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This is the fourth in a series of skits, puppet shows and plays by author Karen Jones. This edition focuses on Christmas with skits, plays, puppet shows and musicals. The other holidays featured are Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, September 11, and Back to School.

This first book is composed of skits and puppet shows which use humor to teach the message of Christ. These skits and puppet shows are great for all ages and are sure to leave the audience laughing while teaching important topics such as soul-winning techniques, tithing, sin, rapture, plan of salvation, lying, prayer, anger, and faith. This is an updated version of the first in a series by Karen Jones. Section Titles are Pew Grannies, Bring in the Clowns, Holy Hillbillies, and Bible Action News.

Double tragedy leads Sarah to a high mountain lake, unable to endure her pain. She is given a second chance to find a path to happiness by passing through a mystical archway. Sarah takes the risk, not knowing where the adventure will lead. Stumbling down the mountain, she falls into the hands of a calculating Madam, and the arms of John. With the archway ready to close, she must weigh the benefits of new dear friends and a wedding against the dangers of 1882 and a bitter enemy, Sarah: I'm trapped in a brothel and need to get freeTo explore this place, find what is for me.Let John be my groom, But is our love doomed?I'm frightened by all the dangers I see. John: She is a woman, a bit different you know. Dropped into our town, to the brothel below. Passionate and sassy, I asked, be my lassie? She went back; Sarah please stay, do not go.

This ninth book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits and puppet shows. The skits, musicals, and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include Cars, Trains, & Diggers; Life Is a Game; and Soldiers in God's Army. There are two Christmas skits/puppet shows and two Easter skits/puppet shows in this book.

The third in a series of skits, puppet shows, and now plays by author Karen Jones. This book is 80 pages of Easter plays and skits and puppet shows for other holidays such as Mother's Day, Father's Day, Independence Day, Memorial Day, Tax Day, Valentine's Day, and Day of Pentecost.

This fifth book in a series by Karen Jones features two full-length plays about the Tabernacle and the Temple, the former a perfect Easter performance. If you want to learn about the intricacies of the Temple and the step-by-step process of the sacrifice, this is the perfect book for you and your church. The name of Jesus is also glorified in an Easter skit. In addition to that, there are six funny skits depicting how Bible characters would behave in the modern world. There are also four musical skits with a medley of hymns.

This eight book in a series by Karen Jones features nineteen skits and puppet shows. The skits, musicals, and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include Frankentruth's Lab, the Toxic Factory, and Life Lessons. In Frankentruth's Lab, science experiments are performed with spiritual aspects interwoven throughout.

This second book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits and puppet shows. This book is great for ladies', youth, and Sunday school ministries. The skits include sections such as living toys, Noah's ark puppet shows, high school heroes, and angels and imps.

This tenth book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits and puppet shows. The skits, musicals, and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include a Valentine's Day or Easter play, the King's Palace, Rapunzel, and Heaven or Hell. There are two Christmas skits/puppet shows and two Easter skits/puppet shows in this book.

This sixth book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits and puppet shows. The skits and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include Creation Critters, Cowboys, Funny Fables, and Preacher Cat. There are two Christmas skits and one Easter skit in this book.

This seventh book in a series by Karen Jones features twenty skits, musicals, and puppet shows. The skits, musicals, and puppet shows in this book can be performed in a well-lighted room; however they were specifically created for an immersive black-light environment. The themes include Under the Sea, the Sea of Galilee, and Shipwrecked Pirates. There are two Christmas skits/puppet shows and two Easter skit/puppet shows in this book.

Karen Jones' new chapbook, Gold Ray, presents an invitation to see "...farther into the forest . . . enticing us from the trail into enchantment..." ("Winter Moss"). In the voices of keen observer, scientist, outdoorswoman, and educator, Karen takes us through forest, sand beaches, river, and bay to preserve the natural world with her acutely articulated observations. Her poems incorporate nostalgia, resilience, and ultimately, celebration, exhorting the reader to experience this world fully.-Rachel Barton, Editor, Willawaw JournalIn Gold Ray, Karen Jones gives us a world that is beautiful, complex, and fragile, and most of all, a world worth saving. Her poetry will dazzle you with language as beautiful and magical as the world she describes.-Doug Stone, Author of Sitting in Powell's Watching Burnside Dissolve in Rain

"A talented storyteller, and a master at creating memorable characters," -BookLife Review, Editor's PickIn 1951 Tidewater, VA ten-year-old Gracie sits, tears streaming, clutching her dog. Her daddy is sending her and Brown Hound to Grandma Emily for the summer. They are too rowdy for her high-strung mother.On the North Carolina farm Gracie meets her family. Great Granny Jane smokes a pipe and is fast with her cane, Grandma Emily is loving but firm, and cousin Jane has a swashbuckler's heart. It is a wild and heady freedom, away from her mother's scorn and her father's indifference. The girls explore ancient cemeteries, brave the conjure woman, fight, make up, and sleep tangled like puppies. But Marcell looms.With unreadable eyes, dark skin that holds a tragic history and a deep hatred of dogs, the solitary housekeeper's power lies in concealing family secrets. Can she send Brown Hound away? With reckless courage born of fear and hope, the girls resolve to save Brown Hound, smash through shuttered layers of yesteryears secrets and reveal the families' truth."Beautifully written with raw insight and a quick wit. A story of three generations of women that find strength in one another, despite the grip of an intolerable past." - Carine McCandless, Author of The Wild Truth, the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Into the Wild

Karen Jones' new chapbook, Seasons of Earth and Sky, is a beautiful lyric to nature in all its splendor, from its vast vistas ("John Day River Canyon") to the first dogwood flower in spring ("Narrow Trail in April"). -Doug Stone, author of The Season of Distress and Clarity and The Moon's Soul Shimmering on the Water

This book develops the reader's knowledge of how and when gender stereotypes form and how they can be perpetuated in various ways through and during a child's education.

Everyone has the same starting place and ending place. What happens in the middle is your choice!You have a path to follow just as I do. The only difference is you choose which path to follow. Just like the plane flying overhead, you see its path across the sky. You too have a path. You can either follow what you see left by someone else or pave your own way. The path the plane travels across the blue sky is clear and distinct. With time, the path fades. Similarly, you can follow a clear path or wait, and push through the blurred path, or figure it out on your own.This book is about the journey to connect with the most important person in your life. We have many distractions on our journey. When you focus on what provides clarity for you, you will find the path you were meant to follow.

The Upside-Down Jesus and other stories is a collection of published and prize-winning short stories, flash fiction and micro-fiction giving voice to a variety of different characters. A child struggles to overcome her fear of the upside-down Jesus, a man dons his 'egg-stealing coat' once a week, a teenager becomes obsessed with the colour purple, an old man keeps his wife closer than others would like, a psychiatrist considers the folly of his patients, and a little girl watches her neighbour slowly disappear.

Social workers often have to handle a great deal of negativity in their working lives. This book celebrates social work practice at its most positive and influential and, in doing so, contributes to a growing literature on critical best practice.Focused on 12 unique and compelling stories of social work with older people, the authors:* provide a fresh and realistic insight into life as a social worker, and the dilemmas and difficulties that practitioners typically face* illustrate how knowledge, theory and research are integrated in professional decision-making and action* show social workers analyzing their own cases and include reflective questions to help readers formulate their own learning and thereby develop their own practiceThis book provides students on qualifying courses with an invaluable perspective on real life practice, and gives qualified practitioners the opportunity to reflect on and better their own practice.

Social work has laboured too long under a 'deficit' model that focuses on failings and problems of practice. Emphasising best practice, strengths and collaborative partnership this ambitious book seeks to redress the balance. Undergraduate and post-qualifying social work students alike will find it a useful resource.

Part of the "101 Essential Lists" series, this title contains lists for primary school teachers on how to manage behaviour. The lists range from minor problems, such as giving rewards and sanctions to how to deal with serious problems, such as drugs, bullying and anger management.