Make lunchtime memorable with Lunch Box Notes for Brave Boys! These fun and inspiring Lunch Box Notes for Brave Boys gives you the opportunity to share a moment of humor, truth, and encouragement during your child's lunchtime. Adorable designs alongside delightful text will make your boy's day as he reads each special, heartfelt message. Perfect for elementary school kids of all ages, each colorful, perforated card offers a special message on side one, and a truth-filled scripture selection on side two. Make lunchtime a faith- and confidence-building time with Lunch Box Notes for Brave Boys!

Make lunchtime memorable with Lunch Box Notes for Courageous Girls! These fun and inspiring Lunch Box Notes for Courageous Girls gives you the opportunity to share a moment of humor, truth, and encouragement during your child's lunchtime. Adorable designs alongside delightful text will make your girl's day as she reads each special, heartfelt message. Perfect for elementary school kids of all ages, each colorful, perforated card offers a special message on side one, and a truth-filled scripture selection on side two. Make lunchtime a faith- and confidence-building time with Lunch Box Notes for Courageous Girls!

"A practical book to help parents communicate with their children and show how much they care through notes and letters. The book includes the authors' experiences, encouragement to parents to start, sample letters, and 100 colorful tear out sheets. Children are subjected to great stress and anxiety while growing up in a dangerous and fast changing world. Parents struggle too, especially to find ways to communicate with their children and to show how much they care. This practical and valuable little book presents a proven method of staying in touch with your children throughout their school years. Lunch Box Letters is the result of the experience of two parents who--separately--wrote notes to their children on a regular basis and were immensely encouraged by the results. Now they show how you can use their successful method to communicate with your own kids. They provide sample letters to let you see just how simple these little notes are to write--and how important they are to both parent and child. They also answer common questions that parents raise, such as 'Where do I find the time?' 'What if I have three kids?' or 'What if I'm a lousy speller?'"--

"A collection of ten short stories that all take place in the same day about kids walking home from school"--

"A mighty portrait of poverty amid cruelty and optimism."—Kirkus (starred review) Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle’s first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school’s free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, Rex’s is a compelling story of a more profound hunger—that of a child for his parents’ love and care. Compulsively readable, beautifully crafted, and authentically told with the voice and point of view of a 6th-grade kid, Free Lunch is a remarkable debut by a gifted storyteller.

Bestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant's journey from hardship to hope. Kek comes from Africa. In America he sees snow for the first time, and feels its sting. He's never walked on ice, and he falls. He wonders if the people in this new place will be like the winter – cold and unkind. In Africa, Kek lived with his mother, father, and brother. But only he and his mother have survived, and now she's missing. Kek is on his own. Slowly, he makes friends: a girl who is in foster care; an old woman who owns a rundown farm, and a cow whose name means "family" in Kek's native language. As Kek awaits word of his mother's fate, he weathers the tough Minnesota winter by finding warmth in his new friendships, strength in his memories, and belief in his new country. Home of the Brave is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Just for 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.