Kim Smith
1) Boxitects
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"Meg goes to Maker School to hone her talent for building with boxes, but when Simone, another boxitect, arrives they become so competitive they nearly fail in the annual Maker Match." --
"A STEAM-centered, adorably illustrated picture book about Meg, a brilliant and creative boxitect who creates extraordinary things out of ordinary cardboard boxes. Meg is a brilliant and creative boxitect. She loves impressing her teacher and classmates with what...
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Quirk Books
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2018
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Great Scott! The hilarious hit movie from the 1980s is now a wild and wacky picture book perfect for kids of any age!
More than 35 years after its theatrical debut, Back to the Future remains a perennial favorite in classrooms and at family movie nights across the country. This story illustrated by Kim Smith captures all the classic moments of the film through fun and kid-friendly illustrations. Follow teenage Marty McFly as he...
More than 35 years after its theatrical debut, Back to the Future remains a perennial favorite in classrooms and at family movie nights across the country. This story illustrated by Kim Smith captures all the classic moments of the film through fun and kid-friendly illustrations. Follow teenage Marty McFly as he...
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Quirk Books
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2020
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Celebrate 20 years of the beloved film and rediscover the laughter and cheer of Buddy the Elf in this adorable picture book for all ages!
Buddy the Elf has more Christmas spirit than anyone, but he’s never quite fit in with the other elves at the North Pole. Then Buddy learns that he’s really a human—and his father is on the Naughty List! Determined to bring his dad some holiday cheer, he sets out...
Buddy the Elf has more Christmas spirit than anyone, but he’s never quite fit in with the other elves at the North Pole. Then Buddy learns that he’s really a human—and his father is on the Naughty List! Determined to bring his dad some holiday cheer, he sets out...
4) Sarah's Song
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As the grotesque figure stepped closer to Myung-Dae Kwon, his stomach convulsed from the foul stench that enveloped him. The servant of Satan planted himself firmly only a few feet from Myung-Dae Kwon and bellowed with a voice that shook the ground for miles. His putrid breath dropped birds in flight and frogs from the trees to the ground. It laid the tall wheat grass down around the path as far as one could see.
At the bank of the Han River, Kim...
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2015
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The beloved, classic Christmas movie is now an illustrated storybook for readers of all ages!
With an amusing read-aloud story and enchanting, immersive illustrations, this charming adaptation is the perfect nostalgic gift alongside family holiday classics like The Polar Express and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister wished his family would disappear. He never thought...
With an amusing read-aloud story and enchanting, immersive illustrations, this charming adaptation is the perfect nostalgic gift alongside family holiday classics like The Polar Express and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister wished his family would disappear. He never thought...
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Kim Walker Smith's passionate performance of "How He Loves" helped transform Jesus Culture into a global worship movement. Brave Surrender is the story of how Kim journeyed from a place of shame and fear to stages around the world where she boldly proclaims the unconditional love of God. Through her own story, Kim inspires us to experience true freedom and healing with Jesus. Coming from a painful childhood, Kim struggled to believe that God could...
7) Mind Reading for Managers: 5 FOCUSED Conversations for Greater Employee Engagement and Productivity
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Have you ever wanted to peer into your employees' minds to find out what they are truly thinking? What drives or motivates them? What they want (and need) to become truly engaged, perform better, and become more productive? The Gallup Organization estimates that lack of employee engagement costs the U.S. economy between $450 billion and $550 billion each year. Yet incredibly, most employee engagement issues can be solved quite simply with better communication...
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The Heart of Hannah is a funny story about faith, family, and persistence. Hannah is a very determined squirrel who becomes the backyard rock star as she tries to find the secret to the squirrel-proof bird feeder. The story is based on a reader favorite from The Heart of a Warrior blog series. The original blog is included as an added bonus!
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“The Change Rose” is an emotional challenge for Christians from award-winning columnist Kim Rice Smith. If you read her popular daily blog, The Heart of Warrior, you know faith and commitment to public education drive her heart.
This powerful work of the heart will take you on a difficult but necessary walk through twenty years of service as a public school's board member. There are lessons learned, soul-searching questions that remain, and a...
10) My Warrior Child
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In My Warrior Child, Kim Rice Smith expresses the hopes and dreams we all have when our children are small for the adults they will one day become. This book was originally written and illustrated over fifteen years ago as a letter to her daughters. Life got in the way, and the book was never submitted. It was considered lost.
One afternoon, while cleaning out an old dresser, an envelope slipped out from behind one of the drawers. This book and the...
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The Heart of a Warrior: Faith for His Boots on the Ground is a fifty-two-week devotional for the warrior heart in each of us! We are all warriors for the things we value in this life! We fight for our families, our communities, and our faith. His Boots on the Ground is the second devotional by the award-winning author of Heart of the Warrior, Kim Rice Smith. Both include relatable and faith-based reflections on life with space for personal journaling.
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The Heart of a Warrior is a book written with love for the warrior in all of us! We all face battles in our lives. We all fight for our faith, for our communities, for our families, and for so many other things that hold pieces of our hearts. The Heart of a Warrior is based on a collection of fifty-two of the most loved devotions from the Facebook blog series of the same name. Thousands of warriors follow this Christian blog for the faith-based and...
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Sofia is making a family time capsule, filled with pictures and mementos from their lives, to be opened in fifteen years, and Abuela contributes letters to each of her grandchildren--but Sofia is so consumed with curiosity that she decides to sneak a peak at what her letter says.
16) My vida loca
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Sofia's adventures and disasters continue in this compilation of three previously published books.
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Sofia Martinez loves her familia! Her cousins, aunts, uncles, and abuela are a huge part of her life. Whether they are at a sunny beach or stuck in a dark house without electricity, the Martinez family knows how to make the best of every situation. Join Sofia and her fantástica familia on three fun adventures in this early chapter book, which includes a Spanish glossary.
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"In 1995, the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park after a seventy-year absence. All these years later, we can clearly see the cascading effects this has had on the park's ecosystem. This is a spectacular example of a trophic cascade, the term used when an important member of an ecosystem goes missing and many other living things are indirectly affected, causing a chain reaction of events. In the case of the reintroduced wolves...