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 | Jean Craighead George | Can Frightful survive alone?Sam Gribley has been told that it is illegal to harbor an endangered bird, so when his beloved falcon, Frightful, comes home, he has to let her go. But Frightful doesn’t know how to live alone in the wild. She can’t feed herself, mate, brood chicks, or… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Andrew Clements, Illustrated by Brian… | From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school — and he’s always had plenty of great ideas… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Walt Morey | The Alaskan wilderness is a lonely place for Mark Andersen, especially after the death of his older brother, Jamie. But in time Mark finds someone else to love–Ben, an Alaskan brown bear so huge that no one else dares come near him. Gentle Ben has been a favorite of readers… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Irene Howat | Find out how God miraculously transformed one young man’s life from selfish and greedy, to courageous and trustworthy; his heart, once totally self-centred, remodelled. George takes the children of his new home into his heart and the orphaned children of Bristol have someone to fight their corner. They trust him… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Eleanor Estes | Meet the marvelous Pyes: There is Mrs. Pye, the youngest mother in town; Mr. Pye, a famous bird man, who handles all the nation’s important bird problems; Rachel Pye, who is so reasonable, she can make unreasonable ideas sound good; Jerry Pye, who knows about rocks of all sorts and… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Mildred A. Martin | Gather around the table with Sharon, Peter, Timmy, Laura, and Beth Miller, and read about how Timmy saves an elderly neighbor’s life, Sharon teaches summer Bible school, Peter shoots the wrong deer, Sioux Indians return good for evil, and much more! As always, each “Miller” story is based on true… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Judy Yoder | Fresh from the plains of Kansas, eleven-year-old Eli can’t wait to see the farm Dad bought at the foot of White Hill in Stuarts Draft, Virginia. Still small for his age, Eli dreads going to a new school and a new church.Electricity comes to the farm. Harvesting is done with… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Mindy and Brandon Withrow | Let history come to life just the way it should do! Read the stories of the gifted preachers and justice fighters who led the first and second Great Awakenings in the 18th and 19th centuries. Meet the American preacher who started a national revival in his tiny church. Spend time… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Johanna Spyri | This classic tale of a young girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps is back in a new edition featuring an Introduction from acclaimed author Eva Ibbotson. (paperback) | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Beverly Cleary | When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular breed, humorous adventures follow. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Barbara Smucker | The dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Pablo Yoder | In Home on the Rock Pile, little Paul and his brothers and sisters explore orchards, fields, and mountains. They troop through the snow to help needy neighbors. They meet dangerous snakes and befriend baby skunks. They work, play, scrap with each other, and learn some lessons the hard way. They… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Robert McCloskey | Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and a pet skunk. The comic genius of Robert… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Anne Holm | David’s entire twelve-year life has been spent in a grisly concentration camp in Eastern Europe. He knows nothing of the outside world. But when he is given the chance to escape, he seizes it. Sensing his enemies hot on his heels, David struggles to cope in this strange new world… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Sally M. Keehn | The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina’s life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Arleta Richardson | A young girl delights in her grandmother’s stories of days gone by, sparked by keepsakes and simple questions, Grandma shares marvelous stories of mischief , discovery, and laughter, such as the time she accidentally lost the family buggy.Part of the bestselling Grandma’s Attic series, these charming tales—updated with delightful new… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Lois Lenski | In this classic Newbery Honor Award book, Lois Lenski authentically reconstructs the fascinating story of Mary Jemison’s capture, flight, and early years with the Seneca Indians. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Louise A. Vernon | Johann Gutenberg is working on printing the first Bible with type. Twelve-year-old Hans Dunne is planning on being a scribe and copying the Bible by hand. But circumstances change and he finds himself working in Gutenberg’s shop as an apprentice printer. Soon Hans finds himself in the middle of a… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Scott O'Dell | The gripping story of young Karana, who survives by herself for eighteen years on a deserted island off the California coast. A haunting and unusual story based on the fact that in the early 1800s an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone on a rocky island far off the coast… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Malka Drucker | Warsaw, Poland, 1941. WWII has been raging for two years when Jacob’s aunt takes him to meet Alex, a Christian man who will pretend to be his father. This is a fictionalized account of the four years Jacob spent with the Roslan family in daily terror of being caught. With… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Louise A Vernon | The story of George Fox, founder of the Quakers, as told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Tommy Stafford and his sister Celia. George Fox was constantly being persecuted. He was imprisoned, beaten, and ridiculed, but this only increased the number of his followers. The Stafford family decided to make the… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Mildred D. Taylor | For the Logan family, it is a frightening and turbulent time. First, their friend J.J. must go on trial for murder – and confront an all-white jury. Then, Cousin Suzella tries to pass for white, with humiliating consequences. And when Cassie’s neighbor, Mrs. Lee Annie, stands up for her right… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | C.S. Lewis | Lucy, then Edmund, and then Peter and Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Literature ⋅ Classics | |
 | Laura Ingalls Wilder | LITTLE HOUSE. BIG ADVENTURE. Celebrate the original nine books that started it all! When Laura Ingalls Wilder first wrote of her experiences growing up in the 1800s, no one could have predicted the impact her stories would have on generations of children to come! Follow Laura’s life from the glorious… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Growing up in a poor New York neighborhood, Cedric Errol appears to be a normal American boy. However, as he discovers when he meets his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, he is actually Lord Fauntleroy, and is expected to become an English gentleman. Whisked away from his mother and his… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Louisa May Alcott | Jo March, the irrepressible tomboy in Little Women, has grown up and married her professor to become Jo Bhaer. Together the Bhaers have established Plumfield-a warm-hearted, informal school where lessons are taught with a dose of laughter. When Nat, a young orphan joins the happy household at Plumfield, he can’… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Louisa May Alcott | Follow the adventures of four sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, in this much-loved classic tale. The sisters fall into one scrape after another, as tempers flare, illness strikes and their lives are filled with new experiences and loves. Based on Louisa May Alcott’s own life experiences, Little Women gives… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Gary D. Schmidt | Turner Buckminster knows that the only thing worse than being the new kid is being the new kid and the minister’s son. It’s hard to make friends and have fun when the whole town is watching and judging him. But he escapes for a while when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Farley Mowat | Awasin and Jamie, brothers in courage, meet a challenge many mountain men could not endure. When their canoe is destroyed by the fury of the rapids, they must face the wilderness with no food and no hope of rescue. To survive, they build an igloo, battle a towering grizzly bear… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Romaine Stauffer | Christian Burkholder’s life followed a peaceful routine of farming, family, and church. This was the quiet freedom his mother had been searching for when she brought her family to Pennsylvania from the Old World when he was just a lad.As a farmer, father, and church leader, Christian watched uneasily as… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Literature ⋅ Anabaptist | |
 | Robinson, Virgil | A biography of the great reformer who led the Protestant Reformation in Germany. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Virginia Sorensen | The war is over and Marly’s father is home – but he’s not the same. Something inside him seems as cold and dead as the winter world outside. But when the family moves to Grandma’s old house on Maple Hill, miracles begin to happen. The sap in the trees begins… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Mildred Martin | Experience thrilling adventure as the Christian missionaries on these pages meet witch doctors, disease, drought, hate-filled guerillas, a Bible thief, and killer cats. Each story is based on actual happenings from the lives of real people. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Level 21 items ⋅ Level 43 items | |
 | Mildred D. Taylor | When Josias Williams–en route to his new job–and Stacey Logan’s grandmother–about to begin a trip–are ordered off a bus in order that two white passengers may have a seat, the incident begins a nightmare that will change everyone’s lives. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Marguerite Henry | Marguerite Henrys best-known title tells the story of how a brother and sister capture two wild ponies on Chincoteague Island. Newbery Honor Book. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Marguerite Henry | Discover Marguerite Henry’s Newbery Honor-winning Misty of Chincoteague stories with this giftable collection of the essential books featuring the beloved pony!On the island of Chincoteague off the coasts of Virginia and Maryland lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. They seem untouchable until a young boy and girl capture wild… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Richardson, Arleta | An old slate and a heart-shaped locket, a rusty trunk and a misspelled sampler. The treasures in Grandma’s attic never seem to end, and each one has a unique story. What happens when a pig wears doll’s clothes? How did Mama escape the cellar when Pa accidentally locked her in?… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Yoder, Mary Elizabeth | Mary Elizabeth Yoder told many of these stories to her children as they were growing up. Stories about her children, stories from her own childhood, could-have-happened-stories, stories of good times and bad – all are about families and children and the important lessons they learned.The next time your children ask… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Jean Craighead George | Twelve-year-old Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in his family’s crowded New York City apartment. One day–armed with just a penknife, a ball of red cord, forty dollars, some flint and steel, and the clothes on his back–he decides to run away to his grandfather’s abandoned farm in the Catskill… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Eight years before the American Revolution, orphan Peter York is adopted by a strict Quaker farmer. Peter sees his chance to break away by capturing a runaway indentured servant for reward money. But the capture leads to consequences Peter cannot foresee. Written by a Newbery Honor-winning author. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
 | Louise A. Vernon | Menno Simons was first a Catholic priest. As he read and studied the Bible, Menno began to understand the Christian life in a different way. Eventually he became an Anabaptist preacher. Soon, Menno Simons became the leader of the Anabaptists, now known as Mennonites. 138 pages. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Romaine Stauffer | Brenda the parachutist, who thought grocery bags would help her fly; Beth the question-box, who thought of questions faster than her mother could answer them; Rick the bragger, who had a habit of tooting his own horn; Clark the scholar, who thought he was happy being miserable; Carrie the crier… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Lois Lowry | When the Nazi take over Denmark in World War II, they begin to remove Danish Jews to concentration camps. Here is the story of two young friends who escape from the Nazis by pretending to part of non-Jewish families. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Fred Gipson | Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, Old Yeller is a timeless coming of age tale. Travis, a fourteen-year-old, is left in charge of his family’s farm when his father takes the cattle north on a drive. Travis is able to cope with a host of trials and… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Dave and Neta Jackson | Here is a book about people who acted in faith and by their witness moved mountains and changed the world. They are heroes of faith who, like Abraham, became great because they loved God above everything else, including Christianity. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Level 34 items ⋅ Level 43 items | |
 | Jean Craighead George | Sam is joined in the Catskill Mountains by his younger sister, Alice, who is quietly living in a tree house of her own. Their peaceful life is shattered when a conservation officer confiscates Sam’s falcon, Frightful, and Alice suddenly vanishes. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Howard Pyle | Here, Howard Pyle spins a Medieval tale of a young heir raised in a monastery, then plunged into the bitter feudal world of his father. It contains all the elements Pyle deals with so well… swordplay and daring adventure, romance and intrigue. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Karen Hesse | A poem cycle that reads as a novel, this Newbery Medal winner tells the story of Billie Jo, a girl who struggles to help her family survive the dust bowl years of the Depression. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Farley Mowat | Farley Mowat’s funniest book tells the adventures of Wol and Weeps, two owls from Saskatchewan who shake up a whole neighborhood, turn a house topsy-turvy, and outsmart Mutt, the dog hero of The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be. Wol brings dead skunks to the family dinner table and terrorizes the minister, the… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Louise A. Vernon | Peter Cook has a good life as a bound boy and is treated like a son by his master. Everything changes the day that Peter discovers that his master has died of the dreaded disease, the black plague. Because Peter touched the corpse he is thrown out of the great… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |