Bøker av Kelly Jones

A play exploring the inequalities we face around death, and the cost of turning your loved ones into art. Premiered by Paines Plough in 2024.

Eloise never had an easy life. Rejected by her mother and hated by her grandmother, she had never known what it was like to have a family. After a hazardous bike ride through the woods near her house, she was sent back in time, to Victorian England.All of a sudden, she wasn't alone, she had a family to take care of, one she would do anything to protect. And when she said anything, she actually meant it.

Determine Organizational Needs Despite Limited Resources Needs Assessment on a Shoestring offers talent development professionals a process for addressing organizational needs and determining whether training is the solution. Needs assessment pros Kelly L. Jones and Jody N. Lumsden apply the Build-Borrow-Buy approach to provide guidance, quick tips, and shortcuts for investigating and uncovering everything you can about the organizational problem you need to solve.With this book, you will learn to build a needs assessment strategy, gather insight through data analysis, and put forward effective solution recommendations. You'll also pick up strategies for borrowing existing information, talent, and resources, and for making resource management decisions. Regardless of the scope of the project, the constraints of the business problem, or how you get the job done, the steps associated with needs assessments are flexible enough to scale up or down.To conduct high-quality needs assessments, think like a detective. The detectives Sherlock Holmes, Velma Dinkley, and Hercule Poirot didn't have large teams, unlimited budgets, or a bottomless well of resources to work with, but they succeeded by identifying who, where, and how to solve mysteries that no one else could. With this book, talent development professionals can too. This is a perfect resource for small companies-and departments of one or few?who need to get started right away.The Association for Talent Development's On a Shoestring series helps professionals successfully execute core topics in training and talent development when facing limitations of time, money, staff, and other resources. Using the Build-Borrow-Buy approach to problem solving, this series is designed for practitioners who work as a department of one; for new or "accidental" trainers, instructional designers, and learning managers who need fast, inexpensive access to practical strategies that work; and for those who work for small organizations or in industries that have limited training and development resources.

Fiona wants to fix people's problems--she even thinks of herself as a fairy godperson in training--but what if she's the one who needs help? Fiona's a funny, take-charge heroine kids will love.Fiona may have problems, but she's no damsel in distress. She'd rather be the one wielding the wand in the story: she wants to be the fairy godperson. So when her mom sends her off to stay with relatives in a place called Cold Hope for the summer, Fiona decides it's time to start training for the role. And wow, do these people need help! Aunt Becky's bakery is failing, Great-uncle Timothy draws but never speaks, and Great-Aunt Alta is the gloomiest, doomiest woman she's ever met. Look out, Cold Hope, Fiona is going to shake things up! But helping people in the real world isn't as easy as it sounds in fairy tales. Change is messy. Advice can backfire. What if she's actually making things worse? What if Fiona is the one feeling shaken?!Still, with practice (and some deep breaths), Fiona will discover that sometimes messy is okay. Sometimes things do get worse before they get better. And sometimes trying to help fix other people's problems can show you a way to work on your own...

Worry the Dead contains poems that deal with love and loss in the post 9/11 world. In 2015 Indy Week selected "Ruby-throated Goner" as a winner for their annual poetry contest.

A new quirky-funny book from the author of Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer about a boy whose plans for the summer go sideways when the ghost of his great-great-grandmother demands his attention.HD Schenk is a maker--an inventor, someone who builds cool stuff. He's got a plan for the summer: he'll build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. Then everyone will know who he is and what he can do. To earn enough money for the parts he'll need, HD has promised to clear out his uncle's overflowing basement. No big deal, right? But there's more in that basement than HD bargained for. On his first trip down there, a voice only he can hear starts talking to him. About...sauerkraut?Who knew the ghost of his great-great-grandmother was haunting an old pickling crock? She's got a grand plan, too. She wants HD to help make her famous recipe for sauerkraut and enter it in the county fair so that she can be declared pickle queen.After some initial shock, HD is willing enough to help. This ghost is family, after all. But only HD can really see and hear his Oma, which is going to make it hard for her to win on her own...Kelly Jones spins a wonderfully goofy ghost tale that celebrates creative problem solving, family ties, and makers of every variety.

This laugh-out-loud sequel to Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer has EVEN MORE MAGIC CHICKENS!Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown is finally settling into her new home and her new role as keeper of some highly unusual chickens--chickens with secret superpowers! But the arrival of two new magical chickens for her flock and some unusual eggs to be incubated and hatched (what will their superpowers be?), plus an impending inspection from the Unusual Poultry Committee (who even knew this existed?) has Sophie feeling pretty stressed out. Her older cousin, Lupe, is coming to stay with her family, which is great--but will Lupe like chickens too? And on top of it all, Sophie's first day at her new school is rapidly approaching! In this wildly funny and quirky novel told in letters and lists and quizzes, Sophie learns that even an exceptional poultry farmer can use some help.

The Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series supports the mission of the North Carolina Poetry Society to foster the reading, writing, and enjoyment of poetry across the state. Three Distinguished Poets from the east, central, and west of North Carolina will mentor each a middle-school, a high-school, a college or university student, and an adult within their respective regions.This year's participants poets Eastern Region: Distinguished Poet Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Kalaiya Corbin (high school) Raleigh; Jo Ann Hoffman (adult), Beaufort; Kelly Jones (adult), Tabor City; Leslie Sexton (adult), Winterville. Central Region: Distinguished Poet Dasan Ahanu; Hausson Byrd (college), Greensboro; Adeja Cheek (high school), Durham; Valerie Macon (adult), Fuquay-Varina; Jermaine Monroe (adult), Greensboro. Western Region: Distinguished Poet Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Jane Mary Curran (adult), Asheville.The GCDPS originated when the NCPS Board voted in 2003 to follow the advice of Fred Chappell, then North Carolina's Poet Laureate. He had written and advised the NCPS president about various approaches to take in furthering the NCPS mission of encouraging the reading, writing, and enjoyment of poetry. The GCDPS plans evolved from that correspondence and earlier discussions by Board members.The Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series offers a way for poets to give back to the North Carolina poetry community. Past Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poets include Ann Deagon, Joseph Bathanti, John Hoppenthaler, Becky Gould Gibson, Lavonne Adams, and Catherine Carter, among others.

Visit the author's website at www.theadventuretree.com Come with Willow and Zak on an adventure. Travel with them to a mysterious island. Meet a monkey that can talk. Then make your own adventure. The Adventure Tree is the first of a series of books that will follow Willow and Zak to places you never imagined. . .but can.

Visit the author's website at www.theadventuretree.com The Adventure Tree Book II - "The Royal Magic Show" by Kelly Jones Come with Willow and Zak as they embark on a new journey. Travel with them to a far away kingdom. Enjoy a magic show. Then make your own adventure. The Adventure Tree - "The Royal Magic Show" is the second of a series of books that will follow Willow and Zak to places you never imagined... but can. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to children's organizations.

Join Willow and Zak on their exciting holiday adventure. Travel with them to the North Pole. Meet Santa and his elves. Then make your own adventure The Adventure Tree - "A Crystal Clear Christmas" is the third branch in a series of books that will follow Willow and Zak to places you never imagined...but can. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to children's organizations.

Fiona wants to fix people's problems--she even thinks of herself as a fairy godperson in training--but what if she's the one who needs help? Fiona's a funny, take-charge heroine kids will love.Fiona may have problems, but she's no damsel in distress. She'd rather be the one wielding the wand in the story: she wants to be the fairy godperson. So when her mom sends her off to stay with relatives in a place called Cold Hope for the summer, Fiona decides it's time to start training for the role. And wow, do these people need help! Aunt Becky's bakery is failing, Great-uncle Timothy draws but never speaks, and Great-Aunt Alta is the gloomiest, doomiest woman she's ever met. Look out, Cold Hope, Fiona is going to shake things up! But helping people in the real world isn't as easy as it sounds in fairy tales. Change is messy. Advice can backfire. What if she's actually making things worse? What if Fiona is the one feeling shaken?!Still, with practice (and some deep breaths), Fiona will discover that sometimes messy is okay. Sometimes things do get worse before they get better. And sometimes trying to help fix other people's problems can show you a way to work on your own...

A new quirky-funny book from the author of Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer about a boy whose plans for the summer go sideways when the ghost of his great-great-grandmother demands his attention.HD Schenk is a maker--an inventor, someone who builds cool stuff. He''s got a plan for the summer: he''ll build his own computer and enter it in the county fair. Then everyone will know who he is and what he can do. To earn enough money for the parts he''ll need, HD has promised to clear out his uncle''s overflowing basement. No big deal, right? But there''s more in that basement than HD bargained for. On his first trip down there, a voice only he can hear starts talking to him. About...sauerkraut?Who knew the ghost of his great-great-grandmother was haunting an old pickling crock? She''s got a grand plan, too. She wants HD to help make her famous recipe for sauerkraut and enter it in the county fair so that she can be declared pickle queen.After some initial shock, HD is willing enough to help. This ghost is family, after all. But only HD can really see and hear his Oma, which is going to make it hard for her to win on her own...Kelly Jones spins a wonderfully goofy ghost tale that celebrates creative problem solving, family ties, and makers of every variety.