man she needs . . .or wants. Could the husband she has hoped for be waiting right next door?

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After winning Olympic silver, teen snowboarder Jake Taylor is struggling with sudden fame when he’s offered a gig he can’t refuse: becoming a spokesperson for a state-of-the-art athletic training facility. Training for its first competition, Jake relies on his faith to help him find ways to use his fame to help others . . . when athletes mysteriously start getting sabotaged one by one. Time is running out for Jake and his girlfriend, Sophie, to figure out what is going on before he is also sabotaged . . . or worse.