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Aliki |
Born a slave, George Washington Carver went on to become the most prominent black scientist of the early twentieth century. |
Level 12 items |
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Lewis, C. S. |
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses show the beloved author and theologian bringing hope and courage in a time of great doubt. 'The Weight of Glory,' considered by many to be Lewis's finest sermon of all, is an incomparable… |
Worldviews |
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Bauer, Susan and Wise, Jessie |
This educational bestseller has dominated its field for the last decade, sparking a homeschooling movement that has only continued to grow. It will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the… |
Philosophy of Education |
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Bobbie Kalman |
Spectacular photographs and engaging text help introduce students to familiar landforms and others they may not have seen before. By using compare-and-contrast questions, children will be encouraged to identify differences in similar landforms, such as mountains and hills. Children will also be inspired to paint landscapes, create volcanoes, and write… |
Level 12 items |
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St. Olaf Choir |
The St. Olaf Christmas Festival from 1983. Includes 21 songs, ranging from familiar to new. |
Music ⋅ Christmas Music ⋅ Saint Olaf Choir |
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Gary Miller (Softcover) |
Amos and Mandy aren't married long before they face a troubling questions: Why does there never seem to be enough money? Indeed, few things in their lives are as commonplace, yet perplexing , as money management. To solve the puzzle, they mine the Scriptures and find timeless spiritual principles that… |
Books |
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Conrad Shank |
Teachers Week 2023 |
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Fritz, Jean |
A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States. |
Level 34 items |
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Chesterton, G. K. |
Chesterton's style is light and humorous - but also deadly serious and philosophical - as he provides witty commentary on feminism, education, family, and other timeless topics. |
Worldviews |
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Regine Galanti, Illustrated by Vicky… |
When worries and fears come along, Harley the Hedgehog can handle them—and so can your child! A fun activity book for coping with anxiety, for kids ages 5 to 9. Expert psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Regine Galanti offers an activity book that teaches kids how to be brave and feel… |
Books ⋅ Child Development ⋅ Educational Resources |
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Hellerman, Joseph H. |
Spiritual formation occurs primarily in the context of community. But as the modern cultural norm of what social scientists call "radical American individualism" extends itself, many Christians grow lax in their relational accountability to the church. Faith threatens to become an "I" not "us," a "my God" not "our God"… |
Theology & Worldviews ⋅ Topical Studies |
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Chesanow, Neil |
Part of being a child is wondering. This charming book uses easy words and color illustrations to explain to children exactly where they live. Crenshaw starts with a child's room, in his or her home, neighborhood, town, state, and county--then moves out to the planet Earth, the solar system… |
Level 12 items ⋅ Level 21 items |
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Fritz, Jean |
Fritz makes history accessible once more in this wry biography of a legendary explorer. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year. Illustrations. |
Early Reading |
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Schrock, Simon |
Have you ever heard people brag about how they fibbed a little and got the best end of a deal? The storyteller makes himself look like the smart guy and the victim the dummy. One man tells of fibbing to the police officer and getting out of a ticket. Another… |
Christian Living |
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Yancey, Philip |
If there is a loving God, then why is it that ... ?You've heard that question, perhaps asked it yourself. No matter how you complete it, at its root lies the issue of pain. Does God order our suffering? Does he decree an abusive childhood, orchestrate a jet crash, steer… |
Pain & Grief |
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DK Penguin Random House |
From the towering peaks of the Himalayas and the rain forests of Africa to the ancient buildings of Europe and the megacities of Asia, Where on Earth? Atlas brings our amazing world to life in spectacular 3-D maps. |
Geography ⋅ Living History ⋅ Living History Weavings |
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Compiled by Tim Kennedy |
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Phonics & Reading |
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Rawls, Wilson |
Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It doesn’t matter that times are tough; together they’ll roam the… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Where To? Challenges and Opportunities Within Conservative Anabaptism contains five essays written by five different men. Their assignment was to explore the positive dimensions of what God may want to do in, for, and through conservative Anabaptism over the next fifty years. Each writer addressed a different facet of community… |
Anabaptist History & Thought |
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Fritz, Jean |
A brief biography of Patrick Henry tracing his progress from planter to statesman. Patrick Henry wasn't particularly well spoken. As a lawyer, he mumbled through some of his early cases. But when the issue was freedom, Patrick Henry was transformed into a natural orator. Jean Fritz makes history come… |
Level 34 items |
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Butterfield, Herbert |
The Whig historian studies the past with reference to the present. He looks for agency in history. And, in his search for origins and causes, he can easily select those facts that give support to his thesis and thus eliminate other facts equally important to the total picture. The Whig… |
Biography & History |
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Eitzen, Ruth |
A Quaker family living in Ohio in the early 1800's makes peace with a Shawnee Indian tribe during a very troubled time. From the example of his father, young Abe learns the power of love to overcome hate. This edition published by special arrangement with Herald Press, Harrisonburg, VA. |
Level 43 items |
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Beckham, Robert |
Johannes Gutenberg spent his days shut away, working on a mysterious project. His neighbors wondered what he was doing in his metal shop. Why did he need so much money? Was he making expensive gold jewelry? Weapons? Armor? What project could possibly take up so many hours of Johannes’s… |
Level 34 items |
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Fritz, Jean |
Using her trademark humorous style, Jean Fritz tells the story of Plymouth Rock--the granite boulder upon which it was decided the Pilgrims must have set foot upon their arrival in the New World--telling how it came to be the impressive monument it is today. |
Early Reading |
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Bulkley, Ed |
With deep insight and candor, Bulkley, a pastoral counselor of twenty-five years, answers the question, "Are psychology and the Bible compatible?" and provides clear and practical answers about healing damaged souls in a way that pleases and glorifies God. |
Counseling & Psychology |
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Fritz, Jean |
In the early days of America when men wore ruffles, rode horseback, and obeyed the King, there lived a man in Boston who cared for none of these things. No one expected Samuel Adams to wear ruffles or pledge allegiance to the King of England, but his friends did think… |
Level 34 items |
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Tiessen, Isaac |
The author's life story, but more broadly the .story of the Mennonites in Russia and the Ukraine in the first quarter of the twentieth century. |
Anabaptist History & Thought |
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Peter Goertzen |
Teachers Week 2023 |
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Schluz, Walter A. |
Introduce young readers to history through the stories of both real and fictionalized people. By focusing on a single important episode that describes a historical event, these books engage readers' interests and imaginations. Written in a story format, each account relates events that really happened, often followed by a… |
Level 12 items |
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Bercot, David W. |
Sex and money scandals. An exploding divorce ate. Drug-addicted youths. And an ever-growing worldliness. Today's church is fighting battles on all fronts. And we seem to be losing these battles to the relentlessly encroaching world. Perhaps the answers to our problems are not in the present, but in the… |
Church History |
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Bercot, David W. |
When Christianity was young, the focus was on Jesus Christ and His kingdom, not theology. To be sure, there are foundational doctrines that Christians have always considered essential to the faith. But somehow the things considered essential have grown from a few sentences to a long list of theological tenets… |
Church History |
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Fritz, Jean |
"A biography of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence outlining all that he did for himself as well as what he did for Massachusetts and his new nation. |
Level 34 items |
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Meloche, Renee Taft |
A preacher, William Carey, sailed He took a boat and traveled up At a time when most Christians never considered the millions of people in… |
Picture Books |
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The student portfolio for the… |
Living History ⋅ Living History Weavings |
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Using her characteristically thorough and animated words and pictures and quotations from Shakespeare's plays, Aliki has created a five-act masterpiece that is the definitive introduction to the playwright and his world. |
Level 43 items |
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Grahame, Kenneth |
Heeding the call of spring, Mole sets out from his underground home and heads down to the river bank. His outing leads to friendship and adventures with Ratty, Badger, and irrepressible Mr Toad. |
Books ⋅ Children's Books ⋅ Early Reading ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Spraggett, Daphne and Johnstone, Jill |
The 2002 Gold Medallion for Elementary Age Children. If you appreciated Operation World as an adult, your kids will love this invaluable and age-appropriate prayer resource that develops cultural, political and geographical awareness through a Christian lens. Stunning photographic visuals complement this A to Z collection of countries and people groups… |
Geography |
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Milne, A. A. |
Here are Pooh and Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, and of course Christopher Robin, doing what they've done for generations--enchanting young readers in A. A. Milne's tales from the Hundred Acre Wood. |
Early Reading |
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Priddy Books |
This Giant Activity Work Book has 114 pages of wipe-clean activities, from writing to spelling, math to telling the time, and plenty of fun puzzles to do. The book has a spiral, so the pages lie flat, and comes with a dry-wipe pen, enabling children to complete and repeat the activities… |
Books |
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Usborne |
There are thirty wipe-clean cards and a wipe-clean pen in a pretty gift box with a clear plastic lid. Each card shows a picture to represent a different letter of the alphabet with opportunities to write the words and practice writing the letters, upper and lower case. There are also… |
Phonics & Reading |
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Maria Neradova, Laura Hammonds, and… |
This delightful book is a perfect way for young children to develop their counting, observation and pen control skills. Children will love working with farm animals, and parents and teachers will love the pen control, counting activities, and matching skills this book develops. With durable wipe-clean pages, one book can… |
Preschool & Early Education Activity Books |
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Usborne |
There are thirty wipe-clean cards and a wipe-clean pen in a pretty gift box with a clear plastic lid. The number cards show numbers 0 to 20, and 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 with pictures, numerals, and words. There are opportunities to write the numbers and the number words. There is also a card showing number… |
Mathematics |
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Kirsteen Robson. Paperback. |
Young children need plenty of practice in pen-control – an essential skill they must learn before starting to form letters and numbers. This fun activity book is full of ocean-themed activities, encouraging children to join the dots, spot differences, solve mazes, and trace the dotted lines with the special pen provided… |
Preschool & Early Education Activity Books |
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Martin, Mildred A. |
Make Proverbs come alive for the children in your home, church, or school. Here is a character-building collection of stories by an Amish Mennonite author. Each chapter explains and illustrates a passage from the book of Proverbs with a story. |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Usher, M. D. |
Unfolding through cheerful illustrations and a two-tiered text, details about the Greek philosopher's life and times are explained in this book that chronicles the origins of Western philosophy. Full color. |
Level 34 items |
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Speare, Elizabeth George |
Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in 1687. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her… |
Intermediate and Young Adult Reading |
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Morrish, Robert |
This book features classroom management strategies from a veteran educator and behavior consultant. Ronald Morrish provides practical insights that will teach you how to increase teaching time, improve student work habits, reinstate authority to you as the teacher, and decrease your reliance on punishment as a motivational strategy. |
Classroom Management & Culture |
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Stahl-Wert, John |
This is an excellent and deeply personal reflection on life and God. It provides great insights into the character of God and our relationship with the Creator. |
Biography & History |
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George, Elizabeth |
This very popular selection for personal and group study is filled with rich advice, spiritual wisdom, and practical applications. With passion and personality, Elizabeth George shares how a woman can follow God and seek His heart in every area of her life... her husband her children her home her walk… |
Women |
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Laudate Mennonite Ensemble |
1. O Love That Will Not Let Me Go |
Music ⋅ Various Artists |