Books with title Blackfire's Back!

Starfire's big sister Blackfire is back with a vengeance! Will the rest of the Teen Titans become victims of this super-sibling rivalry? Follow Robin, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire as these teenage super heroes team up to take down super-villains and schoolwork alike. Each book features a comics glossary, visual discussion questions, and writing prompts.

Moe is having a rough start to sixth grade. He's the target of bullies and he doesn't feel like he fits in. He's also struggling with difficult memories from his homeland of Syria, before his family fled as refugees. When the bullying goes too far and lands him in the hospital, Moe has to come to terms with who he is and where he's from. Thankfully, he's got his friends from the Resilience Group to help him deal with his tough traumas. Join Moe, Diamond, Hailey, Josh, and Gema in their quest for healing, hope, and new beginnings. The Resilience Group deals with kids experiencing or recovering from difficult traumatic experiences (ACEs), and helps them learn about resilience and healing. Topics discussed in this series include family violence, child abuse, bullying, immigration, grief and loss, LGBTQ issues, adoption trauma, and medical illnesses.

After losing his job and getting grounded, Elijah is sure this will be the worst summer ever. Little does he know, it's about to get worse. News breaks that a wildfire is burning out of control—and it's headed straight for his town. As the fire nears, Elijah must act quickly. Should he evacuate? Can he and his friends escape the flames? And what will they lose along the way?

After losing his job and getting grounded, Elijah is sure this will be the worst summer ever. Little does he know, it's about to get worse. News breaks that a wildfire is burning out of control―and it's headed straight for his town. As the fire nears, Elijah must act quickly. Should he evacuate? Can he and his friends escape the flames? And what will they lose along the way?

Moe is having a rough start to sixth grade. He's the target of bullies and he doesn't feel like he fits in. He's also struggling with difficult memories from his homeland of Syria, before his family fled as refugees. When the bullying goes too far and lands him in the hospital, Moe has to come to terms with who he is and where he's from. Thankfully, he's got his friends from the Resilience Group to help him deal with his tough traumas.Join Moe, Diamond, Hailey, Josh, and Gema in their quest for healing, hope, and new beginnings.The Resilience Group deals with kids experiencing or recovering from difficult traumatic experiences (ACEs), and helps them learn about resilience and healing. Topics discussed in this series include family violence, child abuse, bullying, immigration, grief and loss, LGBTQ issues, adoption trauma, and medical illnesses.

Description: Four unlikely teenagers are summoned to quest for the salvation of a perpendicular world. Elli Adams and her friends Beatriz, Jamie, and Alex must overcome their own personal challenges of blindness, self-confidence, and Down syndrome as they struggle together to fulfill their mysterious calling as Bairnmoor's last prophetic hope. Join them on an adventure through singing forests and stardust valleys full of mystical, glorious, and ferocious creatures, all of which test their resolve in the face of overwhelming adversity. James Eckblad's novel wrestles with the age-old questions of good and evil and the nature of the heroic life. The story offers a fresh and challenging perspective on how one can have faith in the good against every indication that evil is thriving, if not prevailing, and how every child--and so all of us--can be immensely more than we are, and all we were meant to be. Endorsements: ""With Elli and her friends we enter a convincingly imagined 'other world' of unforgettable creatures, piercing beauty, and exciting dangers. And in joining their heroic quest through this strange world, we discover, too, bracing portrayals of universal themes: choice and courage, freedom and destiny, good and evil. Stories of other worlds, it is said, may both delight and instruct; as with all good fantasies, Blackfire sends us back to our own world, refreshed and renewed."" --David J. Gouwens Brite Divinity School ""This is a terrific story. The plot is riveting, and its unlikely heroes are people you care about. Woven throughout is a meditation on the nature of the conflict between good and evil, the meaning of faith, and the importance of the choices we all must make. To read it is to grow."" --David Johnson Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary ""Blackfire invites readers into a world of the familiar and fantastic. In this tale, we journey with those who could be our neighbors next door as they confront the daunting task of saving the world from ruin. Along the way, we gain insight into the ongoing human struggle to counter forces that lead to destruction and embrace those that lead to blessing. In tones reminiscent of C. S. Lewis, Eckblad composes a tale that will appeal to young readers open to discovering essential truths about the world, and themselves."" --Karl Kuhn Lakeland College About the Contributor(s): James Daniel Eckblad has served as both a pastor and a trial attorney, with degrees in theology and law from Yale University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively. His writings range from tales and short stories to short plays, and his papers and articles on law and theology have been included in various journals and symposia. Blackfire is his first published work of fiction. He lives and works in Chicago.

After losing his job and getting grounded, Elijah is sure this will be the worst summer ever. Little does he know, it's about to get worse. News breaks that a wildfire is burning out of control―and it's headed straight for his town. As the fire nears, Elijah must act quickly. Should he evacuate? Can he and his friends escape the flames? And what will they lose along the way?

In this urgently important book, Zelnick looks past the good intentions to how affirmative action really works in such areas as voting rights, employment, minority set-asides, mortgage and insurance regulation, and education. Buttressing his case with the latest research data and scores of real-life examples, Zelnick shows overwhelmingly that affirmative action: favors the less qualified over the more qualified; endangers public safety in such areas as crime and fire prevention, and even medical care; has made it all but impossible for business and government to use objective merit selection criteria in hiring and promotion; brings few benefits to those most in need of help, and benefits mostly those who don't need it; distracts from—and even exacerbates the real causes of misery among inner city blacks; has developed powerful constituencies in business and government; has been broadened for political purposes to include beneficiaries who want relief but lack the historical claim of blacks; legitimizes negative stigmas about minorities and pandering to the darker instincts of racial animosity; and as an ideology has proven immune to conclusive evidence that it is counterproductive. Zelnick traces how affirmative action was first sold as a short-term program designed to expand employer awareness of qualified minority job applicants, but instead has become a coercive network of race-conscious laws, regulations, quotas, preferences, and entitlement programs—in short, an assault on the very value of equality of opportunity it was supposed to promote. Zelnick also shows how affirmative action is increasingly being challenged in the courts and political arena. He concludes with an in-depth, behind the-scenes report on the affirmative action battles now raging in California, whose outcomes will have major consequences nationwide, and for years to come.