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 | Byars, Betsy | Tom hates having to spend the summer on a farm . . . until he discovers the midnight fox.
No one asked Tom how he felt about spending two months on his Aunt Millie’s farm. For a city boy, the farm holds countless terrors—stampeding baby lambs, boy-chasing chickens, and worst of all, loneliness… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Sayers, Dorothy L. | This classic, with a new introduction by Madeleine L'Engle, is by turns an entrancing meditation on language; a piercing commentary on the nature of art and why so much of what we read, hear, and see falls short; and a brilliant examination of the fundamental tenets of Christianity. The Mind… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Theology | |
 | Pascal, Blaise | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) earned recognition as a renowned mathematician, physicist--and a man after God's heart. As he came to the forefront of geometry and physics, he turned his considerable analytical abilities to study religion or, as he said, to "contemplate the greatness and the misery of man." Pascal's classic defense… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Apologetics | |
 | Wright, Christopher H. | 'In The Mission of God's People, Chris Wright shows how God's big-picture plan directs the purpose of God's people, the church. Wright's pioneering 2006 book, The Mission of God, revealed that the typical Christian understanding of 'missions' encompasses only a small part of God's overarching mission for the world. God… | Christian Living ⋅ Missions & Service | |
 | Grenz, Stanley J. | Voted one of Christianity Today's 1998 Books of the Year! What is ethics? Why should Christians care? Beginning with these basic questions, Stanley Grenz masterfully leads his readers into a theological engagement with moral inquiry. In The Moral Quest he sets forth the basics of ethics, considers the role and… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Ethics | |
 | Mason, Mike | Beautifully written and filled with life-transforming insights, the 20th anniversary edition of Mike Mason's unparalleled Gold Medallion winner explores the mystical and holy nature of marriage with a depth that will forever alter how a couple relates to each other - and to God. | Christian Living ⋅ Marriage | |
 | Davie, Donald | Offering both familiar poems and some fascinating unfamiliar ones, this anthology contains over 250 poems that deal with Christianity. Ranging from the Anglo-Saxon masterpiece "The Dream of the Rood" to the works of modern poets such as T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Sir John Betjeman, and John Berryman. Davie has chosen… | Literature ⋅ Poetry | |
 | Adler, David A. | The moving story of a young girl who learns of her grandfather's experience in Auschwitz and then helps him overcome his sensitivity about the number on his arm, this award-winning picture book gives young children "just enough" information about the Holocaust without overwhelming them. | Level 43 items | |
 | Homer | This excellent prose translation of Homer's epic poem of the 9th century B.C. recounts one of the most glorious tales of Western literature, a treasury of Greek folklore, and a myth that has held ageless fascination. | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Fried, Robert L. | An inspiring handbook, enthusiastically embraced by teachers; with a new chapter. Every teacher can be a passionate teacher-one who engages young people in the excitement of learning and ideas-if teaching is not undermined by the ways we "do business" in schools. "The Passionate Teacher" draws on voices, stories, and successes… | The Life of a Teacher | |
 | Alan Kreider | How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional persecution? In this unique historical study, veteran scholar Alan Kreider delivers the fruit of a lifetime of study as he tells the amazing story of the spread of Christianity in the… | Church History | |
 | Gaebelein, Frank | That all truth is of God is what Dr. Gaebelein called the master principle of all education. In this succinct volume the emphasis is the unity of truth in God. This book asserts that all teaching is built on the presuppositions of the teachers, and if these presuppositions have no… | Philosophy of Education | |
 | Juster, Norton | Illustrated in black-and-white. This ingenious fantasy centers around Milo, a bored ten-year-old who comes home to find a large toy tollbooth sitting in his room. Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo drives through the tollbooth's gates and begins a memorable journey. He meets such characters as the foolish… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Miller, Lynn | "The connective tissue between people, possessions, faith, finances, Scripture, culture, labor and leisure captures Lynn Miller's attention. Equipped with a healthy passion, he mines these connections for meaning and promise." | Stewardship & Finance | |
 | Bother Lawrence | For nearly 300 years this unparalleled classic has given both blessing and instruction to those who can be content with nothing less than knowing God in all His majesty and feeling His loving presence throughout each simple day. | Christian Living ⋅ Disciplines & Spiritual Formation | |
 | Twain, Mark | Mark Twain's renowned tale of two boys who look alike, yet one is the royal prince, the other a miserable pauper. Then one day fate intervenes, and for awhile each has to live the other's life. Abridged. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | MacDonald, George | Continuing the story started in The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie in given the gift of insight from his great-great-grandmother, but when he returns to the palace, he finds the ailing king surrounded by deceivers with only Princess Irene to comfort him. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | MacDonald, George | Princess Irene's discovery of a secret stair to the top turret of the castle leads to a wonderful revelation. At the same time, the miner's son Curdle overhears a fiendish plot by the goblins who live below the mountain. It will take all of their wit and courage, plus the… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Lewis, C.S. | Why must humanity suffer? In this elegant and thoughtful work, C. S. Lewis questions the pain and suffering that occur everyday and how this contrasts with the notion of a God that is both omnipotent and good. An answer to this critical theological problem is found within these pages. | Christian Living ⋅ Pain & Grief | |
 | Potok, Chaim | Reuven Malter lives in Brooklyn, he's in love, and he's studying to be a rabbi. He also keeps challenging the strict interpretations of his teachers, and if he keeps it up, his dream of becoming a rabbi may die. One day, worried about a disturbed, unhappy boy named Michael, Reuven… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Tozer, A.W. | During a train trip from Chicago in the late 1940s, A.W. Tozer began to work on The Pursuit of God. He wrote all night long, the words coming to him as fast as he could put them down. By the next morning, when the train pulled into McAllen, Texas, the… | Christian Living | |
 | Nicholi, Armand M., Jr. | Throughout the ages, many of the world's greatest thinkers have wrestled with the concept of -- and belief in -- God. It may seem unlikely that any new arguments or insights could be raised, but the twentieth century managed to produce two brilliant men with two diametrically opposed views about… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Worldviews | |
 | Nesbit, Edith | Three children, forced to alter their comfortable lifestyle when their father is taken away by strangers, move to a simple country cottage near a railway station where their days are filled with adventure. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Plato, edited by Ferrari, G… | This translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the assumption that when Plato chose the dialogue form for his writing, he intended these dialogues to sound like conversations - although conversations of a philosophical sort. In addition to a vivid, dignified and accurate… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Worldviews | |
 | Schrock, David S. | Throughout Scripture, priests and kings - including Adam, Mechizedek, and David - reflect the supreme glory of Jesus, the great high priest. By studying the biblical pattern of their roles in redemptive history, believers can understand their own identity as the royal priesthood of God. | Bibles & Bible Study ⋅ Study Methods | |
 | Sally Schofer Mathews | “This sensitive treatment of La Noche Triste, or The Sad Night, the last battle the Aztecs won against the Spaniards, is a highly effective melding of graceful, lucid text and stylized art. Designed to resemble Aztec codices, the illustrations appear in double-page strips above the bordered text. Beginning with the… | Level 21 items | |
 | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | "Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me." With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet "A" upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Orczy, Baroness | Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him… | Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | John H. Yoder, editor | John H. Yoder, editor and translator. In the historic meeting held in 1527 at Schleitheim, Switzerland, an ad hoc group of Anabaptists worked through fundamental disagreements and emerged with a consensus on seven points of faith which became known as the Schleitheim Confession. One chapter from The Legacy of Michael… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | Lewis, C.S. | One of C.S. Lewis's most imaginative creations, this world-famous book is a humorous correspondence between the devil Screwtape and his apprentice Wormwood, whose job is to produce a human's soul for eternity in hell. Filled with astute insights into temptation, repentance, and grace, this wonderful tale intelligently explores what it… | Christian Living | |
 | St. John, Patricia | Lucy has lived with her grandparents at Pheasant Cottage since she was a little girl, but she has dim memories of someone else. Who was it' What are her grandparents hiding from her' Lucy is determined to find the answers, but it turns out to be harder than she expected. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Vernon, Louise A. | The Anabaptists are a small group of Christians who believe that everyone is a priest and should be able to study the Bible. They refuse to baptize their babies, and instead baptize adults on a confession of faith in Christ. Because of these heretical acts they are persecuted and sometimes… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Butterfield, Rosaria Champagne | "Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a large university in a field for which she cared deeply. She owned two homes with her partner, in which they provided hospitality to students and activists that were looking to make… | Christian Living ⋅ Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Missions & Service ⋅ Worldviews | |
 | Jennings, Ken and Stahl-Wert, John | This second book in the acclaimed Ken Blanchard series is both a practical guide for effective leadership and an examination of five powerful actions that can transform a team, a business, and a community. | Leadership | |
 | Gregory, John Milton | "What a blessing to have this unabridged edition of The Seven Laws of Teaching available! In a day when so many educators (and sadly, even some education reformers) live and die by their methods, it is wonderful to have this wisdom from the nineteenth century, a wisdom that reminds us… | Methods of Teaching | |
 | Speare, Elizabeth George | Once their cabin is finished Matt's father leaves to bring the rest of the family and Matt is left to survive on his own. During an attack by swarming bees, Matt is astonished when he's rescued by an Indian chief and his grandson, Attean. As the boys come to know… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Keats, Ezra Jack | No book has captured the magic and sense of possibility of the first snowfall better than The Snowy Day. Universal in its appeal, the story has become a favorite of millions, as it reveals a child's wonder at a new world, and the hope of capturing and keeping that wonder… | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | |
 | Pearcey, Nancy R. and Thaxton… | "I consider The Soul of Science to be a most significant book which, in our scientific age, should be required reading for all thinking Christians and all practicing scientists. The authors demonstrate how the flowering of modern science depended upon the Judeo-Christian worldview of the existence of a real physical… | Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies | |
 | Harder, Leland | The dramatic story of the genesis of the Anabaptist movement, told directly through the letters of its leaders and other primary documents.
This is volume 4 in the Classics of the Radical Reformation, a series of Anabaptist and Free Church documents translated and annotated under the direction of the Institute of… | Anabaptist History & Thought | |
 | Rey, H. A. | This is a clear, vivid text with charts and maps showing the positions of the constellations the year round. The Stars is the best book available for its purpose. It is also a brilliant example of the combined use of art and writing in bringing science to the layman. | Resources By Subject ⋅ Science | |
 | Flack, Marjorie | A little duck finds adventure on the Yangtze River when he is too late to board his master's houseboat one evening. | Children's Books ⋅ Picture Books | |
 | Pyle, Howard | The Story of King Arthur and His Knights is a 1903 children's novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. The book contains a compilation of various stories, adapted by Pyle, regarding the legendary King Arthur of Britain and select Knights of the Round Table. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Keller, Helen | The Story of My Life, first published in 1903, is Helen Keller's autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. | Biography & History | |
 | Coles, Robert | The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary, an all-white school, Ruby must face angry mobs of parents who refuse… | Level 43 items | |
 | Bauer, Susan Wise | Story of the World, Volume 1: Ancient Times--From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor
What terrible secret was buried in Shi Huangdi's tomb? Did nomads like lizard stew? What happened to Anansi the Spider in the Village of the Plantains? And how did a six-year-old become the last emperor… | PA ACTS 195/90/35 - NPIS ⋅ Level 12 items ⋅ Level 21 items | |
 | Bauer, Susan Wise | Story of the World, Volume 2: The Middle Ages--From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of the Renaissance
Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives—and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their history. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a… | PA ACTS 195/90/35 - NPIS ⋅ Level 34 items ⋅ Level 43 items | |
 | Bauer, Susan Wise | A beautifully revised edition of the classic world history for children.
Now more than ever, our children need to learn about the people who live all around the world. This engaging guide to other lands weaves world history into a storybook format. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children… | Resources By Subject ⋅ History & Social Studies | |
 | Bauer, Susan Wise | Story of the World, Volume 4: The Modern Age--From Victoria's Empire to the End of the USSR
Where was the Crystal Palace? Who was the Sick Man of Europe? And how did cow fat start a revolution?
Now more than ever, other countries and customs affect our everyday lives—and our children need… | PA ACTS 195/90/35 - NPIS ⋅ Level 43 items | |
 | Davidson, Margaret | Young readers will be enthralled by the amazing story of inventor Thomas Edison, a genius who forever changed life in the 20th century--and beyond. By the end of his career, Edison had invented the light bulb, motion pictures, and the phonograph and made improvements in almost every other means of… | Level 12 items |