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A fatal choice, after a string of bad choices, leaves Desiree broken and dying in a ditch. With seconds left to live, a genie appears. She can live again, he says, if she agrees to serve him for fifty years. She agrees, but after more than four decades of granting other people’s wishes and never getting her own, the former hippie has developed an attitude problem. Mandy Matteo is the perfect daughter and student, never breaking a rule for fear of the repercussions. But her friends want fun, not perfection, and abandon Mandy for parties and boys. Miserable, she makes a wish. Nothing extravagant, just a whisper to the universe to be happy. Never dreaming it will come true. Then Lexi, her childhood imaginary friend, shows up in the field outside her house and life is good again. Magical wishes have conditions, though. Once started, they cannot be altered or revoked. And once Mandy is truly content with her life, Lexi must go back to wherever she came from. Turns out, Lexi likes being alive and she’s prepared to do whatever it takes to stay that way.What Readers Are Saying“Fantasy at its best!”“Not only do we get to follow along on Mandy’s adventure with Lexi, we also get to learn bits about Desiree — the wish mistress who I absolutely fell in love with.”“Desiree is this quirky, hippy chic genie. She lives in the present with her mind in the past. She marches to her own rhythm, her own way of thinking. Desiree doesn’t really fit in, but she has a uniqueness about her that defies rigidity. And she’s ever-evolving, always learning something else. It might take her moment to find the lesson, but she’ll get there. Eventually.”“Desiree even has her own back story that we slowly get to peel away as the story progresses.”“These books are wonderful. They take you into a world where you find you want to live.”The Wish Makers SeriesSticks and Stones, Book 1Break My Bones, Book 2Never Hurt Me, Book 3Had a Great Fall, Book 4Back Together Again, Book 5

Includes complete book, character and book summaries, and Bible Study Guide for Teenagers!In the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, the reclusive curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by four spirits who force him to examine his selfish ways. When Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning, he is a new man, flinging open the windows of spiritual transformation and given to an entirely new outlook on life.A Christmas Carol Book and Bible Study Guide For Teensincludes the entire book of this Dickens classic as well as Bible study discussion questions designed specifically for teenagers at the end of each chapter, Scripture references, and related commentary.Detailed character sketches and an easy-to-read book summary provide deep insights into each character while examining the book’s themes of greed, isolation, guilt, blame, compassion, generosity, transformation, forgiveness, and finally redemption. To assist leaders, a complete Answer Guide is available for free online.This complete Bible study experience is perfect for youth groups, homeschool and Christian schools as well as independent study.A Christmas Carol Book and Study Guide for Teens includes:Five sessions of weekly studyComplete character sketches and summaries to go deeperBible study questions that are ideal for teenagersAnswer Guide for all questions and Scripture Reference Guide available for free onlineAvailable in print or e-book formatsThis Christmas, allow the transformational story of Ebenezer Scrooge to transform the teenagers in your life while inspiring change in the lives of those around you. There's no better tool for making that happen than with A Christmas Carol Book and Study Guide for Teens!Frequently Asked Questions:Does the study guide include the entire book of A Christmas Carol?Yes. The study guide includes the entire original Dicken’s classic as well as discussion questions, character sketches, and commentary.How long is the study?The study is five weeks, but can easily be formatted to both four and six week studies based on your schedule.Does each teen in the study need their own book?Yes. It’s most helpful for learning purposes if each teen has their own book.Is there much homework?The only homework is to read one chapter and answer corresponding discussion questions each week prior to class. Can anyone lead the study?Absolutely! The study is created in a discussion format allowing either adult or teen leaders to simply guide teens through each study question at weekly meetings.Can I get access to the answers for each discussion question?Yes. The answers for each discussion question are available for free online! In addition, we provide a Scripture Reference sheet for each Bible passage to save time in class.What age group is this study for?You can use this study with both middle and high schoolers. We have also created an adult version.In what formats is the book available?The book is available in both print and e-book formats. However, print is most helpful when writing answers to discussion questions found in the book.Can we also use one of the many movies with the study?Yes! We actually encourage using movie segments in class if able, but certainly not required. Or, gather one evening and watch the movie together as a fellowship. We believe the version starring Patrick Stewart follows the storyline best.

Includes complete book, character and book summaries, and Bible Study Guide for Teenagers!In the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, the reclusive curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by four spirits who force him to examine his selfish ways. When Scrooge awakens on Christmas morning, he is a new man, flinging open the windows of spiritual transformation and given to an entirely new outlook on life.A Christmas Carol Book and Bible Study Guide For Teensincludes the entire book of this Dickens classic as well as Bible study discussion questions designed specifically for teenagers at the end of each chapter, Scripture references, and related commentary.Detailed character sketches and an easy-to-read book summary provide deep insights into each character while examining the book’s themes of greed, isolation, guilt, blame, compassion, generosity, transformation, forgiveness, and finally redemption. To assist leaders, a complete Answer Guide is available for free online.This complete Bible study experience is perfect for youth groups, homeschool and Christian schools as well as independent study.A Christmas Carol Book and Study Guide for Teens includes:A Christmas Carol book by Charles DickensFive sessions of weekly studyComplete character sketches and summaries to go deeperBible study questions that are ideal for teenagersAnswer Guide for all questions and Scripture Reference Guide available for free onlineAvailable in print or e-book formatsThis Christmas, allow the transformational story of Ebenezer Scrooge to transform the teenagers in your life while inspiring change in the lives of those around you. There's no better tool for making that happen than with A Christmas Carol Book and Study Guide for Teens!Frequently Asked Questions:Does the study guide include the entire book of A Christmas Carol?Yes. The study guide includes the entire original Dicken’s classic as well as discussion questions, character sketches, and commentary.How long is the study?The study is five weeks, but can easily be formatted to both four and six week studies based on your schedule.Does each teen in the study need their own book?Yes. It’s most helpful for learning purposes if each teen has their own book.Is there much homework?The only homework is to read one chapter and answer corresponding discussion questions each week prior to class. Can anyone lead the study?Absolutely! The study is created in a discussion format allowing either adult or teen leaders to simply guide teens through each study question at weekly meetings.Can I get access to the answers for each discussion question?Yes. The answers for each discussion question are available for free online! In addition, we provide a Scripture Reference sheet for each Bible passage to save time in class.What age group is this study for?You can use this study with both middle and high schoolers. We have also created an adult version.In what formats is the book available?The book is available in both print and e-book formats. However, print is most helpful when writing answers to discussion questions found in the book.Can we also use one of the many movies with the study?Yes! We actually encourage using movie segments in class if able, but certainly not required. Or, gather one evening and watch the movie together as a fellowship. We believe the version starring Patrick Stewart follows the storyline best.

The most trusted study guide to learning The Screwtape Letters!Reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis can be a little difficult and confusing at times. Not so with The Screwtape Letters Study Guide! This comprehensive Bible study workbook breaks down each of the thirty one letters into easy-to-understand segments helping you understand and be able to confidently share with others.The Screwtape Letters is a brilliant and satirical look at spiritual warfare and the dynamics of temptation. Screwtape, a senior demon in the bureaucracy of Hell, writes letters to his incompetent nephew Wormwood, a junior devil. The younger demon's assignment is to corrupt a young man living in London during the tumultuous days of World War II.Using Scripture references, discussion questions, and related commentary, The Screwtape Letters Study Guide examines each letter through a Christian lens of morality, temptation, and good and evil.This complete Bible study experience is perfect for book clubs, church groups, and independent study. Detailed character sketches and an easy-to-read book summary provide deep insights into each character and letter of the book. To help with those more difficult discussion questions, a complete Answer Guide and Scripture Reference Guide is available for free online.The Screwtape Letters Study Guide includes: Twelve sessions of study with multi-week options included Comprehensive Bible study workbook with studies for each week Complete character sketches and summaries to go deeper Bible study questions that are ideal for group discussion Answer Guide for all questions and Scripture Reference Guide available for free online Perfect for book clubs, small groups, or individual Bible study Available in print or e-book formats Explore every shocking and amusing detail of this iconic classic to better understand Christianity and the foolish war raging against it. There's no better tool for making that happen than with The Screwtape Letters Study Guide! Endorsement Vermilye walks the reader through each Screwtape letter and wisely asks questions to bring out turns and twists in the thoughts and emotions that we each experience and that Lewis wanted us to recognize. Steven Urban PhD, Author of Mere Christianity Study Guide

Everyone wants a home. Will Ainsley ever get one?A best friend, a boyfriend, and a coveted spot in the talent show. Ordinary things for most teens, but uncommon pleasures for Ainsley Blue. For fifteen years, Ainsley has zigzagged across the country, moving to a new town every few months. Now, after a year at the same school, Ainsley believes her life is finally normal. Then one afternoon, she comes home to find Mum packing, and everything changes again.Heartbroken, Ainsley sends a wish into the universe. All she wants is to have a home she never has to leave and to understand why they live like drifters. Desiree, a stressed-out hippie genie, arrives to grant Ainsley’s wish but warns that the truth may not be easy to accept. Ainsley insists she can handle whatever happens, but little can prepare her for what she’s about to learn.

After nearly fifty years as an indentured genie, Desiree escaped the magical world . . . for a few weeks. Now she’s the leader of the Wish Makers and it’s been anything but a peaceful transition. The cross-country move was meant to be a fresh start for Robin Westmore. But on the first day at his new high school, Robin ends up face-to-face with the school’s biggest bully. The exact wrong place at the exact wrong moment and right back into his old role of victim. Hopeless, Robin begs for it all to stop. It’s childish, wishing on a dandelion, but he can’t take it anymore and needs a way out. Distracted by her duties, Desiree passes Robin off to a new, inexperienced genie who takes things from bad to so very much worse. What Readers Are Saying“Fantasy at its best!”“Not only do we get to follow along on Mandy’s adventure with Lexi, we also get to learn bits about Desiree — the wish mistress who I absolutely fell in love with.”“Desiree is this quirky, hippy chic genie. She lives in the present with her mind in the past. She marches to her own rhythm, her own way of thinking. Desiree doesn’t really fit in, but she has a uniqueness about her that defies rigidity. And she’s ever-evolving, always learning something else. It might take her moment to find the lesson, but she’ll get there. Eventually.”“Desiree even has her own back story that we slowly get to peel away as the story progresses.”“These books are wonderful. They take you into a world where you find you want to live.”The Wish Makers SeriesSticks and Stones, Book 1Break My Bones, Book 2Never Hurt Me, Book 3Had a Great Fall, Book 4Back Together Again, Book 5

Desiree is bitter. Understandable. Decades of granting heart’s-desire wishes to other people have turned the hippie girl this way. Fortunately, her fifty years as an indentured genie are almost up, and she can hardly wait. A real life again in the real world. Not having to worry about what others want. Pure bliss. Crissy Sheets is trapped. Her family adores her boyfriend, Brad, and are thrilled over her great catch. They don’t know the truth, though. They don’t see the bruises she hides. Terrified by the future she’s headed for, Crissy makes a wish for a better life. Just a few desperate words uttered as a star shoots by in the night sky. And suddenly, a new path appears. Desiree isn’t supposed to get involved with her charges’ wishes. In fact, it’s forbidden. But when Crissy’s wish goes from bad to worse to a living nightmare, she has no choice.What Readers Are Saying“Fantasy at its best!”“Not only do we get to follow along on Mandy’s adventure with Lexi, we also get to learn bits about Desiree — the wish mistress who I absolutely fell in love with.”“Desiree is this quirky, hippy chic genie. She lives in the present with her mind in the past. She marches to her own rhythm, her own way of thinking. Desiree doesn’t really fit in, but she has a uniqueness about her that defies rigidity. And she’s ever-evolving, always learning something else. It might take her moment to find the lesson, but she’ll get there. Eventually.”“Desiree even has her own back story that we slowly get to peel away as the story progresses.”“These books are wonderful. They take you into a world where you find you want to live.”The Wish Makers SeriesSticks and Stones, Book 1Break My Bones, Book 2Never Hurt Me, Book 3Had a Great Fall, Book 4Back Together Again, Book 5

For years, hippie-genie Desiree has been living in a sort of limbo, granting wishes for others while never receiving her own.Then she learns she’s finally getting what she asked for that day so long ago while laying in that ditch. A second chance at life.She has two choices: her future or her past. Moving forward will allow her to have the normal, independent life she’s dreamed of for so long. Going back to 1969—to when her best friend, boyfriend, brother, and parents are still alive—means she can prevent the tragedies that happened to them. Both options take her away from Kaf. Her intense, exasperating, gorgeous boss. Nothing ever goes smoothly with wishes, however, and Desiree’s path twists again when she meets a beggar girl wearing new, designer clothes. What Readers Are Saying“Fantasy at its best!”“Not only do we get to follow along on Mandy’s adventure with Lexi, we also get to learn bits about Desiree — the wish mistress who I absolutely fell in love with.”“Desiree is this quirky, hippy chic genie. She lives in the present with her mind in the past. She marches to her own rhythm, her own way of thinking. Desiree doesn’t really fit in, but she has a uniqueness about her that defies rigidity. And she’s ever-evolving, always learning something else. It might take her moment to find the lesson, but she’ll get there. Eventually.”“Desiree even has her own back story that we slowly get to peel away as the story progresses.”“These books are wonderful. They take you into a world where you find you want to live.”The Wish Makers SeriesSticks and Stones, Book 1Break My Bones, Book 2Never Hurt Me, Book 3Had a Great Fall, Book 4Back Together Again, Book 5

Survey the Entire Bible in Just 90 Days!For many, reading the Bible is overwhelming and hard to understand and can leave you feeling frustrated and often defeated. The 90-Day Bible Study Guidesolves this problem by taking you on a journey through select portions of Scripture and giving you the confidence to tackle any Bible passage in just 90 days!Beginning with Genesis and ending in Revelation, you'll spend just under 30 minutes each day using this comprehensive Bible study workbook with Scripture readings and corresponding Bible study questions designed to guide you to a better understanding of the personalities, the history, the conflicts, the miracles and the Truth that is the Christian faith.It's the perfect Bible study for beginners, adults, teens, homeschool groups, or those seasoned veterans looking for a refresher Bible study course. To help with those more difficult discussion questions, a complete Answer Guide is available for free online.The 90-Day Bible Study Guide features: Comprehensive Bible study workbook with studies for each week Study questions that are ideal for group discussion Personal reflection and note taking opportunities in the Bible study journal Answer Guide for all questions and Scripture Reference Guide available for free online Available in print or e-book formats In just 90 days you will be well on your way to knowing what you believe, why you believe it, and how to apply it with The 90-Day Bible Study Guide. Endorsement Survey after survey indicates that Bible knowledge is on the decline even among evangelical Christians. I am firmly convinced that nothing changes the heart and mind but the Word of God applied by the Spirit of God. This 90-Day Bible Study Guide will enable you to read the Bible with understanding. Dr. Ken Hemphill Author of The Prayer of Jesus

Transgender Profiles: Time for a Change is an inspirational volume from Linda DeFruscio about the courage it takes to become the person you have always felt you were inside to shirk off the mask that you have worn for your whole life until this moment. As an electrologist, Linda sees clients every day who are in the process of transitioning to a different gender, and she is there to help them in their journey of self-expression and the claiming of their identity. Filled with twenty unique stories of bravery from all different walks of life, this book is a tribute to all the courageous people who take their identity in their own hands and go forth to find the body that fits the soul and mind within. For those considering transitioning, for those looking for perspective and guidance in supporting loved ones, or for those who are curious and want to understand the struggles and triumphs of transgender individuals, Transgender Profiles is an invaluable resource.

A series about wishes granted by a genie with an attitude problem? What could possibly go wrong?Mandy simply wants to be happy. Crissy dreams of a better life. Desiree would love a second chance.Get the first three books in the series for one low price!SF Benson – author of The Alliance Chronicles “Desiree is this quirky, hippy chic genie. She lives in the present with her mind in the past. She marches to her own rhythm, her own way of thinking. Desiree doesn’t really fit in, but she has a uniqueness about her that defies rigidity. And she’s ever-evolving, always learning something else. It might take her moment to find the lesson, but she’ll get there. Eventually.”Toni @ My Book Addiction – 5 stars – YA Fantasy at its best! “Not only do we get to follow along on Mandy’s adventure with Lexi, we also get to learn bits about Desiree — the wish mistress who I absolutely fell in love with.”Jan F – 4 stars – “Desiree even has her own back story that we slowly get to peel away as the story progresses.”Jennifer F – 5 stars – “These books are wonderful. They take you into a world where you find you want to live.”

At a time when leprosy threatens the world, one boy searches for his missing parents in this heartwarming, triumphant tale.“A gripping adventure” Elara, Vine VoiceThis heavily-researched, fictional book retells the 1946 leprosy pandemic in Hawaii, where lepers were quarantined on a remote pacific island. Told through the eyes of one brave boy.When 13-year-old George’s best friend is arrested as a leper, George is devastated and afraid. Is it possible George has caught the awful plague, too? His best friend is sent to the mysterious, remote island colony called Kalaupapa. No one ever comes back.Soon, George realizes the authorities are searching for him, too. He’s on the run, and his only hope is to find his missing birth parents, parents he hasn’t seen since he was a baby. He’s penniless, alone, and there’s no one he can trust. Will it mean escaping to Molokai, a place feared by all? Does he have what it takes to survive? Based on historical written accounts and hours of research, this little-known piece of world history is exceptionally riveting, fast paced, and pulls at the heartstrings. The leprosy disease, now known as Hansen’s Disease, devastated the world until a cure was discovered in 1946.Includes an informative fact section at the back with a historical timeline and more information about the disease.Sure to appeal to fans of books like An American Plague from Newbery Honor winner Jim Murphy, Fever 1793 by New York Times bestseller Laurie Halse Anderson, and Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 by Don Brown.A strikingly relevant must-read in today's current situation.An inspiration book of tenacious survival and the strength of the human spirit.