Filters Sort results
Reset Apply
Title | Description | Category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Pa Ingalls decides to sell the old house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas and there, finally, Pa builds their little house on the prairie. Sometimes farm life is difficult, even dangerous, but Laura and the family are kept busy and are… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | 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 | |
 | Alcott, Louisa May | 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 | |
 | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | The long winter is over. With spring comes a new job for Laura, town parties, and "Literaries." Laura spends many hours each day sewing shirts to help earn money that will send Mary to a college for the blind. But in the evenings, she makes time for a new caller… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Alcott, Louisa May | 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 | |
 | Alcott, Louisa May | 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 | |
 | Schmidt, Gary D. | 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 | |
 | Mowat, Farley | 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 | |
 | Stauffer, Romaine | 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 | |
 | Martin, Rebecca | With high hopes John Rittenhouses' parents join the surge of Mennonites into the American frontier. The Master Craftsman carves out young John's faith and character in this budding wilderness where medical help is scarce and hard work, danger, and Indians are plentiful.
Will John's sister Meg ever walk without pain? Should… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Pyle, Howard | "No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore merry men that roamed with him through the greenwood shades. Right merrily they dwelt within the depths of Sherwood Forest, suffering neither care… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Betsy Byars. Paperback. | 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 | |
 | Sorensen, Virginia | 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 | |
 | Martin, Mildred | 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 | |
 | Taylor, Mildred D. | 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 | |
 | Henry, Marguerite | 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 | |
 | Eleanor Estes | Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and-most days at least-the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house...sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific upside-down way of looking at the world; and Rufus, who may be the littlest but always gets in… | Books ⋅ 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 | |
 | 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 | ||
 | Vernon, Louise A. | 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 | |
 | Lowry, Lois | 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 | |
 | Gipson, Fred | 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 | |
 | Jackson, Dave and Neta | 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 | |
 | Wilder, Laura Ingalls | Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod, but Pa builds a clean new house made of sawed lumber beside Plum Creek. The money for materials will come from their first wheat crop. Then, just before the wheat is ready to harvest, a strange glittering cloud fills the… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Pyle, Howard | 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 | |
 | Hesse, Karen | 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 | |
 | Mowat, Farley | 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… | Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Steinbeck, John | The Pearl is a novella by the American author John Steinbeck. The story, first published in 1947, follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man's nature as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Vernon, Louise A. | 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 | |
 | Collodi, Carlo | The Adventures of Pinocchio, also simply known as Pinocchio, is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi, written in Pescia. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Park, Linda Sue | Offering a fresh look at a long-established view of history, this compelling story of resolution and persistence is told with humor, insight, and charm. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Martin, Mildred | Join the Miller children as they learn about health, safety, and courtesy... from the Bible! Each story includes a Scripture passage and illustrates various aspects of prudent living. Read about the foolish joke that ended in tragedy; the embarrassing consequences of not getting enough sleep; how Timmy gets lost in… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Merrill, Jean. 9781590179369. | Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? It’s a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim defeated a mighty foe.
Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | 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. | Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | St. John, Patricia | When Elaine leaves her home in London to stay with the Owen family in Wales, she feels miserable and left out. It's only the little secret garden that she finds at the end of the rainbow that makes staying there seem worthwhile. And then something happens that changes everything. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Cleary, Beverly | Ramona is back...
Riding the school bus alone isn’t the only new experience making third grade exciting for Ramona Quimby. From befriending a boy called Yard Ape to delivering her book report in the style of a television commercial, Ramona’s enthusiasm for life is infectious and irresistible.
That’s not to say all… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Cleary, Beverly | Republication of this classic title, featuring new art and cover, celebrates the August 1999 release of the first Ramona book in fifteen years, "Ramona's World." Ramona likes to think she's a fearless first-grader, but her bravery is put to the test at every turn. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Withrow, Mindy and Brandon | Experience history without the wooliness, and with all the wonder in this history designed for . As the world exploded into modernity with rapid changes - in transportation, in communication, in manufacturing - people around the globe faced overwhelming new challenges. As Christians arrived for the first time in other… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Mackenzie, Catherine | When Richard Wurmbrand is arrested, imprisoned and tortured, he finds himself in utter darkness, yet the people who put him there discover that their prisoner has a light which can still be seen in the dark - the love of God.
This incredible story of one man's faith, despite horrific persecution… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Taylor, Mildred D. | Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year - the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black - to show Cassie that having a place of… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Yates, Elizabeth | Little Sarah wanders away from her family's cabin into the New Hampshire forest, and settlers come from all across the countryside to help find her. As the long days pass, the searchers grow desperate, but Sarah's father's trust in God holds firm. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | MacLachlan, Patricia | This Newbery Medal–winning book and children's literature classic is perfect for fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie books, historical fiction, and timeless stories using rich and beautiful language. Sarah, Plain and Tall gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love. The 30th Anniversary edition includes author Patricia MacLachlan’s… | Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Martin, Mildred A. | Read about Peter and the "In-Thing" (peer pressure), "The Five-Dollar Glove" (keeping agreements), "My Heart Says Amen" (death of a classmate), "The Wrath of Man" (God's power over an angry witch doctor) and many, many more! | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | 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 | |
 | Park, Linda Sue | When Tree-ear breaks a ceramic masterpiece, he works to repay a debt to the gruff potter Min. Tree-ear dreams of someday making beautiful pots himself and is crushed to learn that while homeless orphans can perform backbreaking labor, they cannot become potters. Still, Tree-ear toils to help Min achieve his… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | Kjelgaard, Jim | The steel-gray husky Chiri was just a puppy when he watched the black wolf kill his mother and two brothers. Left alone in the snow-covered land of the coyote ,caribou, and grizzly, Chiri learned to fend for himself, to hunt, and to survive by his own keen instinct and natural… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | |
 | McSwigan, Marie | A daring adventure based on a true story about a group of Norwegian children who smuggled nine million dollars in gold past Nazi sentries during World War II. A story of courage and wits and grim determination.--The New York Times. | Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |