Student Life

Fifteen stories, different emotions, one message: when teachers hang up their masks and cloaks, they are vulnerable humans within. Staff Room Stories is a unique collection of powerful, emotional, heart touching stories, fictionalized but inspired by real incidents.

Want to ace your next exam? Claim victory as a beer pong champ? Remove that gross stain from your shirt before your interview? College Hacks gives you the tricks and tips you need to get ahead in life without breaking a sweat. Filled with hundreds of ways to simplify nearly every college situation, this guide tells you just what to do when your professor assigns you a twenty-page paper or you run out of clean dishes in your dorm room (chip bag bowl, anyone?).

Indispensable tax information to get a young person's life started off right. Ideal for high school, college, or vocational students, as well as kids just starting out in the work force. Made in an engaging and snarky way, this audiobook provides tax, financial, and life advice that is easy to digest (and afford). Twenty-five years in the Navy (on submarines), 20 years preparing taxes, 50 years of life, two years of financial advising, and four eye-opening months of traditional college (at an age that made me feel like Billy Madison) are the knowledge base for this audiobook.

Three Women. One College Student. Life Lessons. Wayne Sloan and Linda Watson never intended to become long-term lovers. But almost a year has passed and the improbable romance, between a college student and a 45-year-old widow, is still a secret from everyone including Linda’s best friend, Cindy Sloan, who happens to be Wayne’s mom. Wayne’s poor scholastic performance incurs the wrath of his parents, and a long summer working for his uncle in a rural factory awaits Wayne. Soon after his arrival Wayne receives an unwanted gift from a promiscuous divorcee. He seeks a more appropriate ...

Ten year-old Benny travels west with a knife-throwing, card-playing bank robber, a savage black stallion, and the promise that God will never leave him. Can he trust that promise? Explore this Historical adventure in greater detail and understand the time period better. Study Guide to Benny and the Bank Robber. Student edition includes the full story text with comprehension questions, thought questions, and essay and research suggestions plus vocabulary by chapter.

Sky Fielder is a typical college student, except that she is a product of the foster-care system, lives in a halfway house, and meets with her caseworker on a weekly basis. While failing to balance her grades and erratic social life, she receives a call from a hospital, asking her to make medical decisions for her brother Ben—who died more than a decade before. The call must be a scam, and besides, Sky has a new life now. None of her classmates know about her desperate and feral childhood in West Texas.

For young adults or college students, life is full of mounting pressures, challenging relationships, and big decisions. In Life Wisdom from a Smooth Jesus and a Clumsy College Pastor, Skyler Daniel offers a friend for that journey and time-tested biblical wisdom. This devotional, readable in under five minutes a day, can be that voice and guide to you during this season of life. Written for Christians and skeptics alike, Life Wisdom offers fifteen devotionals a month, one for every other day, with an index for topics and Scriptures. Skyler Daniel pastors Manly Memorial Baptist Church in ...

Teaching is more than a profession—it’s a calling to nurture and inspire. In Seeds of Change: Planting Hope and Growth in the Lives of Students, Mark Mansour takes listeners on a heartfelt journey through the transformative power of education. Drawing from his 20 years of experience as an educator, Mark shares practical insights and moving stories that highlight the immense impact teachers can have in shaping students’ lives.

How in the world is he the one knocking on her door? Rachael Barnes has been writing about Silverwood Academy for almost three years. In her make-believe world, vampire hunters train up-and-coming slayers to defeat the bloodsuckers that hide in the dark corners. But when Rachael kills off her main character, everything starts to get strange. There’s an earthquake, her cat starts acting crazy, and friends from her old job ask her where she's been as if she still works there. Just when Rachael begins to question her sanity, a knock at her door confirms she's either lost her mind or written ...

Bullies, freaks, and phantoms inhabit the abandoned elementary school. Would you go inside to help out a friend? Stevie asks Jase to help her find out why the ghost of a girl keeps appearing in her mirror. They think it has something to do with the new student at their school, a boy who has Tourette syndrome. Both the new kid and the new phantom seem to need some kind of help. When the new kid falls prey to the school bullies, Stevie knows they must act. But will they be too late, or will a tragic moment in their school's history be repeated on Halloween night?

eNinja shares his best learning practices for online school with his buddy Stressed Ninja. Find out what happens in this comedic book about overcoming anxiety and struggles with virtual distance learning. Life is hard! And it's even harder for children who are just trying to figure things out. The new children's book series Ninja Life Hacks was developed to help children learn valuable life skills.

The New Truth is out there... Jack is just an ordinary college student. How has he got involved with shadowy criminals, a deep cover spy, a dodgy businessman, a mysterious internet avatar, a 14th century nun...and a squirrel? And what, exactly, is the New Truth Movement? A genre-bending tale that mixes dry humour, magical realism and new weird elements into a fantastic thriller.

A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by White students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners.

For fans of all things traditionally British… Eccentric professors. Black dinner gowns. Leather chairs in old libraries. It’s the mid-1990s. Age nineteen, J.A. Jernay arrives at Oxford University as an innocent abroad and begins keeping a meticulously written diary of his experiences. Plunging into nearly a thousand years of English literature and history, this young American leads the reader through daily life at the world’s third-oldest university. From drinking warm beer at back-alley pubs to standing for dinner in a formal black gown at the college dining hall— From punting on ...

One lousy miracle. Is that too much to ask? Evidently so for Joel, as he tries to survive Hannukah 1971 in the suburbs of the suburbs of Los Angeles (or, as he calls it, "The Land of Shriveled Dreams"). That's no small task when you're a "seriously funny-looking" 12-year-old magician who dreams of being his own superhero: Normalman. And Joel's a long way from that as the only Jew at Bixby School, where his attempts to make himself disappear fail spectacularly.

Can I Kiss You? is an in-depth look at the realities of relationships and sexual intimacy. While most people simply “make their move” with a partner, Mike Domitrz reveals why asking first makes all the difference. Domitrz’s candid advice, real-life scenarios, and helpful strategies will revolutionize your approach to relationships while adding romance and building respect for all partners. Plus, Domitrz will heighten your awareness of potential dangers, including sexual assault. You will discover specific steps for intervening to help those you care about. People of all ages are ...

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