Recent reviews:
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Old Yeller
When he is left in charge of the homestead in Texas one summer when his father goes on a cattle drive to Kansas, Travis doesn't dream how a stray dog will change him forever. -
Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes
How did Louis Pasteur discover what causes spoilage of food and disease? -
Bootprints
Jason was afraid of his father, and determined that he would never be like him—but what could he do to change the course he was on? -
Cross Shadow
When Christine’s brother is accused of killing someone, can John and she find out the truth before it’s too late? -
These Nameless Things
Though Dan has helped many people escaping from the mountain, he still hasn’t seen the one he’s been waiting for, and time is running out. -
Jayne’s Endeavour
With her parent’s recent death, the responsibility of the family rests on Jayne—and someone is trying to push them off their farm. Can she trust the Lord to provide what they need? -
Owls in the Family
When Billy and his best friend Bruce find a baby Great Horned owl, Billy adopts it—and thus ensues a summer of adventures for the pair of them. -
The Green Ember
When their parents are kidnapped—or worse—Heather and Picket must seek out other rabbits to find safety and fight back against the encroaching wolves. -
Save Me Once
When Becky is pulled into an exciting romance with an older boy at school, she doesn’t realize what trouble her family will find themselves in when she disappears with him. -
Hue and Cry
When Melody comes face to face with a stolen horse and the boy who took it, she has to decide how to help the boy, and perhaps make it right. -
The Crown and the Axe
When his father realizes Dierk needs to learn to care for others and be responsible, Dierk is sent off on a journey around a kingdom—one that will answer many questions, as well as teach him some valuable lessons. -
Like Flames in the Night
Wanting to do something to help Israel, but unsure what she can do as a woman, Tirzah takes upon herself one of the most dangerous tasks anyone in her family has done—acting as a cook to spy in the Aramean commander’s household. -
A Long Time Comin’
A grandmother and granddaughter’s story—as they both work through their life disappointments and secrets, can they find healing together? -
All Hearts Come Home for Christmas
Four novellas celebrating Christmas romances set in the Regency era. -
What Momma Left Behind
After her mother’s sudden death, Worie is left to pick up the pieces and figure out how to help the children and work her mother left behind. -
Veiled in Smoke
When the Great Fire sweeps all their family possessions away and leaves Meg without the ability to paint the way she used to, can she find hope for herself and her family? -
I Am: 40 Reasons to Trust God
This beautiful Bible story book introduces children to the names of God, with each story centered around a different name. -
Dual Power of Convenience: Merriweather Island
This is a billionaire, marriage of convenience story—with some twists that make it both fun and inspiring! -
Tempting Tait
After saving a baby from abortion, Tait quickly realizes that he really needs a wife to help him raise his little girl—can Bentley help him find someone? -
Love Her Well
What mother does not need advice on how to love her daughters? -
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
When Joseph's overcoat wears out, he makes a jacket, and then…. -
Attack in the Rye Grass
Perrin Whitman traveled with his uncle Marcus Whitman to Oregon with one of the first wagon trains to cross the Rocky Mountains, and found that relations with the Indians were anything but simple. -
Uncovering the Mysterious Woolly Mammoth
What was life like at the end of the Ice Age, and why did the mammoths go extinct? -
Enemy Brothers
Dym believes he has found his long-lost English brother Tony—but the boy is positive he is Max, a German. -
Return of the White Book
The Karen had once known Yuwah, but Mukawli deceived them and they lost their white book that taught about Yuwah—would they ever find Him again? -
Blind Johnnie
Though he was blind, Johnnie found many ways to be useful to his community and to glorify God. -
The Betrayer's Fortune
When his mother is imprisoned for her faith, Adriaen Wens must make a decision for himself, whether to set her free by betraying Menno Simons, or to take her faith for his own. -
The Fortress
When a boy discovers street children living in caves under Bucharest's concert hall, little does he know that his discovery will ultimately mean life to most of them and his own family as well. -
The Promised Land
Abbie ends up walking the Camino in France and Spain after her world falls apart and she discovers that she can no longer control everyone around her. -
A Room of My Own
Even though her father is a doctor and the family is well-to-do, Virginia's life changes forever during the Great Depression when she starts helping her father care for people in a Hooverville and her uncle is involved in a worker's strike at the local mill. -
Abandoned on the Wild Frontier
Gilbert lost his parents in the War of 1812; could circuit-riding preacher Peter Cartwright help him find his mother? -
Storm Song
As World War II rages overseas, life goes on nearly as normal for the Amish Yoder family in Michigan—until the local school board decides that the teenagers must go to school! -
Eye of the Storm
As the Red Army fights to gain control of Russia, the Mennonites debate whether they should continue their old tradition of returning good for evil, or fight to protect their own. -
Fiction Favours the Facts, Book 3
Twenty-two stories retell familiar and not-so-familiar accounts from the Bible in a fresh way that I love! -
Steamboat Rock
When her family moves to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Hettie wants badly to see a bear, but little does she know the challenges she and her family will face during the next few years. -
They Loved to Laugh
After her parents died, Martitia was taken to live with a family which included five practical jokers of boys. -
Brother Andrew: God's Secret Agent
Andrew van der Bijl went from an adventure-seeking boy in a small village in Holland to an adventure-having man as he smuggled Bibles into countries where they were forbidden. -
Stronger Than Fire
The Spanish people needed the Bible in their own language, but would Casiodoro be able to get it translated before the Inquisition caught up with him? -
You Are Too Small, Little Eli!
As his family struggles to make a living on their farm in Oklahoma during several years of drought, Little Eli helps where he can and wishes he were bigger. -
Bomby the Bombardier Beetle
A father Bombardier Beetle teaches his son how to protect himself from attack, and also where beetles came from. -
To Fly Again
A woman who spent a year as a hostage in the Philippine jungle shares what God taught her about thriving through the hard experiences she faced. -
A Summer of Sundays
Sunday feels lost in the middle of her large family—what can she do to be noticed? -
Noah's Ark and the Ararat Adventure
What was the Flood like, and will Noah's Ark ever be found? -
Captain Garrison
When a profane sea captain falls desperately ill, and then remembers the Moravian missionaries he met as well as the Bible verses his mother taught him, what happens? -
Opossum Opposites
Pictures, rhymes, and prose describe many aspects of opossum life. -
Rabbits & Raindrops
The beautiful pictures in this book tell a delightful story about a litter of rabbits on their first day out of the nest. -
Little Britches Series
This series of eight books, which follow the author through his growing-up and young adult years, is a must-read for all families, and will especially appeal to cowboy-loving boys! -
Horse of a Different Color
After a successful year of hauling wheat, Ralph went into the cattle trading business, and had many more ups and downs. -
Under a Silent Sky
This powerful book tells the story of the Waldensians of the 13th century in an unforgettable way. -
Calm Before the Storm
As storm clouds appear on the horizon in Russia, Katarina just wants things to stay the same—and Johann wants adventure.
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