Books with author Patricia Rasch

BEST SELLER: Inspire your daily journey with "one of the best" of the One Year® Devotional Series, the best-selling "God's Great Blessings" from award-winning author Patricia Raybon. With her fresh, honest and inspiring style, Patricia takes a courageous 365-day journey through Bible virtues that God blesses. An enriching daily guide, this devotional will light your path from barriers to breakthroughs to God's great blessings--building your character and faith one blessed day at a time. "Fresh and relevant.""Beautiful and moving.""Useful and inspiring.""Short enough yet substantial.""One of the best in the One Year Series."

As Ezra admires her mother's beauty one day, she tells her that she wants to be beautiful too. What her mother says next surprises her... "There is beauty in all of us, you just have to look deep down inside yourself and find your own beauty." Join Ezra as she learns that beauty isn't just what you see on the outside, it's who you are on the inside!

For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia, listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their dreams and enact their tragedies. What she found was that America's teens have fashioned a fully defined culture that adults neither see nor imagine--a culture of unprecedented freedom and baffling complexity, a culture with rules but no structure, values but no clear morality, codes but no consistency.Is it society itself that has created this separate teen community? Resigned to the attitude that adolescents simply live in "a tribe apart," adults have pulled away, relinquishing responsibility and supervision, allowing the unhealthy behaviors of teens to flourish. Ultimately, this rift between adults and teenagers robs both generations of meaningful connections. For everyone's world is made richer and more challenging by having adolescents in it.

BEST SELLER. Inspire your daily journey with "one of the best" of the One Year® Devotional Series, "God's Great Blessings" from award-winning author Patricia Raybon. With her fresh, honest and inspiring style, Patricia takes a courageous 365-day journey through Bible virtues that God blesses. An enriching daily guide, this best-selling devotional will light your path from barriers to breakthroughs to God's great blessings--building your character and faith one blessed day at a time. "Fresh and relevant.""Beautiful and moving.""Useful and inspiring.""Short enough yet substantial.""One of the best in the One Year Series."

A fun and festive autumn coloring adventure for children! Get into the spirit with the Thanksgiving And Fall Coloring Book for Kids . This fall time coloring book features kid-friendly illustrations of all things Thanksgiving and Autumn . You will find friendly pilgrims and Native Americans, turkeys, delicious food and more! Thanksgiving-themed pictures to capture and hold your children's attention. Coloring is not only fun, it's also great for stimulating imagination, creativity, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive development! • There are more than 29 images to color. This book size 8.5 x 11 inches ( latter size), • Images printed on only one side of the page, so you can save and frame your child’s masterpiece! • Images are large enough to allow plenty of coloring room, whether children color inside the lines or not! • To ensure bleed-through isn't an issue when using markers, place a thin piece of cardboard between the pages. Happy Thanksgiving!

After the school year ends, two young sisters, Tiff and Jen, move with their parents to a new home in the country with a big park nearby. The girls are excited about the move because they will live close to their grandma and grandpa, just three blocks away.Tiff soon befriends Mikayla, a beautiful butterfly, and her side-kick, Tommy, a boy lady bug. It is not long before she realizes that Mikayla is a magical butterfly. Tiff soon discovers that her new friend has a big problem - she can’t remember how to use her magical powers correctly! As a result, Tiff finds herself in constant chaos due to Mikayla’s magical blunders.Many friendships develop along the way. Tiff has no idea that these new friends will be unlike any others she has had and that they will take her into a world of numerous adventures and mishaps; the likes of which she could have never before imagined. Tiff not only learns about the power of butterfly magic, but also that friendships can help create a rewarding and positive outcome from even the saddest situation.About the Author: Patricia Ralphs resides in Riverside, California with her husband and son. Before retiring, she worked in the K-12 educational system as an administrator for the last twenty of her thirty-nine years of service. During this time, she earned her B.A. degree in Business at the University of Redlands and an M.S. degree in Human Resources at Chapman College. Throughout her career she has loved working with dedicated administrators, teachers, and staff in the quest to create a better future for children.Patricia grew up writing poems, plays, and short stories for her five siblings and friends. Because she found writing fun and rewarding, she made it her life-long goal to one day take some of her works and share them with children. She hopes this book allows them to expand their imagination and encourages their desire to read.In addition to writing, Patricia enjoys spending time with her family, oil painting, gardening, and decorating.

Don't tell anyone -- the only safety is in secrecy. During the summer of 1894 the giant sequoia trees -- the oldest living things on earth -- are being felled for lumber in northern California. When fifteen-year-old Francie finds a note hidden in the stump of an old sequoia, she immediately recognizes her sister's handwriting. But Carrie died in an accident six years ago. Could Carrie's secret still be important? Francie's search for the truth turns dangerous, and she needs to get to St. Joseph fast. She's faced with the choice of either giving up, or riding the flume, a rickety track that carries lumber from the mills in the mountains to the lumberyard in St. Joseph. Should Francie risk her life for the secret her sister fought to keep?

Change and Conflict is part of the Irish History in Perspective series of pupils' and teacher's books which will meet the requirements of the history curriculum for Northern Ireland at key stage 3. These specially-commissioned books allow pupils to understand how developments at a local, national and international level have helped to shape the economy, culture and political structure of Ireland. Change and Conflict addresses Core 2 of the Northern Ireland history curriculum: Britain, Ireland and Europe from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries. The Teacher's Resource Book provides a range of photocopy masters which reinforce and extend the themes covered in the pupils' book.