Kids Moving

If we could ensure that our TCKs would grow up healthy and resilient, we would do it in a heartbeat. In Raising up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids, Lauren Wells has gifted us with a gentle guide and a preventive health primer, unique in the field of third culture kid literature. This book is a goldmine of wisdom, organized in a practical and readable format. While we cannot know all our TCKs will go through, we can take a giant step forward by learning how to multiply the benefits of a global life and conversely pay attention to the challenges that can become stumbling blocks to ...

Fun New Chapter Book Series Social Sara Girl Adventures is a fun chapter book series for girls age 6 to 10. The first book, Moving! is all about Sara and her twin sister Mara finding out they are moving. What's most shocking is the reason they're moving. This Chapter Book is roughly 4,000 words in length.

It's March 2, 1955, and an ordinary 15-year-old girl from Montgomery, Alabama is about to do something extraordinary. When a white bus driver orders Claudette Colvin to give up her seat for a white passenger, she refuses to move. After Claudette is arrested, her brave actions help inspire Civil Rights leaders organize bus boycotts and perform similar acts to defy segregation laws.

Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they confront life alone on the streets. Each eventually finds his or her way to Covenant House, the largest charity serving homeless and runaway youth in North America. From the son of a crack addict who fights his own descent into drug addiction, to a teen mother reaching for a new life, their stories veer between devastating and inspiring as they each struggle to find a place called home.

Nathan loves to play, but he loves his video games more. Can a trip to Animal Moves land convince him there's more fun outdoors? Best-selling author and speaker Darryl Edwards has created this fun adventure, inspired by his passion for encouraging kids to move in an ever-increasing sedentary environment.

In the 1980's, a 15 year old kid that grew up in one town all his life was suddenly ripped from his stable orbit and given a new trajectory when he had to move to a new town. This anxiety ridden (only known as weird back then) kid was terrified of starting over at a new high school with no friends and no clue. Oh yeah, that kid? It was me. I wrote this not so short story (novella?) when I was 19 years old and less than one year removed from graduating from that new high school. It's been sitting around in one form or another for 36 years. I've decided to publish it now to contrast it ...

The neighborhood friends are confronted with a tough choice. Include or exclude the new kid who just moved in. At the end of Book One, they listed the questions they still wanted to ask God in new messages. One of the questions asked, "God, do you really love everyone in the whole world?" It raises the question in the minds of the Oak Street kids: "Do we have to like every new kid who wants to be part of our clubhouse?

Every night before going to bed, questions were asked about what was read. One day as we were going merrily along, suddenly, “How biyiyig is God?” rang out from the curious little one. Mother’s answer, peaceful and calm, settled little one. For there is comfort in reminding, years beyond.