Best Selling Books by Jean Fischer

This fun, interactive journal for kids will help them grow in their faith. Bible-related reading, praying, writing, drawing, and doing activities, will keep the kids in your life, ages 6 and up, engaged for hours!

Want a guide to what’s really important in scripture? Try The Bible Brief, a three-in-one collection of books that highlight the vital details of God’s Word. Here, under one cover, are helpful titles that make God’s Word accessible to any reader: The Bible Brief, spotlighting the most important passages of scripture; 150 Need-to-Know Bible Facts, explaining key concepts of God’s Word; and the easy-to-understand 199 Bible People, Places, and Things. This powerful book will start you on a journey of understanding that can truly change your life!

You''ll delight in this fully-illustrated storybook that brings 365 read-aloud classic Bible stories to life for impressionable young hearts.

Here is a perfectly inspiring and practical pairing: a Bible memory plan with encouraging devotional thoughts! A Bible memory verse, twice a day for every day of the year, will encourage you to commit God''s Word to heart, while morning and evening devotional thoughts and prayers further reinforce the theme of the day''s memory verse. Set in a charming design, the Bible Memory Plan for Morning & Evening is a great reminder to spend quality time in God''s Word each and every day. It''s a fabulous book to give as a gift or use for your own personal quiet time.

Here is a 6-week devotional that focuses on one simple Bible memory verse per week. It includes 6 full-color tear-out index cards, each with a weekly memory verse printed on it to be displayed as a reminder to write God''s Word on your heart.

Every day for an entire year, the girls in your life will be encouraged, challenged, and inspired with great passages of scripture--addressing themes of God, Jesus, heaven, love, miracles, wisdom, and much, much more. Each devotional reading will meet them right where they are--offering words of comfort, peace, and hope for everyday life. This daily devotional is a great tool to help kids build a strong foundation of faith!

This devotional prayer book is a delightful reminder for your girls, ages 8 to 12, that they can talk to their heavenly Father about anything! Page after page of just-right-sized prayers touch on topics that resonate with their young hearts.

Preschoolers learn that God made beaches for summer fun.

These courage-building devotions and prayers for the boys in your life highlight important Bible truths, including: God is mighty; He is big; and He is good.

Whether they''ve experienced a hard day because they got a bad grade on a test. . .or they got in a fight with their very best friend. . .or they got in trouble from Mom or Dad for making a bad decision. . .this little book will remind your kids that tomorrow is a new day and that their heavenly Father loves them--no matter what!

Every day for an entire year, the boys in your life will be encouraged, challenged, and inspired with great passages of scripture--addressing themes of God, Jesus, heaven, love, miracles, wisdom, and much, much more. Each devotional reading will meet them right where they are--offering words of comfort, peace, and hope for everyday life. This daily devotional is a great tool to help kids build a strong foundation of faith!

Here is a inspiring and practical pairing: a Bible memory plan with encouraging devotional thoughts and prayers!

Got 3 minutes? . . . You''ll find just the encouragement you need for life in 3-Minute Prayers for Courageous Girls.

Pictures and activities teach children about God and His World. Pages are perforated for easy removel.

Here is a perfectly inspiring and practical pairing: a Bible memory plan with encouraging devotional thoughts and prayers!

Just for girls in your life, ages 8 and up, this collection of 100 extraordinary stories of praying women of faith--from the Bible, history, and today--will empower them to know and understand how praying women have made a difference in the world and how much smaller our faith (and the biblical record) would be without them. Ideal para niñas de 8 años en adelante, esta colección de 100 historias extraordinarias de mujeres de oración y de fe --de la Biblia, la historia y de hoy-- las empoderará para que sepan y entiendan cómo las mujeres de oración han marcado la diferencia en el mundo, y cuánto más pequeña sería nuestra fe (y el registro bíblico) sin ellas.

Girls are world-changers! And this deeply inspiring storybook proves it! Just for the girls in your life, ages 8 and up, this collection of 100 extraordinary stories of women of faith--from the Bible, history, and today--will empower them to know and understand how women have made a difference in the world and how much smaller our faith (and the biblical record) would be without them. Featuring full-page, colorful illustrations alongside the true stories of amazing women like Lydia, Naomi, Rahab, Rebekah, Jane Austen, Corrie ten Boom, Bethany Hamilton, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, and dozens more, the stories of these 100 women will encourage and inspire girls to become the world-changers God created them to be! ¡Las niñas transforman el mundo, y estas historias inspiradoras lo prueban! Exclusivamente para niñas de ocho años en adelante, esta recopilación de 100 relatos extraordinarios de mujeres de fe --de la Biblia, de la historia y de hoy-- las empoderará para que sepan y entiendan cómo las mujeres han marcado la diferencia en el mundo y lo pequeña que sería nuestra fe (y el registro bíblico) sin ellas. Presenta ilustraciones a toda página y a todo color junto con las historias verdaderas de mujeres asombrosas como Lidia, Noemí, Rahab, Rebeca, Jane Austen, Corrie ten Boom, Bethany Hamilton, Rosa Parks, Madre Teresa, y otras muchas; ¡las historias de estas cien mujeres alentarán e inspirarán a las niñas a convertirse en las transformadoras del mundo que Dios diseñó que fueran!

An abridged version of Johanna Spyri''s classic story of a Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

It''s always time to cuddle! This newest book in the adored Precious Moments line includes lovable illustrations of animal families along with Scripture verses and poems about all the ways families take care of each other. With its focus on animal families, Little Book of Baby Animals explores the love between you and your little one with sweet parent-and-child animal illustrations, original and traditional poetry, and beloved Scripture verses.

Taken from a kindly owner, Buck is forced into the perilous life of a sled dog in the treacherous Yukon Territory during the Klondike gold rush. Presented in comic book format.

We develop statistical methods to model ultrafine particle (UFP) counts as a function of size and time using Bayesian functional time-series methods. Because of their small diameter and relatively large surface area, UFPs can penetrate the lung, enter the circulatory system, and deposit in the brain. Health effects of UFPs may be strongly linked to particle size as this characteristic determines which region in the lung the particles deposit. UFP counts can increase by orders of magnitude above natural levels in urban environments from anthropogenic processes such as the operation of combustion engines. Understanding how UFP counts of various sizes change over time near combustion engines and high traffic roadways is crucial in setting idling, vehicle reduction, and vehicle emissions policy. We first propose Bayesian longitudinal functional time series models to understand the impact of engine idling on UFP counts inside school buses. Our approach is a varying coefficient model and we model UFP counts over size at a given time with a cubic B-spline basis. UFP counts across a range of sizes were collected over time during multiple experiments while the bus engines were off and then turned on, making the data multivariate longitudinal. Steady meteorological and background traffic conditions during individual experiments imply that UFP counts over size do not vary greatly with time before the engine is on, but variation in engine-off UFP counts is observed between experiments. We model this using a spline random effect model across all UFP sizes. We allow counts to increase over time at a size dependent rate once the engine is turned on. We explore alternate models for the engine-on increase: a possible jump in counts at engine-on followed by either a quadratic or bent line time trend. A random jump by experiment is also explored. Residuals are modeled with an autoregressive model over time to accommodate correlation over time. To account for larger count variance for smaller particles relative to larger particles, the log residual variance over size bin is modeled using a quadratic B-spline basis. We next propose distinct Bayesian functional time series models to model the how UFP counts change over time near the I-405 roadway. As with the bus experiment, we model UFP counts over size at a given time with a cubic B-spline basis. Our methods allow UFP counts to then change over time at a size bin dependent rate by letting B-spline coefficients evolve over time following a random walk model. This model smooths UFP counts both over size and over time. To account for larger count variance for smaller particles relative to larger particle size bins, the log residual variance over size bin is again modeled using a quadratic B-spline basis. We also explore modeling residuals with an autoregressive model to accommodate correlation over time. In both studies, we provide statistical summaries of how particle counts evolve over time as a function of size bin to estimate the contribution of emissions to UFP counts. We utilize plots to aid in the interpretation of model inferences and make model output interpretable to non-statisticians. Graphs also aid in diagnosis of lack of fit and can help suggest model improvements. Taken jointly, our methods can be used to understand the behavior of UFP counts over size and over time near combustion engines and high traffic roadways.

Mu-lan disguises herself as a boy and joins the emperor''s army in this traditional Chinese tale.

Preschoolers will delight in these playful pets as they learn that animals are God''s creation.

An abridged version of the tale of ten-year-old Mary who, after the death of her parents, comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.