Best Selling Books by Debbie Smith

Step-by-step instructions for matting, mounting, and framing. Color photos illustrate each step. Includes sections on mounting needlework, framing canvases, and building your own frame.

The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members'' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. The particular objective is to situate four gang members as literate, caring students from loving families whose identities and literacy keep them on the margins of school. The research described in this book suggests that advocacy is a particularly effective form of critical ethnography. Smith and Whitmore argue that until schools, as communities of practice, enable children and adolescents to retain identities from the communities in which they are full community members, frightening numbers of students are destined to fail. The stories of four Mexican American male adolescents, who were active members of a gang and Smith''s students in an alternative high school program, portray the complicated, multiple worlds in which these boys live. As sons and teenage parents they live in a family community; as CRIP members they live in a gang community; as "at risk" students, drop-outs, and graduates they live in a school community, and as a result of their illegal activities they live in the juvenile court community. The authors theorize about the boys'' literacy in each of their communities. Literacy is viewed as ideological, related to power, and embedded in a sociocultural context. Vivid examples of conversation, art, tagging, rap, poetry, and other language and literacy events bring the narratives to life in figures and photographs in all the chapters. Readers will find this book engaging and readable, yet thought provoking and challenging. Audiences for Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communitiesinclude education researchers, professionals, and students in the areas of middle/high school education, at-risk adolescent psychology, and alternative community programs--specifically those interested in literacy education, sociocultural theory, and popular culture.

This updated edition highlights the different holidays celebrated by Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Israel. New photos and text also examine the country''s art and architecture.

One evening, many years ago when Grandpa and Grandma were much younger, Aliens crash-landed on their small farm in Somerset, changing their lives forever. This is a tale of adventure and humour, as Grandpa and Grandma attempt to help the Aliens return home, helped by Meg the Border Collie and their herd of cows. It involves the consumption of many plates of chocolate biscuits and cups of tea, a trip to the hardware store to buy materials, heavily disguised in coloured knitted hats and mittens, and an awful lot of cow poo...

When she goes with her family to the amusement park Kidsworld, Whitney crawls inside a plastic dragon and gets left behind, causing her family members to pray for her safety when they notice that she is missing.

Personalized pocket handkerchiefs, papier-mache trays, mobiles, and leaf-printed mugs are among the many things to make with this fun-filled book. Clear, easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams guide readers through every step of craft creation. Full-color illustrations and line drawings.

This biography of an independent bookseller working in Dehli, India chronicles his varied experiences, from his life as the son of Pakistani landowners with no literary background to his success as an entrepreneur in the Indian world of books.

The fun has only just begun for Monkey when he discovers a can of peanuts one day. But the other animals also have plans for that can of peanuts too. The craziness that ensues when Monkey tries to get his prize back will have you wondering if Monkey will ever get to eat those delicious peanuts. Monkey''s problems continue page by page, but Monkey won''t give up. Will his determination be enough or will Monkey encounter one final surprise?

Down the Flower Path teaches young children about the different types of flowers through a quaint story about a child searching for a rose. "Hello flower," I said. "Are you a rose? I am looking for a rose." "No," said the flower. "I am a daisy. My round face is surrounded by a mane of delicate, thin petals. The rose lives down the path." "Thank you daisy," I said and walked down the path until I met another flower.

What happens when a little Goat decides that he is going to sail away to the sparkling sea and what will happen when he invites his farm friends to join him on his adventure?

Puddings are Britain''s unsung culinary inheritance, and their infinite variety is unrivalled anywhere in the world. They come boiled, baked and steamed, British trifle is a triumph, and deep pies with fruit below and pastry on top have always intrigued visitors from abroad.

The tale of Miles Sorvenjar Radien ceases its dullness when a mysterious being from a world far-off grants his ship, and with his last breath, instructions: "Today, save yourself, so tomorrow you might save your world, and in time... all of creation."With these words begins Miles Radien''s true story. A whole new universe has opened up before him, one his tempered mind and steeled soul find great difficulty in believing isn''t some cruel dream, let alone one that would see him accepted into it.Worlds sprawling with splendor and incredible peoples, powers and technologies that seemed impossible, and a war of shadow and flame fought almost as long as time itself are the new stories of Miles Radien, and he will only be so eager to add his name to the history of time...

A beloved sculpture is stolen by an acid-spitting rock creature in Barcelona. A smart, brave thirteen year-old girl deals with her father''s ditzy girlfriends in Seattle. A doleful sandstone gome battles wolf hounds and guard geese at Cragganbogle Castle on the Western Isles of Scotland. When Finnley and Hadley''s Seventh Grade class is invited to spend a vacation in Spain these unlikely events are drawn together into an adventure filled with more danger, weird food, snooty popular girls, underground cave cities and evil bog witches than they could have hoped for.Can they survive the Rock Pit of Torture and Justice, attacks by a cloud of midges and dive-bombing bonxies, and the embarrassment of Hadley''s mother''s naked Druid dance under the Midsummer moonlight? Only if their scruffy, rude, bad-tempered companion, Wullie, can do the impossible.

Spiritual poems

A personal, intimate, easy read, "Journey On: Finding You, Seeing You, Loving You" is a literary work focused on helping readers find encouragement, peace, and an allowance to journey through life fully, freely and completely. Using her own personal stories of triumphs and life lessons, Debbie Smith takes you on a journey to becoming your best self by finding grace, forgiveness, improved health and well being.

It''s Halloween night, and oh what a sight, the skeletons gather to give you a fright!It''s Halloween night, and oh what a sight, the skeletons gather to give you a fright! Maybe you''re not shaking in your shoes, but be warned there is a bit of a scare awaiting you, or that''s what the Kindergartners think who hear me read Skeleton Nights! Read to find out what Skeletons do, do on Halloween night! This is an enjoyable must- have book for your home or classroom library, especially if your little people enjoy a little chilling fun!

A collection of educational activities, games, crafts, and recipes to tie in with a wide variety of holidays, festivals, and celebrations provides instructions for making dough decorations, pasta necklaces, an indoor seed garden, and other items

After her grandson, Ben, told her he was missing her so much this book was one of the more positive things to come out of the Covid lockdown. Written and illustrated by Debbie Smith, this book was meant to form a stronger bond between Granny and grandson. Ben has fart trouble! What started as a rasping noise followed by a subtle odour of fart had been replaced by gaseous explosions that made people faint. This couldn''t continue and Ben needed help. Into Ben''s world came Doofus the dragon, Dod the unicorn with Tavi, the Scottish Terrier, and assorted friends. They needed Magic to cure the fart problem. Read on,,,,,