Books with author L. Buckley

The people of the forest are amazed at the beauty and swiftness of She Who Flies Swiftly. She is like a bright jewel among the leafy trees. But one day they find her lying with a broken wing on the forest floor. Suddenly the Creator is there, holding her in his hand. Afterward the others wait for her to fly, but she no longer can. The forest people cannot understand - wasn't she healed by the Creator? Finally they leave her and in her sorrow she begins to sing. The song becomes more and more beautiful. Her voice is joined by that of the Creator. This story helps us to see that healing can come in many different ways.

Multi-cultural stories relate five of the parables Jesus told. In "Sarai Sees Jesus", a child of Bible times learns what Jesus meant in the story of the good neighbor; "The Little Seed That Grew" relates the parable of the mustard seed through its growth in a Hispanic farm village; in "Keetah's Special Day", a Native Amercian child learns through watching the storytelling dancers that God's love is like that of a forgiving father; in "Jody Learns About Good Soil", as Asian American child learns that we can help God by making our lives good places to grow things, and in"Kweisi and the Two Houses", an African child learns that God's live is like a house built on a rock. Ages 6­-8.

The Native American tradition of the give-away takes a new form in this engaging dialogue between the Whooping Crane, the Snow Goose, Old Beaver, Grandmother Turtle, the Wind, the Ancient One, and the Creator as well as others. Children of all ages will learn that giving is more than just gifting; it is denying oneself so that another may have a better way.

A young boy discovers the depth of the Creator's love and forgiveness as he accompanies his grandmother to deliver Christmas gifts. Earlier in the year the three young men who received the gifts cruelly hurt both grandmother and grandson, pushing them down in the snow and taking their coats and Grandmother’s moccasins. In this true story told from his own childhood, Ray Buckley tells how Grandmother labored through the year to produce moccasins for each of the young men that were of extraordinary design and loveliness. In her giving and through her forgiveness she draws the young men into the compassion of God’s love. Walking back through the trees, her grandson realizes that same love has made the two of them truly free.

Part activity book, part fact book, and part journal, this book includes hundreds of challenges and spaces to record each performance. Plus there are achievement stickers kids can use as rewards for their accomplishments.YOU are amazing! How amazing? Let’s find out! Inside the pages of this book are oodles of challenges, feats, competitions, and tests of extreme awesomeness. How many pennies can you stack while blindfolded? How many animals can you name in 20 seconds? How many times can you say, “Silly Sally slurps soda slowly,” without making a mistake? Test your mind and body. Record your results. Challenge your friends. How do they measure up? Keep track of your achievments in the space provided, and compare your results against existing world records. Rewards yourself and your friends with the provided stickers and press-out rewards.

You want intense? How about a mountain of water as high as a building? The world’s greatest big wave surfers face that challenge and conquer whatever the ocean can throw at them! Find out how big wave surfing started, meet the top wave riders, and learn how these daring athletes conquer the world’s biggest waves! This title will allow students to explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.• Profiles of athletes• Text based questions• Bolded keywords

`On seeing Throbb trying to blow on the front of his trousers in some inane ritual he decided that the inspector was being his usual prattish self and walked off in the direction of the fishing tackle shop to renew his licence.'Throbb is a maverick police inspector. His colleagues think him weird and his pet fish has died of nicotine poisoning. His current cases are a woman with a genie ear and a psychic who could also be a burglar.Throbb models himself on Jules Maigret, a 1960s French fictional police detective and shares his dress sense with the American detective Columbo who mostly solved crimes wearing a raincoat.Will his experiences give you the foundations to become a super ace detective? No. In fact, just go along for the ride and enjoy the impossibilities.

Part activity, part fact book, and part journal, this book includes hundreds of challenges and spaces to record each performance. Plus there are acheivement stickers kids cn use as rewards for their accomplishments.YOU are amazing! How amazing? Let’s find out! Inside the pages of this book are 350 challenges, feats, competitions, and tests of extreme awesomeness. How many pennies can you stack while blindfolded? How many animals can you name in 20 seconds? How many times can you say, “Silly Sally slurps soda slowly,” without making a mistake? Challenge yourself and your friends to any of these 350 super fun mental and physical tests of awesomeness. Keep track of your own world records in the space provided, and compare your achievements with the whacky facts and existing world records. Reward yourself and your friends with the provided stickers and press-out rewards.