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Jonathan and his family just moved to Detroit from the South, so that his Dad can help rebuild another church. It’s almost Christmas time, and they have all worked hard on the church building, and then a pipe springs a leak the day before Christmas Eve
It was cold and snowing on the mountain. A young boy was out hiking in the mountains, and he falls and injures his leg. He finds a cabin and the woman welcomes him. Together, they spend Christmas. She tells him the story of redemption and true Christmas.
Okay, there is something about Christmas books that just makes me gush…. However, the illustrations in the book are the CUTEST illustrations!
In this book, a young Patricia is put into an advanced writing class with Miss Keller. Miss Keller has a reputation for expecting excellence from her students and stops at nothing to pull that excellence from her students. In short, Miss Keller is tough.
All Four Stars is just a scrumptious book! Gladys Gatsby loves cooking but accidentally set the kitchen on fire just as her parents were coming home. They of course had a bit of a conniption and forbade Gladys from cooking.
This book is set in London during the Blitz after France just fell to Nazi Germany. Hitler plans to conquer England next, and London will take the biggest hits. Many children were sent out of London, so they could be protected from the bombing.
This book is a treasure. It is simply written, yet will make the reader laugh. And, to the joy of parents and teachers, children will learn a valuable lesson with each story.
This is one spell-binding, informative graphic novel. It’s a historical fiction piece that the author loosely based on the story of her mother. It’s set in France during the Nazi invasion in World War II.
I was searching for some simple first reader chapter books, and I remember reading Olive when I was a child. I decided to see if there were more books in the series. To my delight, I found a few more! Honestly, I’m usually skeptical about this kind of book because they often are boring and have terrible grammar and sentence structure.
I remember distinctly the first book that I read from this author. The book was in the Anna Hibiscus Series, which please read if you have not! I had just come back from a trip to Liberia, Africa. Reading this series definitely takes you back to Africa which out the pricey plan ticket! This book achieves Must-Read status just for its storytelling and cultural education.
Too often, the sequel to a good book can leave the reader quite disappointed. Not so in this case! In "The Secret of the Mystifying Twins," which is a sequel to "The Mystifying Twins," you will continue to live in the world of Lettice and Lois
Have you ever been gripped so tightly by a story that you could barely move or even breathe until it ended? If not, do yourself a favor and read "Kavik the Wolf Dog." Walt Morey powerfully crafted this story of a sled dog who wrestles with his wolf roots through a plane crash,
This book is about a boy and his Grandma. It’s the companion book to Grandma’s Records. It’s Christmas time and Grandma comes to pick up Eric. They are going to spend Christmas Vacation together. The only assignment that Eric must do during Christmas Vacation is to go the Metropolitan Museum of Art and look at a specific painting.
"The Mystifying Twins" is a Ridgeview Publishing reprint of an old Moody Bible Institute book. Incredible written, full of adventure, with characters you will never forget, this book is well worth your time.
"Totally Surrounded" is the powerful story of a young woman who boldly spread the Gospel in a very dangerous, unreached area of the Philippines.
The book is about Brian. Brian is an invisible boy. Not many people notice him or are interested in the things that he does. Most of the time, he spends time by himself drawing until the new boy joined class. The rest of the kids laughed at the new boy’s lunch.
We presume that our children will attend school where they will be taught to read and write. We know that no one would get far in today's world without that knowledge. Our homes fill up with books and we spend hours reading.
The Great Depression devastated many families.Yet, at the same time, there were others who became rich over the hardships of their neighbors. "What Money Can't Buy" illustrates this clearly as it tells the story of the Hess family. Unlike many, the Hess's never went hungry.
This is a wonderful biography of the life of Temple Grandin. Written in poem form, the rhyming words make it fun to read aloud. It highlights how different she was from other children while she was growing up. But it also highlights how similar she was too.
A little Seed and a little Fox become friends because they both do not like change and big scary things. Throughout this story they go through thick and thin side by side. Through each change they remember that “the Farmer was good,
