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Martin, Rebecca | A young boy in 1600's Switzerland learns what it means to be Anabaptist. | Books ⋅ Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Esh, Claudia | The story of Dirk Willems rescuing his pursuer who fell through the ice is one of the best-known stories in the Martyrs Mirror. However, almost nothing is known about Willem's life prior to his arrest. This book weaves facts of Willem's life and fictional narrative to tell his story through… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Yoder, Diane | The story of 16th century Anabaptist martyr Maeyken Wens. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Martin, Rebecca | Sixteen-year-old Peter strains his eyes down the mountain. Six painful weeks have passed since his minister father was rudely torn from his life by Anabaptist hunters. How will Peter and his family survive amidst the hardship, betrayal and persecution of sixteenth-century European Anabaptism? Always hunted and ever moving, yet always… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Brenneman, Helen Good | Maria and Hans Penner, Mennonite refugees from the Russian Ukraine, forge ever west with their family, west to freedom! In east Germany the Communists tragically separate Maria and Hans. Each fears the other lost or killed. Hoping against hope, each continues westward. This book graphically portrays the effects of war… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Literature ⋅ Anabaptist | ||
Martin, Rebecca | It is spring 1775, and the American Revolution has begun. How will the young Peter Miller handle the turmoil? Will he stand and be soldier for Christ, or will he give in to the taunts of his friends?
A sequel to A Captain for Hans, The Brickmakers, and Follow Me. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Bauman, Elizabeth Hershberger | A children's classic since 1954, Coals of Fire offers seventeen true stories about returning love for hate, good for evil, taken from various cultures and time periods, that will challenge readers, regardless of their age. (All Ages) 128 pages. | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading ⋅ Level 34 items ⋅ Level 43 items | ||
Esh, Claudia | A historical fiction story about a young girl wrestling with the cost of Anabaptism in the 16th century Netherlands. | Biography & History | ||
Vernon, Louise A. | Hutterites are known for their natural medicines and living in Bruderhofs. Michael Bruhn, his sister Gudryn, and their widowed mother live in a castle in Moravia. When a doctor wearing ragged clothing heals Gudryn, Michael thinks he, too, must be a Hutterite. Later, Michael learns that this doctor in rags… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Stoll, Joseph | Historical fiction based on the lives of early Anabaptists in Zurich, Switzerland from 1523-1533. Information taken from actual records, trials, etc. of that time. | Level 34 items | ||
Martin, Rebecca | Twelve-year-old Daniel Miller hardly knew how to feel about his parents' plans. Would they really cross the ocean to the land of William Penn? What an exciting idea! Yet Daniel, grandson of the Hans Miller you first met in a A Captain for Hans, and son of the Peter Miller you… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Zehr, Angela K. | What would it be like to be an Anabaptist? Ursula knows the Anabaptists are hunted, captured, and sometimes killed. Yet her sister Margaretha and her husband Michael Sattler find joy as they join the Anabaptists in their search for truth. Their joy remains even when they face persecution. Ursula is… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Martin, Rebecca | This is the story of two families who both live in the United States but want to see Canada. The year is 1816. Peter Miller is now grown with a family of his own. He is a wealthy Pennsylvania farmer who, along with his married children, moves in order to… | Intermediate and Young Adult Reading | ||
Smucker, Barbara | The dramatic and courageous story of refugees from Russia. An actual event that happened in Berlin in 1946. | 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 | ||
Stoll, Joseph | In The Drummer's Wife, twelve stories from the Martyrs Mirror are retold in modern language and in simpler form. Among the stories are retellings of some well-known accounts, such as Ellert Jans and Dirk Willems. | Level 43 items | ||
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 |