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  • FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS
    PATRICK ALLEN
    Forty days and nights is a time of hardship and trial, but it is also a time to transition and hope. Hardships change people. Trying times always do. So often, however, people focus on the hardship or trial and forget that there is a journey to be embraced. They are on their way home, but they focus on the pain of the present rather than on the hope of a new landing place. When...

    $355.00

  • CONFERRING
    PATRICK ALLEN
    In his years of teacher workshops, author Patrick Allen has heard it all: 'I don't have time! 'I don't know what questions to ask! 'I don't know what to write in my notes, it's too hard! In his book Conferring: The Keystone of Reader's Workshop, Allen argues that the benefits of conferring outweigh the challenges and that teachers must put forth the effort of learning how to ...

    $660.00

  • PUT THINKING TO THE TEST
    LORI CONRAD / MISSY MATTHEWS / CHERYL ZIMMERMAN / PATRICK A. ALLEN
    How can teachers use the comprehension strategies put forward in books like Strategies That Work and Mosaic of Thought to help students become not just better readers and thinkers but also better test takers? The four authors of Put Thinking to the Test have spent years pursuing that question and have developed a groundbreaking approach, as their colleague Ellin Keene writes in...

    $740.00

  • HISSY FITZ
    PATRICK JENNINGS / MICHAEL ALLEN AUSTIN
    Hissy Fitz lives with some two-legged creatures who are destined to serve him in every possible way and understand his every whim. Sadly, these creatures are sorely lacking in their skills. For one thing—they touch him when they want to touch him. Don't they know that the two-legged are there for him to touch when he wants to—meaning when he wants food? Petting wakes him up! Th...

    $119.00

  • PROMOTING A SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION TO MIDDLE SCHOOL
    PATRICK AKOS / CHRISTOPHER LINEBERRY / J. ALLEN QUEEN
    With detailed examples of best practices from middle schools across the country, this book features research-based strategies and suggestions for transition programs. It covers the roles of school principals, counselors, classroom teachers, and the central office. ...

    $640.00

  • PRACTICING THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS
    PATRICK ALLEN
    If you practice the Prayer of St. Francis faithfully, it will change your life. If you desire to undertake a spiritual journey, to be shaped and formed in the image of Christ, this book will point the way as you examine three powerful spiritual practices that center this prayer: Sowing, Seeking, and Seeing. Each chapter includes a short meditation, a personal story or two, refe...

    $391.00

  • LOVE AT ITS BEST WHEN CHURCH IS A MESS
    PATRICK ALLEN
    Love at Its Best When Church Is a Mess is a collection of fifteen meditations, drawn from 1 Corinthians 13, perhaps the most well-known passage about love in Holy Scripture, and certainly one of the most beloved passages found anywhere in the English language. It is the centerpiece of many marriage ceremonies, but as it turns out, the Apostle Paul was not writing to young coupl...

    $408.00

  • THE GOOD SHEPHERD, GENTLE GUIDE, AND GRACIOUS HOST
    PATRICK ALLEN
    The Good Shepherd, Gentle Guide, and Gracious Host is a collection of fifteen discipleship meditations, organized around three metaphors from the Twenty-Third Psalm. Why does the Twenty-Third Psalm connect so profoundly with the human spirit, whether we are grieving, hoping, or suffering? The answer has much to do with the approachable, inviting metaphors for God that are expre...

    $479.00

  • FOR TODAY
    PATRICK ALLEN
    For Today: A Prayer When Life Gets Messy will introduce you to a profound daily prayer and various strategies and outlooks for getting through tough days--and on to higher ground. This is not a book to make someone an instant saint; it is for times when the ox is in the ditch or the seed corn is gone--a prayer when you are just trying to make it through the day and get back hom...

    $444.00

  • MORNING RESOLVE
    PATRICK ALLEN
    "A Morning Resolve," an Episcopal prayer printed on the inside front cover of Forward Day by Day, is a "help me tend my spiritual garden" prayer. It asks for God's help in living a simple, sincere, and serene life--by repelling negative thoughts and attitudes (discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking), cultivating positive attitudes (cheerfulness, magnani...

    $408.00