New Releases by Katie Davis

Leave behind your anxious thoughts and embrace a steady confidence that you are never beyond the reach of God’s loving hand, from the bestselling author of Kisses from Katie. “Safe All Along will help you break the cycle of what-if worries and experience the peace of God in new ways.”—Jennie Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head As a missionary, wife, and mom of fifteen, Katie Davis Majors knows how hard it can be to receive God’s peace instead of giving in to fear and worry. Family emergencies, unexpected life-shifting events, and the busy rhythms of family life have at times left her reeling. In Safe All Along, Katie offers reflections and stories from around the world and from her own kitchen table about her personal journey toward living from a place of surrendered trust. Every chapter leads us deep into Scripture as we learn what it looks like to break free from anxiety and take hold of peace. Rich in biblical explorations of lament and praise, forgiveness and hope, service and surrender, Safe All Along asks, What practical choices can we make to experience the peace Jesus promised amid disappointment and uncertainty? How can we live with joy and confidence even when we’re pulled into the rapids of life? Our God has promised us a peace that transcends all understanding. And we can accept His promise, trusting that in Him we are safe all along.

The bestselling author of Kisses from Katie takes you on a journey through Scripture to discover more about who God is and how much He loves you, in 52 weeks of power-packed devotional readings. In a world of uncertainty, we can find peace in knowing that the God who carried His people through the desert, the God who calmed the seas, the God who promised His presence, is still our God today. In this unique five-day-a-week devotional, featuring a flexible format that adapts to your schedule, Katie Davis Majors invites you into a yearlong experience of immersing yourself in the truth of who God is. As Katie has discovered, the more time we spend understanding the richness, beauty, and kindness of God, the more quickly our hearts turn toward Him with our needs and our secrets, our hurts and our longings. Our Faithful God Devotional will help you draw daily closer to the One who sees you, who loves you, and who holds each moment in His hands.

How children engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to twentysomething, and how they can best be supported. What happens to the little ones, the tweens, and the teenagers, when technology—ubiquitous in the world they inhabit—becomes a critical part of their lives? This timely book Technology''s Child brings much-needed clarity to what we know about technology’s role in child development. Better yet, it provides guidance on how to use what we know to help children of all ages make the most of their digital experiences. From toddlers who are exploring their immediate environment to twentysomethings who are exploring their place in society, technology inevitably and profoundly affects their development. Drawing on her expertise in developmental science and design research, Katie Davis describes what happens when child development and technology design interact, and how this interaction is complicated by children’s individual characteristics and social and cultural contexts. Critically, she explains how a self-directed experience of technology—one initiated, sustained, and ended voluntarily—supports healthy child development, especially when it takes place within the context of community support. Children’s experiences with technology—their “screen time” and digital social relationships—have become an inescapable aspect of growing up. This book, for the first time, identifies the qualitative distinctions between different ages and stages of this engagement, and offers invaluable guidance for parents and teachers navigating the digital landscape, and for technology designers charting the way.

An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction communities. Over the past twenty years, amateur fanfiction writers have published an astonishing amount of fiction in online repositories. More than 1.5 million enthusiastic fanfiction writers—primarily young people in their teens and twenties—have contributed nearly seven million stories and more than 176 million reviews to a single online site, Fanfiction.net. In this book, Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis provide an in-depth examination of fanfiction writers and fanfiction repositories, finding that these sites are not shallow agglomerations and regurgitations of pop culture but rather online spaces for sophisticated and informal learning. Through their participation in online fanfiction communities, young people find ways to support and learn from one another. Aragon and Davis term this novel system of interactive advice and instruction distributed mentoring, and describe its seven attributes, each of which is supported by an aspect of networked technologies: aggregation, accretion, acceleration, abundance, availability, asynchronicity, and affect. Employing an innovative combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses, they provide an in-depth ethnography, reporting on a nine-month study of three fanfiction sites, and offer a quantitative analysis of lexical diversity in the 61.5 billion words on the Fanfiction.net site. Going beyond fandom, Aragon and Davis consider how distributed mentoring could improve not only other online learning platforms but also formal writing instruction in schools.

New York Times bestseller How do you hold on to hope when you don’t get the ending you asked for? When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people she desired to serve. But joy often gave way to sorrow as she invested her heart fully in walking alongside people in the grip of poverty, addiction, desperation, and disease. After unexpected tragedy shook her family, for the first time Katie began to wonder, Is God really good? Does He really love us? When she turned to Him with her questions, God spoke truth to her heart and drew her even deeper into relationship with Him. Daring to Hope is an invitation to cling to the God of the impossible—the God who whispers His love to us in the quiet, in the mundane, when our prayers are not answered the way we want or the miracle doesn’t come. It’s about a mother discovering the extraordinary strength it takes to be ordinary. It’s about choosing faith no matter the circumstance and about encountering God’s goodness in the least expected places. Though your heartaches and dreams may take a different shape, you will find your own questions echoed in these pages. You’ll be reminded of the gifts of joy in the midst of sorrow. And you’ll hear God’s whisper: Hold on to hope. I will meet you here.

Throughout my life, it has been my desire to grow and mature as stately and perfected as tall cotton. This book is a memoirs of my life from the humble beginnings of my family''s spiritual discipline throughout the Jim Crow South and beyond. As a pastor''s daughter, the disciplined prayer and work ethics from both my mother and father helped to nuture my growth and development through educational, professional, and spiritual pursuits. Finally, the phenomenial embrace of Christ, Himself, transformed my life.May your life be as blessed by our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, as mine has been.Katie C. Davis, Ph.D.

The Carbon elementalists were wiped out to end the war, only Emma and her brother survived. They hid as refugees, struggling to get by for years. When Emma accidentally reveals her deepest secret, it looks like their lives are over. But a stranger offers her a chance to fulfill her destiny in exchange for her brother''s safety. She is brought to an elite academy to train alongside other elementalists as an assassin, and learns how to control the world around her. As her powers grow, she finds herself becoming something more dangerous. Can she conquer her fears to keep her brother safe, even if it means turning herself into a monster?

Young people worldwide are participating in ever-increasing numbers in online fan communities. Far from mere shallow repositories of pop culture, these sites are accumulating significant evidence that sophisticated informal learning is taking place online in novel and unexpected ways. In order to understand and analyze in more detail how learning might be occurring, we conducted an in-depth nine-month ethnographic investigation of online fanfiction communities, including participant observation and fanfiction author interviews. Our observations led to the development of a theory we term distributed mentoring, which we present in detail in this paper. Distributed mentoring exemplifies one instance of how networked technology affords new extensions of behaviors that were previously bounded by time and space. Distributed mentoring holds potential for application beyond the spontaneous mentoring observed in this investigation and may help students receive diverse, thoughtful feedback in formal learning environments as well.

In this chapter, we explore the centrality of trust in today''s society, with a particular focus on trust in political and civic leaders. We begin with a review of the theoretical work on trust in order to identify its key dimensions. Following this review, we discuss the role that trust plays in a democratic society, including economic, civic, and political life. In this discussion, we consider the relationship between trust and two related concepts, trustworthiness and distrust. In the following section, we explore the roots of trust by examining how young people conceive of and use trust in their daily lives, particularly when they judge the trustworthiness of public leaders. We consider the implications of this exploration with respect to the role of trust in democratic society.

In this chapter, the authors explore the role that networked platforms play in identity development during emerging adulthood. They use the stories of two youth to highlight dominant themes from existing research and to examine the developmental implications of forming one''s identity in a networked era. The inquiry is theoretically informed by the work of the psychologist Erik Erikson, who depicted identity development as a process of exploration that ultimately results in a sense of personal continuity and coherence. The authors consider what insights this theory -- formulated in the mid-twentieth century -- has to offer in a digital world. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the practical implications relating to education, policy, and the design of new technologies.

According to Wolfe (2001), the idea of moral freedom is here to stay. It is not a simple matter to repeal a freedom once it has been embraced by the majority of society. The challenge, Wolfe argues, is to strike a balance between the authority of tradition and the authority of the individual. As our discussion of young people''s self-fabrications suggests, finding such balance entails considering the consequences of one''s actions as they relate to the well-being of the self, others, and society. We--parents, educators, the media, and community leaders--face the task of promoting young people''s awareness of the people and institutions that can be affected by their actions. Of course, this effort begins with our own actions. We must model responsible self-representations if we expect young people to exercise responsibility themselves.Active intervention may well be warranted (Rimer, 2008). With our colleagues on the GoodWork Project, we have devised an educational curriculum that encourages young people to reflect on their roles and responsibilities as they make decisions about the way to conduct their lives in various contexts, including school and work. The GoodWork toolkit comprises several ethical dilemmas that emerged during out interviews with aspiring and young professionals. Allison''s story is included as an example of one aspiring professional''s decision to postpone ethical considerations until she had “made it” in today''s competitive, market-driven environment (Fischman, Solomon, Greenspan, and Gardner, 2004). The toolkit also includes a variety of activities and discussion prompts that educators can use to encourage their students to think critically about the dilemmas and make connections to their personal goals and values.The toolkit is currently being piloted in a number of high schools and universities in the United States. We are also participating in several college courses, such as the one described at the beginning of this paper, on pursuing meaningful work, meaningful citizenship, and a meaningful life. Through these endeavors, we hope to refine an educational curriculum that encourages tomorrow''s citizens and workers to pursue their goals in a way that not only benefits them person- ally, but also serves the interests of the broader society. An important part of our work involves developing in our students an appreciation for the difference between a self-fabrication that rings true and one that is, quite simply, false.

The true meaning of Christmas for children now teaches reading and math too! Based on the picture book, Little Chicken''s Big Christmas, this activity book is also excellent for early and intermediate readers or to do crafts, learn reading and easy math problems for preschoolers with a little help from friends and family. Little Chicken is anxious for Christmas to come, but not because he''s thinking of presents he will get, but one he''s going to give. Little Chicken''s Big Christmas is a delightful and surprising twist on the notion that it''s better to give than receive. Little ones and their grown ups will love sharing this during the holidays. Check out the picture book, Little Chicken''s Big Christmas, too! Other books by Katie Davis: http://www.amazon.com/Katie-Davis/e/B000APHR56/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2?qid=1450538926&sr=8-2"I hear you cluckin'', Big Chicken!" That''s the simple refrain that Little Chicken repeats to his mama throughout a typical day. But Little Chicken is distracted by Christmas . . . Now he asks, "When is Christmas?" and "Is it Christmas yet?" and "Is it Christmas today?" Does he have the gimmes or is there something surprisingly sweet that Little Chicken wants to do on Christmas morning?With subtlety and humor, this sweet little story sweeps through a wide range emotions using the simplest of language. Tags: baby,Christmas, Christmas books, christmas stories, kids christmas stories, christmas stories for kids, greedy children, generous children, children''s christmas stories, christmas stories for children, Christmas stories, short stories for kids, short stories, stories for kids, Christmas jokes, kids christmas stories, childrens christmas stories, kids christmas books, childrens christmas books, books for kids, santa claus, reindeer, santa, comedy, humor, early reader, beginning reader, kids comedy, bedtime stories, free ebooks, ebooks free, stories for kids, preschool, ages 3-5, ages 6-8, ages 9-12, beginning readers, beginner reading, kids stories, children stories, bedtime stories, kids books, ebooks, books for kids, jokes, kids, hilarious, children, kid, kids books, childrens books, childrens book, kids book about christmas, elementary, kids book, books for kids, childrens book, book, thankful, kindle book, kindle ebook

Everyone who is anyone in the barnyard is going to be at the party. But one blue ant didn''t get his invitation. How could his friends have forgotten him? Or have they? You are cordially invited to join this bunch of animals for the wildest shindig of the year!

Mabel, the tooth fairy, hated brushing, and she hated flossing, and, well, you can imagine what happened to her choppers. It was disgusting. But then she came up with a plan to get her smile back . . . .

Mackenzie Douglas seems to have it all: good looks, a great boyfriend, a passion for biking, and a little sister who worships her. But under the veneer of perfection lie the emotional scars of her childhood, inflicted by her father. Though her memories have faded with time, the wounds on Mac''s subconscious remain. Having vowed to never be a victim again, Mac focuses on a journey she''s always wanted to take: a summer bike trip on her amazing new RoadCap bike. But as the excursion finally gets underway, memories Mac long ago buried start to claw their way back to the surface, forcing her to confront a past she has done everything she can to forget. To prevent her sister from enduring the same trauma, Mac must let go of everything in which she''s found refuge. To break a cycle that needs to be broken, Mackenzie summons her strength and risks shattering the world she has so carefully built, exposing hidden secrets, long-told lies, and a horrific crime.

Schetst een beeld van de ''app-generatie'' en hoe hun leven verschilt van het leven voor het digitale tijdperk en de goede en slechte kanten van de hedendaagse technologie.

Katie was a normal American teenager when she decided to explore the possibility of voluntary work overseas. She temporarily ''quit life'' to serve in Uganda for a year before going to college. However, returning to ''normal'' became impossible and Katie ''quit life'' - college, designer clothes, her little yellow convertible and her boyfriend - for good, remaining in Uganda. In the early days she felt as though she were trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper, but has learnt that she is not called to change the world in itself, but to change the world for one person at a time. By the age of 22 Katie had adopted 14 girls and founded Amizima Ministries which currently has sponsors for over 600 children and a feeding program for Uganda''s poorest citizens - so it is no wonder she feels Jesus wrecked her life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together making it more beautiful than it was before.

Katie Davis reiste på et kort misjonsoppdrag til Uganda like etter juleferien i sitt siste år på videregående. Og med det ble livet hennes snudd på hodet. Hun møtte mennesker med sterke behov, og visste at hun var nødt til å komme tilbake. Hun velger å flytte fra hjemlandet USA og bosette seg permanent i Uganda. I dag har hun adoptert 13 ugandiske jenter og etablert hjelpeorganisasjonen Amazima, som sørger for mat og skolegang for flere hundre barn og opplæring i kristen tro.

This summer we have 5 new books that will fit perfectly into your summer plans! Take a look inside for excerpts from 5 books! The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies Seven Sorcerers by Caro King Cupcake Diaries: Katie and the Cupcake Cure by Coco Simon You’re Invited to a Creepover: Truth or Dare by P.J. Night Cheer!: Confessions of a Wannabe Cheerleader by Zoe Evans

Little Chicken is tired of being told what to do by Big Chicken, but when they become separated he misses all of the clucking.

Stress affects human beings on a daily basis. Studies conducted by Strecker (2004), Burton and Hinton (2004), and Gill (1985) as well as others, have suggested that stress can be a cause of common illness and affect thought processes and actions. While stress has been researched at length, there is a lack of information examining the relationship between perceived stress levels and exercise. Using Sister Callista Roy''s Adaptation Model, this study examined stress levels and exercise in graduate nursing students (Roy & Andrews 1999). This descriptive study used a convenience sample of 30 subjects. The subjects were enrolled either part-time or full-time. The student''s perceived stress levels were measured using The Perceived Stress Scale (Cohen & Williamson 1988) measures the individual''s ideas and thoughts about certain situations in their lives. The demographic information collected included: age, gender, part-time or full-time status in graduate school, employment status, caring for a dependent (child, or elderly person), minutes per week of exercise, race, and family/marital status. The data showed that few students exercised regularly, and there was not a significant decrease in stress levels for those students who participated in exercise at least three days per week.

Just in time for the new school year comes a book that eases fears about the first day of kindergarten with lots of laughs. Full color.

All her life, Addy''s heard stories about the McMahon family curse. Her mom says the stories are just jokes, but Addy isn''t so sure. In fact, she''s got evidence. Like the fact that her archenemy saw Addy shopping for a training bra with her mom. Or that Jonathan, her mom''s g-ross boyfriend, is moving into the guest room. If only Addy could escape into the cartoon world of her journal, or hang out with her best friend, Jackie. The only problem is—and this is probably because of the curse—Jackie is now Addy''s ex-best friend since one particular comic from her journal was somehow shown to the entire school. If only Addy could prove to Jackie that it wasn''t her fault. It had to be that curse. Didn''t it?